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Post by Martin on Mar 22, 2024 17:03:19 GMT -5
65 I became I fan because of my Dad. He was a huge Brooklyn Dodger fan but when they left for CA in 1958 he was without a team. A friend of his took him to a Giants Football game a year later at Yankee Stadium and he was hooked. Our custom was Sunday watching the Giants, pasta, meatballs and sausage for decades. I bleed Blue and Red. The red is the pasta sauce.
Brooklyn > Queens > Long Island > Raleigh, NC Go Tar Heels! Go Rangers!! Go Giants!!!
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Post by Nite on Mar 22, 2024 17:27:04 GMT -5
Just had a birthday a few weeks ago
I'm 17
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Post by JoeBigBlue on Mar 22, 2024 17:30:11 GMT -5
Just had a birthday a few weeks ago I'm 17 Sounds right.
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Post by JoeBigBlue on Mar 22, 2024 17:31:59 GMT -5
I've lived all over the country, from Brooklyn to LI, LOL. Sorry Kase.
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Post by imgrate on Mar 22, 2024 17:42:38 GMT -5
Just had a birthday a few weeks ago I'm 17 Nice, leap year bday
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Post by ThatGuyRich on Mar 22, 2024 17:57:01 GMT -5
I'm an old fart cdn, I'll be 77 in June. There's nobody more surprised than me that I've made it this far. Been a Giant fan since I was 10 years old in 1957. Boy were we a terrific team back then for the next 6 years through 1963. So many HOF players on those Giants teams. Then the famine of 1964 through 1982. Reminds me of the mess were in now. My family my kids families and grandkids all Giant Blue. Bleed Giant Blue ! Same here born Blue Blood , all so lived through the "famine" as you called it, it's what makes me laugh at these youngs screaming the sky is falling. 68, went to my first game in 1960 Oh you were lucky we were still good in 1960 even though we didn't win the East in 1960. My first game I was in high school in 1965 at Yankee Stadium vs the Detroit Lions we sat in the left field bleachers around the 30 yd line. We were anything but a good team lol.
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Post by Nite on Mar 22, 2024 18:06:59 GMT -5
Just had a birthday a few weeks ago I'm 17 Nice, leap year bday Yes you got it!! It also describes my emotional age as well
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Post by ThatGuyRich on Mar 22, 2024 18:07:46 GMT -5
48 and just reading the replies so far it's something that your mind tells you what age you think some posters are by their username or some of the commentary and such. So far I would've thought some of you were younger especiall you guys in the 70's As one of the guys in their 70's I appreciate that. lol
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Post by Rangers13 on Mar 22, 2024 18:15:06 GMT -5
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Post by Jomo on Mar 22, 2024 18:19:17 GMT -5
65 I became I fan because of my Dad. He was a huge Brooklyn Dodger fan but when they left for CA in 1958 he was without a team. A friend of his took him to a Giants Football game a year later at Yankee Stadium and he was hooked. Our custom was Sunday watching the Giants, pasta, meatballs and sausage for decades. I bleed Blue and Red. The red is the pasta sauce. Brooklyn > Queens > Long Island > Raleigh, NC Go Tar Heels! Go Rangers!! Go Giants!!! I share a lot of the first half experiences of your post. 67 years old. Dad was a Brooklyn Dodger fan. He was heart broken when they left. They were gone before I was a baseball fan, so I was a Yankees and of course Mickey Mantle fan. When the Mets came to NY he was so excited. Everyone loved the '69 Mets but I didn't leave the Yankee fold until 1986. No looking back from there. The Wilpons sucked but I wasn't bouncing back to the NYY just because they were great. My NYG passion came from my dad. We listened to home games on transistor radio. Youngsters here need to know that they didn't televise home games because they didn't want to hurt ticket sales. Truth! Marty Glickman and Al Derogatis were the play by play and color guys and they were AMAZING. Glickman also did New Rochelle (or something like that) high school games on Saturday morning on channel 9 or 11. Schoffner, Homer Jones, Erich Barnes, short stint with Gifford, Alex Webster, Huff, Rosey Brown (beast) and Rosey Grier.........loved them all. Grew up in Newark, remember going to Princeton for Jaycees Classic, pre-season game. Could not believe how big those men were. Anyway, that's the short version. Just call me OB, old bastard... PS proud to say I've pass the passion for the NYG to my kids.
