Great Moments in Giants Stadium History: Fathers and Sons

‘Kudos’ to ‘jrs’ for a wonderful series, and a heartfelt conclusion.

Incredible. If this piece doesn’t hit you then something is wrong. Very nice article. I can read this and tell that every word came straight from your heart. I hope that you didn’t drop a tear on your keyboard while writing this, I almost got misty just reading it.

Great way to start the day!

While I didn’t grow up going to Giant games this article rings true with me and my father going to West Point for Army football games.

great work.

But does the new one open this season or in 2010….Ive completely forgot

Growing up I would always tease my Father when he would utter the words "I was there" in reference to the "Greatest Game ever played". I can now fully appreciate the feeling he had when he watched that game, I now say the same thing when people talk about the "Greatest Upset ever played", and I WAS THERE…. I miss my Dad, but the memories we shared involving the Giants will last me a life time…….

The best part of that play by George Martin is when Elway went to tackle him and he just shrugged him off and Elway fell clumsily to the turf. Priceless.

I was stationed in Denver that year. Haha.

Im only twenty and went to my first game after my father passed away, but geez does this sound familiar, my dad taught me everything i know as well, and i have a picture of me infront of the tv w/ him for the 90 bowl, VHS tape of it and my dad always pulled it out to show me how much of a beast bavaro was. he even used to go across the Taconic to a pub that the giants would goto after practice and hung out with them, great emotional post jrs

I wish I could be close to giants staduim. My pops always said that going to a game is overrated and you generally freeze your ass off at the games, not to mention we are not rich so we need binoculars to see the game anyway. So Watching on the 50in HD is a better option anyway (he springs for that tho….)

But I know if I was a bit closer to the stadium we’d at least try to go to a few more. Its really not the bad experience that I described, its more work on monday for him.

The only Giants game I went to was the one where they played teh Chargers a while back. It was the one where there was a ton of snow piled up in the corners of the field, not to mention all over the stands. It was the snowball game and I think some reporter got hit with a snowball, and I think Strahan or Armstead too. LOL, I guess if your gonna go to a game and its not the playoffs, this is a pretty good one.

to the Carolina game last season, and he still always talks about how great it was even if we both froze some extremities off. He wasn’t a Giants fan before, he kind of liked the Cowboys but mostly just played fantasy, but that game converted him though. Now he’s a big Giants fan and the kid is always stealing my Eli jersey lol. So I kind of subbed in for my dad who likes soccer (….no words) and not football.

I always remember when I would get bummed out summer was over and school was starting up my Dad would say “Sundays at the swamp!” That made it all better.
 
I have a 1 year old son and can’t wait to take him to his first game. How young is too young for a Giants game?

My earliest childhood memory of my father is him telling me “Dave Brown stinks.”

Also, the first time I ever went to a Giants game, they got whooped by the Steelers in the rain and the mud, though it most certainly wasn’t the same game you saw in 76. Odd coincidence.

My dad is a Jets fan, so growing up I don’t have as many Giants related memories with him, but one in particular that I do have is him hunting me down at my uncle’s Super Bowl Party on January 27, 1991 and telling me I had to come watch the last couple of minutes of the game with “the guys” (I had been off playing with the other kids, I was only 6 at the time). He told me I should be rooting for the team in blue, because they were from New York, so I did. I ended up watching the entire 4th quarter even though I really didn’t know what was going on, and my first vivid memory of football was how tense the room was as Norwood lined up for his kick, and everyone jumping up and down screaming when he missed it. So even though he’s a die hard Jets fan, I give my dad credit for making me a Giants fan (with a little help from Scott Norwood).

We went to a few Jets games over the years (a friend of his worked for the Jets), but didn’t get to our first Giants game until almost a decade later, after my aunt married a guy with Giants season tickets. That was in 2000, and the Giants beat the Eagles and eventually played in the Super Bowl again. Since then we’ve gone to about a game a year together. We’ve seen some great ones (the 13 sack game and the Pats undefeated game) and some awful ones (the Panthers playoff loss, the Eagles regular season game last year), but no matter what they’re always a great time.

Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to make it to Giants Stadium, yet. Living in CA makes the trip a little more difficult than most of you I’m sure. But I’m planning on going to a game this year with my brother, who taught me everything about the GMen growing up and still calls me every day to talk Giants football. I have some great memories about the Giants playing in their stadium but have yet to experience it myself and desperately want to make the trip before they close the stadium.

It might be a little soon to ask, but does anyone know how I can get a pair of tickets w/o going the conventional way?

My Dad is also a Bills, fan I don’t know how I became a Giants fan, but I owe him my love of the NFL in general. I’ll always remember watching games as a kid, and going to college and always calling him every Monday afternoon to discuss the previous day’s games. I haven’t been able to get to a Giants game in the Meadowlands, but I have great memories of going to the Bills game two years ago and watching them clinch the playoffs while staring into that driving sleet and snow for entire game. We had side end- zone seats, and every single point was scored in that end! I also remember all the dejected Bills fans leaving the stadium to drown their sorrows in PBR and Molson. My son is only a year old, and I’m counting the days until he is old enough to sit and watch a game with me, and learn to love the NFL the way my dad taught me.

I’m not sure if I’ll be able to pull it off, but one last trip to GIANTS stadium this year is already in the works. Hate to think about it not being there after all these years!!!

Thanks agian for the entire series!!