Each time the Giants won the Super Bowl, their opponents were a familiar foe. The Giants also faced them in the regular season. The lone time they played in the Super Bowl and did not face their opponent in the regular season was Super 35 when they were defeated by the Baltimore Ravens.
If New York Giants fans needed a reason to have a vested rooting interest in Super Bowl 53, it will be that the Rams beat the Patriots so that Coughlin can keep this record. Log in to leave a comment.
Elite Sports NY. Back in the golden age of baseball in New York, the city hosted three teams: the Yankees, the Dodgers and the Giants. But there was also the football Giants, and both Giants teams shared a stadium at the long-gone Polo Grounds. The Giants are led by head coach Joe Judge since Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
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He has limited responsibility and most plays may have nothing to do with him at all. Also, What position in football gets hurt the most? Players in the offensive line were injured most frequently Facebook Twitter Reddit. Table of Contents. In the playoffs, the Giants lost in the divisional round. In , they lost a close wild-card game to the Vikings. Now in , they had won the NFC Eastern Division with a 12—4 record, which was the best in the conference.
They beat the Eagles handily in the divisional round of the playoffs. A win against the Vikings would give them their first NFC championship since and put them back in the Super Bowl.
The game turned out to be one of the most one-sided wins in franchise history and the biggest rout in NFC championship game history. The Giants dominated the Vikings in all phases of the game. They maintained possession for more than 42 minutes. The racked up total yards to Minnesota's and had 31 first downs to their opponent's nine. Quarterback Kerry Collins set Giants playoff records, passing for yards and five touchdowns.
The Giants got on the board early and were already leading 14—0 a little more than two minutes into the game on touchdown passes by Collins to Ike Hilliard and Greg Comella.
In the second quarter, Collins added two more touchdowns on passes to Joe Jurivicius and Hilliard, and Brad Daluiso kicked two field goals. By halftime, the Giants had a huge 34—0 lead. They added one more touchdown in the third quarter on a Collins pass to Amani Toomer. Meanwhile, the Giants' defense, which had been the team's strength all season, lived up to expectations and thoroughly outplayed the Vikings' vaunted offense.
But it was a team effort, with 15 different players recording at least one tackle. Going into the game, the Giants had been the underdogs. But after a near-perfect effort, they were the ones hoisting the NFC championship trophy. They were headed back to the Super Bowl for the first time in a decade. After making the playoffs six times in eight seasons from to '63, the Giants fell into a sustained period of 17 years in which they missed the postseason.
The team's overall record during these lean years was And the situation didn't appear to be improving in when they had their eighth straight losing season and finished last in the NFC East at 4— In this context, the season marked a huge turnaround for the Giants. Their 9—7 record was good enough to earn them a wild-card berth. Their wild-card game against the Eagles was their first playoff game since , and a win would give them their first playoff victory since It would be even sweeter because they were facing their biggest rival, the Eagles , who had reached the Super Bowl the previous year.
The Eagles were seven-point favorites. They had finished ahead of the Giants in the standings and had the home field advantage. Moreover, the Giants were playing with their second-string quarterback, Scott Brunner. Brunner had replaced starter Phil Simms when Simms separated his shoulder in Week He had done a good job, leading the Giants to four wins in their last five games.
But he was up against veteran Eagles quarterback Ron Jaworski, who already had nine playoff games under his belt. As it turned out, Brunner outplayed Jaworski. He threw a touchdown pass on the Giants' second possession of the game, and the Giants never trailed. Brunner added another touchdown pass on the Giants' next possession. Mark Haynes completed the Giants' first-quarter scoring when he recovered an Eagles' fumble in the end zone. At the end of the quarter, the Giants led 20—0.
Jaworski got the Eagles on the board late in the second quarter with a touchdown after defensive back Herm Edwards intercepted a Brunner pass. But with about two minutes left in the half, the Giants put together another drive.
Running back Rob Carpenter led the attack, and Brunner capped the drive with a yard touchdown pass. Eagles running back Wilbert Montgomery scored two touchdowns in the second half, with the second one coming after three long penalties against the Giants put the Eagles on the Giants' one-yard line. The Eagles were within reach at 27—21, but the Giants' lead was too much to overcome. The Giants got the ball back with just under three minutes to play.
Carpenter iced the win with a five-yard run for a first down that allowed New York to maintain possession. Carpenter finished with yards for the day, on 33 carries.
It was a great day for the Giants as they beat the rival Eagles and earned a spot in the divisional round. Although their good fortune ran out in that round, by winning the wild-card game the Giants succeeded in exorcising 17 years of failure for the franchise. Just a few years later, they would enter one of the best periods in team history. The Giants' regular-season record, their best since , included a 15—3 win over the Packers in Week But neither team was considered the definitive favorite.
But for both sides, the championship game presented the opportunity to become the first team to win two NFL titles since the league's split, which created two divisions and a playoff game to determine the champion.
