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XXI, XXV, XLII, XLVI - What is your favorite and why?

Eric from BBI : Admin : 2/1/2015 10:31 am
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XXI  
dune69 : 2/1/2015 11:03 am : link
the first was such a high after watching so many down years. It featured great games by so many great players leading up to that win. For me, there can never be one better. However, the rest of those trophies brought nearly as much joy, as will the next one.
XXI  
Steve in South Jersey : 2/1/2015 11:04 am : link
it was a glorious day after suffering with the team through the 60s and 70s. IMO the that 1986 season & XXI winner was also the only dominant team from the Giants Super Bowl years.
XXI  
arniefez : 2/1/2015 11:07 am : link
I never thought the Giants would win the Super Bowl. All these years later I still can't believe the 1986 season. Section 102. 12 home games. 12-0. There were legends on the 86 team, Hall of Fame Coach, the greatest defensive player in the history of the NFL. Carson, Simms, Banks, Bavaro, Morris, Burt, etc. XXV was validation and the championship game that year was the greatest football game I've ever seen. The Eli Super Bowls were great fun and a great reward for hanging in there for Wellington's second run from 1991 to 2005. But the Coughlin Giants at their best were a good team that got hot at the right time and cashed in on some very fortunate breaks in both their runs. Nowhere near the same enjoyment from start of season to finish for me.
SB  
stretch234 : 2/1/2015 11:08 am : link
As far as the favorite - the 1st - it finally got the Giants back. You saw the early returns in 81 and then 84 & 85. But being the favorites and winning it all is special, especially after the 70's

90 was weird. You knew they were good, but when Simms went down you realistically did not expect it. SF game changed that. Winning that game on the road you knew they were every bit as good as Buffalo.

1st Pats win, the best part about it is the drive. TD or lose. Up to that point, never had a SB where the QB faced TD or lose and get the TD. There was no FG to tie cushion. Critical plays all over that drive w/o Tyree play

SB46 - by the time they got there, having smashed GB and beaten SF while Eli got hit 35 times, they were on top of their game and I thought they would win. W/o the phantom holding call on Boothe, that game becomes a blowout. The Giants offense crossed midfield every possession of the game. Manningham gets a lot of pub, and deservedly so, for that catch, but that throw is was as good as it gets. Plus, there are few, if any other QB's who would even try that throw. The fact that Eli had the balls to pull the trigger is why he is who he is.

XXI  
prh : 2/1/2015 11:11 am : link
After years of piss poor teams this one was redemption. Along with the guy holding the sign "Dad our dream has come true". Still tears me up when I see it.
All others were special except XXXV. They didn't have the same effect on me as the first one.
Kinda like your first intimate encounter there's nothing like the first time.
42  
Micko : 2/1/2015 11:13 am : link
Every game throughout the playoffs I just kept thinking - "please just win this game and it will be a great year." Bucs, Dallas and then GB. Going into the SB I just kept thinking "don't get blown out." There was no way they were going to win that game. Absolute magic. 90 is a very close second.
42  
Micko : 2/1/2015 11:15 am : link
Plus, 42 represented 17 years of waiting. Going through the 90s, etc. I'm 41 so 86 didn't mean as much to me as it did to my old man. 90s was sweet but 42 I really earned as a fan.
XXI  
truebluelarry : 2/1/2015 11:28 am : link
The other games were closer, more exciting and competitive, but there is nothing like the feeling you get climbing the mountain for the first time. It felt too good to be true. The Giants winning the Super Bowl had been unimaginable before that.
RE: XXI  
Big Blue '56 : 2/1/2015 11:54 am : link
In comment 12117883 truebluelarry said:
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The other games were closer, more exciting and competitive, but there is nothing like the feeling you get climbing the mountain for the first time. It felt too good to be true. The Giants winning the Super Bowl had been unimaginable before that.



Beating Dallas in OT in '81(despite Danelo's 2-5) coupled with a Jets win at home the next day against the Pack, was too good to be true..:)
Super bowl 25  
nygnyy274 : 2/1/2015 11:59 am : link
I can't beleive only one person besides me thinks so. Not only did we end the 49ers 3 peat against a great 49er team we also beat a power house Bills team. Yes super bowl 42 was awesome to but 25 we knocked off the best two teams in football that year.
RE: RE: XXI  
truebluelarry : 2/1/2015 12:14 pm : link
In comment 12117908 Big Blue '56 said:
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Beating Dallas in OT in '81(despite Danelo's 2-5) coupled with a Jets win at home the next day against the Pack, was too good to be true..:)

Yep, those were the first steps up the mountain right there! I was at the Danelo game in 1981, and it is still a cherished memory.
XLII  
Geomon : 2/1/2015 12:19 pm : link
As great as those other Super Bowls were (and they were great) you just can't top XLII. The Perfect Team, greatest offense in NFL history, cake walking into the Super Bowl against the Giants.

