New York Giants Tickets : The Team Ranks Third Among All Nfl Franchises With Seven Nfl Titles

The New York Giants are an American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The Giants are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The team plays their games at New Meadowlands Stadium, which it shares with the New York Jets in a unique arrangement.

The team ranks third among all NFL franchises with seven NFL titles: four in the pre Super Bowl era and three since the advent of the Super Bowl , XXV (1990), and XLII (2007). Their championship tally is surpassed only by the Green Bay Packers (13) and Chicago Bears (9). During their history, the Giants have featured 15 Hall of Fame players, including NFL Most Valuable Player (MVP) award winners Mel Hein, Frank Gifford, Charlie Conerly, Y. A. Tittle, and Lawrence Taylor.

To distinguish themselves from the professional baseball team of the same name, the football team was incorporated as the "New York National League Football Company, Inc." in 1929 and changed to "New York Football Giants, Inc." in 1937. Although the baseball team moved to San Francisco after the 1957 season, the football team continues to use "New York Football Giants, Inc." as its legal corporate name, and is often referred to by fans and sportscasters as the "New York Football Giants".

The team has also gained several nicknames, including "Big Blue", the "G-Men", and the "Jints", an intentionally mangled abbreviation seen frequently in the New York Post and New York Daily News, originating from the baseball team when they were based in New York. Additionally the team as a whole is occasionally referred to as the "Big Blue Wrecking Crew", even though this moniker primarily and originally refers to the Giants defensive unit during the 80s and early 90s.

The team's heated rivalry with the Philadelphia Eagles is the oldest of the NFC East rivalries, dating all the way back to 1933 and has been called the best rivalry in the NFL in the 21st century.

In 2009, the Giants opened a new training complex, the Timex Performance Center, also located in the Meadowlands. After starting 5-0 in the 2009 season, New York lost to the likewise undefeated New Orleans Saints at their stadium 48-27, beginning a four game losing streak,which was broken with a 34-31 overtime victory against the Atlanta FalconsOn Thanksgiving night, they lost to the Denver Broncos 26-6.

The Giants next beat the division leading Dallas Cowboys. A week later, with a record of 7-5, they lost to the Philadelphia Eagles, 45-38. On December 27, the Giants lost to the Carolina Panthers 41-9 in their final game at Giants Stadium, and were eliminated from playoff eligibility. The Giants finished the season 8-8.

Third year wideout Steve Smith led the team with 107 receptions , 1,220 receiving yards and 7 touchdowns.Following the season, the Giants fired first-year defensive coordinator Bill Sheridan, and replaced him with the former Buffalo Bills interim head coach, Perry Fewell. The Giants defense finished 13th overall under Sheridan, giving up 324.9 yards per game, and the final two losses of the season against Carolina and Minnesota, in which the Giants gave up 85 points, ultimately led to the firing.

In 2010, the Giants moved from Giants Stadium into New Meadowlands Stadium.

The New York Giants unveiled their own Ring of Honor on October 3, 2010 during halftime of their Sunday Night Football matchup with the Chicago Bears. John Mara had long wished to create a Giants Ring of Honor and Hall of Fame to honor Giants who helped the franchise achieve each of their 7 championships, and the building of New Meadowlands Stadium resulted in the realization of that ambition.

The organization chose to have an inaugural induction class of 30 including players, coaches, owners and executives that have had a great impact on the organization. While the entire list of inductees was not revealed until the actual induction, the organization did confirm that Phil Simms, Bill Parcells, Michael Strahan, Tiki Barber, Frank Gifford and Pete Gogolak would all be inducted about a week prior to the ceremony.