In a preview of Super Bowl XXI, Giants 19 Broncos 16. George Martin with the play of the game, an improbable pick six of John Elway. The game goes down to the final seconds and ends with a Big Blue victory.
Your right .. I miss Giants Stadium.. I didn't like the name change over to MetLife . And Giants Stadium with the Red and Blue seats made it look more at home for the Giants than the Jets
Oh Gosh, i've been looking for this game for years! It was the fisrts giants's game tha i saw ever i, france, during the onlu season on free TV. Thanks XXXXXL !
2008 Giants. Didn't finish it off right, but 5th in offense, 3rd in defense. Started 11-1 for the only time in franchise history. Had 2, 1000 yard backs, averaged 160 yards rushing a game, and over 5 YPC. The most dominant Giants team ever on both sides of the ball. Stupid Burress cost us back to back titles
@@breadandcircuses9967 Watched a fair bit of the 1990 team lately. Taylor/Banks/Marshall peaked in '87, but the 1990 team was better offensively (very deep at running back, added dimension of Meggett, slightly better at receiver and offensive line), and I did not realize how good Mark Collins was. He doesn't get the attention a lot of the other Giants defenders get from that era.
When I remember the 86 season, there are three game-changing plays that stick in my head. The strange thing is, they were on three consecutive weeks. The first one was at Minnesota, the fourth-and-seventeen play, the week before this game. The second was George Martin's one-handed grab and return in this game. The third was the next week at SF; Bavaro dragging half the Niner D on that third quarter play. There are other individual plays that I can recall, but those three really stand out. What a team, what a season, what great memories. Thanks, Ken.
It rarely happens that 2 teams that meet in SB met in regular season. In fact in 33 years since 86 it’s only happened 8 times and 4 of those involved the Giants. And in the last 17 SBs it’s only happened twice and that involved Giants. Giants Pats 2007 2011. Update 2020 Bucs Chiefs met in regular season then SB
There's something a little more beautiful about football from like 1970-1992. Although I'm a Packer fan, I have to admit that Mike Holmgren broke football to some extent. We were kind of robotic in a way. It really became about "playing the odds," and things like quick passes that basically were run plays. Today of course, that's kind of how everyone plays. But then when you go back to 1986, really the height of football and maybe even American culture... look at how personal and unique the players are. There's nothing robotic about this. Yeah they are coached well and all that, but they're still allowed to be themselves and we've lost some of that today.
@@chrisuncleahmad But for one quarter,the SB was a close game,the broncos clearly dominated the 1st half of the SB & squandered opportunity after opportunity...Yes,with assistance of the giants defence!! and predictable play calling. But unlike the giants against the bills in SBXXV,the broncos weren't dominant enough in their smallish OL to impose their will upon their opponent.predictable or not.
@@mrtnt3462 True however in Super Bowl 21 however the Giants were very confident cause in the second half scoring 30 unanswered points plus Phil Simms throwing 10 in a row is like a no hitter
I went to this game . . . and we basically wondered, "Do the Giants belong on the same field as the Bronco's?" George Martin and Phil Simms' magic convinced us, maybe they did.
Giants have this weird thing where if they make the SB they always play the team they meet in the SB in the regular season. It’s happened 4 out of the 5 times they made the SB. And the only time they didn’t play their SB opponent in the regular season they lost. 2000 Ravens. Their only SB loss
So somebody is watching this at roughly same time as I am. Interesting. I was watching this game as an 8 year old, and I found it odd that Elway would throw a half-hearted lateral. An ESPN reporter turned writer noted the same thing in a book that included a chapter highlighting the importance of this single pay to NFL history. Yet, strangely enough, it wasn't a lateral, even though myself and the reporter/writer remembered it as such. Martin just grabbed it out of the air, he had an uncanny knack for doing this, and against John Elway in the prime of his career (or at least playing at an extremely high level). As for the Giants playing their future opponents, I hadn't thought about that, and I usually notice those things. Lets see, the Broncos and Bills were both Giant home games, one being a loss, the other (this one) being a near loss. Two Super Bowl wins. In 2007, another home game vs the soon to be 18-0 Pats, another loss. An improbable Super Bowl win. 2011, finally a road game. This time, a close win vs the Pats. Later in the year. As you noted. Another Giant win. Might the more defensive oriented team have an advantage in a rematch? LT, Bill Belichick (defensive coordinator) led defense oriented teams were involved in the first two Giant wins. Belichick coached Patriot teams were the victims in the next two, but those teams were slightly more offensive oriented than their Tom Coughlin led Giant opponent. And don't forget, Belichick's first win as a head coach came vs a superior Ram "Greatest Show on Turf" team, one who the Pats played in Foxboro earlier that year, and lost. There might well be something to that theory. I will note that in 2000, the Ravens were assigned the NFC East, but because of unusual circumstances, didn't play the Giants that year. So, if they had, maybe it would have been 5-0 for the G-men. Interesting point. As for as this play goes, LT could have broken Martin's leg in the celebration, but I guess he knew what he was doing!
Jesus........to hear the criticism of Simms....he looks extremely mobile in this game. So....suffice to say.......the 1990 team could have gone all the ay with Simms if he didn't get injured.
@@leighackerman6979 well in 1990 I Don't know about winning the NFC championship game in san Francisco cause the 49ers were dead set on winning 3 Super Bowls in a row
Dunno, simms was mobile enough, but I think the 49ers d line would have eaten his lunch. I'm a Giants fan saying this. I mean, they almost took out Hostetler.
you see Merlin Olsen suck it up with a cast on his left arm.. playing hurt. not going to keep him out of the game. what a giants team. nfc was killing it. i hated that as a steeler. but i can not deny great football.
IMO it was 86 with 90 a very close second. To me they were more complete teams. In 07 the o line and run game were solid, but 07 was carried by the pass rush. The back 7 weren’t that good but the front 4 was so good it didn’t matter
Yes, posted the same game as Richard. Had this planned for a while. Will be posting more from the '86 Giants season shortly. The more that's out there the better.
