The New York Giants may be celebrating their 100th season but things certainly feel a lot like 1978 in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
On Sunday, before kickoff of a Week 14 game against the New Orleans Saints, a Giants fan flew a plane around MetLife Stadium with a banner reading: “Mr. Mara, enough. Please fix this dumpster fire!”
Circling MetLife stadium:
“Mr. Mara enough – Plz fix this dumpster fire” pic.twitter.com/gmI4ajWK0C
— Charlotte Carroll (@charlottecrrll) December 8, 2024
The plane circled the stadium at least five times.
The flight path of the ‘fix this dumpster fire’ plane.#Giants pic.twitter.com/hecdVu7sR7
— Ryan Novozinsky (@ryannovo62) December 8, 2024
Back in ’78, a group of fans chartered a plane to fly around then-Giants Stadium with a banner delivering a very similar message: “15 Years of Lousy Football…. We’ve Had Enough!”
That protest is considered one of the most notable and impactful fan protests in sports history and it prompted a significant organizational overhaul.
This is not at all how co-owner John Mara planned to celebrate the team’s 100th anniversary and the banner undoubtedly puts even more pressure on him and fellow co-owner Steve Tisch to make some changes despite reports suggesting they’d like to keep the current regime.
The Giants have made ugly NFL history this season and have become the butt of every football joke. From the offseason fallout between head coach Brian Daboll and Wink Martindale to “Hard Knocks: Offseason with the New York Giants” to releasing quarterback Daniel Jones to a 2-10 record through 13 weeks and everything in between, it’s been a new low for the organization.
We’ll see what, if any impact this latest protest has on the direction of the team.
