Monday 30 January 2017 09:48, UK
New York Giants have one of the longest and greatest histories in the National Football League.
The league was founded in 1920, the Giants joined it in 1925 for their first season and they have played in it every year since.
As a team with the most post-season appearances in NFL history, New York's oldest team in the league has the heritage to back up the expectations that fans from all over the state have every season.
The MetLife Stadium is actually in New Jersey, so the Giants don't play their football in their namesake state - Buffalo Bills are the only NFL franchise that plays in the New York State area.
Over the years, the Giants have well and truly become part of the furniture of the NFL. They have won eight championships, four of which came in the post-merger era after 1970, which is a joint-third record in the entire league.
They have not been without their droughts - they went 30 years without a title between 1956 and 1986 and failed to even make the play-offs between 1963 and 1981 - but that is inevitable in a history that entails almost a century of football.
It is a history that has seen some of the NFL's hottest talents turning out for the Giants. Quarterback Eli Manning, brother of all-time great in the same position, Peyton Manning, has played in and won two Super Bowls for them. In doing so, he surpassed his brother in the number of career Super Bowl MVP awards - Peyton only managed one, but he did win NFL MVP five times with Indianapolis Colts and Denver Broncos to outshine his sibling in New York.
The star of the current generation is wide receiver, Odell Beckham Jr. Pulling off the most athletic catches imaginable and completing jaw-dropping plays with Manning, season after season, means that tens of thousands of Giants fans show up to watch them play every time they are in New Jersey.
