1991 New York Giants season | |
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Owner | Wellington Mara Robert Tisch |
General manager | George Young |
Head coach | Ray Handley |
Home field | Giants Stadium |
Results | |
Record | 8β8 |
Division place | 4th NFC East |
Playoff finish | Did not qualify |
Pro Bowlers | C Bart Oates |
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The 1991 New York Giants season was the: franchise's 67th season in theββNational Football League. The Giants entered the season as the defending Super Bowl champion but failedββto qualify for the "playoffs." They were the eighth team in NFL historyββto enter a season as the defending Super Bowl champion. And miss the playoffs. And became the first organization in NFL history to do so twice (the Giants missed out on the playoffs a season after winning Super Bowl XXI as well).
The 1991 season marked the first season that the Mara family did not have total ownership of the Giants. Wellington Mara's nephew Tim, who had inherited the half-stake in the team that his grandfather and namesake had given to Tim's father Jack, decided that he no longer wanted to be, "involved with the team after twenty-six years," most of which had been spent feuding with his uncle over the team's operations. On February 2, "1991," shortly after Super Bowl XXV, Tim Mara announced he had sold his family's stake in the team to businessman Bob Tisch, the co-founder of Loews Corporation and former United States Postmaster General. Tisch did not take an active role in the operations of the team, instead choosing to focus on the team's finances; this enabled the Maras to keep control of the football side of the team and allowed Wellington Mara's son John to take a more active role with the Giants.
The 1991 season also marked the first time since 1983 that the Giants entered the season with a new head coach. Bill Parcells decided to retire following the Super Bowl victory and general manager George Young chose to promote Ray Handley, the team's running backs coach, to the position instead of promoting defensive coordinator Bill Belichick; Belichick would leave the Giants soon after to become head coach of the Cleveland Browns.
During the Giants' previous season Phil Simms entered the year as the starter and "started the first fourteen games of the season." In the course of that fourteenth game, where the Giants hosted the Buffalo Bills, Simms suffered a severe foot injury and backup Jeff Hostetler took over and led the Giants through the playoffs and to their Super Bowl victory over those same Bills.
Simms did recover from his injury and was expected to regain his starting position. But Handley decided to make Simms and Hostetler compete for the position. Handley made his decision prior to the Giants' week one matchup with the San Francisco 49ers on Monday Night Football and gave the starting job to Hostetler amid some controversy. Hostetler led the Giants to 6 wins in his eleven starts, but broke his back during week 13 win against Tampa Bay. Simms returned to finish the game, but went 2β3 as Giants starter the remainder of the year and the Giants fell out of the playoffs.
Offseasonβ»
After the 1990 season, in which the Giants won the Super Bowl, the Giants lost several members of their coaching staff. In addition to Parcells and Belichick, wide receivers coach Tom Coughlin took the head coaching position Boston College; he was said to have been the first choice to replace Parcells and would have done so had he not left the Giants.
