Something different to discuss besides the usual. Just wondering what piece of breaking news shocked you the most or just you the most.
Eli getting benched hurt but wasn't unexpected.
The Jpp and Plaxico incidents were probably the most shocking
Steve Smith leaving us for the eagles was a bitter pill to swallow too.
I've only been a fan since 2005 so I'm sure there must be others from before my time. What you got?
And then, when the team relented and reinstated Manning, not dressing Webb until week 17 was equally puzzling.
The Eagles were he worst possible opponent we could have faced that year.
We would have blown the doors off Arizona in Giants Stadium
The other move that shocked me was when the Giants traded Fran Tarkenton, I really liked Tarkenton. He was a really exciting player, and when he teamed with a healthy Ron Johnson the Giants had the best season they had from the dark ages of Giants football, the 9-5 season.
Those are two big ones, but when the Giants traded Sam huff, that was the most shocking thing the Giants ever did since I have been a fan, he was the heart and soul of the great Giant teams of the mid fifties to early sixties, and he was a great player.
The Plax thing cost us a Super Bowl 99.9%
Pierce
McKenzie
Whitfield
Burress
Feely
Also QB's Jim Miller and Tim Hasselbeck
Plax and JPP were random events no one could really foresee happening.
Many people felt once the Giants were mathematically eliminated it made sense to see other QB's and protect Eli, sure most didn't expect it to be for Geno Smith, but Eli sitting/being benched didn't shock me. The way it was handled and communicated was stupid, but not on the level of Plax or JPP.
Easily this. Plax shooting himself cost us at the very least a SB appearance, IMO.
2. Simms being released
3. Giants trade up for Eli
4. EA drafting Osi (those of us that have been here that long and remember MiS would know why)
5. "Pushing my chips to the middle of the table" speech
All four of those shocked me about the same but if I HAD to go with one of them it'd be #1.
Nothing should shock you when your team had only won 2 games.
The Giants of those days, had a reputation as one of the three cheapest teams in the league along with the Redskins and the Bears.
It really shocked me.
I'm still pissed
2. Eli benching...
After one of my baseball games, the team is out having a few pitchers and they put Collins head shot on the screen at being signed and I literally said, "What team is stupid enough to sign Collins". Then ESPN changed the picture or put an overlay of a Giants hat on it. My jaw dropped.
After one of my baseball games, the team is out having a few pitchers and they put Collins head shot on the screen at being signed and I literally said, "What team is stupid enough to sign Collins". Then ESPN changed the picture or put an overlay of a Giants hat on it. My jaw dropped.
LMAO!!!!!
I can picture the look on your face and the crap you took after that! Now THAT'S funny!
4. EA drafting Osi (those of us that have been here that long and remember MiS would know why)
That was quite a day on BBI!
As for JPP and Plax, stupid people do stupid things. There were rumors about Plax and guns (remember the gunshots from the car rented in his name shortly after he signed with us) prior to that.
Everything else is a distant fourth. One worth mentioning is Reese getting fired in mid-season. His days were obviously numbered, but the timing was so un-Giants.
Plax and Pierre-Paul are in a totally different category. Those were accidents, albeit shockingly idiotic ones. I think they are more akin to Troy Archer's death than anything the team decided.
As in perplexing, ironically the year before, he hardly practices all season with a leg injury, and comes up big
in the postseason. Yes, what could have been...
Also, Tyler Sash committing suicide. That really threw me for a loop because he was so young & the CTE news was starting to come to the forefront.
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4. EA drafting Osi (those of us that have been here that long and remember MiS would know why)
That was quite a day on BBI!
Honestly... that might be #1 for me. I remember eating some popcorn during the second round that year and the Giants pick coming up and Osi's name appearing. I literally yelled out 'OH SHIT! THAT'S MATT'S BOY!' and started chocking. I just remember Matt bringing up his name a few weeks/months before the draft saying to keep an eye out for him and no one had heard of him before (at least that's how I remember it). So when he was not only drafted... and not only drafted by the Giants... but also in the SECOND ROUND?!
There wasn't much that I agreed with MiS about during his time here... but he's always had my respect because of that one event.
I can picture the look on your face and the crap you took after that! Now THAT'S funny!
I think other moves have probably shocked me more, but in the moment, that was the worst. And I took shit awhile for it.
We had a huge electronics store here that lasted maybe 6 months top - Incredible Universe, but my wife and I were in there one day and came up to Frank Garcia, a Panthers Guard, and Collins. I knew Garcia, so we had a quick talk and then went off. My wife, who isn't anything like me from an insult category, said, who was the guy with the goofy, mouthbreathing look? That image always stuck with me.
But for an organization that is painfully stable -- sometimes to a fault, firing the GM and HC mid-season is the most uncharacteristic thing I've seen from them in my lifetime.
Even Handley wasn't fired mid-season.
And they haven't ever fired a GM.
Like all of us, I figured someone would get the ax at the END of the season, but not during. Furthermore, I was afraid Reese (and Ross) would get away unscathed again.
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LMAO!!!!!
I can picture the look on your face and the crap you took after that! Now THAT'S funny!
I think other moves have probably shocked me more, but in the moment, that was the worst. And I took shit awhile for it.
We had a huge electronics store here that lasted maybe 6 months top - Incredible Universe, but my wife and I were in there one day and came up to Frank Garcia, a Panthers Guard, and Collins. I knew Garcia, so we had a quick talk and then went off. My wife, who isn't anything like me from an insult category, said, who was the guy with the goofy, mouthbreathing look? That image always stuck with me.
LMAO!!! Ya killin me Fats! Seriously! I can clearly visualize both of those stories.
Thanks... I needed a good laugh.
Most shocking news was definitely winning SB XLII vs. the Pats, completing the revenge tour and winning 11 on the road (including the SB). Didn't see that coming at all.
That was a tough one
This one crossed my mind too.
+1.
That one bothered me...besides it being the death of a guy almost my age..and given it looked like a good player in hopefully a turnaround for the team.
Before that..the Sam Huff trade.
After that..Plax.