Photo of Tom Coughlin reflected in the Vince Lombardi Trophy during a press conference by AP/Eric Gay After two weeks of hype, Super Bowl XLII is finally around the corner. The Giants have reached the ultimate game with a chance to prevent history by ruining the Patriots' quest for a perfect 19-0 season. During those two weeks of hype since the NFC Championship, there has been a frenzy of media covering Tom Brady and......

Photo of Michael Strahan kissing the George S. Halas Trophy after the game by AP/David J. Phillip The Giants are going to the Super Bowl! Thanks to a 47-yard field goal in overtime New York defeated Green Bay on the infamous “frozen tundra” 23-20 to advance to Super Bowl XLII. It was a game of dramatic twists and turns and it produced some unlikely heroes. Start with Dominic Hixon who had several big kick......

Admit it, sometime early in the fourth quarter yesterday you finally had enough. Enough of watching Eli throw behind his receivers, enough of him committing awful turnovers. You were ready to throw in the towel, give up on Eli and go find another quarterback. And then an amazing thing happened. Eli suddenly became the QB you thought he could be. Down 16-7 with just under 12 minutes in the game the Giants rallied for two......

The Giants are fortunate that Sunday’s game will be played in London. Fortunate because the venue should help them avoid taking the week off against a team that has nothing going for it. The Dolphins are winless and last week lost their best offensive player, Ronnie Brown, for the season. Brown’s injury came two weeks after the Dolphins lost their starting quarterback for the year and to make matters worse, one of their top......

Hopefully, Giants defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo didn’t buy a house when he moved to New York this off-season. After two games it looks as if Spagnuolo and Tom Coughlin will be looking for new jobs very soon. The numbers are hideous, 80 points allowed in two games, over 800 yard allowed and opponents have completed an astounding 71% of their passes against them, but the visual evidence is even worse. Mathias Kiwanuka looks lost at......

The Giants enter 2007 with more questions than answers. The biggest one is how are they going to replace the 2,100 yards of offense generated by Tiki Barber last season? They don’t get any easier after that though. Will Michael Strahan play well after missing all of training camp? Can David Diehl play left tackle? Is Eli ready to take the next step? Is the secondary any better? Has Tom Coughlin really changed? Add......

What is going on with the Giants? They cut three starters before free agency began and have so far only replaced one, their idiot coach seems to think it is acceptable to compare himself to Hitler and fans may got stuck with paying for PSL's in the new stadium. Unfortunately, the team doesn’t seem to think the coach needs to be disciplined, but they will get a chance to add some players through the......

Police are looking for a man who is lurking around Queens neighborhoods, assaulting children. First, around 2:30PM on Friday, a man approached three children at a playground near PS 118 in Hollis. He exposed himself to an 11-year-old boy and two 9-year-old girls. The children got away. Then, at 4:30PM, he grabbed a 13-year-old walking home from school near 110th Avenue and 195 St. and pulled her into an alleyway and attacked her. Police say......

What should have been a classic matchup has been diminished by injury. Both the Bears and the Giants head into their Sunday Night game with big injury concerns. For Chicago, their top wide receiver is hurt and their All-Pro Linebacker, Brian Urlacher, is listed as questionable. Those injuries are substantial, but nothing compared to what has happened to the Giants. Their starting defense is missing both defensive ends, two linebackers and a cornerback. In the......

If you didn’t watch it, you were lucky, 22 penalties and 12 punts do not make for exciting football, but the Giants did what they had to do and beat the 49rs 24-6 on Sunday. The Giants offense, which was inconsistent all day, finally clicked into gear scoring two touchdowns in the fourth quarter to put the game out of reach. Brandon Jacobs had two one-yard touchdown runs setup by long passes to Amani......

The Giants played their first game ever without Wellington Mara as a member of the team and provided a reminder of the ingredients that made them great through the years, a suffocating defense and a punishing running game that led to a 36-0 victory over the Washington Redskins. You could tell from the start that the Giants were playing with a lot of emotion. Tiki Barber took the opening handoff 57 yards to setup a......

Statistically, he is the greatest receiver in team history, but in 2005 Amani Toomer had been relegated to a secondary role in the Giants offense. That all changed Sunday as Toomer made the winning catch with five seconds left in the game to give the Giants a 24-23 victory over the Broncos. Ironically, Toomer had made a last-second touchdown catch to beat the Broncos in their last visit to Giants Stadium in 1998. Toomer’s......

Eli Manning is quickly becoming one of the better quarterbacks in the NFC. On Sunday he threw for 296 yards and four touchdowns while leading the Giants to a 44-24 victory over the Rams. The Giants scored on their first six possessions and only had to punt twice in the entire game. For the season, the Giants have scored a NFL high 136 points in four games. Plaixco Burress had his finest day as a......

There is a lot of pressure heading into the 2005 football season on Tom Coughlin and Eli Manning. Coughlin must show that his authoritarian style can translate into wins and Manning must show that he deserved to be drafted first overall based on his talent and not his last name. Both coach and quarterback showed glimpses of promise last year, but this is the year they must build on it. Manning will not be asked......

Giants fans have to feel pretty good about their team’s 33-30 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Sure a loss is a loss, but not only was this the most watchable game of the Giants’ now seven-game losing streak, but rookie quarterback Eli Manning finally showed off some of the skills that made him the number one pick in last year’s N.F.L. draft. The Giants got off to an early start as Willie Ponder took the......

At the end of the day, Giants fans have to tell themselves that this is pretty much what they expected out of this season. After a 31-7 loss to the Redskins, the Giants have now lost five games in a row and Gothamist feels like we wasted our last Sunday on this unwatchable team. 7 first downs? 1 of 9 on third down? 145 total yards? New York’s offensive player of the game? Amani Toomer......

We at Gothamist couldn’t be more confused about the Giants. After starting the season 4-1 they lost a brutal home-game to the Lions that we thought they would easily win. Now the Giants travel to the Metrodome to take on the 5-1 Vikings and their quarterback Daunte Culpepper, who is making fantasy football owners across the nation vastly over-stimulated. With Amani Toomer injured and unlikely to play, we feel that this is going to be......

Don't look now, but the Giants won again. They had a 95-yard touchdown drive on offense. At the end of the game they took a knee to run out the clock. We can't even remember the last time the Giants took a knee. Before we at Gothamist percolate all over ourselves about yesterday's 27-10 victory over Cleveland, we ought to note that the Browns are banged up and aren't exactly terrifying opponents in the......

So what have we at Gothamist learned this week? Other than the red head from Sex in the City has a girlfriend? First off, we know the Browns are banged up, with Kellen Winslow and Courtney Brown not playing, but the big story is � drumroll please � the Giants offense stinks. Seven turnovers should certainly get you more than 20 points, but we know that wasn't the case against the Skins. Now the troops......

You never want it said that your team shines in garbage time, but, unfortunately for Giants fans, that�s about the only time where this team looks any good. The Giants have been torched by every first unit they�ve played against so far this preseason and last night was no different. Baltimore did as they pleased on both sides of the ball on their way to a 24-3 halftime lead and a 27-17 victory over......