Giants Quarterback Eli Manning’s older brother Peyton Manning and father Archie Manning both played quarterback in the NFL.
Bill Parcells is the only person to have coached both of the NFL’s New York franchises, the Giants and the Jets.
Phil Simms’ son Chris also played Quarterback in the NFL.
Kurt Warner played one season with the New York Giants in 2004, spending some of it at starter and some as Eli Manning’s backup.  During his time with the team he threw six touchdown passes, four of those (or two thirds) were completed to tight end Jeremy Shockey.
Neither the New York Giants or the New York Jets play games in New York, they both play in New Jersey.
The New York Giants baseball team moved to San Francisco in 1957, but the football team still uses The New York Football Giants as its official corporate name.
The Giants were one of five teams, and the only one still in existence, to join the NFL in 1925.
The New York Giants were the first team to win a regular season football game played outside the United States when they beat the Miami Dolphins 13-10 in London, England in 2007.
Giants’ kicker Bjorn Nitmo was the first Swedish born player to play in the NFL.
Quarterback Y.A. Tittle was the first quarterback to post back-to-back 30+ touchdown seasons.
In his first six seasons in the NFL (with the Cardinals), running back Ottis Anderson fumbled the ball 48 times. In his final six years (with the Giants), he fumbled the ball just three times.
Eli Manning scored the first rushing touchdown in a regular season game played outside of the United States in the Giants win over the Miami Dolphins in London, England in 2007.
Though coming from a largely unknown college (Morehead State), Giants quarterback Phil Simms was still (shockingly to some) taken with the seventh pick in the first round of the NFL Draft.
In 1989, Dave Meggett led the league in punt return yards as a rookie.
Before the 1979 NFL Draft, Phil Simms had a workout with new 49ers coach Bill Walsh who then intended to take him in the draft. The Giants drafted Simms instead and the 49ers had to go with their backup plan: Joe Montana.
Phil Simms came in second in rookie-of-the-year balloting in 1979, the winner was St. Louis Cardinals running back and future teammate Ottis Anderson.
In former Giants running back Dave Meggett’s entire career he completed four passes. All of them went for touchdowns.
Three players played for coach Bill Parcells on the New York Giants, and went on to play for him with two other NFL franchises; Dave Meggett, Jumbo Elliott, and Pepper Johnson.
In the 1950’s the New York Giants had two of the better assistant coaches in the league. Future Dallas Cowboys head coach Tom Landry was the defensive coordinator and the offensive coordinator was future Green Bay Packers head coach Vince Lombardi.
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