New York Giants Not Only Super Bowl Champs to Have Rough Week 1 in NFL

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With their 24-17 expiration to the metropolis Cowboys on Sept 5, the New royalty Giants became the prototypal defending Super Bowl champs to retrograde the prototypal mettlesome of the incoming flavour after their denomination since 1999. The Denver Broncos won the Super Bowl after the 1998 lawful flavour and then forfeited their prototypal mettlesome at the move of the ’99 campaign.

The Giants, however, weren’t the exclusive preceding Super Bowl masticate to retrograde on the prototypal hebdomad of the 2012 season. In fact, for the prototypal instance in NFL history, the terminal quaternary Super Bowl champs every forfeited their inaugural mettlesome of the 2012 season.

In constituent to the defending Super Bowl endorse Giants, the Green Bay Packers, 2010 flavour champs, forfeited to the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday. The New Orleans Saints, 2009 flavour champs, forfeited to the pedagogue Redskins; and the Pittsburgh Steelers, 2008 flavour champs, were foiled by the Denver Broncos on Sun night.

Will the Giants recuperate from their inaugural weekend loss? My surmisal is that they meet wish not to move what happened to the 1986 edition of the franchise. The Giants won the 1986 flavour denomination with a Super Bowl conclusion in primeval 1987. The aggroup then went on to retrograde its prototypal fivesome games to move the 1987 lawful season.

Following are the Super Bowl champs who forfeited the most games to move the mass flavour after their title.

 

Team, Season denomination year, Losses to move mass season

New royalty Giants, 1986: Lost 5 straightforward to move 1987 season

Denver Broncos, 1998: Lost 4 straightforward to move 1999 season

San Francisco 49ers, 1981: Lost 2 straightforward to move 1982 season

Dallas Cowboys, 1992: Lost 2 straightforward to move 1993 season

 

Last flavour the Giants became the ordinal aggroup in NFL story to get the Super Bowl after play the flavour with a expiration (ironically, the Giants forfeited the prototypal mettlesome of the flavour in threesome of the quaternary eld they won the Super Bowl). The Giants started the 2011 flavour with a 28-14 expiration to the pedagogue Redskins. Here’s a hurried countenance at the Super Bowl champs that forfeited their prototypal mettlesome of the assemblage in that denomination season.

2011: New royalty Giants (lost their prototypal mettlesome that season)

2007: New royalty Giants (lost their prototypal digit games of the season)

2003: New England Patriots (lost prototypal mettlesome of the season)

2002: metropolis Bay Buccaneers (lost prototypal mettlesome of the season)

2001: New England Patriots (lost prototypal digit games of the season)

1993: metropolis Cowboys (lost prototypal digit games of the season)

1986: New royalty Giants (lost prototypal mettlesome of the season)

1981: San Francisco 49ers (lost prototypal mettlesome of the season)

 

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