10-6 Giants, rookies starting on offense and defense, played every playoff game on the road. "We're only going to score 17 points, hehehehe...ok."

The 2007 NY Giants vs The Prognosticators. 19-0 Perfect Season shirts and books being printed and leaked. Giants players getting invited to the Patriots SB parties during the game. Belichick not shaking Coughlin's hand after his defeat.

It was glorious. The greatest Super Bowl I have ever seen. They still hate our guts to this day. How do you humble a Patriots fan? Say two numbers, 18 and 1.
42 was a great game  
Ira : 2/1/2015 12:25 pm : link
and beating a team considered to be one of the best ever made it even more special.
XXI  
RinR : 2/1/2015 12:27 pm : link
After years and years of awful football to finally reach the pinnacle of the sport was special.

1986 was a great year: got married, Mets win WS, Giants win SB
XXI  
bluepepper : 2/1/2015 12:32 pm : link
Super Bowl Champion New York Giants. Wasn't sure I'd ever hear that phrase in my lifetime.
XLII  
bradshaw44 : 2/1/2015 12:39 pm : link
It had been 17 years since the last time. Against all odds. A QB that had the world against him and against the hated city of Boston and their opportunity at history. It's a bad movie if you really think about it. Love it.

I've also never felt that good in my life. And the afterglow is still going.
XXV  
sawrydawg : 2/1/2015 12:45 pm : link
With our country weeks in to a war the emotions of the game and the excitement of the victory in candlestick it felt like winning two superbowls that year. It was the first Super Bowl my wife watched with me and my son was born in 1990. My reasons are personal. This was not only my favorite championship it was one of the best years of my life. I miss that defense.
Gotta be 42  
Model4001 : 2/1/2015 12:54 pm : link
They were all great, but that one had so many extra layers of sweetness to it.
That's like picking a favorite chikd...  
kinard : 2/1/2015 1:01 pm : link
... they're all special for different reasons and you love them all equally.
That's like picking a favorite child...  
kinard : 2/1/2015 1:02 pm : link
... they're all special for different reasons and you love them all equally.
Geomon  
Model4001 : 2/1/2015 1:03 pm : link
That video is why 42 was the best.

Teams love to talk all that "disrespected" bullshit but the Giants were actually laughed at by these dickhead TV guys and ESPN anchors and in the end, they shut 'em all up.
XLII  
TexasGmenFan : 2/1/2015 1:05 pm : link
is a sports memory that i don't think can ever be topped. period. that whole month is my favorite sports "moment" ever.

a revenge tour thru the playoffs; epic games in the divisional round and nfc title game. and then topping it off with the best super bowl ever not only in terms of the game itself, but having the greatest play ever and of course the context of beating an 18-0 team.

just too many "things" in that game to ever be topped.
RE: 42  
Mike in Philly : 2/1/2015 1:19 pm : link
In comment 12117871 Micko said:
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Every game throughout the playoffs I just kept thinking - "please just win this game and it will be a great year." Bucs, Dallas and then GB. Going into the SB I just kept thinking "don't get blown out." There was no way they were going to win that game. Absolute magic. 90 is a very close second.

Agree with everything you wrote 100%. I remember running around all giddy like a little kid after Tynes made the kick in GB. The whole run was improbable, and to cap it off the way they did was just complete magic.
RE: XLII  
TheBigBlueOne : 2/1/2015 1:33 pm : link
In comment 12117857 CT Charlie said:
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Because Alford's sack of Brady was the ultimate Deflation.

The amazing thing is all throughout the game, the Pats o-line were doubling and even triple teaming Alford. I think they just wanted to give Brady room up the middle to move. A Pats fan had broken down the Giants defense after the game and he showed pics of the blocking against Alford, and he was calling him, "the dangerous Jay Alford." Yet on that Sack, Alford was blocked by one person and blew right past him to put the icing on the defensive cake.
RE: I replay all of the games on a Super Sunday  
mattlawson : 2/1/2015 1:43 pm : link
In comment 12117861 aimrocky said:
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Always lead with 21 (because it's usually just me watching). Then I go 25, 46 and finish with 42 when the bulk of our guests are over.



