From 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM, meet the legendary wide receiver who made unforgettable plays during the Giants’ championship run. Relive the magic of his iconic one-handed grabs and playoff dominance while getting your favorite Giants memorabilia signed.

Come for the autographs, stay for the atmosphere! Enjoy great food and drinks with fellow fans while celebrating one of the greatest moments in Giants history. Don’t miss this chance to connect with a true Big Blue legend!

These are unique opportunities to come face-to-face with one of your favorite athletes and make a lasting memory by obtaining their autograph or taking a selfie. It can be a moment to treasure and remember for a lifetime.

Below is the information you will need for the upcoming Hakeem Nicks Public Signing:

Hakeem Nicks Autograph Signing
Date: Sunday, January 19th, 2025
Time: 5:00pm – 7:00pm

Location:
Woodbridge Brewing Co.
33 Main Street
Woodbridge, New Jersey, 07095
Tickets & Links

*Player, date, location, and time are subject to change.*

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To celebrate the Giants’ 100th season, an independent committee of award-winning journalists, NFL and Pro Football Hall of Fame executives, and superfans have ranked the Giants’ Top 100 players. Hakeem Nicks secured the 97th spot on their Top 100 List.

Giants select Hakeem Nicks from the University of North Carolina with the 29th pick in the 2009 NFL Draft.

Nicks left a lasting mark on the program at North Carolina. He ranks second in school history with 2,840 receiving yards and 21 touchdowns, and is third all-time with 181 receptions before being selected by the Giants.

Hakeem Nicks was a standout player from the start with the Giants named the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Month to kick off his professional career. In 76 games across six seasons with Big Blue, Nicks caught 318 passes for 4,676 yards and 27 touchdowns. He currently ranks ninth in receiving yards and 10th in receptions on the Giants’ all-time leaderboard.

Performance when it counted.

He played a key role in the team’s run to Super Bowl XLVI when he reeled in 28 passes for 444 yards and four touchdowns in those four postseason games. Nicks started strong with six catches for 115 yards and two touchdowns in the Wild Card victory against the Atlanta Falcons.

The following week, in Green Bay, he had seven catches for 165 yards and two touchdowns. This included a 37-yard Hail Mary catch right before halftime. Eli Manning described the play:

“We’re kind of just thinking, ‘Hey, let’s get a run, and maybe we pop one, and we’ll take a shot and see what happens.’ Sure enough, Ahmad Bradshaw gets the first down, breaks some tackles, reverses field, and gets out of bounds just in time for us to take a shot. And Hakeem makes that catch, and we got the lead – another big play at a critical moment right before the half that just can change the momentum of the game.”

Eli Manning on Hakeem Nicks.

This all lead up to Super Bowl XLVI grabbing 10 receptions for 109 yards against the Patriots. His 444 receiving yards is the second-most in a single postseason in NFL history.

Nicks run with the Giants was coming to an end hampered by injuries, and trades swirling he eventually left in free agency. On November 17, 2015, Nicks returned to the Giants, signing a one-year deal. In six games, he recorded seven receptions for 54 yards.

As a Giants fan and blogger, I can’t wait to see who else made the list and relive these incredible moments!

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The question came up on our podcast if Victor Cruz would be enshrined in the New York Giants Ring of Honor? That question sparked this video. Who are the Top 5 New York Giants Wide Receivers?

Some ground rules, they have to play around 3 years for big blue, and we have had to see them play (1980’s on).

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With the release of Victor Cruz, will the New York Football Giants try to add another wide receiver in free agency or the draft?

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Marco, James, Tim, & Justin.

Our podcast is recorded live taking callers and guest on a weekly basis. We’ve started taking small clips of the podcast and putting them on youtube as well.

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It’s been quiet in Giants country. We are all awaiting for the Giants training camp to open up on July 28th, until then here a few things that are going on.

Hakeem Nicks workout

The New Orleans Saints are working out a few wide receivers and one familiar name showed up, Hakeem Nicks looks to extend his playing time in New Orleans.

NFC East wins Over / Under

Bovada released their NFC East wins over and under, and the Giants are stuck right in the middle with 8.

Cowboys 9.5
Giants 8
Redskins 7.5
Eagles 7

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According to Mike Garafolo from Fox Sports, Hakeem Nicks will reunite with the New York Giants. Garafolo states.

With Victor Cruz headed to IR, the Giants will be re-signing WR Hakeem Nicks, sources say. Here comes his best shot to recapture old form.

