Jersey Guys: Rooting for Big Blue from Manhattan to Moonachie | The Timeline

[@jamesdavis6036]

I'm a born & raised Brooklynite who moved to the Jersey Shore area in 94. I loved this video & it gave me goosebumps. However, one thing they got wrong. There were no mention of the NY based Giant fans at all. All my friends & family including countless thousands of NY Giant fans before the move, stayed loyal to the Giants after the move. It's not like they moved to L.A.. I don't know one NY based fan who stopped following them because they went to N.J.. In fact, most of those crowds at the stadium were Newyorkers. It was misleading in this respect.

[@roflcopter117]

Indeed, also maybe it is a bit arbitrary but MetLife is closer to the NYC city hall than Yankee Stadium is. It's not like NJ public transit doesn't also terminate in Manhattan. It's part of the area, however if they wanted room they could have built it Upstate instead of going across the Hudson.

[@jamesdavis6036]

@@roflcopter117 That's why NY is politically one of the worst states in the union. You think they learned after losing the Giants & the Dodgers.

[@raymendoza7678]

As a cowboy's fan I love it! Old school tradition and educational for myself and NFC EAST fans

[@PrinceTron1]

I don't mean to troll you. But the Cowboys shouldn't even be in the NFC East. At least based on geographics. They only did that back in 1970 because of the (Cowboys vs Indians) Cowboys vs Redskins thing. Look at all the teams that were realigned back in 2002. Moving Tampa Bay, Carolina, New Orleans and Atlanta to the NFC South. Moving the Arizona Cardinals and Seattle Seahawks to the NFC West. The then St. Louis Rams have a long rivalry with the 49ers. St. Louis is called 'The Gateway To The West', hence their gateway arch monument. If anything, the St. Louis Rams should have been at worst in the NFC North with the Bears, Packers, Lions and Vikings. But since the Rams are back in Los Angeles, it's a mute point now. Just for note, the Los Angeles Rams franchise started in Cleveland back in 1936. Moving Jacksonville, Indianapolis, Tennessee and Houston to the AFC South. Now if The Texans are in the AFC South, how the heck are the Dallas Cowboys in the NFC East? I understand the rivalry thing. But the Cowboys should be in the NFC South. You can move Carolina, Atlanta or even Tampa to the East. The Cowboys will still run into the Washington Football Team (Commanders), Eagles and Giants from time to time. I think the Cowboys being in the NFC South would help their travel, rest and overall well being as a franchise.

[@WMFilms25]

@@PrinceTron1nah screw that. Rivalry is everything. Keep the Cowgirls in the NFC East. I’m a Giants fan and I’m saying this.

[@PrinceTron1]

@@WMFilms25 You prove the point by calling them the Cowgirls. You don't even think of the Cowboys as men yet you want them in your so tougher than any division NFC East.

[@ab348]

Just a fabulous production and not only a great history of the Giants but a great look back at the Parcell years and the greatest time in their history. Wonderfully entertaining to see the connection they made with New Jersey.

[@bryancoats5328]

Seeing the former players show up at the firehouse to hang out with the fans, shows just how special that team was.

[@natedogg4035]

Nothing but Big Blue tears Go Giants 💙💙💙💙

[@mypal1990]

Growing up near Giants and MetLife stadium, it's such a spectacle driving down 495 and Route 3.

[@conormcgregor8526]

paterson plank

[@mikey102122]

As a Redskins fan (yeah, they are still the Redskins to me), it was really cool to see the camaraderie of the Giants fans as well as their relationship with the team.

[@natedogg4035]

Giants fan since 84 i was 13 going on 14 im now going on 51 yrs old

[@TS1r731]

Most every team can relate to this special.. especially the older, established teams like Green Bay, Chicago, Pittsburgh, etc… it’s awesome to see these fans relish in the opportunities to watch their teams succeed. Sports bring people together unlike any other entertainment event in the world

[@Packers_Nation]

Every franchise will have their ups and downs, but it's the fans that always gives a team hope.

[@alphaomega8373]

That and millions of dollars.