Great tradition!
XXI  
Gmanfandan : 2/1/2015 1:47 pm : link
Never thought we'd win one. Ever.

We dominated and were supposed to win, but all us long sufferers knew something would go wrong. When McConkey caught the rebound we could exhale and it was time to celebrate. We even had the rest of the game to do it. 25,42,46 all nail biters to the end. Celebration had to wait until the gun :)
Super Bowl XLII  
SanFranNowNCGiantsFan : 2/1/2015 1:52 pm : link
First title season I can remember vividly. The goalline stand in DC, Bradshaw's run in the snow, the final drive in Dallas, Green Bay, and then beating the mighty Pats. I don't think any title can approach that from my perspective.
"For the rest of your life, men,  
Daniel in MI : 2/1/2015 1:57 pm : link
No one can ever tell ya that you couldn't dö it, 'cause ya did it!"

I was born at the end of the 60s, so I grew up in a family that loved a horrible Giants team. I remember my sister had a button of a guy in a Giants helmet but the "giant" was so puny you could only see his tiny feet beneath the helmet. That summed it up. Meanwhile, the sickening NJ Dallas fans were always rubbing your face in it. That's where my Dallas hatred grew. Then glimmers of life, playoffs! (I was at the Danelo game, too.) What happens? Our HC Perkins leaves, to go coach in college!? My sister and I joked he must have been too busy on the sidelines mapping his route to Bama to coach any more wins. Then the first Parcells season is not encouraging. This young Simms guy just can't stay healthy. But there's something about Parcells.. He is a NJ guy and just seems to fit. Then LT is like an infusion of magic, and the D is smothering, but it will never really happen, will it?

And then it did. And it was a dream come true. And never again in my lifetime could anyone say the Giants couldn't do it, because they did it.
42 without a doubt  
Steve L : 2/1/2015 2:01 pm : link
The whole run was just amazing and no team will ever top it.

But man...beating the Bills while living in Bills country was so fulfilling.
86 and 90 easy  
natefit : 2/1/2015 2:03 pm : link
because I was at both, stayed at team hotel and was with my Dad.
XXI  
Sec 103 : 2/1/2015 2:08 pm : link
31 years in between championships...
And a long "Lousy Football" mantra shaken off.
All of them are obviously special, but that cherry popping was huge!!!
XXI will always be cherished  
Simms11 : 2/1/2015 2:12 pm : link
as the Giants first and there is nothing more exciting then seeing the Giants win a Super Bowl after years of frustratingly bad football. Of course, beating an 18-0 Pats team wasn't to shabby either.
42 was so dramatic and awesome  
djm : 2/1/2015 2:15 pm : link
Especially coupled with the win over Dallas a few weeks prior, it's ridiculous but I think the Super Bowl 25 run may be even harder to top from a pure football pov.

Hard to believe that the 46 run, as improbable as it was sort of gets lost when comparing the four runs.

The Super Bowls with best replay value in my opinion:

21
42
25
46

I can't answer the question sorry.
RE: .  
BMac : 2/1/2015 2:21 pm : link
In comment 12117825 Big Blue '56 said:
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1-XLII- 18-0

2-XXV-Up against an "unbeatable" Juggernaut

3-XLVI-After the SF brutalizing of Eli

4-XXI- Yes, I know, the first one, yada, yada, yada, but we were clearly the best team in the league, so it was no surprise


Yeah, but that first one was very sweet. You never forget your first!
42 will never be topped for me  
mfsd : 2/1/2015 2:24 pm : link
the game was awesome (to the football purist), and the historical context on top of it was incredible.

The sheer arrogance of the Pats and their fans leading up to it was insane. They were all saying things like "the Giants did so well to even get here, you should be so proud of them!". And Brady's smirk when he said "we're only going to score 17 points?"

With respect to Super Bowl 3, Unitas and the Colts, The Catch, The Ice Bowl, and several others to me Super Bowl 42 is the most epic game in NFL history
For me it is XXl  
EricJ : 2/1/2015 2:27 pm : link
for some of the reasons already stated. The franchise sucked for so long. The fans suffered for a couple of decades with a team that was absolutely horrible. So bad that many fans burned their season tickets in the parking lot a few years earlier.

After the NFC Championship that year, strangers were hugging each other as they were leaving the stadium with a look to each other that said "finally". I was able to see that same reaction from my father who was one of those who were going to the games since 1948.