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Post by Nite on Mar 22, 2024 18:31:31 GMT -5
Yes you got it!! It also describes my emotional age as well Funny thing is, I don't get along with old (over 35) folks at all.. Just today I was backing into a parking space at the local Wegmans and I just (very lightly) tapped the side mirror on a late model Tesla parked right next to me. So I pulled away and looked at the (potential) carnage and I found.....nothing......nada (not even a flesh wound). The owner of the damaged vehicle went completely apeshit and started railing about me driving and the driving style of the area and the fact that I could have totaled his precious mobile (expensive) appliance and blah de blah yada yada (world is coming to an end) yada. By my reckoning the dude was not a day over 84 and cranky as all get out. In the meantime I apologized and offered to mitigate any damage. He then demanded to get all my personal info including insurance and home and other personal items. If he wasn't such an asshole I would have been amenable but decided not to so I told him I left my insurance stuff at home, I will contact him later with it. He said; "I'm a scientist I know this is bullshit blah fn blah"..He insisted so I gave him a fake phone # and name. Just bought the vehicle so the pic he took of the plate was also false.. I got cranky old man wacko vibes so I didn't respond with aggression and I was very polite and respectful so as not to escalate.
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Post by inconvenientruth on Mar 22, 2024 18:43:45 GMT -5
Just had a birthday a few weeks ago I'm 17 This one is the only one that's got me, so far. I was around the same age when I started posting on the OG forum. You're very mature for your age!
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Post by giantsmets on Mar 22, 2024 18:48:57 GMT -5
63, Giants and Mets fan because of my dad who was a Giants/ Giants fan that switched to the Mets when Giants bolted. Started really watching both around 1968. Had Giant season tickets for 15 years now prefer the comfort of my man cave except one or two games a year. Lifelong NJ resident and currently in Hunterdon County.
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Post by Analyst on Mar 22, 2024 18:51:18 GMT -5
Wow. You guys are older than I thought. Explains a lot.
42 here
Been posting on Giants boards since I was 23. So, coming up on my 20th anniversary. April 4th, 2004.
Got a feeling some of you guys type with your 2 index fingers.
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Post by grapenut on Mar 22, 2024 18:58:39 GMT -5
I am a young 82, been following the Giants since 1954. Been blessed to see the 1956 NFL championship and 4 Super Bowls. Hated to lose those championships to the Colts, Packers & Ravens. Hoping for a couple of three more Super Bowls in my lifetime. Originally from the east coast, now living in Vegas.
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Post by Modog on Mar 22, 2024 19:01:30 GMT -5
Im 34, I guess that makes me one of the younger guys on here. I always been a Giants fan being from Queens, then relocating to CNJ, now I'm in Eastern PA.
Around 1999 while watching players like Michael Strahan and Jason Seahorn was when I became a hardcore fan, I haven't missed a game since.
Seeing alot of folks age, I now get why alot of you have so much patience with the QB position
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Post by mendy on Mar 22, 2024 19:13:28 GMT -5
65 I became I fan because of my Dad. He was a huge Brooklyn Dodger fan but when they left for CA in 1958 he was without a team. A friend of his took him to a Giants Football game a year later at Yankee Stadium and he was hooked. Our custom was Sunday watching the Giants, pasta, meatballs and sausage for decades. I bleed Blue and Red. The red is the pasta sauce. Brooklyn > Queens > Long Island > Raleigh, NC Go Tar Heels! Go Rangers!! Go Giants!!! I share a lot of the first half experiences of your post. 67 years old. Dad was a Brooklyn Dodger fan. He was heart broken when they left. They were gone before I was a baseball fan, so I was a Yankees and of course Mickey Mantle fan. When the Mets came to NY he was so excited. Everyone loved the '69 Mets but I didn't leave the Yankee fold until 1986. No looking back from there. The Wilpons sucked but I wasn't bouncing back to the NYY just because they were great. My NYG passion came from my dad. We listened to home games on transistor radio. Youngsters here need to know that they didn't televise home games because they didn't want to hurt ticket sales. Truth! Marty Glickman and Al Derogatis were the play by play and color guys and they were AMAZING. Glickman also did New Rochelle (or something like that) high school games on Saturday morning on channel 9 or 11. Schoffner, Homer Jones, Erich Barnes, short stint with Gifford, Alex Webster, Huff, Rosey Brown (beast) and Rosey Grier.........loved them all. Grew up in Newark, remember going to Princeton for Jaycees Classic, pre-season game. Could not believe how big those men were. Anyway, that's the short version. Just call me OB, old bastard... PS proud to say I've pass the passion for the NYG to my kids. One of the saddest days in NY Giant folk lore was Marty Glickman jumping to the Jets. We actually lived a few blocks from Al Derogatis .
