go giants!!!!!!!!!!!!

Big Blue Ruminations
 

I am a lifelong Giants fan starting from the Colts/Giants game that put the NFL on the map. Does the name Alan Ameche ring a bel?

IMHO - Giants were lucky to win yesterday as they finally got a call that usually goes against them. The referee ruled Bradshaw's roward progress was stopped before the ball was stripped out. Not reviewable as it was a judgement call by the referee. I personally think it was a fumble but I am not complaining. The two errors by Kyle Williams really hurt SF as the Giants scored ten points from them. Any one of those things don't happen/happen and they would have lost the game, (I am not compaining, just an observation). The SF defense was ferocious and the game was close and a big battle. A real bloodbath and I feel a little sorry for Kyle Williams but I have to commend him for being a stand-up guy and facing the media.

An instant classic. As usual, the Giants make sure my pressure is OK with these type of games.

All I can in conclusion. WHEW!!! A heart wrenching game.

The G-Men played a courageous game against a punishing defense. In a game so evenly matched, it often comes down to special teams, either a great special teams play or a special team error. In this case (and in the Patriot vs Ravens game) it came down to a special team making an error. He knew the ball hit his knee...you could tell by his reaction when it happened. I don't know if I'm ready to count Eli among the elite QB's of the league, but he sure is getting close! Now on to the Superbowl!! It is going to be another epic battle. I'm sure NE fans remember "the catch".

Dallas fans remember The Catch

Montana to Dwight Clark


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When I was playing football in the street in the early Sixties with my friends, it was ALWAYS "Tittle to Shofner" when you made a great pass. So I'm a Big Blue fan through and through, and obviously I'm biased, but I didn't think Branshaw fumbled on that play. Anytime you are being forced backward due to pressure from the defense, and the defensive guy is holding onto you, that's no longer forward progress and according to the Head Linesman, the play had been whistled dead. Anyway, water over the dam. Now we have to worry about Brady to Welker, a pitch and catch combo much better than any on the 49ers.

Did I really say Branshaw? Must be thinking of the golfer . . . . Sorry, Bradshaw!

I don't know it that reception was ever given a name but what a catch!!!!!!!

How about "Heady Catch or Helmet Grab". :)

Eli took a beating yesterday and I was very impressed that he stayed patient and didn't force anything as a turnover might have been disasterous.
Another Super Bowl win would end the discusssions as to whether he is ELITE.
I think he already is but it wouldn't hurt to win two.

Yesterday's game was one where sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. You need some luck to go on a magical run like in 2008.

It's a media's delight for the Pats and Giants to meet again in the Super Bowl.

GO BIG BLUE!!!!

New York Giants Talk
 

I love my NY Giants!!! Congrats to both teams for a great game.

Giants.......
 

:a040::a040:...GIANTS....:a040::a040:....Super Bowl Champs...:a040:

It was a great game and although I'm a Patriots fan, any game that ends with one final play, a play that will define the game's outcome and one that causes both players and fans to hold their breath in anticipation, is a game worthy of being in the Super Bowl.

My hat off to the NY Giants!

As a longtime Giants fan - I can only say "How Bout dem Gints?"

Tuesday morning, 11 AM, a ticker tape parade down The Canyon of Heroes for The Super Bowl Champion New York Giants

Go, Bruins.......

Yeah Giants!!!! Great game!

We've certainly been treated to some good football, both conference championship games were excellent, and of course the Super Bowl,...hat's off to all the teams! :ho:

I'm a Pats fan so a little disappointed today. Never-the-less, hats off to the G-MEN for a great win and an exciting Super Bowl. Commercials were good and Madonna's half time performance was very good!!!

As the song goes, the Bronx is up and the Battery's down. Up the Canyon of Heroes. If you haven't been to a ticker tape parade and you have the opportunity, go, definitely go! Even now, with ticker tape a distant memory it's a great event. I've been to several parades and if I were anywhere near NY I'd be somewhere along lower Broadway tomorrow too.

