 
The New York Giants of the National Football League have had numerous uniforms and logos since their founding in 1925.
Logos.
Giants logos have revolved around three distinct concepts: a "giant" football player poised to throw a pass, the word "Giants" and variations on the initials for New York. The "ny", "NY", and "GIANTS" logos have been featured on the team's uniforms over the past 46 years, though currently the original or current "GIANTS" script logo does not appear on the team's uniforms, although it appeared on their helmets throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
Lowercase "ny" and "GIANTS" script.
Prior to the 1961 campaign, the Giants official logo was the "giant quarterback" logo created by Marie Barclay Steinmuller, who also created the original "ny" logo. Starting in 1961, a stylized white lowercase "ny" was added to both sides of the team's helmet. This logo survived until 1975, when a stylized white and blue uppercase "NY" replaced it. The uppercase "NY" was itself replaced a season later by the team nickname written out in bold italicized white capital letters ("GIANTS"). This change was sparked by the team moving its operations to the Meadowlands in New Jersey.
In the 2000 season, an updated stylized blue and red lowercase "ny" returned as the primary logo (depicted as white when placed on the team's helmets), relegating "GIANTS" to a secondary role as the team's script logo. Controversy surrounded the change because the team remained in New Jersey. Owner Wellington Mara remarked "We are not attempting to make a political statement. Many people have remarked over the years that the "ny" logo is the greatest logo not being used. We happen to agree. We represent, and always have, the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area. We did when we played at the Polo Grounds, Yankee Stadium, Shea Stadium and the Yale Bowl, and we have since we moved to New Jersey. We are proud to represent this region, and we're proud of our heritage."
In 2005 a new script was introduced, "GIANTS" in block letters above a graphic containing the lowercase "ny" logo in a circle. This script logo contains all four team colors: blue, red, white and gray. While it was used prominently on team merchandise, the underlined script remained in the Giants' end zones. In 2007, the newer script was demoted to secondary logotype, with the underlined script again taking precedence.
The Giant quarterback.
The "giant quarterback" logo is illustrative of the evolution of both the Giants and the sport that they play. Initially, the giant quarterback towers above the New York City skyline, then Yankee Stadium (the team's home from 1956 to 1973), and finally Giants Stadium (their home from 1976 to 2009). Previous to his current incarnation, the logo-bound giant quarterbacks executed a "stiff-arm" as part of his pass wind-up and wore a helmet with no face mask. The current giant quarterback prepares to throw without a stiff-arm and wears current NFL gear, including a helmet with a facemask.
Uniforms.
Since 1949, the Giants have worn blue helmets, royal blue or red home jerseys, and white road jerseys accented by blue, red, or a combination of both. Their uniform pants (with the exception of a blue road version in the late 1970s) have alternated between white or gray with various combinations of blue and red striping. Currently, the team wears uniforms that are based on Giants designs of the late 1960s and early 1970s as well as the late 1950s and early 1960s: blue helmets and jerseys with white pants and blue socks at home, and blue helmets, white jerseys with gray pants and red socks on the road.
1950–1960.
Prior to 1953, the Giants wore red jerseys for most home games. From 1937 through 1952, the typical Giants home uniform consisted of solid red or blue jerseys with white block numbers, blue helmets, gray pants with red or blue socks, and black cleats. There were no designated "home" or "road" uniforms until 1957. A solid white jersey with blue block numbers, the inverse of the solid blue jerseys, replaced the red jersey in 1953. In 1954 the white jersey acquired red numbers and red Northwestern stripes (named after Northwestern University where they are believed to have originated) which consists of three parallel horizontal stripes, with the central stripe approximately double the thickness of the other two. gray pants with red socks, and black cleats. Red would not be featured as a primary home jersey color until the design was resurrected in the 2004 season as the Giants' official "alternate" jersey.
From 1953 through 1956 the Giants usually wore their white jerseys at home, including every home game for the 1954 season. Red socks were worn with the white jerseys and blue socks with the blue jerseys. The pants were solid gray without stripes.
In 1956, the team's first year in Yankee Stadium, the Giants wore white jerseys for most home games. These white jerseys, with their red numerals and Northwestern stripes, featured new red "TV numbers" above the stripes. These white jerseys were worn on the day of the team's 47–7 victory over the Chicago Bears in the NFL Championship game at "The Stadium."
In 1957 the NFL passed a rule stating all teams would have two jerseys in their uniform sets, one primary color and the other white. This season the blue jersey became the Giants standard home jersey.
Appearing on the Giants' helmets for the first time in 1957 were the players' uniform numbers. The two digits, in a small white Futura font, were placed to the left and right of the red center stripe on the back of the helmet in 1957, and at both the front and back of the helmet in 1958. (The first Giant player of contemporary times to be assigned a single-digit number, placekicker Pete Gogolak [1966], wore a helmet with his number "3" placed on the red center stripe, at both the front and back of the helmet). This style and placement of helmet number was adopted in 1963 by the Pittsburgh Steelers, who kept the design into the 1990s. Also, a non-contiguous red-blue-red tri-stripe design on the sides of the legs for both home and road pants appeared. In 1960, an integrated khaki belt was introduced to the pants, but the belt lasted a single season.