A roster spot opened up when WR Victor Cruz was shut down for the reminader of the season due to lingering injures to his calf.

The addition of Nicks can be an interesting, if heathy he can provide another familiar target for Eli Manning.

Welcome Back Champ!

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Don’t be surprised if Jerry Reese drafts wide receivers with the 9th pick of the 2015 NFL Draft. I’ll give you a few reasons to chew on.

Anytime there is a dynamic playmaker up there and a guard, I’m taking a playmaker. – Jerry Reese.

It may be too tempting to pass on Alabama’s Amari Cooper or West Virginia’s Kevin White, who are both predicted as top 10 players. Yes we need help at OL & DL but adding another weapon to Beckham, Randle & Cruz has some fans drooling.

Now let’s look at the history of Jerry Reese’s tenure as General Manager. He has selected a total of 7 wide receivers. This would be the second highest drafted position behind linebacker which has 9. All of  the wide receivers selected have been drafted within the first 3 rounds.

Odell Beckham Jr.
2014 | 1st round | pick 12
Odell was the first New York Giants to win Offensive Rookie Of The Year with his amazing breakout season. Nice start with 91 catches and 12 TDS.

Rueben Randle
2012 | 2nd round | pick 63
Solid wide receiver who is evolving. At times inconsistent, but his role is always changing between primary and secondary wide receiver. His second year under offensive coordinator Ben Mcadoo’s system will be telling.

Jerrell Jernigan
2011 | 3rd round | pick 83
Show some bright spots in 2013 especially at the end of the season. Spent the majority of the season on injured reserve.

Hakeem Nicks
2009 | 1st round | pick 29
Was our premier Stud wide receiver with exceptionally strong hands, he commanded to double-team freeing up other members. He struggle his last two years with the Giants to stay healthy. Eventually he left in free agency to join the Indianapolis Colts.

Ramses Barden
2009 | 3rd round | pick 85
Jerry Reese was high on Ramses Barden and actually traded up in the draft to get him. Similar size and frame to Plaxico Burress but never panned out.

Mario Manningham
2008 | 3rd round | pick 95
Manningham caught 18 touchdown passes in 4 seasons with the Giants. He also left in free Agency but injuries mainly kept him on the 49ers PUP list.     Now he is mainly remembered for his sideline catch in Super Bowl XLVI.

Steve Smith
2007 | 2nd round | pick 51
Was Eli’s main target in 2009. He racked up 107 catches for 1220 yards and & 7 TDS becoming the first Giants receiver in history to break 90 catches in one season. One bad knee injury and one impulsive jump during free agency landed Smith with the Eagles and never returned to his old glory.   

In summary Jerry Reese drafts wide receivers, and he drafts them well. Now keeping them on the team or keeping them healthy is another story.

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Who is Russ Lande?…And what is his significance in regards to this article?

(South Orange, New Jersey, USA) is Sporting News’ NFL Draft Expert, Former NFL Scout & Front Office Executive. Russ Lande, is currently a Sporting News.com NFL Draft Expert and President and Founder of GMJR.com. For the Sporting News, Lande is responsible for writing NFL insider content, providing detailed scouting reports on college players and posting an ongoing mock draft in the “War Room” leading up to the NFL Draft. Before working for Sporting News, Lande served as a college scout for the Cleveland Browns for three years covering the mid-west region while evaluating all eligible prospects for the NFL Draft. He covers all-star games, the NFL Combine and pro days. Lande continues to appear on radio stations across the country. Lande is also the author of the annual “GM Jr Draft Guide” which has been called the most comprehensive, unique and thorough NFL Draft Guide ever written and made available to the fans and scouts of the NFL.

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One of the biggest descions Jerry Reese will be faced with this offseason is what to do with Hakeem Nicks. As we all know Nicks is now a free agent. He will probably also be looking for a big pay day. If this is the case then the Giants should pass on him in my opinion. We have a lot of receiver talent and could use a lot of help in other areas of the game. Instead of paying him money for potential the giants could use this cash to restructure a must fix offensive line. I would have to believe the Snee, Bass, and Diehl are all gone next year. They don’t need a star they need to fortify at least two spots upfront. We could also use linebacker help and some help in the secondary. All signs point that Nicks will not be back next season and I agree with this, if it indeed does happen.