This Superbowl essentially turned the franchise around and made it what it is today. So, for those reasons I am choosing XXl. This takes nothing away from the others of course.
XXI  
John M in Albany : 2/1/2015 2:34 pm : link
Daniel in MI summed it up for me, but I will add that it was seeing the buildup and the realization of that championship was somehow so fulfilling. I also was a child of the 60's and went through the "years of lousy football" so seeing that built, to beat the 49ers and all those great battles. The skins were good then to and we beat them, it just seemed magical. It was the heyday of the Bears and Ditka, this is where I started to hate Buddy effin Ryan.

The run to the Super Bowl that year was pre-ordained(sp) because of the way they paid their dues and how they went about doing it. Wellington's handprints were all over that team, from Parcels on down. Simm's guttiness, Taylor's greatness, Carson's steadiness and the Suburbanites, Joe Morris all of those guys have a special place for me!

Sorry for all the spelling and grammar issues, I am not nor will I ever be eloquent.
42  
old man : 2/1/2015 2:36 pm : link
but 21 was the first, like a first love.
XLII  
WeatherMan : 2/1/2015 2:51 pm : link
The Road Warriors who shocked the world. We're only going to score 17 points? Hahahah, let Tom Brady hit the floor. The build up, the great plays, and being a hard fought drag down hit you in the mouth game in an era of arena league scoring against the presumptive greatest team of all time... 18-1, DENIED.
46 was very sweet for me at the time,  
Go Terps : 2/1/2015 2:56 pm : link
and 25 was probably my favorite Giant team ever.

But I keep coming back to 42. The number of stars and planets that had to align to make that happen...
This thread inspired me.  
truebluelarry : 2/1/2015 3:12 pm : link
I broke out the Giants 10 Best Games DVD set. I just finished watching SB XXI and am watching the SB XXV right now. It's been a good afternoon for me.
XXI. For me it's how the game made me feel, not the circumstances  
Marty in Albany : 2/1/2015 3:20 pm : link
surrounding the game or the way it was played. I was on a high for weeks after that game. Oh, and BTW, Simms was glorious.
XLII. That Was Magical Post-Season  
clatterbuck : 2/1/2015 3:20 pm : link
for me. Got to go to the NFC championship in Green Bay with my brother and had the whole family in the house for the SB. I agree with John Mara that it was the greatest win in Giants history.
XXI  
Mad Mike : 2/1/2015 3:37 pm : link
The first one, after the team having been so bad during my early fandom, it was just such a spectacular thing to win it all. But thinking about how wonderful XLII was, I'd probably rank the 1986 season as my favorite season, but XLII as my favorite super bowl. Toppling that seemingly invincible team, silencing their fans, their coach, their QB, and doing it in thrilling fashion? That's tough to top.
XXI then XLII  
George : 2/1/2015 4:07 pm : link
XXI because of my dad. We suffered together through twenty years of football shit, and were able to celebrate the vindication together. That was special.

XLII because of my son. He's a Pats fan, and was giving his ol man a lot of 19-0 bullshit before the game. He learned a really valuable lesson that day, and it actually brought us closer together because of it.

Super Bowl L  
David in LA : 2/1/2015 4:08 pm : link
when we put NE down for a 3rd time.
I am with George...  
Jimmy Googs : 2/1/2015 4:14 pm : link
XXI - somewhere in the middle of that season you kind of knew it was going to be a special season...and it was a great ride all the way to the end by dominating everybody in the playoffs and SB.

XLII - just a phenomenal ride thru the playoffs, especially by shoving it in the faces of the Cowboys, Packers and Patriots. Only because XXI was the first SB win, does this one come in a very close second.
The first one is always the sweetest  
jeff57 : 2/1/2015 4:21 pm : link
But the most surprising, the Tyree game, is right there.
Guys  
djm : 2/1/2015 6:25 pm : link
... We went into Dallas, the 1 seed, the heavy favorites, a team that beat NYG twice in the regular season, a team that sent what, ten guys to the pro bowl? Then the giants win in dramatic, nail biting fashion and in the post game PC Terrell Owens melts down and cries about his QB. You can't make that up...

And that was just one little segment of the run in January- February 2008. If you wrote that script you'd be laughed out of the room.

We are only talking about individual Super Bowl games but it's hard to ignore the runs to get there. Beating Dallas like that... Fucking priceless...
XXI  
micky : 2/1/2015 8:36 pm : link
Because it was the first one after years of finally reaching the pinnacle.
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