The NFL Network series “The Timeline” clocks in at 8 p.m. Tuesday with “Jersey Guys,” which focuses on the Giants’ move across the Hudson in 1976 and on the road that began there and culminated in Super Bowl XXI in January 1987.
Jon Bon Jovi narrates, naturally, and many relevant luminaries are interviewed, including Bill Parcells, Phil Simms, Mark Bavaro, Harry Carson, comedian Joe Piscopo, former New York governor Tom Kean and the late Frank Gifford.
As is often the case with these sort of shows, the best stuff is the archival footage, including some remarkably blunt comments from John Lindsay, the New York mayor when the Giants’ relationship with the city fell apart.