Per Sirius: Your Giants’ Mt. Rushmore- 4 ONLY.

Everyone else can just look up and wish

Are players, no owners or coaches, don't ever remember getting exited over a coaching move, let alone an owner. Frank Gifford, LT, Mike Strahan, EliManning. My criteria, a player, an original Giant, I had to see you play, otherwise I may be wrong. My just out is Charlie Connerly. He QB'd them to a 47-7 championship game win over the Bears. I did not see that game, but I saw him play, the most underrated Giant ever.

LT
Eli
Wellington Mara
Parcells

He was a visionary architect who transformed a league that was as popular as the bocce ball league into the world's most successful enterainment franchise.

We need a whole range of mountains, otherwise we're
Missing and Dissing too many great players.
Nobody on here remembers Marshall Goldberg, for example.

In comment 14495916 Coach Red Beaulieu said:

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He was a visionary architect who transformed a league that was as popular as the bocce ball league into the world's most successful enterainment franchise.

This is delusional. Where the NFL is today is a most directly tied to ideas of Pete Rozelle. He was the true visionary. Then the hand-off to Tagliabue took the NFL to the next level. Mara was mostly a passenger along the way...

But after seeing it bumped to the top of my BBI page day after day, I'm finally gonna jump in (subject to change by the minute)...

1. LT
2. Charles Way
3. Mark Bavaro
4. Mark Collins

Maybe replace Mark Collins with George Young (I told you it would change by the minute).

Also, don't get the love for Parcells. He made some important contributions to the Giants (no doubt), but he was nothing without Young and Belichick, whereas both Young and Belichick would've been quite successful without him.

Parcells's greatest strength was putting together a coaching staff and managing a game in process (unlike Coughlin who sucked on game day). He was good at evaluating the talent on his roster (knowing who to start and who to sit, who to develop and who to abandon), but poor at evaluating college talent.

How and where was Young successful without Parcells?

In comment 14496889 bw in dc said:

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How and where was Young successful without Parcells?

I just believe he could've (or would've) been successful with or without Parcells. Especially during pre-salary cap days. He was behind the curve when it came to operating under the salary cap because he believed in a middle class and as we saw, the salary cap has been about big money stars and cheap labor on their rookie contracts. No real middle class. A lesson in capitalism (and the physics of economics)...
But I digress - ( New Window )