The Giants had won their first contested title in and the Packers had won in The other titles for both teams had come before , when the champion was simply the team with the best record at the end of the season. The game was a thriller right from the beginning. The first led to a Ward Cuff field goal, and the second resulted in a touchdown run by Tuffy Leemans, giving the Giants a 9—0 first-quarter lead.
The intensity level rose in the second quarter as the teams traded touchdowns. But a few minutes later, after Giants center Mel Hein recovered a fumble on the yard line, Ed Danowski hit Hap Barnard with a touchdown pass to push the Giants' lead back up to nine. Not to be outdone, the Packers answered with another touchdown on a one-yard rush by Hinkle. At halftime, the Giants held a precarious two-point lead. The Packers went ahead for the first time in the third quarter on a field goal by Tiny Engebretsen.
But their 17—16 lead was erased on the Giants' next possession when Hank Soar made a leaping catch of a Danowski pass and fell across the goal line for a touchdown.
Green Bay put together one more sustained drive, but Danowski quashed it with an interception, and the Packers never seriously threatened again. The game was a hard-fought, exciting battle.
But in the end, the Giants won their third NFL championship, becoming the first team to win it twice since the playoff format was adopted. When the Giants won the Eastern Division title in , they found themselves matched up in the NFL championship game with the Bears, the champions of the Western Division.
Overall, the Bears held a three-to-one advantage in previous NFL title matchups: the Bears had also beaten the Giants in and '41, and the Giants had won in ' They played to a 17—17 tie. Nonetheless, the Bears were picked as slight favorites for the championship game. And although the Giants and their fans were not aware of it at the time, the NFL championship season would mark the beginning of one of the best eras in Giants football history, in which they would appear in the championship game in six out of eight seasons—although they wouldn't win another one for 30 years.
On the day of the game, the air was a frigid 20 degrees and the field was icy. As they had in the famous Sneakers Game in see below , the Giants opted to wear sneakers for better traction. The Bears did too, but it didn't seem to do them any good.
New York took control of the game from the opening kickoff. Gene Filipski returned the ball 53 yards to Chicago's yard line. From there, the Giants needed just four plays to score a touchdown on a yard rush by Mel Triplett. After placekicker Ben Agajanian made the extra point, the Giants had a 7—0 lead. Less than three minutes had elapsed. Agajanian boosted the Giants' first-quarter lead to 13—0 with two field goals, the second for 43 yards. The Giants added three touchdowns in the second quarter on two runs by Alex Webster and a blocked punt recovery in the end zone by Henry Moore.
Although the Bears got on the board with a touchdown by Rick Casares, the Giants' lead had ballooned to 34—7 by halftime. Although the Bears had had the number-one offense in the NFL during the season, they couldn't get untracked against the Giants. Meanwhile, the Giants added two more touchdowns in the second half on passes by quarterback Charlie Conerly to Kyle Rote and Frank Gifford.
At the end of the day, the Giants had thoroughly crushed the Bears 47—7 and won their fourth NFL championship. Previously, the league champion was the team with the best season record. Not only were the Bears the defending champions, but they had a perfect record in the season as well as an game winning streak going back to ' Chicago had the NFL's number-one offense and its number-two defense. Meanwhile, New York won the Eastern Division with a relatively pedestrian record and was in the middle of the pack in both offense and defense.
Two of their five losses came at the hands of the Bears. The championship game was scheduled for the Giants' home field at the Polo Grounds. The Giants were looking to win their second NFL championship—they had won in before the championship game format was adopted—and prevent the Bears from winning two in a row.
The game came to be known as The Sneakers Game because the Giants traded their cleats for basketball sneakers midway through the game to improve their footing on the frozen field. Giants end Ray Flaherty suggested the switch to head coach Steve Owen, and Owen's assistant, Abe Cohen, managed to find some sneakers at nearby Manhattan College in time for the second half. The gambit worked. The only score in the first quarter came on a yard field goal by the Giants' Ken Strong.
In the second quarter, the Bears took the lead when Bronko Nagurski pushed his way in for a touchdown from the one-yard line.
Jack Manders added two field goals to increase the Bears' lead to 13—3 near the close of the third quarter. At that point, the sneaker-clad Giants began to move the ball. Early in the fourth quarter, quarterback Ed Danowski connected with Ike Frankian on a yard touchdown pass, and Strong converted the extra point to close the gap to 13— Strong put the Giants ahead when he eluded and outraced the Bears' defense for a yard touchdown run.
When he kicked the extra point, the Giants led 17—13, but they weren't finished. Strong soon scored again on an yard rush. Then, following an interception by Bo Molenda, Danowski ran for nine yards for the Giants' final touchdown. Molenda kicked the extra point. Meanwhile, the Giants completely shut down the Bears' vaunted offense.
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