I was. I remember the futile teams of Jerry Golsteyn, Randy Dean, Joe Pisarcik, Craig Morton, and Steve Ramsey. I remember when our only pro bowler was our punter Dave Jennings.
The 70s were marked by a bad front office, marginal draft picks, trades for aging QBs, bad luck with injuries, and bad stadiums. .. but tix we're $6 a game and we always had a decent DEE-FENSE that gave us hope for most games. But unlike today, the games were a release from day to day BS and we didn't have prime donna a holes making fools of themselves before, during and after.
on a regular basis. I remember it all. Old yankee stadium, Yale bowl and Shea... I remember opening day in Giants stadium too. Lots of bad football. This team reminds me a lot of the teams from the 70s. Sub par football, poor management and ownership... all a recipe for disaster.
Back then, the Giants owners were knee deep in the football decisions which was one of the biggest problems. Once George Young came to the team, Wellington took a back seat. We know Chris Mara is heavily involved in the player selection process and I get the feeling that John is now much more involved than his father.
my parents and grandparents were. My grandfather worked with Alex Webster in the off season. Lots of our problems from that time had to with Mara being to involved in both player personnel selection for our team and merging the league. Alex got canned (yes for his shitty record), but he actually told Mara that he could win more games if spent more time on picking better players, then with the merger.
Very young but grew up watching the giants in the 70s
You really had to be a Giants fan back then. It was hard listening to and reading about the Giants. But like the saying I was, I am and will always be a soldier, I was a Giants fan then, I am a Giants fan now and I will always be a Giants fan forever. I just wish in my so-called "Golden Years" they would make it a bit more satisfying.
born in 1958, became a pretty big follower/fan at age 10. My Dad was a fan, and Don Herrmann was a Giant WR from my hometown at that time. (the only one ever...) Tough times. We played well in some games, but always seemed to lose.
Lived through "the fumble"...Clyde Simmons...Vick/DBag Jackson...now this (I don't even know what to call it yet)
My one solace is the football Gods have obviously decided-
For you Eagle fans you get: ridiculous defying logic victories over the Giants
For You Giant Fans you get: 4 Lombardies
Born in 1948. The radio announcers were fabulous, even when the teams weren't, and I would go out to the park and imagine the action through that wonderful radio team. The wilderness actually stated with 1964-66, and then covered 1971-1980.
The Maras were part of the problem--one of the last ownership teams to modernize by bringing in a GM and ceding control.
Now, ironically, we have a GM with control who might be a big part of the problem.
We are probably around the same age. I remember from 1974 and on or so
I was born in 68 and started following in the early seventies watching with my dad. His boss had season tix and he would give my dad the cowboys game. Never once did I see my dad come home happy.
All my friends were either cowboy or Steeler fans. I didn't let any of them know that I rooted for a team whose best player was the punter
Born in 1961, remember as early as the 1970 team with
This team has far more talent vs the league than any of those teams in the '70's. That's what makes this start so frustrating. One thing I don't see with this team is the fire and fury needed to fight thru adversity. Great teams play with an edge.
We are probably around the same age. I remember from 1974 and on or so
I was born in 68 and started following in the early seventies watching with my dad. His boss had season tix and he would give my dad the cowboys game. Never once did I see my dad come home happy.
All my friends were either cowboy or Steeler fans. I didn't let any of them know that I rooted for a team whose best player was the punter
Yup, I was born in 68 as well. All the kids in my neighborhood were cowboys or steeler fans as well. I rooted for the raiders as well but yeah being a Giants fan as a kid in the 70s was not easy.
Had not seen a player celebrate with enacting peeing like a dog in the end zone in all those years. What a patchwork of journeymen those 1950's-60's 70's giants became.....need a half back solution? Bring in junior Coffey...fullback? Larry csonka.....i once saw Ron Johnson at a charity bb game, scars on his knees looked like his knees had been in a knife fight, and lost........if not for the supreme embarassment of that joe pisarchek fumble, the maras seemed like they were ok with their business as usual "wait till next year" model. Forget the enchanting "goodbye Allie" seranades....this was garbage time, all the time. Will always be grateful to have been around to watch george young, parcells, belichick, and L.T. Deliver the first two, believe it or not......Super Bowl victories and i have to admit, when the giants beat the broncos for the first world championship i was really ok with them never getting there again, so three more victories were just icing on the championship cake.