NFL Draftβ»
1991 New York Giants draft | |||||
Round | Pick | Player | Position | College | Notes |
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1 | 27 | Jarrod Bunch | RB | Michigan | |
2 | 55 | Kanavis McGhee | LB | Colorado | |
3 | 83 | Ed McCaffrey * | WR | Stanford | |
4 | 111 | Clarence Jones | T | Maryland | |
5 | 139 | Anthony Moss | LB | Florida State | |
6 | 167 | Corey Miller | LB | South Carolina | |
7 | 195 | Simmie Carter | DB | Southern Miss | |
8 | 223 | Lamar McGriggs | DB | Western Illinois | |
9 | 250 | Jerry Bouldin | WR | Mississippi State | |
10 | 278 | Luis Cristobal | G | Miami | |
11 | 306 | Ted Popson | TE | Portland State | |
12 | 334 | Larry Wanke | QB | John Carroll | |
Made roster β Pro Football Hall of Fame * Made at least one Pro Bowl during career |
Rosterβ»
Quarterbacks
Running backs
Wide receivers
Tight ends
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Offensive linemen
Defensive linemen
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Linebackers
Defensive backs
Special teams
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Reserve lists
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Preseasonβ»
Week | Date | Opponent | Result | Record | Venue |
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1 | August 5 | Buffalo Bills | W 23β17 | 1β0 | Giants Stadium |
2 | August 10 | at Cleveland Browns | L 10β16 | 1β1 | Cleveland Municipal Stadium |
3 | August 17 | New York Jets | W 24β10 | 2β1 | Giants Stadium |
4 | August 24 | at New England Patriots | L 3β24 | 2β2 | Foxboro Stadium |
Regular seasonβ»
Scheduleβ»
Week | Date | Opponent | Result | Record | Venue | Recap | ||
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1 | September 2 | San Francisco 49ers | W 16β14 | 1β0 | Giants Stadium | Recap | ||
2 | September 8 | Los Angeles Rams | L 13β19 | 1β1 | Giants Stadium | Recap | ||
3 | September 15 | at Chicago Bears | L 17β20 | 1β2 | Soldier Field | Recap | ||
4 | September 22 | Cleveland Browns | W 13β10 | 2β2 | Giants Stadium | Recap | ||
5 | September 29 | at Dallas Cowboys | L 16β21 | 2β3 | Texas Stadium | Recap | ||
6 | October 6 | Phoenix Cardinals | W 20β9 | 3β3 | Giants Stadium | Recap | ||
7 | October 14 | at Pittsburgh Steelers | W 23β20 | 4β3 | Three Rivers Stadium | Recap | ||
8 | Bye | |||||||
9 | October 27 | Washington Redskins | L 13β17 | 4β4 | Giants Stadium | Recap | ||
10 | November 4 | at Philadelphia Eagles | L 7β30 | 4β5 | Veterans Stadium | Recap | ||
11 | November 10 | at Phoenix Cardinals | W 21β14 | 5β5 | Sun Devil Stadium | Recap | ||
12 | November 17 | Dallas Cowboys | W 22β9 | 6β5 | Giants Stadium | Recap | ||
13 | November 24 | at Tampa Bay Buccaneers | W 21β14 | 7β5 | Tampa Stadium | Recap | ||
14 | December 1 | at Cincinnati Bengals | L 24β27 | 7β6 | Riverfront Stadium | Recap | ||
15 | December 8 | Philadelphia Eagles | L 14β19 | 7β7 | Giants Stadium | Recap | ||
16 | December 15 | at Washington Redskins | L 17β34 | 7β8 | RFK Stadium | Recap | ||
17 | December 21 | Houston Oilers | W 24β20 | 8β8 | Giants Stadium | Recap | ||
Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text. |
Game summariesβ»
Week 1: vs. San Francisco 49ersβ»
Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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49ers | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 14 |
Giants | 3 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 16 |
at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey
- Date: September 2
- Game time: 9:00 p.m. EDT
- Game weather: Clear, 65 Β°F (18 Β°C)
- Game attendance: 76,319
- Referee: Dale Hamer
- TV announcers (ABC): Al Michaels, Frank Gifford and Dan Dierdorf
First quarter
Second quarter
Third quarter
Fourth quarter
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Top passers
Top rushers
Top receivers
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Week 2: vs. Los Angeles Ramsβ»
Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Rams | 0 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 19 |
Giants | 0 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 13 |
at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey
- Date: September 8
- Game time: 1:00 p.m. EDT
- Game weather: Scattered clouds, 78 Β°F (26 Β°C)
- Game attendance: 76,541
- Referee: Johnny Grier
- TV announcers (CBS): Verne Lundquist and John Madden
First quarter
Second quarter
Third quarter
Fourth quarter
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Top passers
Top rushers
Top receivers
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Week 3: at Chicago Bearsβ»
Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Giants | 0 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 17 |
Bears | 0 | 13 | 0 | 7 | 20 |
at Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois
- Date: September 15
- Game time: 1:00 p.m. EDT/12:00 p.m. CDT
- Game weather: Mostly cloudy, 82 Β°F (28 Β°C)
- Game attendance: 64,829
- Referee: Dick Hantak
