Facts about the New York Giants

-Facts about the New York Giants-
-The New York Giants played their first game against All New Britain in New Britain Connecticut on October 4th, 1925.
-The first season of the New York Giants ended with an overall record of 8 wins 4 losses in 1925.
-In it's third season the Giants had the best record in the league at 11 wins 1 loss 1 tie. The New York Giants were awarded the NFL title at the end of the season.
-In 1930 the New York Giants played a team from Notre Dame that consisted of all star players to raise money for the homeless in New York city. The game showed the superiority of professional football to college football. The game raised $100,000 and the score was 3 touchdowns for the NY Giants and 0 for Notre Dame.
-The New York Giants have 7 league championships, 4 NFL championships (1927-1934-1938-1956)
-The NY Giants have 3 superbowl championships- 1986(XXl) - 1990(XXV) - 2007(XLll)
-The New York Giants have 10 conference championships-
*NFL Eastern - 1956,1958,1959,1961,1962,1963
*NFC-1986,1990,2000,2007
The NY Giants have been division champs 15 times-
NFL East- 1933,1934,1935,1938,1939,1941,1944,1946
NFC East- 1986, 1989, 1990, 1997,2000,2005,2008
The New York Giants have played in 5 different homefields and a new one soon-
Polo grounds (1925-1955) Yankee Stadium (1956-1973) Yale Bowl (1973-1974)
Shea Stadium (1975) Giants Stadium (1976-present) Meadowlands Stadium (to open in 2010)
The New York Giants have 27 ex members in the NFL Hall of fame-
Morris Badgro - Roosevelt Brown - Harry Carson - Larry Csonka - Ray Flaherty - Benny Friedman - Frank Gifford -
Joe Guyon - Mel Hein - Wilbur Henry - Arnie Herber - Cal Hubbard - Sam Huff - Alphonse Leemans - Tim Mara - Wellington Mara - Don Maynard -
Hugh McElhenny - Steve Owen - Andy Robustelli - Ken Strong - Fran Tarkenton - Lawrence Taylor -
Jim Thorpe - Y.A. Tittle - Emlen Tunnell - Arnie Weinmeister -
The New York Giants have retired 11 football jersey numbers since the start of the NFL-
#1 Ray Flaherty - #4 Alphonse Leemans - #7 Mel Hein - #11 Phil Simms - #14 Y.A. Tittle -
#16 Frank Gifford - #32 Al Blozis - #40 Joe Morrison - #42 Charlie Conerly - #50 Ken Strong -
#56 Lawrence Taylor

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