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Post by mendy on Mar 22, 2024 19:24:07 GMT -5
Same here born Blue Blood , all so lived through the "famine" as you called it, it's what makes me laugh at these youngs screaming the sky is falling. 68, went to my first game in 1960 Oh you were lucky we were still good in 1960 even though we didn't win the East in 1960. My first game I was in high school in 1965 at Yankee Stadium vs the Detroit Lions we sat in the left field bleachers around the 30 yd line. We were anything but a good team lol. Thing is and I'm being serious, win or loose it was a great game. Even when they lost they had great Defense and when the team was real bad, I had gotten to see the real Stars of the early NFL. The Purple People Eaters, The Fearsome Foursome, Jim Brown, Fran Tarkenton, Rodger Stauback, Dallas's Doonsday D I could go on and on. To add the fans were different , oh yeah they booed but at no point was my Father never embarrassed or worried about taking any of us to a game at the old Yankee stadium.
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Post by JoeBigBlue on Mar 22, 2024 19:27:21 GMT -5
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Post by hadenough on Mar 22, 2024 19:27:22 GMT -5
This is a funny thread…I’ve never even thought about the age of people. You’re all just names…haha
I’m 44
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Post by Roosevelt on Mar 22, 2024 19:59:30 GMT -5
Guess I'm on of the babies of the board...I'm 29. Probably why I'm more optimistic than most...haven't experienced a drought period for the NYG longer than our current hole beginning in 2012 lol Pretty crazy to think I was 12 or 13 when I started viewing the old boards, I sure did enjoy the "News and Views" threads and I believe it was after the 2010 fiasco with philly that I actually created an account because I couldn't find words to speak in real life for a couple days...I was so stunned lmao
Holy crap, and all this time I thought you knew what you were talking about!
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Post by Roosevelt on Mar 22, 2024 20:09:19 GMT -5
I guess it makes sense that we're an older group given that we prefer a message board over FB or Twitter. I'm 62 and I gotta say that it's great seeing the older guys so active here as well as the younger guys putting up with us.
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Post by Danke Schoen on Mar 22, 2024 20:09:58 GMT -5
How old I’ll have to live to in order to see us win another SB.
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Post by Bigjeep on Mar 22, 2024 20:11:29 GMT -5
I share a lot of the first half experiences of your post. 67 years old. Dad was a Brooklyn Dodger fan. He was heart broken when they left. They were gone before I was a baseball fan, so I was a Yankees and of course Mickey Mantle fan. When the Mets came to NY he was so excited. Everyone loved the '69 Mets but I didn't leave the Yankee fold until 1986. No looking back from there. The Wilpons sucked but I wasn't bouncing back to the NYY just because they were great. My NYG passion came from my dad. We listened to home games on transistor radio. Youngsters here need to know that they didn't televise home games because they didn't want to hurt ticket sales. Truth! Marty Glickman and Al Derogatis were the play by play and color guys and they were AMAZING. Glickman also did New Rochelle (or something like that) high school games on Saturday morning on channel 9 or 11. Schoffner, Homer Jones, Erich Barnes, short stint with Gifford, Alex Webster, Huff, Rosey Brown (beast) and Rosey Grier.........loved them all. Grew up in Newark, remember going to Princeton for Jaycees Classic, pre-season game. Could not believe how big those men were. Anyway, that's the short version. Just call me OB, old bastard... PS proud to say I've pass the passion for the NYG to my kids. One of the saddest days in NY Giant folk lore was Marty Glickman jumping to the Jets. We actually lived a few blocks from Al Derogatis . WOW, names from the past
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Post by DJones19 on Mar 22, 2024 20:20:03 GMT -5
41 my earlier memory is watching the Giants in 1986. My dad brainwashed me with the "Giants Among Men" VHS tapes from 1986 when I was 5 instead of cartoons.
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Post by straightrazorman on Mar 22, 2024 20:24:26 GMT -5
80 here. And again ditto to everything said above. Giants fan since 1958. Rabid Dodger fan until the treacherous move to LA. Have never watched baseball again.