Last one I went to was 2009, when the Yankees won the WS.

I shall be at tomorrow's celebration.

Great Super Bowl
 

First of all, hats off to Tom Brady for being a great QB with class.

The win by the Giants was a great vicory. I was right in saying that my heart was in my mouth until the very end. A heart stopping moment for me beloved Giants. If that ball was deflected to Gronkowski and he caught it, I would have had to bear watching it on Sportscenter for the next twenty or thirty years.

I was right in predicting Manningham would have a good game and Eli would be the MVP.

Two Super Bowls in five years with the Giants coming from nowhere to be Champions.

As Yogi Berra said, "who woulda thunk it".

Giant Fans
 

Here is an article in The New York Daily News, (Mike Lupica), that Giant fans would enoyed reading.

Super Bowl XLVI MVP Eli Manning has a flair for the dramatic - especially in the biggest moments.
It is late at Lucas Oil Stadium on Super Bowl Sunday, and the Giants’ locker room is still crowded with players and media and family and excitement and noise and enough energy to light the whole place. Maybe it is an hour since Tom Brady’s desperation pass into the end zone has been knocked out of the air, bouncing on the turf before Rob Gronkowski can even make his dive for it.
Archie Manning and Olivia Manning are outside the back door of the locker room, waiting in the hallway and they’re with one of their daughters-in-law, Cooper Manning’s wife. All of them are talking about the Super Bowl game they have just watched, how similar it is in so many ways to the one the Giants and Patriots played four years ago, mostly similar in the end because Eli Manning had taken his team down the field again, come from behind again, put his team into the end zone in the last minute of the Super Bowl.

And on top of everything else, this time he has done it in Indianapolis, where his brother Peyton only became one of the great quarterbacks of all time.

“Just a bit more drama to the night,” Olivia Manning said, “a little more magic.”

I go back into the Giants’ locker room now, and run into Cooper Manning, ask him about his kid brother and Peyton’s kid brother. Ask him about Eli becoming this kind of big-moment player, this kind of fourth-quarter player, finally putting aside the tired “elite” conversation now for a much better one, about how Eli Manning is suddenly and wonderfully recognized as the best pressure player of his sport right now.

Maybe any sport.

Cooper Manning, a smart, funny guy, smiled and said, “Put it this way: For a guy who was never in a single school play, he sure does have this flair for the dramatic, doesn’t he?”

It is that flair for drama that makes this Giants team one to remember for all times, out of all the New York teams in all the sports. I keep saying it, but for them to win two Super Bowls this way, from 10-6 and a wild card one time and from 7-7 this time, for them to have to win two NFC Championships in overtime along the way, for them to come from behind in the fourth quarter twice against Bill Belichick’s Patriots, yeah, it really is like Willis limped out twice.
Or like Namath won two guaranteed, crazy-underdog Super Bowls. Or the Rangers somehow put some kind of improbable Stanley Cup championships in with the one they won in 1994. Or the Mets won a World Series the way they did, coming from two runs down and two outs and nobody on in the bottom of the season, and then four years later did something like that again.

It was the drama. The drama of the little brother in the Manning family becoming the big guy. The drama of Tom Coughlin, a coach about to be fired so many times you lose count, now taking his place with the most revered coaches or managers in all of New York sports history, with the great Red Holzman, with Joe Torre, with Gil Hodges in 1969, pick any other name you want.

There are so many reasons why this Giants coach and this quarterback have been able to do what they have to done together, but here is a big one, even if neither one of them will ever come out and say it:

They both have to have a lot of screw-you in them. There it is. You tell them you think they can’t, and they will show you, in the biggest possible moments, that they can. You know what Coughlin and Eli are thinking about right now? They are thinking about showing everybody again next year, when the big game goes to New Orleans.

