Before the beginning of football to the Brian DaBoll era This book is written for those of us who love New York Giants Football. Those who hate the Giants will also want this book, so they can try to get a leg up on the facts missing from the bookshelves of those Giants’ fans who do not have this book. The book first tells the story about the founding of the Giants as a new team in 1925. The NFL was only five years old at the time. But, this book reaches back even further in history than 1925 to find some precursor teams to the Giants that amazed New York Fans for their short duration. Some were even named Giants. All this before the Giants formally became an NFL franchise. This book takes Giants’ fan on a journey from when there was no football at all, to where American football was only a dream, to where American football was played only by colleges with a mixture of soccer and rugby rules. The late Tim Mara, who now is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame acquired the Giants for a song. Mara needed a few more bucks to get through that first season before the Giants had become a head-smashing success. Mara had to fork over (invest) another $25,000 (50X the initial investment just to keep the franchise alive this first year. Because Mara kept the Giants alive, a team in NY City was assured and the team’s success in its first three years in the NFL gave the NFL a must-have stronghold in the nation’s largest city. The Giants are still a valuable property in the Mara family, with grandson John holding the reins today. . From how primitive man played football, this book quickly moves on to the beginning of football in the US and then to the first "American Football Game" in 1867. From there, the progression goes to college football where the graduates were looking for a place to play football after college. Eventually this resulted in great teams such as the NY Giants playing first game with Coach, Robert Folwell in 1925 for an 8-4-0 season. ) It seems like yesterday but for those pros trying to create a league out of nothing, there would have been nothing without their work. And of course, this great book about the Giants, eventually gets deep look at the great and soon-to-be-immortal-Giants’ coaches including #1 Bill Parcells , #2 Tom Coughlin , #3 Steve Owen, #4 Jim Fassel , and #5 Dan Reeves# all the way to the current immortal with lots of years left, Pat Shurmur. This book captures the great moments in Giants Football even before the Giants were the Giants. This Giants book takes the reader through stories about the Giants 20 coaches to great stories about the 93 seasons worth of great games with a preponderance of great wins. The book often stops in time and talks about a particular great player such as Charley Conerly, Y.A. Tittle, Lawrence Taylor, Michael Strahan, Eli Manning, Frank Gifford, Sam Huff, Phil Simms, Tiki Barber, and of course the newest great one Eli Manning, Archie’s kid and Peyton’s younger brother. These stops will add substantially to your reading enjoyment. I dare you to pick up this book for, if you are a Giants fan, you will never put it down again. You cannot ever get enough of Giants’ greatness, but we do provide as many stories together in one spot as we can in this can’t miss book.