Pretty simple question. Best Super Bowl win?
XXI - You always remember the first time. Phil Simms masterful performance.
XXV - The only 1 point Super Bowl win, and the first Super Bowl in which neither team committed a turnover.
XLII - 18-1, 12 point underdogs.
XLVI - An amazing finish and comeback win.
XXV was a great game but for me at least, it was a bit of a let down after the NFC Championship with the Niners. Those two games with the Niners during that season were the best football games I've ever watched.
XLII was so totally unexpected. Prior to the Buffalo game I thought we would blow up the whole program and have to rebuild. That Buffalo game was the Giants game I ever choose not to watch the kickoff. (Sure, I've missed some games buy never willingly until that game). Well, we all know how that game went and how the rest of season wound up. Such a great Super Bowl win. I think its the most impressive win in franchise history.
XLVI I also thought we were the better team and that we would win. And we did. Giants were so good in those playoffs.
So, I guess for me, they were all great, and I'll remember them forever, but I guess 42 was the best.
XXI was the only dominate Giants Super Bowl team in my book. That was a great team.
However anyone who calls XLII our finest hour would not get much of an argument from me.
Oh and Manning to Tyree on a GW TD drive to seal the victory
We were favored in XXI, had a shot in XXV, had a good chance in XLVI and NO SHOT in XLII
If I was 15 years older? Def 86
The Pats fan was nervous, very nervous by the 4th quarter and kinda in disbelief. When they took the lead, his smug ass was all over it like man it was just destiny.
All I said to him then was, "you know Eli is pretty good at this 4th quarter stuff too. I wouldn't be so damn cock sure if I were you..."
XXV after that because we were never supposed to win and Hoss was a stud
Surreal.
The 1st is always the beat.
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XXI was the best.. followed by XLII
I loved them all. The last was a different experience, though, as I got to watch it with my kids. Seeing the SB through the eyes of little kids was something.
But pound for pound It's very very hard for me to put any nyg team ahead of the 1990 Giants in terms of how it impacted me. To the ones too young you have to understand how meaningful it was to see the giants walk into candlestick and knock off the defending champ niners and then beat high powered bills one week later in supe 25. You think the pats were mystic and aura? The 80s niners shit on the 2000s pats. We're talking Montana and rice here. The best ever. Period. And NY gut punched and just physically crushed them. So proud to say that. No team ever beat those niners up like the giants did. As amazing as it was to beat the pats it was even more impressive to knock off the 1990 niners in their house. The undefeated mark is hard to ignore though. Love em all. 86 Super Bowl is the funnest to watch on replay.
'86 team was the best Giant team, ever, arguably. Eliminated years of frustration. Total euphoria.
XLII was the greatest Giants victory...ever.
SB XLII - David vs Goliath
For best game, I can't decide. It's either XXV or XLII. The Bills weren't undefeated, but the Giants were still heavy underdogs and Buffalo were the darlings of the media that post season. Everywhere you turned it was over-saturation of the K-Gun (the offense of the 90's), Bruce Smith surpassing LT as the NFL's unstoppable defensive force, theie whole team getting fitted for rings before the game, etc. It felt great putting them in their place.
XXV-it is funny, i was probably an idiot, but I thought we had more of a chance against the Pats than we did against the Bills. The Pats were showing some signs of weakness throughout the season; the Bills were peaking, having just won 51-3. There is a reason Belly's gameplan is in the HOF.
XLII- 18-1, although, as i said, the pats were not playing as well as earlier in the season, they were still a historically great team. it also validated the Manning trade.
XLVI-it was such a weird season, so many times I was so disappointed in the team and how I did not feel they showed up. Second Washington game, NO MNF game as examples. But, it was great to get the second bowl for Eli.
In any event, Giants fans have had some bad memories, such as the 97 Minny playoff game, 02 SF playoff game, the two miracle at the meadowland, but we have been really fortunate fans. 3 of our 5 NFC title wins were on winning FGs on the last play off the game. We won a Super Bowl when a team missed a long FG, and we had two long drives to win it. I consider myself lucky to be a Giants fan.
The odds of a an undefeated team losing the Super Bowl are astronomical by themselves. An undefeated team with a 3-time Super Bowl winning coach & QB combo that just put up the highest scoring season in league history. Yeah, probably never see that again.
But one team stood in their way, and played them like no team did all year.....when the Pats beat the Giants in the last regular season game, all I heard from the local media was, the Giants played over their heads, and the Pats just did not play their best game, and that the game wasn't as close as the final score was.....to see them stop the Pats, was unreal....it was the greatest of the four.....
Needless to say the residents around us were less than pleased when the Giants won and we ran outside with the flag.