[@02REVENGE]

Lmao Aaron is leaving🤣

[@bryancoats5328]

Still waiting for the Texans to have that

[@graham.2547]

Go pack

[@flyingtoaster1427]

about @0:50 "everybody fiercely proud of their Moonachie heritage..." when the name comes from Monaghie, an Iroquois chief who lived a forest life in the 1600s.

[@greylock2672]

What was so interesting to me was the hostility that Mayor Koch, a guy raised in New Jersey had towards the Giants and New Jersey. I have always believed that he was just trying to save money since they had already had a parade for the Mets a few months earlier.

[@deangarn1488]

I have been a Giants fan since 1982 so I am fortunate to have witnessed all four super bowl victories and one loss and I'm proud to say that every NFC championship game played in the meadowlands the Giants have came out victorious and even more held their opponents to 0 points and in this time span of being a Giants fan I've had my share of ups and downs and there have been a lot of downs but when the team is been on fire it makes up for it and I definitely love me some Eli Manning but I know that this team will be back in the super bowl giving us our fifth Lombardi trophy hopefully in the very near future so go big blue and yes I will say they are the New Jersey Giants

[@eddiealvarado8124]

We'll be back, and we're gonna get that ticker tape parade to moonachie. Believe it and it will happen.

[@mrmartywaring]

As an Eagle fan, I really appreciate this video. I'm glad that Moonachie finally was able to celebrate with the '86 Giants

[@vinceniederman]

As a Eagles Fan Myself Since 1995 I Hate The NY Giants But This Video is Amazing To Watch!

[@redmustangredmustang]

Just goes to show that a blue collar area where people go to work then on Sunday go watch the Giants is a wonderful fan base. Even when the Giants moved stadiums they just moved it a few hundred yards and stayed in New Jersey.

[@kennyferreri7361]

And this is why no matter how bad it gets I’ll always be proud to root for my JERSEY GIANTS!!

[@giantopinionsports6119]

Don't leave yet. We will be back!!!!

[@darkchocolate3390]

I miss this show a lot.

[@Bkboss2014]

Seeing this as a giants fan gives me hope for this season. I think the giants might really have a great season

[@burtticus837]

Love this, bounce back for the Giants coming soon!

[@vinceniederman]

Even Though I Hate The NY Giants As a Eagles Fan But This Is Amazing!

[@depressedgiantsfan7]

We hate yal too but respect ✊

[@michaelleroy9281]

That game on Monday Night Football in 1986 Mark Bavaro carried 5 Niners on his back before they could bring him down

[@BrandonScotttBrown]

Grew up in Moonachie!! Lets go Giants!!!

[@tkl7049]

As a Chargers fan it pisses me off seeing them in Los Angeles. The San Diego politicians and Dean Spanos deserve all the hate they get for what has happened. I will forever and always support the TEAM and the players no matter what

[@gotham61]

Great to see my friend Bill Ard finally celebrating with the Moonachie fanbase.

[@jefferyrobertson7520]

Giants Stadium Home Of New York Giants And Jets From 1976 To 1993 Meadowlands New Jersey ☺🏈Thanks For Uploading

[@michaelleroy9281]

1976 to 2009

[@paulwanushek1402]

Eagles Fan here. I like that video.

[@johnnyso1979]

Pat from Moonachie must be a huge Giants fan.

[@PopOutPaulie]

🤣🤣🤣

[@johndoe-fq7ez]

O&A

[@PopOutPaulie]

Damn I never knew Bill Parcells was from Hasbrouck Heights. Thats pretty cool As much as I hate the Giants I still love being from New Jersey and it's cool to see all the small towns in my area getting some love

[@jpowell2603]

" To hell with New York" 😆😂🤣

[@frankschiavone4557]

Good ole BILL. Greatest coach

[@jbx.7995]

Yeah I remember those days clearly That is why I ware my 4 time super bowls jacket all under the old Ownership now we have the sun's of Mara and Tish family's leading following up. I believe that we on the rite track. Soon hopefully we can add another patch on the Jacket...really really. Go Big Blue.

[@johng.4711]

Never heard of Moonachie? Pat from Moonachie was a huge star back in the day.

