Brautwurst for the winner
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- January
- 30
  The New Jersey-based New York Giants have come through for Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
 The governor today received a box of brautwurst from Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle in payment of their bet for the Jan. 20 National Football Conference championship football game won by the Giants over the Green Bay Packers. The Giants, who train each summer in Albany before decamping for their in-season home on the west bank of the Hudson River across from Manhattan, will face the undefeated New England Patriots in Sunday’s Super Bowl. The Patriots are a 12-point favorite.
  “Congratulations,’’ the governor of the vanquished Packers’ home state said in a note to Spitzer. “Now beat the Patriots.’’
   Spitzer would have sent  Doyle pastrami if the Packers had won. Stay tuned for details tomorrrow on Spitzer’s bet with Massachusetts Gov. Duval Patrick.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
