I know for many of us, this may have been to most brutal loss in our time.
Hard to believe it's been four whole years.
I still remember enjoying myself in the first half, but having a bad feeling that we needed to pile it on in order to put them away. When they recovered the on-side kick, I knew we were in for a doozy. Never could I imagine the events that followed...
Discuss where you were and what you went thru in the subsequent hours, days, and months :
You could probably easily add another 10 plays to that clip.
I dunno why I care so much.
Those uniforms are so plain it makes them awesome.
How do the Giants in successive weeks knock out the #1 and #2 seeds in the NFC and then beat the 18-0 Patriots, a team with a historically good offense?
How do the Giants AGAIN knock off the #1 and #2 seeds in the NFC, and then beat Bill Belichick and Tom Brady AGAIN?
How do the Giants in successive weeks knock out the #1 and #2 seeds in the NFC and then beat the 18-0 Patriots, a team with a historically good offense?
How do the Giants AGAIN knock off the #1 and #2 seeds in the NFC, and then beat Bill Belichick and Tom Brady AGAIN?
It's good to be a Giants fan! That's why I never hit the panic button in seasons like 2013, 2014. We have had some of the sweetest moments!
:)
Toughest losses for me.
Flipper Anderson
Desean Jackson game
Vikes comeback with Jake Reed and Co.
Candlestick meltdown which was the worst for me.
Eagles were as good as dead that season. We were 11-1 and coming off of SB victory. We beat every one of the eventual CG participants. McNabb's sideline antics. I've never been more certain about something that ultimately didnt happen. We woulda won it all that year.
Just because it's the Eagles...
I dunno why I care so much.
Those uniforms are so plain it makes them awesome.
agreed, even for one week as a throwback game, i think a lot of fans that grew up with the 80s/90s giants would love it.
- Flipper Anderson
- '97 Vikings game
- '02 49ers game
- Super Bowl 35
- Matt Dodge
Honorable mention to...
- 1988 OT loss to Eagles (Giants block FG in OT, picked up by Eagles and returned for TD)
- 1988 loss to Jets, knocked out of playoffs
- 2001 Week 17 loss to Eagles (Lambuth Special)
- 2002 loss to Titans
- 2003 loss to Dallas on MNF
- 2004 loss to Eagles (Westbrook game)
- 2006 loss to Titans
- 2006 loss to Eagles in playoffs
- 2008 loss to Eagles in playoffs
The SF loss was worse because the Giants O was rolling and they had a lot of momentum. TB did not want to deal with the Giants. Shockey catches that TD pass and it never gets to that point
I went back to see the carnage - The Eagle game was just an all out 7 minute cluster fuck.
K. Phillips with awful play on Celek TD catch Eagles score in 49 seconds
Onside kick - clueless
Vick then runs 35 yards for 1st & goal. On 2nd & 9 vick is sacked - defensive offsides. Instead of 3rd down from the 12, 2nd from the 4
2nd & 6 at Eagle 44 and Deihl gets penalty - 2nd & 11 Giants punt from Eagle 40
3rd & 10 Vick scrambles for 35 then later scrambles for 23. Another TD
Giants get good kick return. Go 3 & out in .14 seconds and the rest is history
The Eagles ran 15 plays for 220 yards (14.6 avg per play) for 4:35 of possession and scored 21 points. Plus jackson fumbled after a 31 yard gain right before the Giants went up 31-10. Really an astounding amount of yards given up
Ugly!
- Flipper Anderson
- '97 Vikings game
- '02 49ers game
- Super Bowl 35
- Matt Dodge
Honorable mention to...
- 1988 OT loss to Eagles (Giants block FG in OT, picked up by Eagles and returned for TD)
- 1988 loss to Jets, knocked out of playoffs
- 2001 Week 17 loss to Eagles (Lambuth Special)
- 2002 loss to Titans
- 2003 loss to Dallas on MNF
- 2004 loss to Eagles (Westbrook game)
- 2006 loss to Titans
- 2006 loss to Eagles in playoffs
- 2008 loss to Eagles in playoffs
Agree to a T... And in perfect order..
Hopefully he is more precise with a virtual lightsabre than he is with his foot!
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For a Giants fan born in '81 with '85-'86 as my first memories, you guys nailed all of the obvious choices...
