The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league’s National Football Conference (NFC) East division.
The team plays its home games in MetLife Stadium, which is located in East Rutherford, New Jersey, approximately 5 miles (or 8 kilometers) west of New York City. This stadium is also used by the New York Jets.
The New York Giants host their summer training camp at the Meadowlands Sports Complex’s Quest Diagnostics Training Center throughout the month of July.
The New York Giants are the team in the Northeastern United States that has been playing in the National Football League the longest. They were one of five teams who joined the NFL in 1925, and they are the only one of that group that is still playing today.
The team has won eight NFL championships, four of which were won before the Super Bowl was established (1927, 1934, 1938, and 1956), and four of which have been won after the Super Bowl was introduced (XXI (1986), XXV (1990), XLII (2007), and XLVI (2011)).
Additionally, the team has appeared in more championship games than any other NFL franchise, with a total of 19 championship games played. Their total of championships is third most in the NFL, behind only that of the Green Bay Packers (13) and the Chicago Bears (9).
What happened to the NY Giants?
The team remained to be known as the New York Giants until the end of the 1957 season, when it made the decision to move to San Francisco, California. Since then, the team has been known as the San Francisco Giants.