Jersey Guys: Rooting for Big Blue from Manhattan to Moonachie | The Timeline 

I'm a born & raised Brooklynite who moved to the Jersey Shore area in 94. I loved this video & it gave me goosebumps. However, one thing they got wrong. There were no mention of the NY based Giant fans at all. All my friends & family including countless thousands of NY Giant fans before the move, stayed loyal to the Giants after the move. It's not like they moved to L.A.. I don't know one NY based fan who stopped following them because they went to N.J.. In fact, most of those crowds at the stadium were Newyorkers. It was misleading in this respect.

Nothing but Big Blue tears Go Giants 💙💙💙💙

Seeing the former players show up at the firehouse to hang out with the fans, shows just how special that team was.

Giants fan since 84 i was 13 going on 14 im now going on 51 yrs old

Just a fabulous production and not only a great history of the Giants but a great look back at the Parcell years and the greatest time in their history. Wonderfully entertaining to see the connection they made with New Jersey.

As a cowboy's fan I love it! Old school tradition and educational for myself and NFC EAST fans

Growing up near Giants and MetLife stadium, it's such a spectacle driving down 495 and Route 3.

What was so interesting to me was the hostility that Mayor Koch, a guy raised in New Jersey had towards the Giants and New Jersey. I have always believed that he was just trying to save money since they had already had a parade for the Mets a few months earlier.

Every franchise will have their ups and downs, but it's the fans that always gives a team hope.

I have been a Giants fan since 1982 so I am fortunate to have witnessed all four super bowl victories and one loss and I'm proud to say that every NFC championship game played in the meadowlands the Giants have came out victorious and even more held their opponents to 0 points and in this time span of being a Giants fan I've had my share of ups and downs and there have been a lot of downs but when the team is been on fire it makes up for it and I definitely love me some Eli Manning but I know that this team will be back in the super bowl giving us our fifth Lombardi trophy hopefully in the very near future so go big blue and yes I will say they are the New Jersey Giants

Most every team can relate to this special.. especially the older, established teams like Green Bay, Chicago, Pittsburgh, etc… it’s awesome to see these fans relish in the opportunities to watch their teams succeed. Sports bring people together unlike any other entertainment event in the world

Just goes to show that a blue collar area where people go to work then on Sunday go watch the Giants is a wonderful fan base. Even when the Giants moved stadiums they just moved it a few hundred yards and stayed in New Jersey.

As an Eagle fan, I really appreciate this video. I'm glad that Moonachie finally was able to celebrate with the '86 Giants

Don't leave yet. We will be back!!!!

" To hell with New York" 😆😂🤣

That game on Monday Night Football in 1986 Mark Bavaro carried 5 Niners on his back before they could bring him down

Pat from Moonachie must be a huge Giants fan.

I miss this show a lot.

In the old Days 1950s, my Dad and his father and uncles would take the ferry and subway from staten island to the Giants games. There was no post game shows. They would all huddle around a Giants clubhouse man on the Staten Island Ferry and he would give them the dope

Even Though I Hate The NY Giants As a Eagles Fan But This Is Amazing!

Good ole BILL. Greatest coach

Grew up in Moonachie!! Lets go Giants!!!

As a Chargers fan it pisses me off seeing them in Los Angeles. The San Diego politicians and Dean Spanos deserve all the hate they get for what has happened. I will forever and always support the TEAM and the players no matter what

Seeing this as a giants fan gives me hope for this season. I think the giants might really have a great season

Love this, bounce back for the Giants coming soon!

Double the NFL films staff so we can get more uploads please.

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Great to see my friend Bill Ard finally celebrating with the Moonachie fanbase.

Never heard of Moonachie? Pat from Moonachie was a huge star back in the day.

LT such a nice guy

Keep uploading more Timelines!

Yeah I remember those days clearly That is why I ware my 4 time super bowls jacket all under the old Ownership now we have the sun's of Mara and Tish family's leading following up. I believe that we on the rite track. Soon hopefully we can add another patch on the Jacket...really really. Go Big Blue.

Damn I never knew Bill Parcells was from Hasbrouck Heights. Thats pretty cool As much as I hate the Giants I still love being from New Jersey and it's cool to see all the small towns in my area getting some love

giants love ❤

After watching this, the Giants should go back to the *GIANTS* logo. I was dope

Those rippers are decent, but the homemade relish is what makes it really good!

Best sport in history

New Jersey Giants

Let's do it again 2022 G Men

NEW JERSEY GIANTS!!

Rt 3 Drive In was on the other side of the highway from where the stadium was built.

Jersey giants my ass!! NEW YORK GIANTS!!

Let’s go big blue

Does anyone know the name of the music from 23:00 to when George Martin walks through his garden?

New Jersey can be bad and have its downsides but it’s home and I wouldn’t wana be anywhere else 😅

We gotta win again

This is old news. The Giants moved to Jersey in 1976. Their only other option was to play at the refurbished Yankee Stadium. Gotta admit, I was not happy when the Cosmos moved to the Meadowlands in 1977 UNTIL I went to my 1st game there. Then I realized it was a good move.

Weren’t the Jets and Giants getting sued by New York for calling themselves New York teams while not being in New York?

