for display only
Big Blue Interactive The Corner Forum  
Back to the Corner

Archived Thread

Best win - XXI, XXV, XLII, XLVI?

BigBlue89 : 7/14/2013 11:28 am
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.
Pages: 1 2 | Show All |  Next>>
XLII  
whenwaxattacks : 7/14/2013 11:30 am : link
by a longshot for me. It was surreal.
XXI because the long wait was finally over  
Larry in Pencilvania : 7/14/2013 11:33 am : link
and I experienced it with my dad
That's tough  
Wuphat : 7/14/2013 11:35 am : link
They all are special in their own regard, but I'm going with XLVI -- the run they went on at the end was incredible, and it validated XLII as more than a fluke.
Obviously all great but...  
trueblueinpw : 7/14/2013 11:40 am : link
Never any doubt about XXI, great to see Big Blue win the Super Bowl after generations of futility.

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  
Steve in South Jersey : 7/14/2013 11:49 am : link
That win was the end of so many years of suffering.

XXI was the only dominate Giants Super Bowl team in my book. That was a great team.
For me XXV was my favorite  
JerseyCityJoe : 7/14/2013 11:54 am : link
At the time the team was getting older and LT and company best days were behind them. To have them beat that new high powered offence using good old ball control and defense was very satisfying.

However anyone who calls XLII our finest hour would not get much of an argument from me.
XLII  
Route 9 in LEH : 7/14/2013 12:03 pm : link
3 games on the road, 18-0 New England team. As Wuphat said comparing 46 to 42, with 42 you had nothing to compare that Super Bowl run to with the eerie similarities between 42 & 46.

Oh and Manning to Tyree on a GW TD drive to seal the victory
Best?  
Big Blue '56 : 7/14/2013 12:04 pm : link
XLII..

We were favored in XXI, had a shot in XXV, had a good chance in XLVI and NO SHOT in XLII
XLII was the most unbelievable for me.  
BoldRuler : 7/14/2013 12:06 pm : link
The fact that Giants could win a title with a new generation of coaches and players. They did it in the most dramatic fashion possible. And I don't care what anyone says about SB III, I still say XLII was the biggest upset in SB history.
They're all the best. To call one the best insults the others  
Marty in Albany : 7/14/2013 12:07 pm : link
You might as well be asking Archie to pick his favorite son.
The first is always best  
Sec 103 : 7/14/2013 12:07 pm : link
XXI
Super Bowl 42  
Route 9 in LEH : 7/14/2013 12:14 pm : link
was technically my first, because i didn't start watching football really until 93-94.

If I was 15 years older? Def 86
42 because I didn't think that they were going to win  
JohnB : 7/14/2013 12:21 pm : link
the other 3 I have a good feeling about, not 42
Tough choice for me between 21 and 42, but I gotta go 42  
BlueLou : 7/14/2013 12:38 pm : link
because where I saw it and with whom. With a friend who's a 9ers fan, and he invited some friends who were huge Pats' fans for fun and quite possibly to rankle me.

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..."
XLII, Eli came of age  
montanagiant : 7/14/2013 1:14 pm : link
And we beat the "Best team ever"

XXV after that because we were never supposed to win and Hoss was a stud

42.  
TheNeumann64 : 7/14/2013 1:19 pm : link
Greatest possible season for a fan. Could not have been scripted any better.
I love them all, but it has to be 42  
GiantJake : 7/14/2013 1:27 pm : link
XXI was great because it was a dream come true, but XLII is the best because it was the first for my son who was 8 years old. At the time, he was basically the only Giants fan at his school where it was all Jets fans. He would take daily abuse from his friends and classmates because he always wore Giants gear. The other kids would be relentless and say "the Giants suck" and "Eli sucks", etc. I told him to be strong and that his day was coming. He could have avoided taking shit by wearing something else, but he never considered that an option. Then the Giants went on that playoff run. The look of joy and satisfaction on his face when the Giants won that Superbowl will stay with me forever. He was so proud of his team and I was so proud of him.
Has to be 42 for me..  
arcarsenal : 7/14/2013 1:36 pm : link
Just the way that run happened and everything about it... it is to this day, my greatest memory as a fan of any of the teams I root for.
Although there was something really awesome about 46...  
arcarsenal : 7/14/2013 1:36 pm : link
Because it was like "holy shit.. it's happening again".. and we all kind of knew it but couldn't really believe it. And sure enough...

Surreal.
XLII  
Man In The Box : 7/14/2013 1:42 pm : link
42 w/o a doubt for me. I was too young/not alive for the '86 and '90 seasons.
I gotta go with SB42  
mrvax : 7/14/2013 1:46 pm : link
Just an amazing story. If it was a movie, people would have left in disgust because it could never happen.
42 by a mile  
RobCarpenter : 7/14/2013 2:18 pm : link
Ruin the Pats perfect season, beat one of the all time great QBs, win all those games on the road, Strahan rallying the offense, Tuck playing unbelievable football, Tyree catch...
XXV  
spu : 7/14/2013 2:58 pm : link
I got board a plane a few hours after the game for the Middle East to join the Gulf War. It was a great send off.
For one who has seen them all  
Stan from LA : 7/14/2013 3:27 pm : link
XXI.