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Post by Martin on Mar 22, 2024 20:36:48 GMT -5
65 I became I fan because of my Dad. He was a huge Brooklyn Dodger fan but when they left for CA in 1958 he was without a team. A friend of his took him to a Giants Football game a year later at Yankee Stadium and he was hooked. Our custom was Sunday watching the Giants, pasta, meatballs and sausage for decades. I bleed Blue and Red. The red is the pasta sauce. Brooklyn > Queens > Long Island > Raleigh, NC Go Tar Heels! Go Rangers!! Go Giants!!! I share a lot of the first half experiences of your post. 67 years old. Dad was a Brooklyn Dodger fan. He was heart broken when they left. They were gone before I was a baseball fan, so I was a Yankees and of course Mickey Mantle fan. When the Mets came to NY he was so excited. Everyone loved the '69 Mets but I didn't leave the Yankee fold until 1986. No looking back from there. The Wilpons sucked but I wasn't bouncing back to the NYY just because they were great. My NYG passion came from my dad. We listened to home games on transistor radio. Youngsters here need to know that they didn't televise home games because they didn't want to hurt ticket sales. Truth! Marty Glickman and Al Derogatis were the play by play and color guys and they were AMAZING. Glickman also did New Rochelle (or something like that) high school games on Saturday morning on channel 9 or 11. Schoffner, Homer Jones, Erich Barnes, short stint with Gifford, Alex Webster, Huff, Rosey Brown (beast) and Rosey Grier.........loved them all. Grew up in Newark, remember going to Princeton for Jaycees Classic, pre-season game. Could not believe how big those men were. Anyway, that's the short version. Just call me OB, old bastard... PS proud to say I've pass the passion for the NYG to my kids. We lots in common! Dad went with the Mets and I'm with his arch enemy the Yankees and Mick. I was happy for him in 86. They were good. Yes the black out games killed us as we had to go radio. All my 4 kids bleed blue. It was a great when we all went to the stadium after SB. 07. All the kids meet Amad Bradshaw and Jacob's. It was a blast and a great memory. Giants will always mean family to me! I'm sure the same for you and many on this board.
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Post by Nite on Mar 22, 2024 20:53:43 GMT -5
80 here. And again ditto to everything said above. Giants fan since 1958. Rabid Dodger fan until the treacherous move to LA. Have never watched baseball again. Well my dad bled Dodger blue. Saw them at Ebbets Field a few times. He was such a fan he followed them to LA and still rooted for them. Became a defacto Mets fan and passed that along to me. The funny thing is that I never rooted against the Yankees as I knew most Mets fans did. Happy when they won except when they played my Mets
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Post by Sarcasman on Mar 22, 2024 21:13:18 GMT -5
I share a lot of the first half experiences of your post. 67 years old. Dad was a Brooklyn Dodger fan. He was heart broken when they left. They were gone before I was a baseball fan, so I was a Yankees and of course Mickey Mantle fan. When the Mets came to NY he was so excited. Everyone loved the '69 Mets but I didn't leave the Yankee fold until 1986. No looking back from there. The Wilpons sucked but I wasn't bouncing back to the NYY just because they were great. My NYG passion came from my dad. We listened to home games on transistor radio. Youngsters here need to know that they didn't televise home games because they didn't want to hurt ticket sales. Truth! Marty Glickman and Al Derogatis were the play by play and color guys and they were AMAZING. Glickman also did New Rochelle (or something like that) high school games on Saturday morning on channel 9 or 11. Schoffner, Homer Jones, Erich Barnes, short stint with Gifford, Alex Webster, Huff, Rosey Brown (beast) and Rosey Grier.........loved them all. Grew up in Newark, remember going to Princeton for Jaycees Classic, pre-season game. Could not believe how big those men were. Anyway, that's the short version. Just call me OB, old bastard... PS proud to say I've pass the passion for the NYG to my kids. We lots in common! Dad went with the Mets and I'm with his arch enemy the Yankees and Mick. I was happy for him in 86. They were good. Yes the black out games killed us as we had to go radio. All my 4 kids bleed blue. It was a great when we all went to the stadium after SB. 07. All the kids meet Amad Bradshaw and Jacob's. It was a blast and a great memory. Giants will always mean family to me! I'm sure the same for you and many on this board. My Dad grew up right near the Polo Grounds and was a Knicks, and Giants fan. NY Giants in baseball and football. When the Giants (Baseball) Moved to CA he had no team and for some reason (even though we lived in the Bronx) he refused to root for an AL team. So when the Mets were created in '62, that became his team. So I grew up a Giants, Rangers, Knicks, Mets fan. It makes no sense.
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Post by babybulls on Mar 22, 2024 21:26:56 GMT -5
Be 73 this year,season ticket holder for 50 years.
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