Live 15 min down road moonachie has few great restaurants

17-0 in the NFC Championship game it wasn't that close as the score might suggest

Giants fans are mostly also Yankees fans as jets fans are Mets fans the giants played at Yankee stadium and jets played at Shea so that's how it works from queens out to long Island is mostly jets fans and than Brooklyn to Bronx to jersey is giants

Anyone help me out here!? Who is it that is narrating the programme???

Poor Jersey .... all those things the New York people said about them, we say the same things about them in Philly .... I think its about time they get some proper representation in the professional leagues ... South Jersey rocks with the Eagles for the most part, and North Jersey is either with the Jets or the NY Football M!dgets...give em their own team and they'll unite

Kind of bad timing to post anything giants related at the moment 😂

RIP Joe Walton

It hurts so much that till this day we are saying the same thing THE OWNERSHIP HAS TO CHANGE. Jesus Christ may u bless us with a good owner🙌

Rutts Hutt is amazing but ppl working there a very rude and very jersey I my first time and asked simple questions and was made out like I was a moron lol

Put this on madden please. That stadium

getting to watch the Giants lose every week that loyalty

Funny the Giants and Jets are being sued for exactly this reason and the NFL releases this film to paint a different picture. Nice.

As a lifelong cowboys fan from Pennsylvania, I couldn't be prouder of the new Jersey Giants. Your history is who you are, congrats!

Can't believe my Saints passed on LT

The more things change, the more they stay the same 😭

Ed Koch should forever be ashamed of himself. We can be the NEW YORK Giants and still celebrate the Jersey connection as well!

Moonachie should still do this in 2027 for the 40th anniversary

Much respect to all you Giants fans from Jersey! The NFL should show you all more respect and put that N.J. on the helmets! I respect that both the Jets and Giants are from the Garden state.

LT…

I'll say it once I'll say it again. Growing up on Long Island as a Giants fan I always felt NJ was the best place for football in the area. The drive across Midtown and the Lincoln Tunnel always felt like Football. They played in the same complex as the Devils and Nets but were special enough to be called NY. I do believe moving the team to NJ gave the Giants the identity and aura that helped them win 4 super Bowls. If they change the name to Jersey tomorrow I'm still a fan till I die. #togetherblue

Community..

POV. I agree that jersey should finance the parade.

NEWYORK GIANTS OK

I do have one question that you would think this documentary addressed. Why after 50 years do the media, memobilla etc. still refer to them as the NY Giants. Not complaining. Love it like that but why?

Man, the more things change the more they stay the same. Terrible ownership.

jets

Naming ur son Wellington should be 15 yards for taunting

And now u have crybaby new Yorkers crying trying to sue the giants because they are ny team and don't play there and ppl are crying saying how far they have travel to see them play smh. Prob liberals

bro how do you root for a team with 0 offense?

I'm sorry but this documentary from NFL Films, which is usually pretty reliable, is misleading. Watching this you would think that after the Giants left New York, New Jersey is 100% unified in its love and devotion for them like Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Dallas, etc., for their teams. Rubbish. I was born, raised and have lived within a few miles of every town, deli, restaurant, etc., mentioned in this program. So I would point out the following. Yes, because they are the older franchise, moved to New Jersey first and have had more success, NORTHERN New Jersey is mostly Giants territory. But it's NOT uniform and this is NOT Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Cleveland, etc. To watch this documentary, you would never know that the Jets have also called the Meadowlands home SINCE 1984 - even before the Giants won their first Super Bowl. And yes, I know that the Jets fanbase trends more to Queens and LI because of their having played at Shea Stadium. But you watch this film and you'd never guess the Meadowlands had a second tenant. And of course the Jets are now ensconced in their new training complex in Florham Park, NEW JERSEY. Also, except for occasional brief periods, the Giants and Jets have been so dreadful for most of their years here that this area is heavily populated with Cowboys, Steelers and Patriots fans, as well as fans of a bunch of other teams, not to mention that the whole southern part of the state from what, Trenton south?, are Eagles fans. The metropolitan area and definitely the state is fractured in its fandom and not uniform at all. This cult like devotion to the Giants depicted in this documentary? As if the Giants are a 365 day a year obsession? Again, this is just a small number of fans. New York - and when I say that I mean the New York metropolitan area because only politicians and some parochial fans care about the NY/NJ thing - is, was and will always be a baseball town. Even when the two football teams have a pulse the talk remains Mets and Yankees - every day of the year. Finally, two other corrections. I don't know what the big deal is with Moonachie. Giants Stadium, both old and new, is in East Rutherford. And Wellington Mara was NOT the driving force behind turning the Giants around in the late 1970s no matter how many chairs he was kicking into pieces. As most fans know, he feuded with his nephew Tim - they both wanted to hire different people as the GM - and Pete Rozelle had to step in to broker a resolution of the deadlock and that's how George Young - the architect of the turnaround - got hired. Young is shown in this documentary at the press conference when Ray Perkins was hired, but I don't think he's otherwise mentioned or acknowledged. Strange considering that he's the guy who was the most responsible for the turnaround since he hired Parcells and built the roster.

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Brian Flores : F the Giants

I bet Parcells wouldn’t mind it when politicians get into aspects of sports like financing the building of a stadium for a team.

at end of the day they are called the NEW YORK giants . sorry jersey you can have overrated bruce and bon jovi 🤣

NYG WILL BE BACK