Other than the much needed help for the offensive line there are free agents out there that I believe are as good or better then nicks. The team would be much better off going out and spending a lot of money on someone like Jimmy Graham. Doubt that we would ever get him, mostly because New Orleans would be crazy to let him walk. I also believe that we could get Eric decker for a significantly lower price than Nicks. I would prefer decker over nicks to be honest. In the past two years I have noticed two things about nicks. He doesn’t fight for the ball when Eli gives him chances and he has no breakaway speed. Decker has shown me that he has both these things.

This post was written by our guest blogger, John Schwitters. Please leave your feedback in the comments section below.

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Who would’ve thunk that with Halloween still approaching we would have to start thinking about the off season?…

1-6

Just put a fucking bullet in my head.

Is the season over?

Unfortunately not.

But we won last night!!

Very proud of ya, we beat a team more dysfunctional then we are.  I go buy something I like to call the eye test and from what I saw last night I have agita.

Hey, but at least we got Peyton Hillis right? He played well last night…

Jesus, what is taking so long with that bullet?

Thank the Lord thy God that my fantasy team, named KA-KAAAAW,  is 5-2 and primed for a play-off push, because I do not think our beloved Giants are.

It’s been 12 days since that cluster-fuck in Chicago and not even 24 hours after our nauseating first victory.   I refuse to get caught up in dreams of a miracle run to the top of a terrible division until I see something tangible on the field.  Last nights performance was far from convincing me that these Big Blue impostors are worthy to be in the same sentence as the word play-offs.

Play-offs?  Are we really talking about playoffs?   That Jim Mora clip gets me every time.

So until we don’t lose for a month, what do we talk about?

“I’ll give you a topic…Rhode Island is neither a road or an island…discuss”

Ok, ok…another topic.

Where do our Giants go from here? Assuming we all don’t sell our souls to Satan for another run in December and January.

Well since the loss in Chicago all the talk has been about firing Tom Coughlin and Jerry Reese.  That is what happens when you lose 6 in a row and look inept in all areas doing so to open a season.  The fans and the media start to call for your head.  What have you done for us lately?

Now I know this is a subject that conjures up a lot of emotion in all of us Giants fans, I know this because it does with me,  so please try to take my views on the future and where this team should go moving forward with a grain of salt and a open mind.  In the end we all want what is best for the franchise we love.

IN REESE WE TRUST — a saying that New York Giants fans have about their General Manager, Jerry Reese.   The saying started in 2007 when Reese’s first drafted rookie class made major contributions to a Giants team that would go on to beat the undefeated New England Patriots in Super Bowl 42.  The mantra continued up to and following another Super Bowl victory over of those same Patriots in 2011.  Reese’s ability to find “diamonds in the rough” in the NFL draft and during NFL free agency gave Giants fans a sense that whatever Reese touched would turn to gold.  In the 2013 season that all changed when after a 6 game losing streak to open the season,  Giants fans and local media started pointing fingers at Reese and calling for his job.

So where does it go from here?

IN REESE WE TRUST?

I ask this question much like Ron Burgundy does.  Remember, when someone mistakenly adds a question mark to the end of his name while Ron is signing off from a broadcast?  Ron reading off a teleprompter ponders…

“I’m Ron Burgundy?”

I ponder…

“In Reese We Trust?”

I have to say, I’m a little disappointed in my Giants fans.  I never knew we could turn so quickly on our own.

“I know it was you Fredo, you broke my heart.”

This franchise is not the Jaguars, not the Jets, not the Eagles.  We have experienced as a franchise and a fan base success that leaves other franchises and fan bases seething with envy.  Got any friends in Cleveland?  Go ask them what cheering for those sports teams is like.

Now am I saying what has happened this season is forgivable because we have won in the recent past?  No way.  All I’m saying is as a team that has won in the past we should look at the big picture in reference to some things.

I’ve heard some of us in the media and fans on the local sports shows say… “it’s this guy Reese’s fault, look at that guy he brought in and how about that guy…they need to fire Reese.”  

What was Reese supposed to do this year?  If you can think back with me, the Giants were strapped money wise.  Reese had no money to go make any aggressive moves via free agency this year.  He had a veteran team with up and coming young talent at wide receiver and running back.  He had a veteran offense line that was getting versatile Justin Pugh whom was the Giants 1st selection of this years draft.  They had, at least on paper, a fearsome front four, loaded with depth.  If you looked at the roster before opening night in Dallas the questions we had were at LB and in the defensive backfield.  No one saw this coming.