The 1st is always the beat.
'best'  
Stan from LA : 7/14/2013 3:27 pm : link
.
XLII  
Danny Kanell : 7/14/2013 3:39 pm : link
Greatest win I've ever experienced as a fan of any of my teams.
In order:  
Dave in Hoboken : 7/14/2013 3:42 pm : link
42
21
25
46
XXI  
That Said : 7/14/2013 4:19 pm : link
That team and its accomplishments literally changed my life.
XXI  
Blue Blood : 7/14/2013 5:27 pm : link
because my dad and I had watched them lose so much when I was younger.. people talk about The Fumble.. I WATCHED IT.. I remember crying as a young man..

XXI was the best.. followed by XLII
42  
12aob : 7/14/2013 5:51 pm : link
Seeing the defense hold Brady and company to 14 points, exceeding Plaxico's prediction. Seeing Seau and Bruschi acting like they had the game in the bag after the Patriots second touchdown, only to see Eli complete the pass to Tyree. Just soaking up the enormity of what the Giants accomplished that day. Nirvana.

It's like asking which of your kids  
Matt M. : 7/14/2013 6:01 pm : link
you love the best.

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.
I thought nothing would ever top, for me  
WeatherMan : 7/14/2013 6:06 pm : link
the Red Sox epic comeback in 2004. Then XLII happened. Week 17 standing up to the Pats. Road warriors. Overtime on the frozen tundra of Lambeau, Webster besting Favre. The build-up to the title game, we'll only score 17 points? Let Tom Brady hit the floor. Late 4th quarter 4th down conversion. Double miracle. Steve Smith's first down. Jacobs with the textbook block before the perfect spiral descends into the waiting arms of an unshot Plaxico. 18 and NO!
I have to go with 48...  
Q : 7/14/2013 8:06 pm : link
Eli was lights out from the first snap of the season until the last. It was something to behold, and it stamped his HOF ticket.
Q  
PEEJ : 7/14/2013 8:12 pm : link
Well played
Like others,  
Burt in Alameda : 7/14/2013 8:41 pm : link
each of the SB's was special, but 42 was the best because we stopped the Pat's streak and it was Eli's coming of age game. I remember thinking when the Giants got the ball to start their last drive that it was Eli's time to prove he belonged with the best. He did, history was made, and we all shed a tear of joy. 46 beats 21 because I always believed the Giants were better than Denver and because it validated what occurred four years earlier. Every time I watch 46, I think more of Manningham. Why he left for a paltry 8 million over two years, I will never understand. Surely, the Giants could have afforded that, and Mario had to know he would never have it so good as with Eli throwing to him. Well, maybe we will sign him next year after Hakeem leaves.
XXV has always been my personal favorite  
Greg from LI : 7/14/2013 11:42 pm : link
I loved that 1990 team so much. That was one incredible defense. They just choked the life out of teams. To me, it was just a better game than 42.
I've seen them all ( was 15 for Super Bowl 21)  
djm : 7/15/2013 12:00 am : link
The Super Bowl 42 run was just hilarious. And without that run we probably don't win a 4th in 2011-12. And the magnitude of beating the undefeated pats in that particular fashion? Hilarious.

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.
I can't imagine any sporting experience toping  
chris r : 7/15/2013 3:27 am : link
XLII for me.
sporting experience?  
chris r : 7/15/2013 3:39 am : link
Tie - XXI & XLII  
Ron From NYC : 7/15/2013 7:18 am : link
Both were great, yet very different.

'86 team was the best Giant team, ever, arguably. Eliminated years of frustration. Total euphoria.

XLII was the greatest Giants victory...ever.
If I may get "biblical" for a moment  
PEEJ : 7/15/2013 7:21 am : link
SB XXI - Moses finds the Promised Land after 40 years in the desert

SB XLII - David vs Goliath

I need to define "best win" from the "best game"  
truebluelarry : 7/15/2013 8:25 am : link
The best win is XXI, 30 years of ghosts were exorcised in the Rose Bowl. It was very satisfying to see vets like Carson, Martin, Benson, Simms and others who toiled through many lean years to make it to the top of the mountain.

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.
For me it goes  
Essex : 7/15/2013 8:59 am : link
XXI-the first is always the best.

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.
This was way too tough  
Gman11 : 7/15/2013 9:32 am : link
but after having lived through the '60s and '70s I would have to say that XXI was the best. The frustration of all those years of ineptitude finally ended.
XLII  
Motley Blue : 7/15/2013 9:38 am : link
Probably won't ever see that scenario repeated in the NFL.
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.
XLII  
Go Terps : 7/15/2013 10:17 am : link
Something in the cosmos shifted that day.
In rewatching the XLVI  
Big Blue '56 : 7/15/2013 10:24 am : link
"America's Game," I had forgotten that we were the ONLY team in SB history to lose 4 games in a row in the regular season and WIN a SB
XLII by far  
David in LA : 7/15/2013 10:29 am : link
I was too young to appreciate the Parcells era Super Bowls.
When you think about it....  
Doomster : 7/15/2013 10:34 am : link
If the Pats won XLII(they were one finger tip catch from a fg attempt), the football world would have proclaimed them the greatest team ever.....that Miami team would be a distant memory in comparisons between the two.....the Pats would have been 4-0 in SB's and the greatest organization in football, have the greatest coach, qb, etc.

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.....
42  
Oldmanyaps : 7/15/2013 10:58 am : link
I was a senior in college, was down at school outside Philly with a few friends who were Giants fans. We watched every playoff game from my buddy's couch with the same seats and same clothes every week. When they won, my buddies bought a fathead of Eli and a massive Giants flag and wore them as capes.

Needless to say the residents around us were less than pleased when the Giants won and we ran outside with the flag.
Pages: 1 2 | Show All |  Next>>
Back to the Corner