The Marlins finished the 1999 season with the worst record in baseball at 64 – 98, and traded World Series MVP Liván Hernández to the San Francisco Giants.

The Giants struggled in Parcells's initial year and finished with 3 – 12 – 1 record.

Despite the controversy, the Giants finished 10 – 6, and Taylor recorded 15. 5 sacks after his return from the suspension.

The Giants finished 7 – 9 in 1999.

The Giants finished the season 8 – 8.

The Giants defense finished 13th overall under Sheridan, giving up 324. 9 yards per game, and the final two losses of the season against Carolina and Minnesota, in which the Giants gave up 85 points, ultimately led to the firing.

With a decimated roster, the Giants finished a distant sixth.

The Giants experienced some hard luck in the early 1910s, losing three straight World Series starting in 1911 to the A's, the Red Sox, and the A's again ( the Giants and the A's both won pennants in 1913 ; two seasons later, both teams finished in eighth place ).

The rest of the 1970s was a generally disappointing time for the Giants, as they finished no higher than third place in any season.

In that tenure, the Giants finished a game over. 500 in the strike-shortened 1981 season.

In Craig's first five full seasons with the Giants, the team never finished with a losing record.

In the 2002 season, the Giants finished 2nd in the NL West behind the Arizona Diamondbacks, bolstered by another MVP season for Barry Bonds ( 46 HR, 110 RBI,. 370 BA, a then-record 198 walks and a. 582 OBP ) and Jeff Kent ( 37 HR, 108 RBI and. 313 BA ).

The Giants finished the season in fourth place in the NL West with a record of 72 – 90.

Dallas finished the regular season winning the NFC East with a 10-4 record, winning their final five regular season games to overcome the St. Louis Cardinals ( who lost their final three games and fell to third place in the final standings ) and New York Giants ( who lost their finale 31-3 to the Los Angeles Rams ; a Giants victory would have given New York the NFC East title based upon a better division record ).

The Rams barely outscored their opponents in total points, 323 to 309, and finished the regular season with a 9-7 record, the worst ever by a team who advanced to the Super Bowl ( that record was later tied by the Arizona Cardinals in Super Bowl XLIII and the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI ).

Two plays later, Simms finished the drive with a 13-yard touchdown pass to Bavaro to give the Giants a 16-10 lead.

One week after losing to the division rival Philadelphia Eagles, 31 – 13, the 10 – 1 Giants were defeated on Monday Night Football in a 7 – 3 defensive battle with the 10 – 1 San Francisco 49ers, who had won the previous two Super Bowls and ultimately finished the regular season with an NFL best 14 – 2 record.

Even though Kelly missed the last 2 games of the season with a knee injury, suffered in the same game in which the Giants lost Simms, the Bills finished with a 13 – 3 regular season record.

* Construction of the detail of the frieze from the east front of the altar in Pergamon, Athena Attacking the Giants, begins and is finished eight years later.

The first new song to surface, a rough mix of " Giants in the Land ," was made available in March 2007 exclusively to people that preordered the album before it was finished.

He earned his fifth All-Star berth and ended the season with a. 278 batting average with 74 runs batted in as the Giants once again finished second to the Diamondbacks and claimed the National League Wild Card berth.

Next to Leo Durocher, Dark taught Mays the most when he was a grass-green rookie rushed up to the Polo Grounds 10 years ago this month, to help the Giants win a dramatic pennant.

He hit his 40th home run of the season against the Giants ' Jerry Johnson on August 10, which established a National League record for most seasons with 40 or more home runs ( seven ).

In 1958 Baltimore played its first NFL Championship Game against the 10 – 3 New York Giants.

Tittle, who threw a then-NFL record 36 touchdown passes, the Giants advanced to the NFL Championship Game, where they lost to the Bears 14 – 10.

Despite having several respectable seasons with Tarkenton at quarterback, including a 7 – 7 finish in 1967 and 9 – 5 in 1970, the Giants traded him back to the Vikings after a 4 – 10 finish in 1971.

After 9 – 7 and 10 – 6 finishes in 1984 and 1985 respectively, the Giants compiled a 14 – 2 record in 1986 led by league MVP and Defensive Player of the Year Lawrence Taylor and the Big Blue Wrecking Crew defense.

Handley served as coach for two disappointing seasons ( 1991 – 92 ), which saw the Giants fall from Super Bowl champions to an 8 – 8 record in 1991 and a 6 – 10 record in 1992.

Brown performed poorly the following two seasons, and the Giants struggled to 5 – 11 and 6 – 10 records.

