The New York Giants connected via Skype on Monday morning from their team meeting room to teammate Daniel Fells' hospital room and showed him the game ball they were saving for him from Sunday night's victory. Giants coach Tom Coughlin said the team dedicated the victory to Fells, who's been hospitalized for more than a week with MRSA, a potentially life-threatening staph infection.

"Everyone was able to cheer him on and try to make him feel better," Coughlin said. "He watched the game and said he was very proud of the way we finished it."

The Giants came back in the final two minutes and won the game on a touchdown catch by Fells' fellow tight end Larry Donnell with 21 seconds left. In the locker room after the game, Coughlin said the game ball would go to Fells.

Coughlin has visited Fells in the hospital and has stayed in touch with him. He said Fells has had three good nights' worth of sleep in a row after a long stretch where that wasn't the case, and that everyone's encouraged by that fact. Fells has had several surgical procedures to try to stop the infection from spreading into his bloodstream, and his doctors continue to test him regularly to monitor the effect his treatment is having.

"I don't believe he's out of the woods," Coughlin said. "I think that these three straight days are really a wonderful sign, but there are more tests to be done, and of course the response to the antibiotic is critical."

Fells is on injured reserve and out for the rest of the season. His condition is serious enough that the rest of his career is in jeopardy at age 32, but the chief concern Fells' friends, coaches and teammates have is for his health, not whether he can play football again.