NR, 45 min.
Narrator: Alec Baldwin
Starring: Eli Manning, Tom
Coughlin, Justin Tuck, Victor Cruz
After the 2008 Super Bowl
victory against the New England Patriots, it never occurred to me that the same
situation could arise again after only four years. It certainly never occurred
to me in the middle of November last year when the Giants looked like their
late season implosion would occur even earlier than normal. But, even once the
team had made it to the playoffs, no such thought ever entered my head.
That’s not to say I didn’t
believe in the Big Blue. During one of the Giants’ worst seasons of the Oughts,
my father—the man responsible for brainwashing me into total devotion—wrote a
pep talk letter to me explaining how even when their chips were down the New
York Football Giants were still the best football team ever because of the past
and the future they represented. It was an inspiring letter, which I’ve framed
and look at whenever I need it.
About this episode of “America’s
Game”, however, I found it fascinating to learn that Coach Coughlin brought in
fighter pilots to train his team on how to adjust they way the evaluated their
performances. My father was a fighter pilot, and last season was the first the
Giants and I have been through without him. It was like some sort of destiny
that they would achieve what they did in the fashion that they did. My dad was
the most devoted fan I knew. To win another championship would’ve meant the
world to him. But, to get there by nearly blowing it and looking like a group
of amateurs sometimes. It was such a Giants way to be.
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