I remember. Almost made the playoffs in '70. After that, it was pretty much a wasteland except for Arnsfarger's 3-4. Which became the template for the great defenses of the 80s.
Wow,thanks. really enjoyed that. I remember Hermann catching the two TD's against the Vikings. The Giant offense was fun to watch in 1969. The only thing upsetting about the article is how old it made me feel.lol. Thanks,again.
thank goodness for George Young and Ray Perkins who started to turn it around before he left for Alabama. Parcells then was instrumental in giving this team an identity and brought Giants Football back. This team reminds me so much of those teams from the 70s.
...through a lot of games in the 70s at the stadium. And I was there when Pisarcik fumbled the hand-off. My earliest recollection of the Giants was Tarkenton to Homer Jones.
Went to the last game at the Yale Bowl against the Vikings with Tarkenton? Reason why I ask is that it was the last game ever played there and it was during a blizzard. You have to be a "real" fan and a lunatic to have sat there for that. BTW,the Giants got there ass kicked and I had a very dangerous drive home to the Bronx.
very well. Before Young and Parcels saved us. This type of shit was week after week. The bad old days may be back. It began with the firing of Coughlin and the retention of the Reese crew by Tisch while the Mara family ran for cover.
This isn't as bad as the 70's, because you have a great franchise QB in Eli, so you go into every season with a chance.
And yes, many of those teams had talent, but because of a horrible FO they could not win. Until GY became GM and selected Simms, we were losing games like this every week, or worst...we didn't have anyone after Tarkenton.
It's very rare that you have a great QB succeed another great QB. Be very afraid of what's happening after Eli is done here.
No one was beating the Cowboys
"23 years of lousy football enough"!
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Back then, the Giants owners were knee deep in the football decisions which was one of the biggest problems. Once George Young came to the team, Wellington took a back seat. We know Chris Mara is heavily involved in the player selection process and I get the feeling that John is now much more involved than his father.
My one solace is the football Gods have obviously decided-
For you Eagle fans you get: ridiculous defying logic victories over the Giants
For You Giant Fans you get: 4 Lombardies
I'll take it...
The Maras were part of the problem--one of the last ownership teams to modernize by bringing in a GM and ceding control.
Now, ironically, we have a GM with control who might be a big part of the problem.
I was born in 68 and started following in the early seventies watching with my dad. His boss had season tix and he would give my dad the cowboys game. Never once did I see my dad come home happy.
All my friends were either cowboy or Steeler fans. I didn't let any of them know that I rooted for a team whose best player was the punter
Oh, and you forgot Jim Del Gaizo, another wonderful 70's QB.
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We are probably around the same age. I remember from 1974 and on or so
I was born in 68 and started following in the early seventies watching with my dad. His boss had season tix and he would give my dad the cowboys game. Never once did I see my dad come home happy.
All my friends were either cowboy or Steeler fans. I didn't let any of them know that I rooted for a team whose best player was the punter
Yup, I was born in 68 as well. All the kids in my neighborhood were cowboys or steeler fans as well. I rooted for the raiders as well but yeah being a Giants fan as a kid in the 70s was not easy.
Waynesburg University in PA. It was a big deal in my town for him to go to high school here and make the pros.
Here's a nice recent article about him.
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Came to my senses a few years later around 79 and started rooting for the Giants.
The whole team sucked save a few players and so did the coaching.
Suffering through the long drought, capped with Wellington and Andy Robustelli in charge.
And yes, many of those teams had talent, but because of a horrible FO they could not win. Until GY became GM and selected Simms, we were losing games like this every week, or worst...we didn't have anyone after Tarkenton.
It's very rare that you have a great QB succeed another great QB. Be very afraid of what's happening after Eli is done here.
I am getting really sick of all the bullshit with this team and with the NFL in general.