- Flipper Anderson
- '97 Vikings game
- '02 49ers game
- Super Bowl 35
- Matt Dodge
Honorable mention to...
- 1988 OT loss to Eagles (Giants block FG in OT, picked up by Eagles and returned for TD)
- 1988 loss to Jets, knocked out of playoffs
- 2001 Week 17 loss to Eagles (Lambuth Special)
- 2002 loss to Titans
- 2003 loss to Dallas on MNF
- 2004 loss to Eagles (Westbrook game)
- 2006 loss to Titans
- 2006 loss to Eagles in playoffs
- 2008 loss to Eagles in playoffs
Agree to a T... And in perfect order..
My List of Heartbreakers:
1. The Fumble (for obvious reasons not including the fact that it was the Eagles)
2. Calloway botching onside kick against Minny (a home playoff game that was in the bag); That was painful seeing it in person. That was a pumped up crowd ready to celebrate).
3. Matt Allen and the SF playoff game in 02 (Never saw momentum swing in a game like that so fast and I'ms till waiting for PI call when Suebert was a tackle eligible downfield. Then NFL apologizes next day - brutal.
4. Flipper Anderson still running through the Stadium in '89. That Giants team was probably the best team to not win it all.
5. Matt Dodge/Coughlin/Quinn/Jackson - Perfect Eagles storm. That still hurts - at least it wasn't a playoff game.
My honorable mention:
Titans in '06. Blowing a 21 point lead with 10 minutes left. I was screaming for Coughlin's head after that one. Thank God I don't run the team because I would have fired the guy...
The 2000 Super Bowl loss never bothered me for some reason. Probably because Ravens were clearly the better team and that Giants team obviously overachieved. Plus that NFC Championship ass-kicking of the Vikings kind of softened the blow...
That game was actually a blessing in disguise
And I always get a good chuckle when I think of Eagle fans selling shirts about that regular season game. Some of those losers probably still wear them around Philly.
We have four Lombardis so I can't waste my time thinking about the bad moments - many of which led to good ones.
Are you sure you don't mean the '88 Eagles game? We ended up winning the Div in '89. 1988 had 3 brutal losses - Niners, Eagles and Jets. The latter 2 are both in my top 10.
After the game, a bunch of the Iggles players stayed on the field and were yelling up at me about how they just won. I was yelling right back at them, cursing and screaming, flipping them off and saying all kinds of things. At one point one of the Iggles started to rush towards me in the stands and his fellow teammates pulled him back. Then they just ran off the field laughing at me.
My cousin was with me and says that's I was freakishly angry - says he never has seen anyone that angry and that he was afraid to even speak the whole ride home.
I was also at the playoff game where McNabb ran onto our sidelines and picked up the phone. Remember how we were running the ball down their throats in the first half of that game? Man, I hate the Iggles.
The fumble a "dark day"? It was the BEST day in Giants history! By far. As a Giants fan dating back to the 1950s, I celebrate the FUMBLE in every way possible. I bow down to it and thank the lord for it. It was wonderful. It literally changed my life.
While that loss still really, really stings, I also use it as a argument stopper with Eagles fans. When describing their best game ever I laugh at them that their best game is a regular season game. Not playoffs, not championship game, not a Super Bowl moment. Regular season, ha, now stop talking and go back to dusting your empty trophy case.
thinking about that game gives me bad chills. the '06 titans game caused me to chuck a paper shredder through my wall.
the jay feely game @ SEA in '05 wasn't much fun either...
i still think top to bottom the 2010 team is probably the 2nd or 3rd best of the Eli era. damn shame that we didn't even get a shot in the tourney. sigh.
the bye bye Allie game
the OT loss to the Colts "greatest game ever played"
Vs the Eagles,
(1) Perry's masterful gameplan executed to perfection for 3 quarters only to see his players lose discipline by failing to contain.
(2) The entire year everyone knew that Dodge was a liability. We waited the whole year to watch him piss away a game when everyone knew it was coming. He was too inconsistent for that not to happen.
Coughlin still let him kick failure after failure
(3) Coughlin killing Dodge at the end there was downright embarrassing. It exonerated Aaron Ross and Tom Coughlin
It's very simple.
The Giants go to Candlestick the next week and (most likely) lose.