[@RJMay3]

Rt 3 Drive In was on the other side of the highway from where the stadium was built.

[@MichaelParthum]

Keep uploading more Timelines!

[@petermarotta8987]

In the old Days 1950s, my Dad and his father and uncles would take the ferry and subway from staten island to the Giants games. There was no post game shows. They would all huddle around a Giants clubhouse man on the Staten Island Ferry and he would give them the dope

[@Jahlir123]

Best sport in history

[@robertharvey9047]

giants love ❤

[@llcoolg7028]

As a lifelong cowboys fan from Pennsylvania, I couldn't be prouder of the new Jersey Giants. Your history is who you are, congrats!

[@slappxn]

Double the NFL films staff so we can get more uploads please.

[@gatorbodine2011]

NEW JERSEY GIANTS!!

[@MarloSoBalJr]

After watching this, the Giants should go back to the *GIANTS* logo. I was dope

[@wa2k99]

Those rippers are decent, but the homemade relish is what makes it really good!

[@djshaheed7513]

Let's do it again 2022 G Men

[@Supernecesary]

Jersey giants my ass!! NEW YORK GIANTS!!

[@bryancoats5328]

Does anyone know the name of the music from 23:00 to when George Martin walks through his garden?

[@njgeorge82]

Used live in wood ridge and played football for the wood ridge moonachie blue devils

[@saipanbrad]

New Jersey Giants

[@noaahhhoke4012]

Let’s go big blue

[@patricklaurojr7427]

Live 15 min down road moonachie has few great restaurants

[@TimFrith24]

Didn’t you know that Giants 3rd string QB Tommy DeVito aka Tommy Cutlets is from Cedar Grove, New Jersey?

[@michaelleroy9281]

Just don't call him Danny

[@albertogatica6847]

New Jersey can be bad and have its downsides but it’s home and I wouldn’t wana be anywhere else 😅

[@ejacoby]

I'll say it once I'll say it again. Growing up on Long Island as a Giants fan I always felt NJ was the best place for football in the area. The drive across Midtown and the Lincoln Tunnel always felt like Football. They played in the same complex as the Devils and Nets but were special enough to be called NY. I do believe moving the team to NJ gave the Giants the identity and aura that helped them win 4 super Bowls. If they change the name to Jersey tomorrow I'm still a fan till I die. #togetherblue

[@liduck52]

This is old news. The Giants moved to Jersey in 1976. Their only other option was to play at the refurbished Yankee Stadium. Gotta admit, I was not happy when the Cosmos moved to the Meadowlands in 1977 UNTIL I went to my 1st game there. Then I realized it was a good move.

[@6hazar]

It hurts so much that till this day we are saying the same thing THE OWNERSHIP HAS TO CHANGE. Jesus Christ may u bless us with a good owner🙌

[@EvanRothfeld-f6u]

We gotta win again

[@jaeoen5636]

The more things change, the more they stay the same 😭

[@kinupe5]

LT such a nice guy

[@PattyBandAidz]

Poor Jersey .... all those things the New York people said about them, we say the same things about them in Philly .... I think its about time they get some proper representation in the professional leagues ... South Jersey rocks with the Eagles for the most part, and North Jersey is either with the Jets or the NY Football M!dgets...give em their own team and they'll unite

[@UserName-ts3sp]

don’t the flyers dominate south jersey in spite of the devils

[@trolljones4386]

@@UserName-ts3spdon’t forget the ranger fans on the shore and in north jersey lol

[@t.r.1442]

Much respect to all you Giants fans from Jersey! The NFL should show you all more respect and put that N.J. on the helmets! I respect that both the Jets and Giants are from the Garden state.

[@michaelleroy9281]

17-0 in the NFC Championship game it wasn't that close as the score might suggest

[@patricklaurojr7427]

Giants fans are mostly also Yankees fans as jets fans are Mets fans the giants played at Yankee stadium and jets played at Shea so that's how it works from queens out to long Island is mostly jets fans and than Brooklyn to Bronx to jersey is giants

[@vinceniederman]

As a Eagles Fan I Agree With U 100% But Some Giants Fans Root For The Mets!

