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A Date To Remember: Ending the Giants’ playoff drought

A Date To Remember is an occasional series Big Blue View will be running through the Super Bowl, highlighting the glory of the Giants’ past and celebrating the biggest playoff wins in franchise history.

The Return of the Giants

Dec. 27, 1981

NFC Wild Card game

The drought had lasted nearly two decades.

The run of futility had stretched on for so long, co-owner John Mara would later admit that the Giants had become “the laughingstock of the NFL.