Or they perform the upset, win the SB and then miss the playoffs in '90 (going by traditional NYG history following a Lombardi). Then the '90 49ers win the SB.
Net result: '89 and '90 SB champions are potentially swapped. Or they probably stay the same.
I'm 95% certain that's what would have happened. The 49ers were always destined to win 4 in the '80s and the Giants 2 (the '90 team was really '80s for the purpose of this conversation).
The competitive balance of the NFL ensured that you could only be on top for so long. Losing the NFC divisional/championship game meant that usually you would go on to win it the next year ('83-'84 SF, '84-'85 CHI, '85-'86 Giants, '86-'87 Redskins, '87-'88 49ers).
That's why the Niners failed 3peat attempt looking back wasn't such a big deal -- it never was supposed to happen by order of the football gods. That it almost nearly happened was a miracle.
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I don't remember how bad we were in 1969 but in 1970 we turned it around. Homer Jones was traded to the Browns for Ron Johnson and DT Jim Kanicki. Bob Tucker emerged as our TE. And Fran Tarkenton scrambled. Somehow we got to 9-4 on those players. Win the final game at home and we are in the playoffs.
But we come out flat and finish 9-5. Symptomanic of many Giants game not being able to get up for a game when it mattered.
I don't remember how bad we were in 1969 but in 1970 we turned it around. Homer Jones was traded to the Browns for Ron Johnson and DT Jim Kanicki. Bob Tucker emerged as our TE. And Fran Tarkenton scrambled. Somehow we got to 9-4 on those players. Win the final game at home and we are in the playoffs.
But we come out flat and finish 9-5. Symptomanic of many Giants game not being able to get up for a game when it mattered.
Also symptomatic of Tarkenton not good enough to win the big one.
The game that killed them was the Monday night game in Franklin Field when the officials called Ben Hawkins in bounds for a TD when he was clearly out of bounds. I think there was a bad call against the Saints that also cost them a game. With replay, they probably would have made the playoffs.
I won't go back any earlier than the 1950s, but there are two periods which make the "dark days" related earlier in this thread look relatively bright:
- They had two winning seasons from 1964 to 1980, and no playoff appearances.
- From 1958 to 1963, the Giants played in the NFL championship game five times, but failed to win any of them.
Sure, the Giants have had many, many glorious outings, but as a fan since 1954, it's been ingrained in me that, when watching the Giants, I generally expect the worst but hope for the best. The 1958 Colts game, followed by the losses to the Packers, cemented that outlook.
Frankly, nothing much has changed up to the current day. They'll break your heart as often as not, but have a predilection for making amazing plays and for winning as underdogs. That's what makes all this so worthwhile. You just never really know what you're going to get on any given game day.
Thank the football gods we won it all a year later. The eagles fans can wear those pathetic tshirts with pride.
97 and 2002 still bother me. 2010 was probably worse if you look at it in a vacuum but in the game scheme that loss was merely a speed bump-- same with flipper in 89, again, brutal but merely a speed bump.
That team could have won the Super Bowl. The nfl not just the NFC was weak sauce. Forget 89 we may beat the niners 1 out of 10 times in that playoff game. Simms was shaky all year and offense just wasn't consistent enough to win three tough playoff games. They couldn't beat the rams for a reason.
The 88 giants host a playoff game and a bye week if they beat the lousy shit show dead man walking joe Walton led jets. And they lost a bizarre game. Brutal. Play that game ten times the giants win 9 of them. Not that day.
One other game that sticks with me is the third game of the 98 season. The Giants were hosting the cowboys on MNF. The cowboys were coming in with no Aikman, Emmitt was banged up and not the same player anymore. The Giants were coming in at 1-1. They got an opening game win against the Redskins (strahan interception return for td) before losing out west to the Jeff George Raiders who got help by the officials at the close of the first half which gave them a field goal which prompted Fassell to tell the Ref "We better not lose this game by 3 points", which they did. As for the MNF game against the Cowboys, it was a big early game for the Giants, a game I really wanted. The Giants end up losing 31-7 in the "Deion Game" where he returned a punt 59 yards for a td, returned an int 71 yards for a td, and caught a 55 yard pass in the same game. I actually renounced my fanship after the the game that night! Lol, of course I was hot with emotion so once that subsided I was there rooting for them again the next week which they won, thank goodness!