# New York Football Giants

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-football-giants/520203>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [December 6, 2009, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-football-giants/520203 "2009-12-06T16:18:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-football-giants/520203/21 "2009-12-10T17:52:41Z")

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> [@tattman40](#):
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> Why do announcers still say this? The NY baseball Giants were gone years ago.
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> Are people still getting confused?

As noted, it is the official name; though despite growing up in Jersey I never heard it until Berman started. He did it as a retro homage/nostalgia thing for Baby Boomers (same as a lot of his shtick), and other people picked it up.

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**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-football-giants/520203/22 "2009-12-10T22:37:31Z")

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> [@EllisDee](#):
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> It’s more like calling the kid down the hall Leopold when he’s gone by Leopold since he was born. It’s their actual name, and they actually go by it.

He signs official documents with Leopold, and that’s what his drivers license says. But everybody but you calls him Leo.

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