Greg Hanlon- A GIANT WIN: Inside the New York Giants' Historic Upset over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII.

Published: Jan. 26, 2023, 3:04 a.m.

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Legendary Giants coach Tom Coughlin takes readers inside his coaching masterpiece: Super  Bowl XLII when Eli Manning and the underdog Giants beat the undefeated, 18-0 Patriots of  Tom Brady and Bill Belichick. Super Bowl XLII was the greatest upset in NFL history. In A GIANT WIN, Coach Tom Coughlin  recounts the strategies and people that made it possible. Coach Coughlin reveals the intricacies of the game, revealing details only a coach would know.  He also details, more than ever before, his relationships with some of the greatest, most iconic  players of those Giants teams, like Eli Manning and Michael Strahan. A GIANT WIN also provides a frame for Coach Coughlin to discuss his life in football\\u2014including  his years with the Giants as an assistant coach in the late 1980s and 1990, when he helped win  a Super Bowl working under Hall of Fame Head Coach Bill Parcells and alongside the coach  he\\u2019d oppose in Super Bowl XLII: Bill Belichick. A GIANT WIN is a self-portrait of one of football history\\u2019s most successful coaches during his signature game. 

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About The Authors: Tom Coughlin is a former National Football League head coach who was part of three New York Giants  Super Bowl winning teams, twice as head coach. He won his first Super Bowl while an assistant to legendary coach Bill Parcells  in 1990. In 2004, he joined the New York Giants for 12 seasons as head coach, leading the Giants to victory in Super Bowl XLII  and Super Bowl XLVI, both times beating the New England Patriots. Coughlin ranks as the 14th winningest coach in NFL history  with an overall record of 170 wins. Greg Hanlon is an editor at People magazine who has written for Sports Illustrated, The New York Times and Slate. His writing  has been anthologized in The Best American Sports Writing. He was a 2015 finalist in national reporting for The Livingston  Awards for Young Journalists. He is the co-author of Watch My Smoke: The Eric Dickerson Story.

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