Born in 1986, so 8 months and 1 year 8 months, respectively. Y'all are old. When was the Giants rivalry? The 1950s?
Growing up a Vikings fan, the long distance rival was the Dallas ********ing Cowboys. Staubach to Pearson 50 yard Hail Mary, December 28, 1975, NFC Championship game in the old Met Stadium. That's pretty much all you need to know. Plus, we lost the North Stars to Dallas. Minnesota losing a hockey team to a city in Texas??? Our situation with PSV and Austin resonated a bit more strongly for me because of that. ******** Texas.
While we're telling personal stories: I met my father-in-law (now deceased) because I bought ten strips of Dawg Pound tickets ($28 per strip) to the Browns home playoff games following the 1986 season. I took my then-girlfriend, now wife, and her father along with several friends and a couple of her relatives. Lots of people will tell you they were in the Dawg Pound for the Drive, I have witnesses to prove it. Before Art Modell took the team to Baltimore, and they tore down the old stadium, the tickets were quite available and reasonably priced.