Newsday: 1987 NFL strike still haunts ex-Giants coach Bill Parcells

[jobberone]

It has been 30 years, and the coach is still troubled by what cost him a chance to repeat as Super Bowl champions.

1987 NFL strike still haunts ex-Giants coach Bill Parcells Bob Glauber, Newsday

During the season of replacement players, Coach Parcells faced the daunting task of not only rebounding from a hole the ‘real’ New York Giants dug by starting 0-2, he was also challenged with doing so with players hastily assembled as the league tried to continue football while its labor force walked the picket lines.


“I still had a good team, but it was a team without any hope when they came back. When you’re 0-5 and you’ve got 10 to play, you almost had to win all 10, and we just couldn’t do it.” - Bill Parcells

It is tough enough to win back to back titles when the core stays together. It proved impossible with the ‘talent’ the Giants put on the field for the three week replacement season.

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[jobberone]

Still love Bill and miss his pressers. So here's some oldie goldie but there's more recent news here. Hard to be sympathetic about the Giants esp from 1987 in fact impossible for me. But I'd love to pick his thoughts about that and a lot more. See him at the track on rare occasion but I never speak out of courtesy.

 

[Seven]

Still love Bill and miss his pressers. So here's some oldie goldie but there's more recent news here. Hard to be sympathetic about the Giants esp from 1987 in fact impossible for me. But I'd love to pick his thoughts about that and a lot more. See him at the track on rare occasion but I never speak out of courtesy.

Didn't know you were a jogger, jobber.

 

[jobberone]

Didn't know you were a jogger, jobber.

Are you kidding?! My knee hates me. The horses!!