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The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford,New Jersey. The Giants are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). They were one of five teams that joined the NFL in 1925, but the only one admitted that year which still exists. The Giants rank third among all NFL franchises with seven NFL titles: four in the pre–Super Bowl era (1927, 1934, 1938, 1956.) and three since the advent of the Super Bowl (Super Bowls XXI (1986), XXV (1990), and XLII (2007). Their championship tally is surpassed only by the Green Bay Packers (12) and Chicago Bears (9). The city of New York was introduced to professional football on the same day that the city was introduced to the New York Giants. It was a clear sunny October afternoon in 1925 when the Giants took the field to play against the Frankford Yellow Jackets. The Giants lost their home debut by the score of 14-0 to lower their record to 0-3 after opening with two losses on the road. But more importantly, the New York Giants and professional football had arrived. In 2002, the Giants won their final four regular season games, including an overtime thriller in the regular season finale against Philadelphia, to clinch a wild card playoff berth. In the third period of the postseason game in San Francisco, the Giants led the 49ers, 38-14. But San Francisco rallied for a 39-38 victory. Because of their impressive stretch run, the Giants began the 2003 season with high hopes. At midseason, they were in the thick of the playoff race with a 4-4 record. But a second-half collapse against Atlanta set the tone for an eight-game, season-ending losing streak. With two games remaining, the Giants announced that Fassel would not return. On Jan. 6, 2004, Tom Coughlin, a highly-successful head coach at Boston College and with the Jacksonville Jaguars, and a former Giants assistant, was hired as the 16th head coach in Giants history. In the 2004 NFL Draft, the Giants traded for quarterback Eli Manning, who started the final seven games of his rookie season. The Giants were 6-10 in Coughlin’s first year at the helm. In 2005, Manning started every game and the Giants were 11-5 and earned their first playoff berth since 2002 and their first NFC East championship since 2000. The first-place finish was an NFL-record 21st in franchise history. Five Giants were elected to the Pro Bowl, the team’s largest contingent since the 1990 Super Bowl champions sent seven. The group was led by running back Tiki Barber, who was second in the NFL in rushing with a team-record 1,860 yards. Barber’s 2,390 total yards were the second-highest total in league history.
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