Toughness will prevail on Sunday, bloody Sunday

The “No Toughness, No Championship!” signs have followed the Giants from their old Giants Stadium headquarters to the Timex Performance Center.

They might want to start plastering a new sign as we close in on Sunday’s NFC Championship in San Francisco against the 49ers, which likely is to be remembered more as the Blood Bowl than the Mud Bowl.

“No Blood, No Championship!”

“This is going to be a bloodbath,” defensive tackle Chris Canty said.

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The word from the West Coast, however, is that these 49ers would welcome a Blood Bowl.

“If that’s the kind of game this is gonna turn out to be,” Hall of Fame 49er Ronnie Lott told the Post last night by cell phone, “it means it probably bodes well for the 49ers because they’ve been in those kind of battles all year long.

“I think they would say, ‘Hey, bring it on! You’re talking our language.’ I don’t think they will shy away from something like that.”

Tom Coughlin’s Giants are prepared to bleed every ounce of Giants blue as is necessarily to reach the Super Bowl.

“Most championship teams got to fight through some kind of adversity — whether that’s injuries, whether that’s not playing your best early in the year,” Justin Tuck said. “Toughness is just fighting through those things. Along the course of a season like this, you’re going to have things did not go your way, and it’s going to challenge you mentally, physically. It’s going to challenge your togetherness as a football team. But all of that has to be ... I guess, strong, to be a champion.”

How tough is your team?

“We’ll find out,” Tuck said. “I think we’re pretty tough though. But we’re going into the hostile environment of a team that’s pretty tough too, so we’ll see. ... We’ll see exactly how tough we are this week.”