[@patricklaurojr7427]

@@vinceniederman yes not many but very rare like my uncle huge giants fan like me and he loves Mets same with my bro inlaw. U very rare don't don't jets fans liking yanks that giants fans liking Mets. I honestly root for both if Mets are in in it I root for them they are local teams. Never understood how ppl become fans of teams that far away like thees front running cowboys fans stuck in the 90s lol. Only NY team I don't root for and can't stand cuz of fans are Ranger fans

[@vinceniederman]

@@patricklaurojr7427 It’s Funny How NYC Sports Fans Are In Rooting Interests!

[@joshallen-kz7vv]

Put this on madden please. That stadium

[@Poop-qu2pk]

Kind of bad timing to post anything giants related at the moment 😂

[@gonzo5608]

Yeah I'm not sure if they're thinking

[@andrewboyce7268]

@Poop it's a repost. This was already on the NFL Network.

[@anthonymarino9186]

I hear what you saying but we have four Super Bowls under our belts

[@PopOutPaulie]

Can't believe my Saints passed on LT

[@michaeldeemer6898]

RIP Joe Walton

[@richardmontoya2547]

getting to watch the Giants lose every week that loyalty

[@Jj-xm5gf]

Funny the Giants and Jets are being sued for exactly this reason and the NFL releases this film to paint a different picture. Nice.

[@patricklaurojr7427]

Rutts Hutt is amazing but ppl working there a very rude and very jersey I my first time and asked simple questions and was made out like I was a moron lol

[@bryancoats5328]

Moonachie should still do this in 2027 for the 40th anniversary

[@michaelleroy9281]

1986 season will be the 40th anniversary

[@pendragon2012]

Ed Koch should forever be ashamed of himself. We can be the NEW YORK Giants and still celebrate the Jersey connection as well!

[@cloakdaggernyc]

Stadium is in East Rutherford, Carlstadt is even closer to the stadium than Moonachie. Why the hell did pick Moonachie for this 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@thehoodedteddy1335]

Weren’t the Jets and Giants getting sued by New York for calling themselves New York teams while not being in New York?

[@michaelleroy9281]

Nothing ever came of it if they lost the lawsuit that wouldn't have killed either franchise

[@thehoodedteddy1335]

@@michaelleroy9281 yeah but still a weird factoid now

[@AnalysisofaCrimewithCD]

LT…

[@ryanrobertson7218]

POV. I agree that jersey should finance the parade.

[@daleduffy79]

Anyone help me out here!? Who is it that is narrating the programme???

[@mrmartywaring]

Joe Piscopo

[@stevep8445]

Jon Bon Jovi is the narrator.

[@davidharrison9324]

Community..

[@sfelmey]

Man, the more things change the more they stay the same. Terrible ownership.

[@jamesdavis6036]

I do have one question that you would think this documentary addressed. Why after 50 years do the media, memobilla etc. still refer to them as the NY Giants. Not complaining. Love it like that but why?

[@nicholasfrat7659]

Naming ur son Wellington should be 15 yards for taunting

[@janellemaynait]

He would get beefy about it

[@robertharvey9047]

jets

[@robertharvey9047]

love ❤

[@mylesiguess9899]

bro how do you root for a team with 0 offense?

[@ryanh3951]

How do you watch anime as a grown man?

[@mylesiguess9899]

@@ryanh3951 who says im a grown man?

[@innastr8jackitt725]

Brian Flores : F the Giants

[@ZZSmithReal]

