New York Giants history

The very next season (1926), Grange and his agent formed a rival American Football League and placed their flagship team, the Yankees, in New York to battle the Giants head-to-head.

In their third season in 1927, the Giants won their first NFL championship behind a defense led by tackle Steve Owen that permitted an all-time low of 20 points in 13 games.

Before the 1929 season, Mara purchased the entire squad of the rival Detroit Wolverines, including star quarterback Benny Friedman, a team which had finished in third place the year before.

The Giants won the 1934 championship 30–13 over the Washington Redskins in the famous “Sneakers Game”; the Giants trailed at halftime but switched to basketball shoes to gain better traction on the icy field.

During this period the team included defensive back Emlen Tunnell, who played 11 seasons (1948–58) and became the first African American player to be enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

The Giants had made $49,000 in gate revenue, $50,000 in radio receipts, and $108,000 in television receipts in 1952.

In 1956 the Giants moved from the Polo Grounds to Yankee Stadium and, behind the legs of legendary running back Frank Gifford and the grit of linebacker Sam Huff, captured their fourth (and last) NFL championship.

The 1958 NFL championship pitted the Giants against the Baltimore Colts, in what was viewed by many as one of football’s greatest games.

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Giants Stadium opened in 1976 to a sellout crowd.

Taylor entered the NFL draft in 1981 and was the second overall pick, selected by the New York Giants.

Bill Parcells became the Giants’ head coach in the 1983 season.

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He struggled with a cocaine addiction, and in 1988 he was suspended by the NFL for failing a drug test.

In 1990, Jack Mara's son, Tim, who was struggling with cancer at the time, sold his half of the team to Bob Tisch.

Taylor and the Giants won a second championship in January 1991, defeating the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXV.

He was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1999.

In 2004 Tom Coughlin joined the franchise as its head coach, and, though he sometimes encountered criticism for his style, the Giants performed well under his leadership.

Just twenty days after Mara's death, on November 15, 2005, the other Giants Executive Officer and well-known businessman Preston Robert Tisch died at the age of 79.

After a two-year play-off drought, the Giants again reached the Super Bowl following the 2011 season and defeated the Patriots 21–17.

The team posted mediocre records the following four years, missing the play-offs each season, which resulted in Coughlin’s parting ways with the franchise following the 2015 campaign.

An improved defense led to the Giants’ posting an 11–5 record in 2016, and the team qualified for the play-offs, where New York lost its opening game.

An improved defense led to the Giants’ posting an 11–5 record in 2016, and the team qualified for the play-offs, where New York lost its opening game. It was a short-lived improvement, however, as the Giants sustained a number of significant injuries in 2017, which helped result in the team posting the second worst record in the NFL (3–13) that season.

Revenues and operating income are for the 2020 season and net stadium debt service.1.