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?
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.
Bavaro signing with the Eagles. That guy hated that team. It made my stomach churn seeing him in green.
I am impressed! Awesome of you to go with the flow there. I remember how much shit you took over the eraser.
Reggie White with LT however, just imagine that D.
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.
My memory is bad, but wasn't Steve Smith pretty much a shell of himself at that point? I don't recall him doing much of anything with the Eagles. Did he even finish the season, or was he released, or injured?
Another underrated one was promoting McAdoo to the head coach position. I, for some reason became a kid again and while I was not pleased about Coughlin leaving the way he did, I still developed eagerness about who the next coach was going to be. I had these never-gonna-happen big names in my head (forget who honestly), because the next guy had to be a big name, right? He’s replacing Tom Coughlin to replace the New York Giants! Right?
…and dud.
I think I first found out he was named head coach by way of License Plate Guy’s Facebook page. I thought LPG had jumped the gun, just made his pick for fun because no way this could be real, and I read it again. I felt like a little kid who didn’t get what he wanted for Christmas or his birthday and just sat there in silence. I was left bored and rolled my eyes.
I even thought: why did this boring answer take as long as it did? I waited all that time for that?
Plax.. Oh shit.
I remember that day. Talk about bad timing. I was planning a Thanksgiving get-together with all my friends from high school and I was out way late the night before, slept in until 5. The way I found out about it was I got an insincere message from a Cowboy fan I knew on myspace when I woke up. He was saying how it sucks what happened to Plaxico. I instantly woke myself up and I think I came here (as a lurker) to really read what happened. I dreaded that party, but everyone was kind of cool and kept saying how Hixon was better than Burress lol
It wasn't just Plaxico shooting himself and costing us the Giants a chance at the Super Bowl two years in a row that bugs me, it’s that everyone was back to ripping on the Giants immediately and had a good reason to. It was then I didn’t even realize how good it was for the past year or so. The Giants were defending champions, they were 11-1 at that point. No one could say anything (I guess except for that Browns loss on MNF) and thanks to that idiot, he gave people a reason to come out in multitudes because it was quiet on this end since the Giants dominating football for all of the 2008 season (without Osi because of injury and Strahan recently retiring, mind you).
Being a football fan will never be the same for me. Those were some fun years where I was on top of any piece of Giants news.
Plaxico did himself in that night. You cannot even mention his name or finish a sentence on his Super Bowl 42 game winner without someone recapping the shooting incident and throwing it in your face.
I'm with you - I wasn't paying any attention to the supplemental draft, so when I got the news that they used a 1 on Brown I was absolutely shocked. I didn't know who he was, and was completely unprepared for the news.
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.
My old man woke me up the next morning to tell me Giants won 21-17, and all about the Bavaro and Stacey Robinson catches. That was a nice surprise!!
As for the rest, Plax stands alone. Still remember getting a text from a buddy on my old flip phone saying “dude...did you hear about Plax?”