Patricia Traina

Patricia Traina’s earliest memories of New York Giants football started at the tail end of the dark period known to Giants fans as the “15 Years of Lousy Football.”

She vividly recalls the “Fumble,” yet surprisingly, that didn’t discourage her curiosity about the game or the franchise.

Patricia’s interest in Giants football increased with the new era ushered in by George Young and Phil Simms, combined with enjoying Sunday afternoons watching a group of oversized men knock each other over for a funny-looking brown ball.

With her interest in football growing like an all-out blitz, she decided to combine that interest with a love of writing by launching her sportswriting odyssey at Rutgers University’s Daily Targum. During her two years as a sports writer, she covered football, baseball, tennis, and fencing, but football remained her first love.

After school, she had a moment of weakness in which she turned down a chance to interview for a position in the NFL’s communications department and instead pursued a career in the advertising/marketing industry while moonlighting as a weekly columnist for the now-defunct Giants Extra fan newspaper.

It was a “Letter to the Editor” that brought Patricia to the attention of Dr. Howard Linvingston, the founding editor/publisher of the little-known Giants-related Inside Football newsletter. Having discovered the uniqueness of the publication and wanting to learn more about the Xs and Os, Patricia worked up the never to answer Dr. Livingston's call for a website developer.

One corned beef on rye sandwich later proved to be the starting point of a long, productive relationship with Inside Football and put Patricia on a path to a rewarding career as a football writer that, 20+ years later, still is going strong.

To this day, Patricia continues to strengthen and build productive working relationships with those associated with the game, including players, media, coaches, front office personnel, league personnel, agents, sponsors, and, most importantly, the fans.

Patricia’s idea of relaxing is to fire up her iPad and watch All-22 film as made available through NFL Game Pass.

As an avid user of social media, Patricia has developed many solid working relationships around the NFL. This has allowed her to tap into this vast network to gain further insight into the personalities and stories, and to present those to readers.

It has also allowed her to interact with the fans to gain a better understanding of what they want to read and what questions they would like the players and coaches to answer.

A cancer survivor who attacked that disease the way Steve Spagnuolo’s 2007 and 2008 defenses attacked opposing quarterbacks, Patricia has begun to earn recognition for her work and knowledge of the team.

She is currently the site manager of GiantsCountry.com, part of the SI.com/Maven sports channel family that provides daily, year-round coverage of Big Blue. You can also find her on Twitter @Patricia_Traina, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/nygiantsmaven/.