NR, 45 min.
Narrator: Josh Charles
Starring: Tom Coughlin, Judy
Coughlin, Michael Strahan, Doug Flutie, Bill Parcells, Dick Vermeil, Kate Snee
The year before Tom Coughlin
was named the head coach of the New York Football Giants my dad wrote a letter
to my brother and I about how bad times don’t diminish how great it is to be a
Giants fan. His letter spoke of both the past and the future; not just what
was, but what would be. I don’t know if my father realized how soon those good
times would come back to being a Giants fan, but I think he had an idea when
Coughlin’s name was announced. Coughlin was a Giants coach during their 1990
Championship season. Coughlin as head coach only meant more championships to
come.
Not being an actual New
Yorker, I was removed enough from the New York sports press not to get caught
up in their ridiculous notions that Coughlin wasn’t the right man for the job.
From the moment he took over, it was obvious that the spark from the late 80s
was back in the franchise. It was interesting to witness Coughlin change his
image in order to turn his team around. It was incredible to see them win not
one, but two unlikely championships under his guidance. And I don’t believe he’s
done.
No NFL coach has ever
reminded me so much of my father. It isn’t just because he’s the head coach of
our Big Blue. He looks a little like my father. My father was also an athletics
coach. Seeing Coughlin in coaching mode always reminds me of seeing my father
as a coach when I was younger. My father was probably more approachable than
Coughlin, but their philosophies seem to be very similar. I’m glad Coughlin is
still the Giants coach because of the connection he makes in my mind with my
father. It will be hard when one day he retires from the Giants.
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