46 Facts About Football Giants

New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area.

The Giants hold their summer training camp at the Quest Diagnostics Training Center at the Meadowlands Sports Complex.

Football Giants were one of five teams that joined the NFL in 1925, and are the only one of that group still existing, as well as the league's longest-established team in the Northeastern United States.

Football Giants played their first game as an away game against All New Britain in New Britain, Connecticut, on October 4,1925.

In December 1930, the Football Giants played a team of Notre Dame All Stars at the Polo Grounds to raise money for the unemployed of New York City.

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Famous "Sneakers Game" was played in this era where the Football Giants defeated the Chicago Bears on an icy field in the 1934 NFL Championship Game, while wearing sneakers for better traction.

The Football Giants played the Detroit Lions to a scoreless tie on November 7,1943.

The Football Giants were particularly successful from the latter half of the 1930s until the United States entry into World War II.

Football Giants won their next championship in 1956, the first year the team began playing at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx borough of New York City.

From 1958 to 1963, the Football Giants played in the NFL Championship Game five times, but failed to win.

From 1964 to 1978, the Football Giants registered only two winning seasons and no playoff appearances.

Tarkenton would go on to lead the Vikings to three Super Bowls and earn a place in the Hall of Fame, while the Football Giants suffered through one of the worst stretches in their history, winning only 23 games from 1973 to 1979.

Football Giants were allowed to play their home games at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut in 1973 and 1974, and at Shea Stadium in Queens, New York in 1975, due to the renovation of Yankee Stadium.

In 1979, the Football Giants began the steps that would, in time, return them to the pinnacle of the NFL.

Football Giants was fired following the 1992 season, and replaced by former Denver Broncos' coach Dan Reeves.

The Football Giants experienced a resurgent season with Reeves at the helm in 1993 however, and Simms and Taylor ended their careers as members of a playoff team.

In 1997, the Football Giants named Jim Fassel, who had spent the previous season as offensive coordinator of the Arizona Cardinals, as their 16th head coach.

In 2000, the Football Giants were looking to make the playoffs for the first time in three seasons.

In 2004, the Football Giants completed a draft day trade for University of Mississippi quarterback Eli Manning.

In 2009, the Football Giants opened a new training complex, the Timex Performance Center, located in the Meadowlands.

The Football Giants defense finished 13th overall under Sheridan, giving up 324.

In 2010, the Football Giants moved from Football Giants Stadium into MetLife Stadium, then known as the "New Meadowlands Stadium".

The Football Giants dropped one game to the Tennessee Titans before going on a five-game winning streak, beating the Chicago Bears, Houston Texans, Detroit Lions, Dallas Cowboys, and Seattle Seahawks.

The 2015 season was another disappointing campaign, as the Football Giants showcased a struggling defense and several late-game collapses.

On January 14,2016, the Football Giants announced that Ben McAdoo would become the team's head coach.

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Football Giants replaced Tom Coughlin, who had resigned the previous week.

The Football Giants turned it around in 2016, ending their five-year playoff drought.

Football Giants was selected to the 2019 Pro Bowl, alongside fellow teammates Olivier Vernon, Landon Collins, and Aldrick Rosas.

Football Giants have won a total of eight league championships: 1927,1934,1938,1956,1986,1990,2007 and 2011.

Football Giants have won four Super Bowls, tied with Green Bay for the fifth most behind Dallas, San Francisco, and New England and Pittsburgh.

Football Giants have won five NFC Championship Games, including two in overtime in 2007 and 2011.

Football Giants' jerseys are traditionally blue or red, and their pants alternate between white and gray.

Additionally, the Football Giants had a third jersey until the 2009 season, which recalled the Football Giants' solid red home jerseys from the early 1950s: a solid red alternate with white block numbers.

Football Giants have had a long and, at times, turbulent financial history.

The Football Giants were in dire financial straits until the 11th game of the season when Red Grange and the Chicago Bears came to town, attracting over 73,000 fans.

Football Giants's death was followed two weeks later by the death of Tisch.

The Football Giants had previously planned a $300 million renovation to the Meadowlands, before deciding in favor of the new stadium which was originally estimated to cost approximately $600 million, before rising to an estimated cost of one billion dollars.

Football Giants are owned and operated by John Mara and Steve Tisch.

Football Giants draw their fans from the New York metropolitan area.

Football Giants have an old and storied rivalry with Washington, dating back to 1932.

Football Giants have maintained a fierce divisional rivalry with the Dallas Cowboys since the Cowboys first began play in 1960.

Since WFAN has the rights to carry baseball, as they currently are the flagship station for the New York Yankees and previously served the same role for the New York Mets, early season Football Giants games come into conflict; since 2019, WFAN has split the coverage across both of its dial positions, with the Football Giants carried on 660 AM and the Yankees on 101.

In 2000 WFAN lost the Jets' radio contract to WABC and the Football Giants moved back to WFAN where they have been ever since.

Football Giants was replaced by Sid Rosenberg, who was in turn fired by the station due to troubles and replaced by Chris Carlin.

WEPN Football Giants beat reporter Paul Dottino was hired by WFAN to host the pregame show for 2009 and continues to be a part of the program.

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Football Giants were carried on the DuMont Network, then CBS in the early TV days of the NFL, when home games were blacked out within a 75-mile radius of New York City.