Published Tuesday, 'Once a Giant' revisits the 1986 Super Bowl champion Giants and the coach who inspired greatness and unites in gratitude.
The story of the brotherhood of the beloved and iconic 1986 Super Bowl champion New York Football Giants is dramatically told by the pictures on the walls. Parcells has a colorful story for each picture of his former players, his “guys.” You can sense his affection as he rattles off their names.
Parcells’s hobby is owning thoroughbred racehorses, and the wall outside his office is lined with pictures of his ponies. He also has a home in Saratoga in upstate New York, not far from the famed Saratoga Race Course, where he can be found most summer afternoons watching the horses run. When possible, he tries to name his horses after his former players.
“What is this?” she said, looking at her husband and teammates acting like they were 25 years old again. There was no handbook when they retired with directions on how to find their way to the next phase of their life. Their NFL health insurance covered most of them for only one year after retirement. The first question at reunions used to be checking up on each other’s kids. Then as the years passed, it moved to grandchildren. Now they ask about doctor’s appointments and referrals and scheduled surgeries.
Parcells’s players wouldn’t recognize him these days. The first thing he does three or four mornings a week is drive to his health club to get in a workout, which he credits for still being alive after having four heart procedures, including bypass surgery, in his early fifties. Some of the ’86 Giants made it big in their post-football lives. Some continue to struggle. Either way, they consider each other family. Parcells knows the inherent brutality of the NFL surely has led to the health issues, many serious, that his players have endured. If the best way to assist them is with an open checkbook policy to pay for doctors or lawyers or child support or to reduce overwhelming debt and provide peace of mind, he asks a few questions and sends the money.
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