I'm sorry but this documentary from NFL Films, which is usually pretty reliable, is misleading. Watching this you would think that after the Giants left New York, New Jersey is 100% unified in its love and devotion for them like Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Dallas, etc., for their teams. Rubbish. I was born, raised and have lived within a few miles of every town, deli, restaurant, etc., mentioned in this program. So I would point out the following. Yes, because they are the older franchise, moved to New Jersey first and have had more success, NORTHERN New Jersey is mostly Giants territory. But it's NOT uniform and this is NOT Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Cleveland, etc. To watch this documentary, you would never know that the Jets have also called the Meadowlands home SINCE 1984 - even before the Giants won their first Super Bowl. And yes, I know that the Jets fanbase trends more to Queens and LI because of their having played at Shea Stadium. But you watch this film and you'd never guess the Meadowlands had a second tenant. And of course the Jets are now ensconced in their new training complex in Florham Park, NEW JERSEY. Also, except for occasional brief periods, the Giants and Jets have been so dreadful for most of their years here that this area is heavily populated with Cowboys, Steelers and Patriots fans, as well as fans of a bunch of other teams, not to mention that the whole southern part of the state from what, Trenton south?, are Eagles fans. The metropolitan area and definitely the state is fractured in its fandom and not uniform at all. This cult like devotion to the Giants depicted in this documentary? As if the Giants are a 365 day a year obsession? Again, this is just a small number of fans. New York - and when I say that I mean the New York metropolitan area because only politicians and some parochial fans care about the NY/NJ thing - is, was and will always be a baseball town. Even when the two football teams have a pulse the talk remains Mets and Yankees - every day of the year. Finally, two other corrections. I don't know what the big deal is with Moonachie. Giants Stadium, both old and new, is in East Rutherford. And Wellington Mara was NOT the driving force behind turning the Giants around in the late 1970s no matter how many chairs he was kicking into pieces. As most fans know, he feuded with his nephew Tim - they both wanted to hire different people as the GM - and Pete Rozelle had to step in to broker a resolution of the deadlock and that's how George Young - the architect of the turnaround - got hired. Young is shown in this documentary at the press conference when Ray Perkins was hired, but I don't think he's otherwise mentioned or acknowledged. Strange considering that he's the guy who was the most responsible for the turnaround since he hired Parcells and built the roster.

[@613AllDay]

100% accurate

[@lakewoodlancer24]

Spot on ZZ Smith.... This is NFL propaganda at best, anything to create hoopla and dollars. If the good folks in NFL marketing had their way every NFL stadium, every bar and restaurant, and each and every living room with a television would be packed with gullible adoring fans with disposable income. I'm sure they read the comments from time to time to gauge the effectiveness. I imagine they'll replicate this in all of the older established NFL markets; anything for a buck you know. Lol! They even stuck a token black guy in there to make seem balanced but it came off as contrived.

[@erikromatowski9342]

lol how about you drop the manifesto and just say you're an Eagles fan

[@ZZSmithReal]

@@erikromatowski9342 First, it's obvious you don't know what the word manifesto means. Second, you post a snarky reply but you haven't responded - or disputed - a single thing I said. And you can't because I'm 100% percent right. Third, I'm not an Eagles fan although why that would matter is beyond me - since I'm 100% right. Finally, I'm old enough to have been at Giants Stadium for Giants-Cardinals in 1978 when the guy flew the plane over the stadium with the banner ''15 Years of Lousy Football....We've Had Enough.''

[@xprodigy4706]

you said northern jersey is mostly Giants territory which is true so there’s definitely a lot more people that share their love for the Giants there than any other team. even if the entire state of jersey doesn’t belong to the giants they still own new york city and parts of connecticut too. shut up

[@Lawomenshoops]

I bet Parcells wouldn’t mind it when politicians get into aspects of sports like financing the building of a stadium for a team.

[@bsmith0403]

Swing and a miss! While I support your sentiment, I hope you realize that Metlife stadium is one of two privately funded stadiums in the league. $1.6 billion without any direct public subsidies.

[@Lawomenshoops]

@@bsmith0403 Where did I say anything about Metlife? And the NFL has three privately funded stadiums- 49ers, Rams, and if you're correct, MetLife.

[@robertferguson3792]

NEWYORK GIANTS OK

[@bb-gc2tx]

at end of the day they are called the NEW YORK giants . sorry jersey you can have overrated bruce and bon jovi 🤣

[@patricklaurojr7427]

And now u have crybaby new Yorkers crying trying to sue the giants because they are ny team and don't play there and ppl are crying saying how far they have travel to see them play smh. Prob liberals

[@nflbetteroldstyle]

first

[@gski201]

NYG WILL BE BACK