So much drama to this team, so many heroes, likely and unlikely. So many moments to remember. But you can start with these two moments, before a ball was snapped this season, one of them from last season:

John Mara saying, almost defiantly, after the Giants missed the playoffs despite a 10-6 record, that he wasn’t firing Tom Coughlin.

And then Jerry Reese, the brilliant general manager, best evaluator of talent in the business, being as defiant in his own quiet way in the run-up to this season, when he stood up and said that despite all the injuries and all the doubts and Plaxico Burress going to the Jets and all the rest of it, that his team was good enough to contend.

Mara was right there, shoulder to shoulder, with his general manager. When I asked him not long ago why he believed, when even his own fans didn’t believe in August and September, he simply said, “We still had No. 10.”

On the field at Lucas Oil Stadium, a few moments after the Lombardi Trophy had been given back to the Giants, Jerry Reese said, “Don’t ever be fooled by our quarterback. Ever. He is a baby-faced assassin.”

A few feet away from Reese, confetti was still being shot toward the roof of the place. He said, “The way Eli played tonight? He played that way all year. The throws he made tonight? He made those throws all year long. We’d sit there and look at film, week after week, even when we’d lose, and somebody in the room would say, ‘There’s a big-boy throw.’ And a few minutes later somebody else would say, ‘There’s another big-boy throw.’”

On a team of drama kings, the quarterback who was never in the school play became the star of the show. But there were others. Are you kidding?
There was Victor Cruz, the undrafted free agent out of UMass who became a star of his sport. Victor Cruz: Who only really got the shot he did because Steve Smith left and then Domenik Hixon got hurt.

There was Chase Blackburn, who was out of football and then came back to be such a huge part of this. I am standing watching the regular-season game between the Giants and Packers and Blackburn intercepts Aaron Rodgers and I turn to my son, the Giant fan, and honestly ask, “Who’s No. 93?” Not even knowing Blackburn was back on the roster.

On and on. Osi Umenyiora was supposed to be on his way out of town before the season was over, ended up being a sack-a-game guy again. Brandon Jacobs seemed to be talking his way out of town earlier in the season, and ends the season dancing on the stage at City Hall Plaza. And we wondered if Justin Tuck would ever be healthy enough to be Justin Tuck again, do at Lucas Oil the same thing he had done at University of Phoenix Stadium in Arizona four years before: Put Brady on the ground.

So many stories, so many moments, ending with the biggest moments in the Super Bowl. Tony Romo misses Miles Austin in December with a pass that would have put the Giants to sleep; it means Romo misses the throw that Eli doesn’t miss when the money is on the table. Cruz goes 99 against the Jets. It’s all a jumble now. Ahmad Bradshaw doesn’t get called for a fumble at old Candlestick Park, a punt bounces off Kyle Williams’ knee, Hail Mary pass to Hakeem Nicks at Lambeau, Packers receivers dropping nine balls that day.
Cruz’s fumble in Super Bowl 46 doesn’t count because the Patriots have 12 men on the field. Somehow later Eli threads the needle to Mario Manningham down the sideline in the fourth quarter from his 12, throwing one 50 yards in the air into double coverage and putting another one on the money as easily as dropping a coin into a parking meter.
Nothing easy about any of this this, all the way until the end, Archie Manning already having forgotten that the first victory in the playoff run didn’t have much drama, it was 24-2 against the Falcons.

“Maybe next year,” Eli’s dad said when it was over, “we can throw in a 28-7 once in a while.”

It would be nice. Just wouldn’t be Coughlin’s Giants, wouldn’t be Eli’s Giants. Not the way they roll, all the way into New York sports history. Again.

Drama kings. Kings of the world.

Again.

:bigbow: Great article!! Thanks for posting!!:)

Thanks for posting, loved it!

Football Giants 2012
 

I can honestly say that after what happened twice in the last five years is an amazing run in sports. Two seasons where the Giants came from nowhere to win the Super Bowl in almost identical fashion against the Patriots. Two overtime wins against the Packers,(2008), and the Niners, (2011) to get to the Super Bowl.

