Category Archives: 1990 Giants
In a special ceremony the day before Super Bowl XLVI, NFL Network will announce the 2012 Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrinees on Saturday, February 4 at 5:30 PM ET on Road to Canton: Pro Football Hall of Fame: Class of 2012 presented by Allstate.
Finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2012 are Jerome Bettis, Tim Brown, Jack Butler, Cris Carter, Dermontti Dawson, Edward DeBartolo, Jr., Chris Doleman, Kevin Greene, Charles Haley, Cortez Kennedy, Curtis Martin, Bill Parcells, Andre Reed, Willie Roaf, Will Shields, Dick Stanfel, and Aeneas Williams. For more information, please visit www.profootballhof.com.
From our man at Capital New York, Greg Hanlon…
Bill Parcells, who coached the Giants to two Super Bowls in 1986 and 1990, will likely get elected to the Hall of Fame this weekend.
It’s mildly surprising that people aren’t making a bigger deal of this. It is the 25th anniversary of the Giants’ first Super Bowl title, after all. It’s also interesting that Parcells took both of this year’s Super Bowl participants, the Giants and the Patriots, to the Super Bowl himself. And both of this year’s Super Bowl coaches, Tom Coughlin and Bill Belichick, coached under Parcells with the Giants and can correctly be called Parcells disciples.
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From Greg Hanlon of CapitalNewYork.com….
For much of his 13-year N.F.L. career, Erik Howard basically did the same thing on every play, and nobody noticed. As the nose tackle in the Giants’ 3-4 defensive scheme, his role was as important as it was unglamorous: Play after play, he would engage the offensive linemen in front of him in a furious, split-second sumo wrestling contest. Winning this mini-contest would enable his more famous teammates to succeed on the portion of the play that was actually visible to fans.
By 1990, Howard, then 26, was universally acknowledged as a very good player, a solid contributor to the best defense in the league. But his importance was spoken of in general terms. For fans watching at home, he blended into the blur of the scrum. In the days before high-definition television, you’d have a hard time picking him out even if you tried.
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By Dr. Bill Chachkes-Managing Partner/Executive Editor Football Reporters Online-Special to GFB
The Giants are one win away from another Super bowl appearance. Let’s let that statement sink in for a moment. The team that few if any gave a chance to in August, September, October, November & December….is again making noise in January, much like the 2007 Giants.
Or are they more like the 1990 Giants?
Today during the NFC Championship press conference, Giants head coach Tom Coughlin spoke of history. He was the wide receivers coach for the 1990 Giants that won Super Bowl 25: “A lot of our players are aware of history, but that was a long time ago”
It can be said that much like the 1990 & 2007 Giants teams, this year’s Giants are “hitting their stride” at the right time. Even with what seemed to be an “officiating bias” against them, they have persevered, thrived on the controversy of spotty play at times, and ill-timed injuries at others.
It seemed like the TV networks and the league wanted a Saints vs. Packers title game. That didn’t happen. Instead we have a rematch of the 1990 battle by the bay.
Tagged Ahmad Bradshaw, Eli Manning, giants, Justin Tuck, New York Giants, Osi Umenyiora, Perry Fewell, Tom Coughlin, Victor Cruz |
Former Giant GM George Young and Bill Parcells – the team’s legendary coach in the 1980′s – are among 26 modern-era semifinalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Young, who had built contenders in Miami and Baltimore, was handpicked by then-Commissioner Pete Rozelle to run the Giants in 1979. He was the driving force behind the Giants’ resurgence back to league prominence in the 80′s. Young built the Giants from the ground up. He made QB Phil Simms of Moorehead State his first draft choice. After selecting North Carolina LB Lawrence Taylor in 1981, the team qualified for the playoffs for the first time since 1963. The Giants would go on to win Super Bowls XXI and XXV.
Young moved up to the league office after leaving the Giants in 1997. He was named NFL Executive of the Year five times. He passed away in 2001.
Young’s coach during his early tenure was Bill Parcells, who took over when Ray Perkins left for Alabama in 1982. Parcells would go on to become the franchise’s most colorful coach. His regular season winning percentage (.610) is the best in team history. He was 8-3 in the postseason, including 2-0 in the Super Bowl.
