1981 New York Giants Team Season Highlights "A Giant Step"

(Time: 23:26) Narrated By: Frank Gifford

[@mikevanriel7573]

The birth of the modern day New York Giants.

[@edwardcricchio6106]

Brian Kelly and Brad Van Pelt finally get their chance to play in important games and the playoffs.

[@1223jamez]

I remember this like yesterday, what a great season!

[@richrucci6908]

Beautiful season! Thank you Ray! R.I.P.

[@josecolon2201]

Rip Ray Perkins

[@frankdenardo8684]

Highlight real narrated by Legendary New York Giants legend Frank Gifford. Interesting fact The San Francisco 49ers and the New York Giants played each other during the 1981 campaign. Also both teams played each other at the Stick in 1980. the 49ers won 12-0. I like the title "Giant Step" which the allusion about the New York Giants rebuilding to eventually becoming a Super Bowl Champion. This was the first season for linebacker Lawrence Taylor who was the heir apparent to legendary Giants linebacker Sam Huff.

[@JamesJackson-xd7jq]

R.I.P. MR. GARY JETER -- ONE HECK OF A D.E. ....

[@buckwheatROCKS]

Yes he was the first Jeter in NY

[@jimhyland256]

Just a great human being.

[@Salvatore1268]

Rip coach Perkins

[@frankdenardo8684]

Part of the nucleus of the 1986 Giants team that would win Super Bowl XXI.

[@realmusicnj]

Remember this when it aired. First time in my lifetime Giants made the playoffs.

[@johnreece5540]

Carpenter and Taylor were my favorite on that team.

[@danielsalerno5746]

Those are my Giants 💪

[@dumisatonyjohnson8145]

Lawrence Taylor (56) HOF outside linebacker Number three overall pick by the New York football giants 1981-82 NFL ROTY

[@busternutt2874]

LT was the SECOND pick of the draft.

[@dumisatonyjohnson8145]

@@busternutt2874 Who did New Orleans pick number one

[@busternutt2874]

@@dumisatonyjohnson8145 George Rogers. The 3rd pick was Freeman McNeil to the Jets.

[@dumisatonyjohnson8145]

@@busternutt2874 You’re right I’m sorry about that one

[@iamhungey12345]

You may have gotten him mixed up with Michael Jordan, not that I can blame you.

[@chriswright2250]

Jim Gordon on the radio call.❤

[@terucks]

6:10 is my favorite! Totally 80d

[@mikec6733]

I remember how Rob Carpenter brought the juice to the Giants. Play after play he got extra yardage that had been missing for so long.

[@joem2916]

When the Giants were becoming a great team

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

The modern day Giants became great again in 1981 and it lasted for decades. You just watched the team that put the Giants back on the map.

[@stevep8445]

They had losing seasons in 1982 and 1983. They didn't turn the corner until the 1984 season. I wouldn't say it LASTED for decades. They still only had 4 winning seasons in the 90.. They won in 86 and 90 and then again two more in the 2000s

[@frankdenardo8684]

I saw the NFC wild card game on TV and in the locker room. The members of the New York Giants were all celebrating "we are going to California".

[@iamhungey12345]

@@stevep8445 1982 was cut down to 9 games due to strike and even then the Giants had a chance for the playoffs until they lost the final game where they went 4-5. Who knows how the season could have turn out had it been 16 games even though not having Simms as the QB due to injury would have haunt them anyway.

[@bigdrew565]

@@iamhungey12345 God, Simms always used to get the piss beat out of him in those early years. It was a wonder to me that he had the career he did.

[@user-nd9ls1xn5f]

sounds like the same thing Danny jones is going through now

[@buckwheatROCKS]

Danelo missed a lot of fg’s that season. But the defense still kept them in it

[@joem2916]

Start of the Big Blue defense

[@user-nd9ls1xn5f]

To bad van pelt wasn’t. There for their super bowl in 1986

[@Thekidyusuke]

Not gonna lie. These were some tough SOBs.

[@mikevanriel7573]

Was Bill Bellichick a Giants assistant in 1981?

[@SportsOdyssey2019]

Yes

[@conservativeguy9329]

He was the Special Teams coach

[@mikevanriel7573]

If I am correct, Brad Van Pelt was eventually replaced by Carl Banks a couple seasons later.

[@jerseyguy1274]

Well sure, Van Pelt was an old man by then.

[@realmusicnj]

Was there ever a better sports broadcaster than Jim Gordon?

[@fortynights1513]

Music at 7:32?

[@buckwheatROCKS]

If Simms wasn’t hurt that 49er playoff game might have been a little closer..

[@corrbenbernsten4902]

Agreed Scott Brunner was terrible

[@howardcosell2022]

@@corrbenbernsten4902 He was better than Simms at that point

[@bigdrew565]

@@howardcosell2022 which wasn't saying much.

[@howardcosell2022]

@@bigdrew565 On the contrary. Phil was George Young's first pick. If it was up to Parcells, Brunner would have been his QB throughout the eighties......POLITICS!

[@bigdrew565]

@@howardcosell2022 Well, going with Scott Brunner almost got Parcells shit canned. That's for sure. But look at Phil for the first 5 years of his career. He used to get the piss beat out of him. Is it any wonder that a new coach would go with someone else?

[@chadwickwhite6107]

The New York Giants in the 1980's ABSOLUTELY SUCKED without Bill Parcells.

[@howardcosell2022]

It was Ray Perkins who started them on the road to redemption

[@humanbeing2420]

@@howardcosell2022 And Parcells's first two seasons with NYG were not good.

[@jeffsmith2022]

Hard to win with a Blue Hen playing qb for you...

[@escobarsalvador3288]

Not necessarily Rich Gannon and Joe Flacco were both Super Bowl quarterbacks.

[@iamhungey12345]

@@escobarsalvador3288 You're talking about Gannon and Flacco, not Brunner.

[@haroldmccoy6748]

@@iamhungey12345 Brunner accomplished a cherished goal some other individually decorated QB's haven't like John Hadl ,Archie Manning and Bert Jones , he won a playoff game .

[@iamhungey12345]

@@haroldmccoy6748 That's an oof to those guys.

[@howardcosell2022]

@@haroldmccoy6748 Absolutely. NY media had Simms a bust after 1983

[@zinc74jr]

L.T 5:59

[@CTubeMan]

At 15:57, Spoiler Alert!