The Falcons also wore their all-black uniform in 2007 against the New York Giants, and in 2008 against the Carolina Panthers and against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ( for the second time ).

Six former Oriole franchise radio announcers have received the Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in broadcasting: Chuck Thompson ( who was also the voice of the old NFL Baltimore Colts ); Jon Miller ( now with the San Francisco Giants ); Ernie Harwell, Herb Carneal ; Bob Murphy and Harry Caray ( as a St. Louis Browns announcer in the 1940s.

Bud Selig also did not attend the San Francisco Giants ' baseball game on August 7 when Barry Bonds hit his record-breaking 756th home run ; after the event, Selig released a statement congratulating Bonds.

In 2008, the Giants won the NFC East with a record of 12 – 4 ( and also were the number one seed in the NFC after beating the Carolina Panthers for home field advantage ), but lost 23 – 11 to the Philadelphia Eagles in the divisional round of the playoffs.

In 2009, the Giants opened a new training complex, the Timex Performance Center, also located in the Meadowlands.

Soon after, the Giants would lose to the Washington Redskins again, but they would bounce back from this defeat by beating their cross-town rival New York Jets, also knocking the Philadelphia Eagles out of playoff contention, leaving them with a tiebreaker versus the Cowboys.

They are also known as " the White Elephants " or simply " the Elephants ", in reference to then New York Giants ' manager John McGraw's calling the team a " white elephant ".

The Giants ' 6 World Series Championships are also tied for second in the National League with the Dodgers ( the St. Louis Cardinals have won 11 ).

That same year, 2010, the Giants also became the first professional sports team to use dynamic ticket pricing.

The Giants ' original home stadium, the Polo Grounds, also dates from this early era.

However, in 1890, nearly all of the Giants ' stars jumped to the upstart Players ' League, whose New York franchise was also named the Giants.

McGraw would also cultivate his own crop of baseball heroes during his time with the Giants.

In addition to the anticipated move to downtown San Francisco, the Giants ' ownership also made a major personnel move to solidify fan support.

The Giants also signed infielders Edgar Renteria and Juan Uribe.

The Giants honored Burns in a pre-game ceremony in which Barry Bonds was also in attendance.

The game also saw the Giants set the record for the most runs ( 6 ) scored in a single half-inning in a World Series since 1933.

Brian Wilson was brought in to pitch the 9th and produced a scoreless inning, allowing San Francisco to bring out a series of firsts, not just for the Giants, but also for the city of San Francisco and the San Francisco Bay Area.

2006 also ended up being the last year of Bruce Bochy's tenure as the manager of the Padres, taking the managerial position for their divisional rivals, the San Francisco Giants.

The Giants were led by quarterback Phil Simms, who threw for 3, 487 yards and 21 touchdowns ( but also 22 interceptions ).

The Giants also had a lot of weapons on their defense, nicknamed The " Big Blue Wrecking Crew ".

In advancing to their second Super Bowl, the Giants also posted a 13-3 regular season record, but with a ball-control offensive and a defensive that allowed a league low 211 points.

Many also questioned how effective the Giants ' offense would be after failing to score a single touchdown in the NFC Championship Game.

Belichick also felt that Jim Kelly was not as good at reading defenses as some other elite QBs, like Joe Montana, were, and that Kelly tended to " freeze " what he was seeing from a series and then use that information on the next one, which meant the Giants could be a step ahead of him all game if they alternated their cover plans from drive to drive.

Following the Colts first NFL championship, the team once again posted a 9 – 3 record during the 1959 season and would defeat the Giants once again in the NFL Championship Game to claim their second title in back to back fashion.

The Senators posted a 99 – 53 record and cruised to the pennant seven games ahead of the New York Yankees, but in the 1933 World Series the Giants exacted their revenge, winning in five games.

Still, many favored the Redskins to win the game because of their group of " Over the Hill Gang " veterans, and because Miami had what some considered an easy schedule ( only two Dolphin opponents, Kansas City and the New York Giants posted winning records, and both of those teams were 8-6 ) and had struggled in the playoffs.

The 49ers posted a 13-3 regular season record, and playoff wins over the New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys.

While the team posted losses against the Giants, Dodgers, Portsmouth Spartans, and Green Bay Packers, they did manage to defeat the newly established Philadelphia Eagles.

When Parcells took over in 1983, the New York Giants were a team that had posted just one winning season in the previous ten years.

In 1925, Traynor posted a. 320 average with six home runs, 106 runs batted in and led the league in fielding percentage as the Pirates won the National League pennant by eight and a half games over the New York Giants.

In 1959 he was promoted to the Class AA Corpus Christi Giants, where he posted a less impressive 10 – 11 record and 4. 05 ERA.

Perry had similar numbers in 1968: he posted a 16-15 record, but with a then-career-best 2. 45 ERA on a Giants team that finished second to the St. Louis Cardinals.

On the bright side, though the ' 06 Redskins boasted the league's 4th best rushing offense despite losing starting tailback Clinton Portis to injury and saw continued improvement from young starter Jason Campbell, who capped off 2006 with a strong performance against the Giants, in which he posted a QB rating of 96. 2.

Later with the Giants in, Durocher won his only World Series championship as a manager by sweeping the heavily favored Cleveland Indians, who had posted the best American League record of all time ( 111-43 ) in the regular season.

Playing until 1897 with the Giants, Cleveland Spiders and Cincinnati Reds, Ewing posted consistently superb offensive numbers.

In 78 games with Minneapolis, he posted a. 361 batting average and, he was subsequently purchased by John McGraw's New York Giants in September 1932.

He replaced Milt May as the Giants starting catcher in 1983 and posted a. 224 batting average along with 7 home runs and 34 runs batted in.

Brenly led National League catchers in 1987 with 83 assists and posted a. 267 batting average with 18 home runs and 51 runs batted in as, the Giants won the National League Western Division title.

His success didn't come immediately, as the team posted a 4 – 12 record in 2003, thereby " earning " the first overall pick in the draft ( this was the last time that a team with the worst record in the NFL kept its head coach the following season, even considering the three other 4 – 12 teams that season replaced their head coaches, Oakland, Arizona, and the New York Giants hiring Norv Turner, Dennis Green, and Tom Coughlin, respectively ).

He was 3-6 with the Giants and posted a 3. 71 E. R. A.

Following the 2005 season, in which he posted a 4. 28 ERA, Baltimore traded Kline to the Giants for set-up reliever LaTroy Hawkins.

He also posted some of his best games against the New York Giants, batting. 436 against the hated rivals, and as a result, endeared himself to the Brooklyn fans.

In the playoffs the Bears posted two shutouts against the New York Giants ( 21 – 0 ) and the Los Angeles Rams ( 24 – 0 ).

In, while with the San Jose Giants of the California League, he posted a record of 11 – 2 between opening day and June 14, when he was promoted to the Shreveport Captains of the Double A Texas League.

Moore posted the 9th punt return TD in Vikings history with a 71-yard TD at the New York Giants in the Vikings win.

* Along with Koren Robinson, who had a kickoff return TD at N. Y. Giants ( 11 / 13 / 05 ), marked only the second time in team history posted a punt return and kickoff return TD in the same game, the other occurring in 1999 at Kansas City when Robert Tate ( KOR ) and Randy Moss ( PR ) accomplished the feat.