How special was 2011?

I saw it as a huge FU to all the eli haters

Let me just say, in many cases, it truly is how well you're playing coming down the stretch, regardless of record..

In many ways I don't know if I'll ever fully appreciate that year. It made the utterly impossible feel expected.

In comment 12107622 Mike in Long Beach said:

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In many ways I don't know if I'll ever fully appreciate that year. It made the utterly impossible feel expected.

Like the Seahawks last week? :)

watching that Redskin game late in the season and a friend of mine ,who is a Giants fan ,texting me saying "They Don't deserve to make the playoffs"..I told him to STFU and turned off my phone.

A championship nonetheless, but if you're grading the four it's the least of them, and that's due to the evolving NFL brand.

To go into that Superbowl with virtually nobody giving us a chance - and honestly me not thinking they had much of a chance - to then go and win the way they did. You could have made a lot of money in Vegas betting any of the following in that game...

Giants win
Patriots held to 14 points
Eli throws more TDs than Brady

And odds on Tyree making the greatest Superbowl play of all time? Eli leading the winning TD drive? Probably couldn't have gotten odds on those.

Add on that it had been 17 years since the last Superbowl victory - and erased the taste of 2000 - that one has a special place in my heart.

game against the Falcons may have been Perry Fewell's best game as the Giants DC.I think most Giants fans wanted him gone but this was a thing of beauty...and he deserves a lot of credit for that win as well as the championship

but the Giants beat the Pats twice, and split games against the Packers and Niners - a 4-2 record against the three best teams in the league. Say what you want, but that team proved throughout the season that they could hang with the league's best. Obviously the Superdome blowout could happen to any team when the Saints are good.

Eli's dominance made that season special. His fourth quarters against Arizona, New England and Dallas were season savers, then he backed it up with a great postseason.

ain't too shabby

they were 6-2 with a win at Foxboro. During that 4 game losing streak they lost to SF on the road close, and we're right there with GB. Forget NO on the road in prime time, that's a buzz saw. That team had some close wins and some bad losses, but they also competed against elite teams during the season.

by the Redskins but it actually worked out because it caused them to have to spend big time on RG3 and it only set that franchise back and we still won the east any way.

but in a lot of ways I think 2011 was more fun for me than the others.

In '86, they HAD to win otherwise I would have been crushed. And as confident as I was part of me had a hard time believing the Giants could actually win a Super Bowl.

In '90 the playoffs took place during the early days of Desert Storm. Very tense time and it seemed a bit unpatriotic to get too worked up over football (though, of course I did).

In '07, I was just not a great believer in the team going into the playoffs. Was actually pissed at the way every one played up the 'moral victory' over the Pats. To me that was dangerous and didn't bode well. Didn't start believing until sometime during the Packers game.

In '11, I loved the way they looked against the Cowboys and thought they had a real chance to make a run. I determined to just relax and enjoy the playoffs. If they lost so be it. That made it all very enjoyable, if not as memorable as the others.

In comment 12107686 Sean said:

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they were 6-2 with a win at Foxboro. During that 4 game losing streak they lost to SF on the road close, and we're right there with GB. Forget NO on the road in prime time, that's a buzz saw. That team had some close wins and some bad losses, but they also competed against elite teams during the season.

It's worth remembering that the Giants should have had a 1st and goal on the 5 at the end of that 49ers game, but the refs missed an obvious defensive holding call. And there were some terrible calls in the Packers game that took points off the board.

Although that team was bad in many areas throughout the regular season, they did prove that they could be a pain in the ass to the league's top teams.

Was all about Eli Manning for me. Even after 07 and some good seasons after he still had detractors, the worst being Giants fans saying he had to have great pass protection for him to play well, he had to have an efficient run game for him to play well, basically everything had to be perfect for him to perform. 2011 destroyed that theory.

on a Sunday night no less, to end a 4 game losing streak.....and then Eli and the Giant's lay a turd at midfield against the Skins the following week.....I thought that was the season....and it might have been, if not for a 99 yard pass the following week....

To this day, that season is hard to believe.....then to win another nationally televised Sunday night game against Dallas, again, to end the season? When THAT happened. that's when I thought we might be a team of Destiny....that plus the fact that Reese sold his soul that season, and we have been paying for it ever since....