But too many to make it a top 3 or even 5. To not mention Strahan or tuck would be a disaster, tuck could have 2 Super Bowl MVP's on his mantle for certain, and the 1986 Super Bowl MVP, Phil Simms must be mentioned, and the guy that was the defensive MVP that game, Carl Banks was sensational in the 1986 Super Bowl.
Eli is the only one I would definitely put on the list. After that hard to say, probably Strahan and Tuck. I really liked Tiki as a player but his personality and post-career stuff has a negative impact, also never won a Super Bowl with him.
I saw late LT and Simms but I didn’t see their prime years and also I think LT is a piece of shit person so I wouldn’t put him on my list of favorites.
Very hard to select only 3. Now I feel bad that I just discounted the last 30 years of Giants....but those 80's teams, that was my era, in my 20's when a Giants win or loss determined the course of my week:)
Dave Meggett - Only reason to watch after the Giants fell apart in the early 90s
Rodney Hampton - My favorite player on the 1990 superbowl team.
Derrick Ward - The no huddle offense consisting of what seemed like primarily just a shotgun trap play or a back shoulder fade to Plax was so much fun to watch during such a magical 2007 season. Ward running that trap play made me smile every time.
and, Jared Jload Lorenzen! destroying that patriot lb in preseason and picking up 2 (or was it just one?) key QB sneak first down on the road to the SB!
RE: My favorite, not necessarily the greatest... Â
Mine would be LT, Eli and Harry. Very good to see Troy Archer's name here though and thanks for sharing... As a teenage New York sports fan, my two favorite sports idols were Troy Archer and Thurman Munson. Both died in tragic accidents six weeks apart from each other in the summer of 1979... Archer would have been one of the all time great Giants had he lived. Thanks for the post!
Bavaro
Eli
Carson
YA
Bavaro
Eli
Carson
YA
Simms
Strahan
Tuck
Banks
Huff
Those are players that must be mentioned in the teams history.
2) 92
3) 11
Bavaro
Eli
Carson
YA
Simms
Strahan
Tuck
Banks
Huff
To them I would add Jack Gregory, Leonard Marshall and Jumbo Elliott
Those are players that must be mentioned in the teams history.
Toomer
Harry Carson
Phil Simms
I wish I could have watched Em Tunnell play
Eli
Tuck/Seubert
Gifford
katcavage
I think you should also do this by decades
Tuck
Bradshaw
3. Pierce
I saw late LT and Simms but I didn’t see their prime years and also I think LT is a piece of shit person so I wouldn’t put him on my list of favorites.
Jesse Armstead
Honorable mention - Eli, Jason Seahorn(pre-injury), SQ (I know it's early), Justin Tuck, Ahmad Bradshaw)
Banks
Very hard to select only 3. Now I feel bad that I just discounted the last 30 years of Giants....but those 80's teams, that was my era, in my 20's when a Giants win or loss determined the course of my week:)
1b. Michael Strahan
3. Lawrence Taylor
1.Eli
2.Simms
3.Rodney Hampton
Would list LT number one but I just can no longer look past the years and years of truly abhorrent criminal conduct.
2-- Ron Johnson
3-- John Mednehall
Honorable mention Simms, Carson, and Carpenter.
No- you were right the first time - Tooooomer!
2-Rodney Hampton
3-Richie Seubert
this
For class acts I'd say Eli, Rosey and Carson.
Eli
Dave Meggett (is he still in jail?)
Strahan's attitude pissed me off for a small portion of his career and Bavaro wasn't around long enough - otherwise one of them would be on there.
Barkley is likely to bump Meggett very shortly.
Mark Bavaro
2. Bavaro
3. Eli
Tiki
Martin
Bavaro
(honorable mention: Jacobs)
LT
Brandon Jacobs
And Eli...
2-LT
3-Homer Jones
Jeremy Lincoln
Erek Flowers
LT
Gary Reasons
Rodney Hampton - My favorite player on the 1990 superbowl team.
Derrick Ward - The no huddle offense consisting of what seemed like primarily just a shotgun trap play or a back shoulder fade to Plax was so much fun to watch during such a magical 2007 season. Ward running that trap play made me smile every time.
Harry Carson.
Each one of these three didn't have close to the G-d given talent of LT.
But they gave you every ounce of what talent they had...
Then reached down inside and gave a few ounces more.
They left everything they had on the field. What more can you ask of your favorites?
2-Simms
3-Troy Archer
3) Carson
2. Eli
3. Tuck
2-Simms
3-Troy Archer
Mine would be LT, Eli and Harry. Very good to see Troy Archer's name here though and thanks for sharing... As a teenage New York sports fan, my two favorite sports idols were Troy Archer and Thurman Munson. Both died in tragic accidents six weeks apart from each other in the summer of 1979... Archer would have been one of the all time great Giants had he lived. Thanks for the post!
Y.A. Tittle
LT