High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1986 New York Giants season was one of the most successful seasons in the professional American football franchise`s history. The Giants, who play in the National Football Conference (NFC) of the National Football League (NFL), won their fifth championship—and first Super Bowl—in franchise history during the season. Led by consensus league Most Valuable Player (MVP) linebacker Lawrence Taylor and Super Bowl MVP quarterback Phil Simms, the Giants posted a 14–2 record, and defeating the Washington Redskins and San Francisco 49ers by a combined score of 66–3 in the NFC playoffs. In Super Bowl XXI they scored a Super Bowl-record 30 second half points in defeating the Denver Broncos 39–20. Simms completed a Super Bowl record 88% of his passes in the victory.