The New York Giants were founded in 1925, and play in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference.
Click Here to Buy New York Giants Football TicketsThe franchise holds six NFL Championship titles, two of which are Super Bowls. Four of the Championship titles were before the NFL-AFL merger and the renaming of the game to the Super Bowl. They are the only team of five that joined the NFL in 1925 that still exists.
In the beginning, to distance themselves from the baseball team with the same name, the franchise was called the New York Football Giants. They still use the name today as their legal corporate title.
Their second season the team had the best record in the league, 11-1, and got the title awarded to them. This was when titles were given based on records. There was a 14-year span between 1933 and 1946 when the team played in the NFL Championship game eight times, winning twice. There was another span from 1946 to 1980 where they suffered losing seasons and didn't make it to the playoffs. But from 1981 to 2005, they qualified 11 out of 25 seasons. They secured Super Bowl titles in 1987, 1991 and 2001.
Here at the end of March, training camp is over four months away. The regular season will not begin for nearly six months, but the offseason program announces the long road to the regular season beyond the curve of time. Memories from the end of the previous season are still fresh. The 2006 Giants players headed off to lick their wounds following a heartbreaking last-second 23-20 NFC Wild Card Playoff loss to the Eagles in Philadelphia, but look forward to the new season of 2007 with hope in their hearts.
The team reappearing at Giants Stadium in March 2007 for the beginning of the offseason conditioning program, will note that the roster has changed. Tackle Luke Petitgtout and linebackers LaVar Arrington and Carlos Emmons have been released. Tiki Barber has retired, and Wide receiver Tim Carter went to the Cleveland Browns, traded for running back Reuben Droughns.
The Giants finished 8-8, after wining at Washington in their final regular season game. Then they tied the Eagles in a thrilling comeback from a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit before that nightmare ending to the playoff game, as Philadelphia celebrated David Akers' game-winning 38-yard field goal right at the very death. Despite this sad end, Giants' fans will be flocking to home games in numbers once again, searching for Giants tickets and crowding into the seats to see their heroes. Who knows, maybe the playoffs won't stop the Giants this coming football season, and a visit to the Super Bowl is on the cards after all.