Now we are embarking on the 2012 season with the fervent hope we can become a dynasty. Eli has proven he is an elite QB and can say he has beaten Tom Brady twice, (no small feat as Brady is a sure HOF QB).

I know that if Eli has the ball is his hands at the end of the game good things will happen. What amazing drives he engineered to win two Super Bowls.

GO Giants.

What do you think will happen this year?

Go Giants!!!
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How bout dem Cowboys!
 

Oops, wrong forum. :laugh:

Cowboys just got sold
 

I accidently posted this over on the College side. Thought I'd share it with an obvious Cowboys fan over here in the Giants forum: :beer3:


I heard on the news that the Cowboys got sold to the two guys, the owner of Kentucky Fried Chicken and President and CEO of Schlitz Brewery. The're going to change the name of the team to the "Dallas Chicken - Schlitz".
(Beat my Giants will you)

Giants Thrilling Comeback Win
 

Just as I was saying to myself, the Giants 20102 season is over, they comeback an win!!!!!!! Article from New York Daily News.

Eli Manning puts NY Giants in a hole then bails Big Blue out in thrilling 41-34 win over Tampa Bay Buccaneers - NY Daily News

Giants vs SF
 

Did anyone watch the beating the Giants gave SF on Sunday?

The were out to prove last year was no fluke.

Article in NY post: Enjoy

Steve Serby: New York Giants show San Francisco 49ers with 26-3 trouncing you don’t disrespect the defending NFL champions - NYPOST.com

Great Article in New York Daily News
 

No better time to be a Giants fan. Enjoy. :smiley:

Eli Manning is presiding over the greatest era of NY Giants football in team's long, storied history - NY Daily News

Big Whew for Big Blue.
 

You have to have a strong heart to be a Giants fan. Another heart stopping victory for Big Blue.

Steve Serby: New York Giants pull off great escape with 29-24 victory over Dallas Cowboys - NYPOST.com

Amen.

The real reason we won was that for the last 30 seconds of the game I had my lucky Giant shirt on and my Giants cap on backwards.....works every time!!

Me too. I had my blue Eli Manning jersey on but he had an off day. The defense won the game.

I wear my white Eli Manning Jersey when they wear white.

I am just that powerful. :jester:

Here We Go Again
 

The Giants are trying to sell the last six games as "exciting", as opposed to their usual November swoon. This will be the third season they will have to dig themselves out of the hole they dug as the Cowboys can possibvly move to a half a game from first place in the NFL East on Thanksgiving.

The Packers this Sunday night, (8:30 PM), is a test of which Giants will show up. It will be interesting to watch.

Can they do it three times?

Go Giants.

ALWAYS interesting to watch Big Blue !!!!

Big Game Tonight!!!!!
 

Let's hear it from Giant fans.

Big game for Big Blue against the Packers. Game of the week is Saints vs 49ers but my game of the week is the G-Men vs the Pack.

Will the Giants continue their swoon or will they play like last years playoffs. What do you think will happen tonight?

I think they will play well.

GO GIANTS!!!!!

I have my fingers crossed after their last couple of outings.

I think they have a chance.

Z

Your a smart man Z!!! :smiley:

How Bout Dem Giants!!!!
 

The Giants opened a can of whup a** on the Packers yesterday and it did my heart a world of good. They usually have my heart in my mouth until the last seconds but yesterday was a sound beating of the Packers.

I like Aaron Rodgers as he is a great QB and a class act but his o-line didn't hold up and the Nascar package had it's way. I especially thought the Giants secondary played a good game. It looked like Rodgers couldn't throw because all his receivers were covered.

Next week is RGIII.

I sure don't hope they forget how good they can be when the playoffs arrive.

Go Giants!!!!

2BNTV, make sure you wear your Eli Manning jersey next week. And please, don't forget your pants.

GO GIANTS!!!