Team jells on dance floor

Back when the Giants held training camp at the University of Albany, the camaraderie of the team often developed in the dorm rooms, where pranks and unwinding was a fixture of summer. Nowadays, the Giants hold camp at their team facility and players spend their nights at the team-designated hotel. Thus, the advent of expansive dance parties inside the team locker room. “Now ... there’s not much time at the hotel,’’ Eli Manning said Monday. “You get done late and you’re kind of back in your room. So, that time has kind of come into the locker room during the day, where you get little breaks where I guess they’ve turned into dance parties now. So, that’s the new thing.’’ Manning, during his formative NFL years in Albany, was a closet prankster. He has not completely sworn off such hijinks but says it is more difficult now that the Giants train at home in New Jersey.

“Yeah, not a whole lot,’’ Manning said. “I think the hotel got angry about some damages over the years, so trying to be respectful.’’ After a slow start to camp because of a lower-body issue, RB Shane Vereen was noticeable for the first time, catching passes out of the backfield. “I feel pretty good,’’ Vereen said. “I’m happy to be back out there full-go.’’ NFL Commissioner Roger

Goodell, speaking to Giants seasonticket holders at a town hall meeting, said he may be able to shorten the preseason without changing the collective bargaining agreement.

“Any change in the season structure we said that we would collectively bargain,’’ Goodell said. “Just a simple reduction of preseason games we may be able to do alone, I’d have to check on that.’’

Goodell is on record saying the league no longer needs four preseason games.

Last summer, Ben McAdoo altered the usual routine for Manning in the preseason, playing the veteran quarterback in just two preseason games, the second and third.

“I think I got enough action over the last 14 years to get me ready for the upcoming season,’’ Manning said.

There is a chance Manning does not play at all in Friday night’s preseason opener against the Steelers.

“For the first preseason game, you might take six or seven snaps,” he said. “So, it’s not like it’s going to make a difference for that upcoming season. I think you’ve got enough reps in practice, enough reps in the second and third [preseason games] and obviously 13 other years of preseason and regular-season games.’’ Kicking inside the field house and out of the rain, rookie kicker Aldrick Rosas went 4-for-4 on field goals and is now 20-for-20 in camp.