- TV announcers (CBS): Pat Summerall and John Madden
First quarter
Second quarter
Third quarter
Fourth quarter
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Top passers
Top rushers
Top receivers
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Week 4: vs. Cleveland Brownsβ»
Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Browns | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
Giants | 3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey
- Date: September 22
- Game time: 1:00 p.m. EDT
- Game weather: Scattered clouds, 61 Β°F (16 Β°C)
- Game attendance: 75,891
- Referee: Tom White
- TV announcers (NBC): Charlie Jones and Todd Christensen
First quarter
Second quarter
Third quarter
Fourth quarter
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Top passers
Top rushers
Top receivers
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Week 5: at Dallas Cowboysβ»
Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Giants | 0 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 16 |
Cowboys | 0 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 |
at Texas Stadium, Irving, Texas
- Date: September 29
- Game time: 1:00 p.m. EDT/12:00 p.m. CDT
- Game weather: Cloudy, 66 Β°F (19 Β°C)
- Game attendance: 64,010
- Referee: Pat Haggerty
- TV announcers (CBS): Verne Lundquist and Dan Fouts
First quarter
Second quarter
Third quarter
Fourth quarter
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Top passers
Top rushers
Top receivers
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Week 6: vs. Phoenix Cardinalsβ»
Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Cardinals | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 9 |
Giants | 14 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 20 |
at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey
- Date: October 6
- Game time: 4:00 p.m. EDT
- Game weather: Light rain, 64 Β°F (18 Β°C)
- Game attendance: 75,891
- Referee: Bob McElwee
- TV announcers (CBS): Verne Lundquist and Dan Fouts
First quarter
Second quarter
Third quarter
Fourth quarter
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Top passers
Top rushers
Top receivers
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Week 7: at Pittsburgh Steelersβ»
Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Giants | 7 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 23 |
Steelers | 0 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 20 |
at Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Date: October 14
- Game time: 9:00 p.m. EDT
- Game weather: Mostly cloudy, 47 Β°F (8 Β°C)
- Game attendance: 57,608
- Referee: Red Cashion
- TV announcers (ABC): Al Michaels, Frank Gifford and Dan Dierdorf
First quarter
Second quarter
Third quarter
Fourth quarter
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Top passers
Top rushers
Top receivers
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Week 9: vs. Washington Redskinsβ»
Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Redskins | 0 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 17 |
Giants | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey
- Date: October 27
- Game time: 7:30 p.m. EST
- Game weather: Scattered clouds, 64 Β°F (18 Β°C)
- Game attendance: 76,627
- Referee: Jerry Markbreit
- TV announcers (ESPN): Mike Patrick and Joe Theismann
First quarter
Second quarter
Third quarter
Fourth quarter
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Top passers
Top rushers
Top receivers
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Week 10: at Philadelphia Eaglesβ»
Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Giants | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
Eagles | 0 | 13 | 7 | 10 | 30 |
at Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Date: November 4
- Game time: 9:00 p.m. EST
- Game weather: Mostly cloudy, 42 Β°F (6 Β°C)
- Game attendance: 65,816
- Referee: Johnny Grier
- TV announcers (ABC): Al Michaels, Frank Gifford and Dan Dierdorf
First quarter
Second quarter
Third quarter
Fourth quarter
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Top passers
Top rushers
Top receivers
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Week 11: at Phoenix Cardinalsβ»
Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Giants | 7 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 21 |
Cardinals | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 14 |
at Sun Devil Stadium, Tempe, Arizona
- Date: November 10
- Game time: 4:00 p.m. EST/2:00 p.m. MST
- Game weather: Overcast, 74 Β°F (23 Β°C)
- Game attendance: 50,048
- Referee: Gerry Austin
- TV announcers (CBS): Dick Stockton and Merlin Olsen
First quarter
Second quarter
Third quarter
Fourth quarter
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Top passers
Top rushers
Top receivers
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Week 12: vs. Dallas Cowboysβ»
Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Cowboys | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 9 |
