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Giants, Jets set friendship aside

The Jets and Giants don’t just share a stadium but a community. They run into each other everywhere from clubs to charity functions, meeting by accident and design. Tomorrow’s game features a host of friendships, from Nick Folk working this offseason with the Giants’ Steve Weathorford, to Brandon Jacobs sharing a car club with Bart Scott and his home with Plaxico Burress on Thanksgiving.

“Me and Jacobs are in a car club together. We ride our cars and hang out. We’ve both got fast cars: I’ve got a Ferrari and he’s got a GT-R, a 1,000 horsepower Nissan. So we cruise a lot,’’ said Scott, who played in Baltimore but rarely ran into any Redskins. “It’s different. No Redskin was going to Baltimore to go shop; New York is different. You see people all over. We do charity events with each other.’’

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Scott initially had planned to have several Giants at his charity go-kart event at Pole Position Raceway in Jersey City on Monday, but decided against it. But that hardly keeps the Jets and Giants from mingling off the field, especially Jacobs.

“I get a chance to play against my old boys,’’ said Burress, who caught the game-winning touchdown for the Giants in the Super Bowl XLII. “I talk to Brandon twice a week, and Aaron [Ross], Osi [Umenyiora] and [Justin] Tuck.

“I still see some of the guys around all the time. We pick up the phone and talk to each other, even guys that aren’t playing: Amani Toomer, [David] Tyree. We shared something special that nobody will ever be able to take away from us. We developed a relationship outside of football.’’

In his case, those relationships survived the two seasons he missed while serving a sentence at the Oneida Correctional Facility in upstate New York for weapons charges stemming from the nightclub incident in which he shot himself in the right leg.

This Thanksgiving — the first he had spent as a free man since 2008, the day before his firearm faux pas — Burress had turkey and all the trimmings at home with his wife Tiffany and their two kids, then stopped by Tyree’s house for some sweet potato pie and Jacobs’ home for some banana pudding.

“We’re friends,’’ Darrelle Revis said. “We always run into guys. We run into guys all the time. We live in the same city. We know the same people, see the same guys. So they’re friends with us.’’

And in some cases, they share resources as well.

“I was working [this offseason] with John Carney a lot and Weatherford. It’ll be a fun day [today],’’ said Folk, the Jets kicker. “It helps working with other specialists all offseason. [Carney] did it for 23 years so he’s a good guy to learn from. … We have a lot of fun. Steve’s a good friend of mine, so it’s been good.’’