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 :
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.
Cincinnati was no easy opponent in SB 23. They could have beaten SF.
Rice had 200+ yards and the 49ers barely won.
Cause they were a helluva good team that was as good as either the 49ers or Bills all year? We lost 3 games. 4 points to 49ers in SF, 3 points to the Bills and one bad loss to a very good Eagles team in Philly. And it was defensive oriented team with great special teams and a power running game. The QB was mostly a game mananger. The backup was nearly as good for that role as the starter. An all-time great coaching staff didn't hurt. Nothing mysterious or miraculous about it at all.
2007 and 2011 may or may not be hard to believe, but not 1990.
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.
With you all the way on this. By far this is number 1 on my list. Phil McConkey had one task as a punt returner - catch the damned ball. He never returned one more than 10 yards. Usually he did little more than catch it and fall down. In this game he coughs one up and sets up a Jets TD. And then Simms leads us on two 4th qtr TD drives to take the lead. We kick off and let friggin Kurt Sohn return it past midfield. Worst feeling in my fan-life watching the Jets move into FG range and then score.
We could've won it all and didn't even make the damned playoffs. And this on top of the nightmarish '87 season. Brutal.
[quote] And no it wasn't the darkest day in Giants history. On the field The Fumble in 1978 was. Off the field I would say Troy Archer being killed in a car accident was. [/quote
"The Fumble" gets my vote. You must realize however that there are Giant fans who never even heard of "The Fumble," so we must forgive them for their innocence. Remember also that "The Fumble" was not only our darkest day, but was the first step toward 2 Super Bowls because it resulted in a complete housecleaning of the Giants management & the hiring of George Young as GM.
This is good thing for Giant fans to contemplatet in this bummer of a season. As the old Brooklyn Dodger fans use to say every time they lost the World Series to the Yankees, "Wait til next year.!"
It's the only time I ever cried because of a game. Just went outside and walked around in the backyard in the rain crying. It was actually kind've pathetic.
The sting from the league office saying they botched the final call in an elimination game will never go away. Ever.
I think our team was better than TB, which means I feel we were robbed of a Super Bowl opportunity, which I think not only would have gone well for us but also would likely have left Warren Sapp as a paper champion.
I'm reminded of the loss by him and Mariucci every time they are on TV. This has led in part to my not wanting to watch as much football coverage as I would otherwise.
Every other loss sucked, but in each case we deserved to lose. Not in that one case. The only responsibility for that loss in my view falls on the officials for botching the final call.
This game is burned into my head but it lead the way for a better punter who had an impact in the big one.
The sting from the league office saying they botched the final call in an elimination game will never go away. Ever.
I think our team was better than TB, which means I feel we were robbed of a Super Bowl opportunity, which I think not only would have gone well for us but also would likely have left Warren Sapp as a paper champion.
I'm reminded of the loss by him and Mariucci every time they are on TV. This has led in part to my not wanting to watch as much football coverage as I would otherwise.
Every other loss sucked, but in each case we deserved to lose. Not in that one case. The only responsibility for that loss in my view falls on the officials for botching the final call.
That was definitely the worst loss I recall, but no way would we have won it that year.
We were ravaged by injuries to the front 7 to the point that we were signing guys off of the street. Our offense was also kind of an illusion. Hilliard was out that year with the torn labrum in his shoulder after the Dawkins cheapshot, so it was Toomer and Shockey as the only threats in the passing game, aside from Butterfingers Barber out of the backfield. We also only put it together on offense when Fassell streamlined the offense and took over playcalling.
The loss still hurts because of the bad call, but because of the illegal man downfield penalty, we would have only gotten another shot at the same spot. No way I trusted Junkin to snap the ball well or Bryant to hit the 40+ yard field goal, either. At least that loss + the 2003 fiasco set the stage for the Coughlin/Eli era.
Plus we got sweet revenge on TO in divisional round in 2007 against the Cowboys when he dropped a ball on a slant with not one Giant defender within ten yards of him, and had that bizarre post-game press conference... "It's unfurl, that's ma quwartabaack, that's ma quwarterback,man."
It gave the Packers a spot in the playoffs. I'll always associate the shit fest with how the Pack beat Philly in the playoffs.