The New York Giants are a professional
American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The
team is headquartered, trains, and plays its home games at Giants
Stadium at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in the suburb of East
Rutherford, New Jersey. They are currently members of the Eastern
Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National
Football League (NFL). The Giants were one of five teams that
joined the NFL in 1925, but the only one admitted that year which
still exists. The Giants have won a total of seven NFL titles:
four in the preSuper Bowl era (1927, 1934, 1938, and 1956),
and three since the advent of the Super Bowl (Super Bowls XXI,
XXV, and XLII). 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. The Giants are the reigning National
Football League champions since winning Super Bowl XLII on February
3, 2008.
To distinguish itself from the professional
baseball team of the same name, the football team was referred
to as the New York Football Giants. Although the baseball team
moved to San Francisco in 1957, the football team continues to
use "New York Football Giants" as its legal corporate
name. The team has also gained several nicknames, including "Big
Blue," the "G-Men," the "Big Blue Wrecking
Crew," "and the "Jints," a name seen frequently
in the New York Post, originating from the baseball team when
they were based in New York.