Last week, shortly after former New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz officially announced his retirement from football, a flurry of Instagram posts followed on his page. Among those posts was one that specifically hit home for Big Blue fans.

On Tuesday, at a Fantasy Draft event with teens from the Boys and Girls Club of America hosted by Sleep Number, Cruz expressed his desire to sign a one-day contract with the Giants and put to an end a career that started with those same boys in blue.

“Absolutely, [I want to retire a Giant],” Cruz told Giants Wire. “I just have to reach out. Everything just happened so fast, you know. Between this and the ESPN phase of it, but that’s definitely the plan.

“I want to sign a one-day contract with the Giants and retire a Giant. Anything else would be [unfulfilling]. It’s just a matter of doing the due-diligence and going through that process of how it works.”

Cruz was, of course, a fan favorite in New York and brought back the now infamous salsa dance. But he didn’t have the easiest path to the NFL, going undrafted and having to work extra hard in order to earn his shot.

Ultimately, Cruz went from that challenge to being one of the larger contributors in a season that led up to Super Bowl XLVI and a victory over the New England Patriots.

It’s hard to imagine a scenario in which the Giants don’t sign Cruz to a one-day contract and have the Patterson, New Jersey native at the team facilities he helped decorated with hardware. After all, as the saying goes, “Once a Giant, always a Giant.”

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It may not be tomorrow and it may not be next week, but sooner rather than later, Cruz will arrive in East Rutherford to say his goodbyes. And then, perhaps, later on, he’ll find himself enshrined in the team’s Ring of Honor.

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