Big Blue View · Dec 27, 2018
A Date To Remember: Ending the Giants’ playoff drought
A Date To Remember is an occasional series Big Blue View will be running through the Super Bowl, highlighting the glory of the Giants’ past and celebrating the biggest playoff wins in franchise history.
The Return of the Giants
Dec. 27, 1981
NFC Wild Card game
The drought had lasted nearly two decades.
The run of futility had stretched on for so long, co-owner John Mara would later admit that the Giants had become “the laughingstock of the NFL.”
They had not reached the playoffs since 1963.
But 18 years of losing finally came to an end in 1981, thanks to a legendary, devastating fumble three years earlier and a gruff character wearing 1950s-style browline eyeglasses named George Young.