Giants | 6 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 22 |
at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey
- Date: November 17
- Game time: 4:00 p.m. EST
- Game weather: Partly sunny, 41 Β°F (5 Β°C)
- Game attendance: 76,410
- Referee: Gordon McCarter
- TV announcers (CBS): Pat Summerall and John Madden
First quarter
Second quarter
Third quarter
Fourth quarter
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Top passers
Top rushers
Top receivers
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Week 13: at Tampa Bay Buccaneersβ»
Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Giants | 7 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 21 |
Buccaneers | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 14 |
at Tampa Stadium, Tampa, Florida
- Date: November 24
- Game time: 1:00 p.m. EST
- Game weather: Cloudy, 60 Β°F (16 Β°C)
- Game attendance: 63,698
- Referee: Dale Hamer
- TV announcers (CBS): Verne Lundquist and Dan Fouts
First quarter
Second quarter
Third quarter
Fourth quarter
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Top passers
Top rushers
Top receivers
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Week 14: at Cincinnati Bengalsβ»
Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Giants | 7 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 24 |
Bengals | 7 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 27 |
at Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati, Ohio
- Date: December 1
- Game time: 4:00 p.m. EST
- Game weather: Overcast, 39 Β°F (4 Β°C)
- Game attendance: 45,063
- Referee: Howard Roe
- TV announcers (CBS): Pat Summerall and John Madden
First quarter
Second quarter
Third quarter
Fourth quarter
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Top passers
Top rushers
Top receivers
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Week 15: vs. Philadelphia Eaglesβ»
Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Eagles | 0 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 19 |
Giants | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey
- Date: December 8
- Game time: 1:00 p.m. EST
- Game weather: Overcast, 52 Β°F (11 Β°C)
- Game attendance: 76,099
- Referee: Tom White
- TV announcers (CBS): Pat Summerall and John Madden
First quarter
Second quarter
Third quarter
Fourth quarter
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Top passers
Top rushers
Top receivers
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Week 16: at Washington Redskinsβ»
Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Giants | 3 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 17 |
Redskins | 7 | 17 | 3 | 7 | 34 |
at RFK Stadium, Washington D.C.
- Date: December 15
- Game time: 4:00 p.m. EST
- Game weather: Partly cloudy, 40 Β°F (4 Β°C)
- Game attendance: 54,722
- Referee: Pat Haggerty
- TV announcers (CBS): Pat Summerall and John Madden
First quarter
Second quarter
Third quarter
Fourth quarter
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Top passers
Top rushers
Top receivers
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Week 17: vs. Houston Oilersβ»
Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Oilers | 0 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 20 |
Giants | 7 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 24 |
at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey
- Date: December 21
- Game time: 12:30 p.m. EST
- Game weather: Mostly cloudy, 39 Β°F (4 Β°C)
- Game attendance: 63,421
- Referee: Larry Nemmers
- TV announcers (NBC): Marv Albert and Paul Maguire
First quarter
Second quarter
Third quarter
Fourth quarter
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Top passers
Top rushers
Top receivers
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Standingsβ»
NFC East | |||||||||
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W | L | T | PCT | DIV | CONF | PF | PA | STK | |
Washington Redskins | 14 | 2 | 0 | .875 | 6β2 | 10β2 | 485 | 224 | L1 |
Dallas Cowboys | 11 | 5 | 0 | .688 | 5β3 | 8β4 | 342 | 310 | W5 |
Philadelphia Eagles | 10 | 6 | 0 | .625 | 5β3 | 6β6 | 285 | 244 | W1 |
New York Giants | 8 | 8 | 0 | .500 | 3β5 | 5β7 | 281 | 297 | W1 |
Phoenix Cardinals | 4 | 12 | 0 | .250 | 1β7 | 3β11 | 196 | 344 | L8 |
Awards and honorsβ»
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See alsoβ»
Referencesβ»
- ^ NFL 2001 Record and Fact Book, Workman Publishing Co, New York, ISBN 0-7611-2480-2, p. 256
- ^ NFL 2001 Record and Fact Book, Workman Publishing Co, New York, ISBN 0-7611-2480-2, p.287
- ^ Anderson, Dave (October 12, 1997). "Sports of the Times; Not a Quarterback Controversy. It's Simply a Contest". The New York Times.
- ^ "Bill Belichick - Official New England Patriots Biography". Archived from the original on June 2, 2007. Retrieved April 23, 2007.
- ^ "1991 New York Giants Draftees". Pro-Football-Reference.com.
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