Packers-Giants Series History
by Vermont Cubs Fan on Nov 29, 2011 9:43 AM CST
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PrintIt's Tuesday, and that means it is time for the next series history post. Today's post will cover Green Bay's history against the New York Giants.
This series goes all the way back to 1928, and features plenty of playoff games. More after the jump.
Currently, the Packers lead the series in the regular season 26-21-2, and the playoff series 4-2.
The series began in 1928, with the Giants winning 6-0 in Green Bay. However, the Packers won 6 of the next 7 going into the start of the 1932 season. The Giants then seized some control of the series going 7-3-1 until 1942, when the teams registered their first tie in the series.
After the Packers went 2-1-1 against the Giants in the mid-1940s, the Giants then won four of five, ending in a 20-3 Giants win in New York over Lombardi's first Packers team in 1959. The Packers then became the dominant team in the series, winning 8 of 11 regular season games until 1985. This includes two separate regular season wins over the Giants in 1981. A little quirk of the schedule was that two teams, one from the NFC Central and the other from the NFC East, would play each other twice in a season. The Packers did this again in 1989, winning two games against the Dallas Cowboys.
The Giants won three consecutive games in the 1986, 1987, and 1992 seasons. After this, the Packers would win five of six regular season matchups, losing only in 2004 in Green Bay. The 2010 win over the Giants in Green Bay would start the Packers on what became the franchise record for their longest winning streak. In that game, the Packers put up over 500 yards of offense, the first time since 1980 that the Giants had surrendered that much on defense.
In the playoffs, the Packers lead the series 4-2. This series goes all the way back to the 1938 NFL Championship, which the Giants won 23-17. The following season, the Packers beat the Giants 27-0 for the NFL Championship, the first shutout in championship game history. The Packers would again beat the Giants for the Championship in 1944, 1961, and 1962. The 1961 game was Green Bay's first NFL Championship in 17 years. That game was a 37-0 rout in Green Bay, but it was the 1962 game that became arguably the most famous game in this entire series.
In that game, played in fierce wind and extreme cold in New York, Jim Taylor ran 31 times for 85 yards, and took an absolute beating from Giants linebacker Sam Huff. Taylor had cuts on his arm and tongue in the first half, but he also scored Green Bay's only touchdown of the game. Paul Hornung would say the 1962 NFL Championship game was "the hardest football game I ever played in". Bart Starr noted that the team benches were blown over several times during the game. The Packers won, 16-7, for their second consecutive NFL Title under Lombardi.
Since that game, the Packers and Giants have only played one more playoff game, the 2007 NFC Championship for the right to go to the Super Bowl. The Giants won, 23-20, and would go on to win the Super Bowl over the Patriots.
What are your memories of the Packers playing the Giants?
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"In that game, the Packers put up over 500 yards of offense, the first time since 1980 that the Giants had surrendered that much on defense."
But not the last. NO dropped 577 yards on them last night. Just brutal.
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Flex scheduling
The Packers/Raiders game is now a 3.15pm start. But it seems like Packers/Giants game was originally 12.00pm. Was it also moved, or was it always a 3.15pm game? I seem to remember it being a noon game.
What are the chances the Pack/Chiefs and Pack/Lions games will also be moved to 3.15pm? I’m crossing my fingers since I live in the Twin Cities and won’t see these games otherwise.
Thanks for any info.
Those games could be flexed.
We’ll probably know more as the game time gets closer. I don’t really know specifics, sorry.
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by Vermont Cubs Fan on Nov 29, 2011 10:18 AM CST up reply actions
I can see them flexing the KC game
But not Detroit, unless the Pack is sitting at 15-0.
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Don't CBS and FOX have the right
to protect some games from being flexed (except for Week 17)?
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A network can protect a game
If that network is the one showing only one game that week. I think that’s how it works, anyway – I could be wrong.
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"If [Ruth] had [called his shot], I would have knocked him down with the next pitch." -Charlie Root
No, both networks can protect one game
I know that Fox protected the NYG-GB game, and that’s a week where they have the doubleheader.
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Found the answers to that
right here (at the bottom of the page).
- Between weeks 11 and 16, the scheduled (or “pencilled-in”) NBC Sunday Night game may be replaced with a “flex” game, depending on competitiveness or ratings concerns. It is the NFL and not NBC that makes the decision to flex a game. The decision is made at least 12 days in advance, and the limits on national broadcasts described above are still in effect. The NFL may also simply decide to make the originally scheduled game official. (Note: in 2011, as Christmas falls on a Sunday and most games are on Christmas Eve instead, flex scheduling does not apply to week 16.)
- In week 17, the NBC game is determined only one week in advance (and usually first announced during the week 16 Sunday Night game), and no game is pencilled in on the original schedule.
- CBS and FOX can each protect five games between weeks 11 and 16 from being flexed to Sunday night. Their decisions are made after week 6. They cannot protect any week 17 games.
- CBS and FOX games may also switch timeslots with 12 days notice (or 6 in week 17) for ratings concerns. These may or may not be called a “flex” depending on who you talk to.
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Early vs. Late Starts & SNF
Anyone know how this works?
My impression is that CBS and FOX have a lot of latitude on what games go into the late slot. However, if a game is going to be flexed to SNF, the first step (if necessary) is moving it from a 1pm to 3:15pm start.
As for the remaining SNF games:
- Week 14: Cowboys @ Giants, not flexed. No way NBC would flex this anyway, except maybe if both teams were deep into losing seasons.
- Week 15: Ravens @ Chargers: a good candidate for flexing, although I don’t see a real solid alternate choice. If they do decide to flex, NBC may go for Patriots/Broncos over Packers/Chiefs, though, especially if the Broncos keep winning and the Chiefs keep losing.
- Week 16: Bears @ Packers. Not a flex candidate.
- Week 17: tbd. NBC might flex to Lions/Packers if the Packers are 15-0, but will probably choose a game where a playoff spot is on the line (even if it is as bad a game as last years Rams@Seahawks). If the Lions are in a win-and-they’re-in situation, it will make it a much more attractive candidate.
by DaveInTucson on Nov 29, 2011 1:37 PM CST up reply actions
For the last game
If the Giants don’t crap the bed anymore, I’d see Cowboys/Giants as that last SNF game if it’s the one that determines the division
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Same time as the Bears/Broncos game
Since I live in Central IL, I wonder if Fox would show this or CBS or am I gonna have to go to a bar now to see the game since I don’t have NFL ticket.
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