The Legitimacy of Super Bowls 17 & 22

Being from Washington D.C. and living in NYC, a lot of NY Giants fans like to claim that the Redskins victories over the Miami Dolphins and the Denver Broncos in Super Bowls 17 and 22 are not legit simply because they happened only because NFL players strikes shortened those seasons. What they don't realize is that that 1982 team was good enough to not only amass the most points in a season in NFL history the next season and return to the Super Bowl, had it won it would have been considered the greatest team off all time.

As far as the 1987 team, they had made it to the NFC championship game and lost against the NYG the previous year. To be good enough to go that far and then go back the next season not only reveals how good a team the 1987 team was, but like the 1982 team, proves it's legitimacy.

The Giants fans are drunk with their chest poked out only because they've won 2 Super Bowls in the past 5 years. Their arrogance blinds them to reality, I often tell them. But their day is coming when under Coach Coughlin they will endure a miserable losing season.

I seek the true insight of Redskins Nation on this topic. Thoughts?

Giants fans can suck the lint outa my navel.

Giants fans can suck the lint outa my navel.always figured you for a plastic man. you into fabrics?

A win is a win. Enough said.

Giants fans can suck the lint outa my navel.

Me and Alvin Walton agree on this subject.

The fact that the Redskins won those Super Bowls and NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle presented Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke with those Super Bowl trophies in 1982 and in 1987, proves that those wins were in fact legitimate.

Lmao ok who cares? So last year don't count the giants sb

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Giants fans like to talk a lot of trash. If you tell them that Eli Manning is not an elite NFL QB, then they get angry about it.

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Giants fans like to talk a lot of trash. If you tell them that Eli Manning is not an elite NFL QB, then they get angry about it.

ehhh he might not be elite, but he's great. Him and Roethlisbeger to me are in the same category...great QB surround by good talent who are clutch. They get the job done period. Cant ask for much more.

ehhh he might not be elite, but he's great. Him and Roethlisbeger to me are in the same category...great QB surround by good talent who are clutch. They get the job done period. Cant ask for much more.

Eli Manning has a lowly 82.6 career QB rating. He has won 2 Super Bowls, but his statistics are not on par with the better quarterbacks in the NFL. Ben Roethlisberger has a 92.7 career QB rating and has also won 2 Super Bowls. Phillip Rivers, who also was drafted in the same draft and the same round as the two mentioned QBs, has a 95.0 career QB rating.

Eli Manning is very good. I won't say that he isn't. But he isn't elite or great. But I don't consider elite or great as going up against a 32nd ranked defense in the Super Bowl and coming from behind to win it.