“It was right after a game and we were just about to go into the playoffs, and although we had the day off, we went to Miami and had a good time,” Cruz said on E! on Wednesday. “It was New Year’s Day. We came back the next day, we didn’t break any rules.

“This photo will haunt me for the rest of my life.”

“We got back in time, but the fact that there was a photo leaked out to Twitter, someone posted it and it started to circulate and make its rounds, that’s what amplified it,” Cruz said.

“No, I don’t regret it,” Cruz said. “You gotta live … If we won the game, they’d be like, ‘Go to Miami every week! Apparently that’s the good luck charm.’ But the fact that we lost left a bad taste in everybody’s mouth.”

Cruz spent seven seasons in the league with the Giants before he retired after the 2017 season, recording more than 4,500 yards and 25 touchdowns in his career.

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