Uniforms in the NFL at this time were not as standardized as they are today, so the "template" for Giants uniforms during this period was subject to variations that would be considered major today, such as the aforementioned switching of red and blue jerseys at home. Most notably, players from this period were photographed wearing either leather helmets dyed blue without a central red stripe, or with blue plastic helmets featuring the signature red stripe and tethered to the players' heads with a leather chinstrap.
1961–1974.
1961 heralded a new era for the team's uniforms, as the club debuted its now-familiar white lower-case "ny" logo on the sides of the previously solid blue helmet. Certain photographs from the early and middle 1960s show the "n" and the "y" out of line on some helmets, which may indicate that the two letters were applied to the helmet with separate decals. The helmet retained its single front-to-back red stripe and white player numbers, and the gray facemask became standard. For home games, the Giants wore their solid royal blue jersey with solid white block numbers without trim, but the "TV numbers" were made slightly smaller and higher on the arm. gray pants with a black belt and thin red/blue/red triple stripes on the sides, solid blue socks and black cleats. For away games, they retained the solid white jersey with red block numbers without trim and triple "Northwestern" red stripe just above the hem of the sleeves. The pants were gray with solid red socks.
The basic template for the home and away uniforms would undergo some changes in the years to come:
Further illustrating the lack of league uniform standards, the 1961 pants featured two different striping patterns: the previous thin red-blue-red non-contiguous tri-stripe and also a thin, wide-spaced double red stripe.
In 1962, the pants striping was again changed, for some time to come, to a thicker contiguous red-blue-red tri-stripe.
In 1964 and 1965 the road jersey lost its Northwestern-style sleeve stripes.
1966 brought a major change for the Giants' road uniform; the white jersey featured new royal-blue numerals with a thick blue-red-blue contiguous sleeve stripe and blue "TV numbers". Road-uniform socks changed from red to blue/red/blue striped. Also in 1966, the thick contiguous red-blue-red tri-stripe on the pant legs were reversed to a thick contiguous blue-red-blue tri-stripe and the color of the pants both at home and on the road were changed from gray to white. The Giants wore the white jerseys at home for all their home games in 1967 for first time since 1956, and the first full season since 1954.
The helmets featured new players' numerals in 1967 as well; some helmets carried a smaller and more squared style of number, others a larger and thinner number in a Helvetica font. Still other helmets, including that of Fran Tarkenton, who came to the Giants that season in a trade with the Minnesota Vikings, bore the older 1957-style numbers. In 1968 the white striped socks with the white jerseys were gone, solid blue socks were worn with both jerseys.
In 1969, the Giants along with the other teams in the NFL wore a special commemorative patch to honor the league's 50th regular season.
In 1970 a second white jersey was introduced, with thin blue-red-blue stripes located at the bottom of the sleeve. This became the sole white jersey beginning in 1972.
1975–1979.
1975 would see unquestionably the most radical re-design of a Giants uniform in the second half of the 20th century. The 1974 descendant of the 1966 uniform was shelved in favor of a design that emphasized striping and the accent color white. Almost everything in both home and road uniforms changed, from the helmet down to the cleats.
The helmet's red stripe was now flanked by two thin white stripes (the helmet numbers were removed), and a white facemask replaced the traditional gray one. The home blue jersey gained red trim around its block numbers, and red/white/red/white/red stripes on its sleeves. The white pants introduced a blue belt (which replaced the black belt) and a new side stripe pattern (thin red/thick blue/thin red). The socks, while still blue at the edges, mirrored the sleeve stripe pattern down the center portion of the sock.
The away uniform had the same template as the home version with most colors swapped: the jersey was white with blue numbers trimmed in red, the sleeves had red/blue/red/blue/red stripes, the pants were blue (with a blue belt) with a thin red/thick white/thin red side stripe. White socks with the away jersey shoulder stripe pattern were used. Finally, amidst the wide-reaching changes, the team's cleats became white (which replaced the traditional black ones).
Perhaps even more radical than the uniform redesign was the team's switch from the classic lowercase "ny" logo to an uppercase "NY" as its primary logo. Echoing the 1975 uniform's affinity for stripes, the logo pattern itself is composed of stripes.
One year later, a new logo was introduced and the uppercase "NY" logo disappeared: an italicized and underlined "GIANTS" became the team's primary logo and took up residence on the sides of the helmet. The abrupt change was prompted by the franchise's move from New York to East Rutherford, New Jersey.
The blue away pants would survive four seasons, lasting until the end of the 1978 season. In 1979, the away uniforms used the same white pants as the home uniforms while keeping the same blue belt and away socks.
1980–1999.
The design experimentation begun in 1975 did not last into the new decade. The 1980 season witnessed a serious re-design of the uniforms and a general abandonment of the excess of striping: the new uniforms combined elements of several past uniforms from the 1960s and mid-1970s and would be the uniforms worn by the team in their victories in Super Bowls XXI and XXV.
The white stripes on the helmet disappeared, and the sleeve stripes were replaced with a more conservative red-white-red thin striped pattern for the home jerseys and a blue-red-blue version for the white away jerseys last worn in 1974. A similar matching thin-striped pattern was added around the collar for both jerseys. The pants