The Giants won their first playoff game against the Philadelphia Eagles, 20 – 10, and defeated the Minnesota Vikings 41 – 0 in the NFC Championship game.

Though the Giants went into halftime down only 10 – 0, the Ravens dominated the second half.

In 2007, the Giants became the third NFL franchise to win at least 600 games when they defeated the Atlanta Falcons 31 – 10 on Monday Night Football.

The Giants defeated the Dolphins, 13 – 10.

The Giants won 17 – 14, but the Packers beat the Bears 10 – 3, so the Giants missed out on the playoffs again, ending a collapse in which the Giants went 4 – 4 in their last eight games.

Additionally, the Giants had until the ' 09 –' 10 season a third jersey which recalled the Giants ' solid red home jerseys from the early 50's: a solid red alternate with white block numbers.

On January 11, 2009 the team defeated the defending Super Bowl Champions and the 2008 NFC East champion New York Giants 23 – 11 en route to their 5th NFC Championship Game in 8 years and 5th in the 10 years the Eagles have been coached by Andy Reid.

The low point came in late June when the Giants lost 10 straight games en route to a 68 – 94 record.

The Giants faced the four American League West teams that year: Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, Anaheim Angels and the Oakland A's, while compiling a 10 – 6 record.

The Giants routinely sell out this nearly 43, 000-seat stadium, whereas it was not uncommon for them to have a paid attendance of less than 10, 000 in Candlestick's nearly 60, 000 seating capacity, although by the 1999 season the Giants managed about 25, 000 fans a game.

Highlights included Johnson earning his 300th career victory, becoming the twenty-fourth pitcher in Major League history to do so, as well as struggling starter Jonathan Sánchez tossing a no-hitter against the San Diego Padres on July 10, the first Giants no-hitter since 1976.

* 2007 – Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron's record by hitting his 756th home run.

They began their post-season play by shutting out the Giants in New York 23 – 0.

In 1934, the club completed a 13 – 0 record but were defeated by the New York Giants, and in 1942 the club completed an 11 – 0 record but were defeated by the Redskins.

This made Colorado only the third team in the last half-century, and the first in the National League since the 1936 New York Giants, to have a 20 – 1 stretch at any point of a season.

After multiple scoreless innings, the Giants managed to score three runs in the top of the 14th to place them ahead of the Rockies, 4 – 1.

Spilborghs hit the first walk-off grand slam in Rockies history, his second career grand slam, and his first walk-off homer in the 14th inning to squeak by the Giants, 6 – 4, Monday in front of about half of the 27, 670 fans who remained at Coors Field.

" The strategy worked in the Rockies ' favor ; Eaton walked with the bases loaded, scoring Dexter Fowler to cut the Giants ' lead to 4 – 2.

But with two outs and the bases loaded in the 7th, in a scene eerily similar to the Ryan Spilborghs walk-off, Edgar Rentería hit a go-ahead grand slam off of Rafael Betancourt, propelling the Giants to a 9 – 5 win and a tie in the Wild Card standings entering September.

With closer Huston Street injured, the Rockies turned to Franklin Morales, but the Giants started the inning with 3 straight hits to pull to within 4 – 1.

Despite entering December with a record of 8 – 3, Dallas lost its slim grip on 1st place in the division with losses to the New York Giants and San Diego.

The first game ever played between the Giants and Cowboys was a 31 – 31 tie on December 4, 1960.

* 1958 – " Greatest Game Ever Played " – Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football League sudden death overtime game at New York's Yankee Stadium.

The Marlins swept the San Francisco Giants 3 – 0 in the National League Division Series, and then went on to beat the Atlanta Braves 4 – 2 in the National League Championship Series, overcoming the loss of Alex Fernandez to a torn rotator cuff, and Kevin Brown to a virus.

* Dontrelle Willis ( 2003 – 2007 ) — The " D-Train " was named the National League Rookie of the Year in 2003 and showcased his remarkable ( for a pitcher ) hitting ability by going 3-for-3 with a triple while scoring a run during Game 4 of the 2003 National League Division Series, which the Marlins won 7 – 6 over the San Francisco Giants to advance to the NL Championship Series.

The Colts defeated the Giants 23 – 17 in the first game ever to utilize the overtime rule and a game seen by 45 million people.

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.

* 1959 – John Linnell, American singer-songwriter and musician ( They Might Be Giants )

* 1960 – John Flansburgh, American musician and songwriter ( They Might Be Giants and Mono Puff )

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.