Now, before you go ape shit…please read all of what I am writing and please do not stop after the next sentence.

REESE should be given a standing ovation for this year.  That’s Right!!  I said it.  Come at me bro!

Not cause we are 1-6, but because we are not an 1-6 that will be hard to comeback from.  Again, I’m not talking about this year, I’m talking about next year and beyond.

Reese had a veteran team and no money to spend.  A team that has won two Super Bowls in 6 years.  He tried to plug in holes with players that did not cost much at all.  And thank God he did, cause 1-6 is bad, but 1-6 with bad contracts is crippling.

Look at how much money the G-Men have coming off the books next year.  All the free agent contracts other than Cullen Jenkins were signed to 1 year deals.  Mostly all were at the minimum.

Going into next season the Giants have only 35 players under contact.  The Bears and the Raiders are the only other teams with less.

The total salary of the players coming back is $107,694,673.

Now let us do some subtracting…

$107 MILLION

– KIWI – $7 MILLION

– SNEE – $11 MILLION

– WEBSTER – $2 MILLION

– BAAS – $8 MILLION

– JENKINS – $3 MILLION

– ROLLE – $9 MILLION

EQUALS HOPE — 67 MILLION

No doubt others will be gone as well.  Tuck and Diehl among them.

Call it a clean slate, and the genius of it is, I think Jerry Reese was planning for it all along. He knew Tom couldn’t coach forever and eventually it will be time to start a new.

For those of you that are calling for Jerry Reese to be fired, please but the “crack pipe” down stat.  Jerry Reese is 50 years old and a 2 time Super Bowl champion.  If fired by the Giants today Reese would have another GM job in a matter of seconds.  Has he missed this season?  Yes.  But look how he missed and be intelligent when analyzing the entire situation.

And for as quickly as you can point a finger and say he missed on this this guy and missed on that guy, go back and look at the guys he didn’t miss on.

Kawicka Mitchell – Reese’s only FA signing going into the 2007 season.  Big reason we beat the Patriots in Super Bowl 42.  Played great all year.

Ahmad Bradshaw – Win 2 Super Bowls without this 7th round pick?

Kevin Boss – How’d he do the time he was here?  Super 42 – 1st play 4th quarter — Dig it.

Michael Boley – Criticized FA signing by Reese yet became a integral part of the Super Bowl defense in 2011 .

Chase Blakburn – Remember when Reese signed him off the street around Thanksgiving in 2010 – 3 months later he was picking off  Tom Brady in the Super Bowl 50 yards down field.

Aaron Ross –  I was never a big fan of his but how bout the way he played during those 2 Super Bowl runs.

Victor Cruz – He was an undrafted free agent. To quote Joe Benigno “How bout that?”

Hakeem Nicks – How’d Reese do on this pick?   Win that divisional play-off game in Green Bay in 2011 without him. 10+ catches in the Super Bowl.

JPP – Make the play-offs in 2011 without this guy?  Was a man possessed during that run in 2011.  Won the Dallas game on the road practically by himself.

Now I know what you are saying, the haters out there are screaming.  He missed on this guy, and this guy.  We all know.  What I’m saying is we gotta look at it all.

“YOU TAKE THE GOOD, YOU TAKE THE BAD, YOU TAKE THEM BOTH AND THERE YOU HAVE…THE FACTS OF LIFE..WHEN THE WORLD NEVER SEEMS TO BE LIVING UP TO YOUR DREAMS…AND SUDDENLY YOU’RE FINDING OUT THE FACTS OF LIFE ARE ALL ABOUT YOU…YOOOOOUUUUU”

General Managers in the NFL hit and miss all the time.  More often then not, most of them miss a lot more often then they hit.  However, in the case of Reese it has been the opposite.  He sinks more Battleships then he leaves floating out there in the pool of football talent.  You don’t cut and run at the first sign of trouble, especially after 2 Super Bowls.

IN REESE WE TRUST!

