The Giants and The 1975 Dallas Cowboys are the only NFC wild card teams to ever win three road playoffs during the 2007–08 NFL playoffs .
The Giants became just the second NFC wild card team ever to win a conference championship ( the 1975 Dallas Cowboys being the other ) and the third team ever ( and first NFC team ) to reach the Super Bowl with three road playoff wins ( joining the 1985 New England Patriots and 2005 Pittsburgh Steelers ) .The game was the first conference championship game to go to overtime since the 1998 NFC Championship game and the third conference championship game overall to do so ( joining the '98 game and the 1986 AFC Championship Game ) .
2007–08 NFL playoffs