The New York Giants have 4 Lombardi Trophies sitting of their foyer on account of some magical Tremendous Bowl runs over the previous 37 years.
These had been nice runs, they usually had fairly just a few years the place they fell quick in disappointing vogue. However not yearly they didn’t hoist the {hardware} was a downer.
There have been some seasons that had been merely entertaining and simply downright enjoyable, even when they didn’t finish in a Tremendous Bowl championship.
A kind of seasons was 2000, which Landing Wire’s Mark Lane charges because the Giants’ “most enjoyable playoff run that didn’t finish with a Tremendous Bowl win.”
The Giants had been 7-4, however coach Jim Fassel pushed all his chips into the middle of the desk as New York completed 12-4 and secured the No. 1 seed. The Giants disregarded the Philadelphia Eagles 20-10 within the divisional spherical. New York had no drawback with the Minnesota Vikings within the NFC Championship Recreation as they avenged their wild-card loss from 1997 with a 41-0 obliteration.
The Giants went on to lose miserably to the Baltimore Ravens, 34-7, in Tremendous Bowl XXXV.
For this author, essentially the most enjoyable non-championship season was 1981, Lawrence Taylor’s first season and the Giants’ first look within the postseason since 1963.
Large Blue had not had a successful season since 1972 and the primary two seasons underneath new common supervisor George Younger and head coach Ray Perkins had not gone nicely. In reality, 1980 was one of many worst in franchise historical past to that date.
The arrival of Taylor turned the worm for the Giants, although. They battled on protection and conjured up sufficient offense to win 9 video games, together with an exciting 13-10 Week 16 victory over the hated Dallas Cowboys at Giants Stadium that clinched a playoff berth.
The Giants went on to beat one other hated rival — the Philadelphia Eagles — within the wild card spherical however the experience ended the following week in San Francisco in a 38-24 loss to the eventual Tremendous Bowl champion 49ers.
For the primary time within the Tremendous Bowl period, the Giants had been related and they’d stay so for the following decade.
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