Category Archives: New York Giants History
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.
Tagged Bill Parcells, New York Giants, Pro Football Hall of Fame |
Even Giants CEO John Mara got into the act today at Super Bowl Media Day in Indianapolis. If you think he was beaming during Super Bowl XLII, you should see him these days. In his session today, Mara praised both Eli Manning and Tom Brady, had some kind words for Pats’ owner Bob Kraft, opened up about his long-standing friendship with Bill Belichick and continued to display his strong support for Tom Coughlin.
On if he could have imagined Tom Coughlin coaching the Giants after he turned them down once to stay at Boston College and then took the head coaching job with the Jacksonville Jaguars…. “No, because he had success in Jacksonville so I thought we’d never have an opportunity to get him. But in this league, things have a funny way of working out sometimes. Coaches go from team to team and then all of a sudden they’re back with you.”
On Coughlin epitomizing what a Giants coach should be in his mind….“Oh, I think he does. Too many people make too big a deal out of, ‘He brings discipline and everything.’ We just felt like he was a winner and he would work so hard and be so devoted to putting a winning team on the field and that’s what we were looking for: a guy who was that dedicated and that hard-working and didn’t care about his image and doing TV commercials or whatever. We wanted a guy that was devoted to the X’s and O’s and coaching and that’s what we got.”
Tagged John Mara, New York Giants, Super Bowl XLVI |
Big Blue Swept AFC East in 2011
With a growing trend of an increase in the number of lower seeds reaching, and even winning Super Bowls, the best seeds in each of the NFL’s two conferences have obviously not always translated regular season success into postseason accomplishment in recent years.
But, at least one thing has held true for the most part – to represent your conference in the Super Bowl, you usually have to at least play winning football within than conference.
Leave it to the surprising New York Giants to circumvent that notion.
Tagged AFC East, New England Patriots, New York Giants, New York Jets |
Giants’ Hall of Fame LB Lawrence Taylor appeared on Showtime’s Inside the NFL on Wednesday night to discuss the current state of his life.
“As easy as football is to me … is as hard as life is to me,” Taylor told the panel. “I’m just hopeful that life will come easier.”
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The Giants thrive on being underdogs, but disrespected they will not be. They have a chip on their shoulder and now detractors are hearing from all corners – including Wellington Mara’s widow, Ann.
During the Giants’ locker room celebration, as CBS’ Terry Bradshaw was on stage trying to interview WR Victor Cruz, Mrs. Mara approached the Hall of Fame QB as the cameras were rolling.
“Hey!” said Mrs. Mara as she grabbed Bradshaw’s arm. “Hey! (I’ve been over this before with you) and you never pick the Giants!”
Bradshaw seemed stunned. He apologized to her and turned towards the camera: “I’m getting hammered for not picking the Giants!” Mrs. Mara walked away smiling, while her son, John – the team’s CEO, smiled in the background.
Tom Coughlin said he didn’t see the incident, but heard about it…
“I know that in many ways, many times Mrs. Mara’s attitude is reflective of the way that we would hope our team plays. She has great energy and tremendous interest and she is so interested in the team playing well and doing well.”
Eli Manning also didn’t see it, walking away right before Mrs. Mara came on stage.
The Giants’ QB told reporters that he thought it was funny (“You have to laugh.“) but he agrees with the coach that she is an inspiration to the team.
“Mrs. Mara, you see her and you think ‘Sweet Mrs. Mara’, but she is obviously very passionate about Giants football and passionate about this team and involved and knows players. I like her attitude. I like the way she spoke her mind about something she cares dearly about.”
Then he was asked if he would ever cross her…
“Never. Not Mrs. Mara. She’s the boss.”
Justin Tuck was asked the same question and gave a similar answer…
“Would I cross her? Absolutely not. Not at all.”
Ditto for Antrel Rolle: “I don’t cross any Maras, put it that way…”
Tagged Ann Mara, New York Giants News, NFC Championship Game, Terry Bradshaw |
Here we go again.
The New York Giants won’t be keeping the New England Patriots from achieving perfection again, but just like four years ago, Big Blue will get another chance to beat the Patriots in the Big Game.
This time, the MVP of the Giants’ Super Bowl XLII victory over New England, quarterback Eli Manning, will get a chance to lead his team to a Super Bowl win on his brother’s home field.
For once, the Giants (12-7), who overcame weeks of bad calls and tough breaks going against them to reach Sunday’s NFC championship game at Candlestick Park, finally got the luck they needed to upset the 49ers (14-4), 20-17, on the second 31-yard field goal of the game by kicker Lawrence Tynes, with 7:06 left in overtime.
New York’s good fortune actually started long before kickoff, when San Francisco’s normal punt returner, Ted Ginn, Jr., was forced to miss the game with a knee injury.
Instead of having the sixth-most experienced punt returner, (38 of his 98 regular season career attempts came this season) with the NFL’s fourth-best return average (12.3) available, the second-seeded 49ers were forced to rely on the severely inexperienced Kyle Williams, who in his second year in the league, entered the game with just five career punt returns, including just two this season.
Williams easily surpassed both of those numbers on Sunday, bringing back eight punts for 70 yards, including a key, game-long 24-yard return in the third quarter.
But, it was two later punt returns that changed the game, and quite possibly Super Bowl history, forever.
Tagged New England Patriots, New York Giants |
The Giants are going to the Super Bowl. Say it. Now, say it again.
The Blue advanced to their fifth Super Bowl in team history with a 20-17 overtime victory over the San Francisco 49ers at Candlestick Park last night and will now face the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI on Feb 5 in Indianapolis.
QB Eli Manning played like the champion he is, fending off a never-ending 49ers’ pass rush to throw for 316 yards and two touchdowns. WR Victor Cruz had ten catches for 142 yards and WR Devin Thomas made several key plays on special teams last night to push the Giants past the 49ers
K Lawrence Tynes kicked his second career overtime NFC Championship-winning FG to put the Giants in the Super Bowl.
From Geico SportsNite
Tagged New York Giants News, Super Bowl XLVI |
Giants-Niners Continue Tradition-Rich History Tonight
It’s been nine years since the New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers last played each other in a contest that even approached the magnitude of the game they are about to play on Sunday in San Francisco, when the two adversaries will clash for the right to play in Super Bowl XLVI.
But, especially for a pair of non-divisional rivals on opposite coasts, the Giants-49ers rivalry has been a good one, mostly created through some very memorable postseason games that stretch back three decades, to 1981.
Former Giant great, LB Carl Banks, who was a part of the rivalry between 1984 and 1992 said, “It felt like you were playing a division rival. Even though you didn’t play them on a regular basis, every chance you got to play them, you wanted to beat those guys.”
Sunday’s matchup will be the second time the teams will meet for the NFC title, and the eighth overall playoff meeting between the teams.
Tagged New York Giants, NFL History, NFL Playoffs, San Francisco 49ers |
If the Giants manage to get back to the Super Bowl with a win over the 49ers on Sunday, much will be said about the personnel - and the men who assembled that personnel.
The Daily News Live crew debates where Tom Coughlin and Jerry Reese rank among the all-time Giants’ general managers and coaches.
Tagged Jerry Reese, New York Giants, Tom Coughlin |
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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