Reese looked at this team last year and I believe this was his thought process…more or less…

“I got a 67 year old head coach who is a two time Super Bowl champion and a Hall of Famer.  I have a two time Super Bowl MVP quarterback in the prime of his career and he is surrounded by a veteran team.  We have won 2 Super Bowls in 6 years.  I have to lock up Victor Cruz, Hakeem Nicks and JPP all within the next two years.  Yet, I have to compete for a Super Bowl this year and I’m strapped cap wise….hmmmm, how the fuck do I do this?   I got it. I will search the land far and wide for bargains on the free agency market.  I will use the draft to get a jump this year on the rebuilding process of both the offensive and defensive lines (Pugh, Hankins and Moore) and I will not commit to stupid contracts that will strap me financially once the window closes on this Era.  I owe it to the Giants organization and our tremendous fan base to try to win this year while looking forward to the years to come.  Cause this is my ship.  If we win this year with the signings we make I will look like a genius…AGAIN.  If we lose, they will come after me like I have never felt before. No play-offs in 4 out of 5 years. But will I have the resources to turn it all around quite quickly if I do this smart. But I owe it to Tom and Eli and the Mara’s to take one more shot with this team, they deserve one more shot at glory for what they have given to this organization and the fans. If they fail, then it will be up to me to turn the page, to finally hire my own head coach and lead this franchise to even a greater decade than the last. With a shit load of cap space”

Can’t you see Reese sitting at his desk.  Twiddling his fingers like Mr. Burns…with every lose maybe he says…“excellent, Jedeveon Clowney is closer in my sights then I ever could have expected…Pat Hanlon, release the hounds.”

IN REESE WE TRUST!! — Exclamation point – No question mark.

We don’t get to say this when things are only going good. What kind of bullshit is that?  If you really think about it, IN REESE WE TRUST actually makes more sense when things are going bad.

Eagles Fan – “Hey the Giants suck”

GIANTS fan – “This year, yes we do, but IN REESE WE TRUST. He has won 2 rings in six years, how many have you won in your history?”

I trust in Jerry Reese.  No GM or coach gets it right all the time.  That is impossible.

He has got it right more times than not and he deserves to be the GM that hires the new coach of our Giants after Coughlin is dismissed or leaves on his own accord, whichever comes first.  Two of the most memorable Super Bowl runs of all time have to count for something.  7 games can not erase a that.

I believe Coach Coughlin’s time has passed.  I think the team needs a new voice.  I firmly believe that Reese wanted to give these coaches and the players one more shot at glory and if it failed he needed to be able to blow it up completely and start over.  He put himself in position to do just that.

Reese should be focused on 3 things right now.

1. Signing Hakeem Nicks and JPP to a long term contracts right now.  The Giants will have ample money to tie both of these guys up, but by doing so now while the Giants have all the leverage may save them a couple of million per year on both salaries.

2. Restructure Eli Manning’s contract.  Eli is slated to make 20 Million next year.  If  Tom “Handsome” Brady can take a pay cut every other year for the Patriots, Eli can for the Giants.  If Eli was to restructure his deal and say make 14-15 million instead of 20 the Giants can use that money to bring in talent elsewhere.

3. Jedeveon Clowney and the rest of the college football class coming out for this years draft.  If we have a top 5 pick, we can not miss in 2nd, 3rd and 4th rounds.

IN REESE WE TRUST!  

Sure we can blast Reese for the 1-6 record.  We can point fingers at a man who doesn’t play on Sundays.  We call for him to be fired all we want.

Or, we can see that maybe the man had a sense all along the time was up on this run.  Maybe that is why he put up the countdown clock to the Super Bowl in the Giants locker room and put everyone on notice at the beginning of the season.  Maybe he wanted to give all the players and coaches one last opportunity  to succeed for what they have done without promising them a future.

Tic-Toc… T-Minus 9 games til detonation.

All great franchises turn the page at some point.  And I for one am happy to know that Jerry Reese is on watch for Big Blue.  I think he had a feeling about Tuck and Kiwi so he drafted Hankins and Moore.  I think he drafted Pugh knowing that he will be adding more talent around the promising Tackle/Guard next year.  I think secretly he is praying that the silver lining at the end of this season may be named Jedeveon Clowney.

Things can turn around in a hurry in this league.  Look what is going on in Kansas City this year after going 2-14 last year.  This season considering how the Cowboys, Eagles and Redskins all blow a little less than we do, can do a 180 before you know it.

We will keep watching and cheering and praying for the bad dream to end.  If Coach Coughlin doesn’t have that magical potion one last time, I’m here to tell you it is going to be OK.  We are led by a man that has made all the right moves before and I’m sure in time will do it again.

IN REESE WE TRUST?

BET YOUR ASS WE DO!!!!  AND WE BETTER…NOW MORE THAN EVER…

#TicToc

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