Fan who paid for second plane message wanted to embarrass Giants owners into change

The first plane, flown over MetLife Stadium last Sunday, implored Giants owner John Mara to “PLZ Fix This Dumpster Fire.” The second one — again crossing over the roof of Big Blue’s home venue pregame, before another embarrassing loss in another embarrassing season — went one step further, carrying a banner that stressed to Mara, “We Won’t Stop Until You Fire Everyone.”They were sponsored by two different people, but the second person — who reportedly paid a $1,500 bill, remained anonymous during an interview with NJ.com and went by just “Miguel” during an appearance on the “Talkin’ Giants” podcast — said that he wanted to “embarrass” the Giants’ owners.“The biggest thing that the Mara family prides itself on is pride in themselves,” the plane man, who described himself as “apathetic” amid another dismal campaign, told NJ.com on Sunday, when the Giants dropped their ninth consecutive game with a 35-14 loss to the Ravens.“And so, if you’re able to make it more embarrassing, it will further force them to take action.”It certainly sounds as if this could all happen again in two weeks when the Giants close out their home schedule with a game against the Colts.

The man who hired the second plane told NJ.com that he coordinated everything during the Giants’ bye week and wanted the flyover to happen last weekend, but he found out about a separate group coordinating a different flight and “thought it wouldn’t really help to do two planes in one week.”He decided to “piggyback off it” and change the message.Initially, he wanted it to read, “Fire Joe Schoen and Brian Daboll” on the banner, according to NJ.com.“But they couldn’t say that directly,” the second plane man said, “so I had to make an adjustment.”When the first plane flew over MetLife Stadium, it doubled as a throwback to 1978, when Ron Freiman and two other Giants fans sponsored one to carry a banner that read, “15 Years of Lousy Footbal...