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Adam Lazurus has written a new book about Super Bowl XXV, which was played as the country readied itself for war in the Middle East:
“Super Bowl XXV between the Bills and Giants is considered to be one of the greatest games in NFL history. A new book — “Super Bowl Monday: From the Persian Gulf to the Shores of West Florida: The New York Giants, the Buffalo Bills and Super Bowl XXV” — revisits many intriguing subplots from both teams on their way to the Super Bowl. A big story line was how the two conference championships played out against the backdrop of the first Persian Gulf War, which was just getting underway..”
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The Giants hold the 19th selection in the NFL Draft this year. It will be only the fourth time since 1979 (the official start
George Adams
of the post-fumble era) that the Blue has picked in this spot.
The last time the Giants picked 19th was 1999 when they chose Notre Dame OT Luke Petitgout, who went on to play 114 games over an 8-year span for the Giants.
Petitgout began his Giant career as a guard, then was switched out to RT for the next two seasons before landing the LT job in 2002, where he stayed for the next five seasons. Petitgout was not signed by the Giants after the 2006 season and finished his NFL career in Tampa Bay in 2007.
The Giants chose another Irish player with the 19th overall selection in the 1986 NFL Draft: Eric Dorsey, a mammoth DE. Dorsey’s selection was overshadowed that year by the Giants’ successful second-round windfall.
With four selections in the second round that year the Giants chose CB Mark Collins, DT Erik Howard, LB Pepper Johnson and S Greg Lasker. All of these players would figure prominently in the Giants’ Super Bowl runs.
The Giants chose 19th in 1985 as well. They selected Kentucky RB George Adams, who in retrospect is now considered one of the worst first-round picks in club history.
Adams was plagued by injuries and never got a real opportunity after his understudy – Joe Morris – literally took the ball and ran with it. Adams was cut after the 1989 season and would go on to New England to finish out his disappointing career.
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Our colleague over at NYG Reporter, Rob Domaine, sat down with one of the Giants’ most prolific all-time ballcarriers – Rodney Hampton…...click here
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For you younguns who only know Leonard Marshall as the head football coach at Hudson Catholic….he was once one of the NFL’s most feared defensive ends.
In this clip, from the 1990 NFC Championship Game, Marshall gets up off the turf to deliver a crushing hit on the 49ers’ Joe Montana, sending the legendary QB to the hospital.
Marshall’s sack was a key play in helping the the Giants get to their second Super Bowl in five years.
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Beginning tonight through March 20, the Broadway show LOMBARDI will host the 1990 New York Giants Super Bowl 
Trophy in the lower lobby of The Circle in the Square Theatre (50th Street west of Broadway) Also that week, LOMBARDI will feature special appearances by former New York Giants’ star players Sean Landeta, Bart Oates and Stephen Baker as below:
· Tuesday March 15 from 6:30-7 PM: Punter Sean Landeta will autograph LOMBARDI Playbills in the lower lobby at the Circle in the Square.
· Friday March 18 from 7:30-8 PM: Center Bart Oates will autograph LOMBARDI Playbills in the lower lobby at the Circle in the Square.
· Saturday March 19 from 7:30-8 PM: Wide receiver Stephen Baker will autograph LOMBARDI Playbills in the lower lobby at the Circle in the Square.
for more info call 212-239-6200
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On December 3rd, 1990, the Giants flew to San Francisco to take on the two-time defending Super Bowl champion 49ers. Both teams came into the game with 10-1 records. The game was high everyone’s radar for weeks. Both teams were actually 10-0 the week before, but suffered losses – the Giants to Philadelphia and the Niners to the Rams.
The game, which was broadcast nationally on ABC’s Monday Night Football, promised to be a war. It was.
The final score was 7-3 in favor of San Francisco, with all the points coming in the second quarter. For those of you who did not see this game, I will tell you it was smashmouth football at its finest – perhaps the most physical game I can remember.
The Giants held Joe Montana to 152 yards on 12-for-29 passing and the 49er high-powered offense to just 240 yards overall. Montana did, however, manage one TD pass – a 23-yd strike to John Taylor – that proved to be all the Niners would need.
The Giants struggled on offense, gaining only 221 yards. Phil Simms, like Montana, had a rough evening throwing for just one more yard than Super Joe on 14 for 32 passing. OJ Anderson was the game’s leading rusher with a meager 39 yards.
The game ended with heated exchange between Simms and 49er safety Ronnie Lott which was caught up close by ABC’s camera crew. The Giants would exact their revenge six weeks later when they returned to Candlestick Park and won 15-13 in the NFC Championship Game.
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