The Giants pulled the trigger on a monumental deal on March 7, 1967. That’s when they traded for Fran Tarkenton.
in a wild-card playoff game, will forever be linked by that trade. The Vikings believed it would get them better in a hurry, and they were right — within two years they won the NFC under a most un-Tarkenton-like quarterback named Joe Kapp.Well, the truth was, they immediately became watchable again.
And the thing is, Tarkenton did exactly what the Giants hoped he would do. From the ashes of ’66, they went 14-14 the next two years, and Tarkenton made two Pro Bowls. In 1970, the Giants went 9-5 and weren’t eliminated from the playoffs until the last day of the season, their one fulfilling year in a 17-year desert of playoff darkness.Of course, as great as Tarkenton was, he didn’t help the Giants make their intended inroads against the Jets.
But Tarkenton was 33-36 for the Giants, with zero playoff appearances; Namath 32-17-1 for the Jets, with a win in Super Bowl III. “I loved New York,” Tarkenton said a few years ago, “but in those days it was pretty clear that New York was a Jets town. More specifically, it was a Joe Willie town.”You never really know how these things are going to work out, but come the spring we may look back at Wednesday night at the Garden — Rangers tie the Stars with less than a second to go, then win in OT — as a turnstile to some better things.
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