[CBFF] And you guys thought McCaskey was messed up

[Tom Shannon]

See?  It can happen to the best of franchises.

Tom S.

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/hashmarks/0-3-4/The-Book-On-Parcells.html

There's also a great anecdote about how the Giants almost offered Parcells
the head coaching job again in 1997. Dan Reeves had just been fired, and
according to the book, GM George Young told Accorsi, then the assistant GM,
that he'd retire on the spot if the Giants hired Parcells. Young favored Jim
Fassel for the job.

    "Joel Goldberg, who was the (team) psychologist, talked (the late
co-owner) Bob Tisch out of Parcells," Accorsi is quoted as saying in the
book. So Tisch and Wellington Mara settled on Fassel, and Young was sent to
a nearby hotel to offer him the job.


    "But he isn't even gone two minutes when Bob Tisch calls to say he has
changed his mind," Accorsi says. "So John (Mara) quickly calls our
switchboard up front. 'Did George Young leave the building yet?' 'Yes, he
just ran out.' They phone the hotel as quickly as they can trying to cut him
off. But they can't find him.

    "Eventually they call Fassel's room, asking for George, and he comes on
the line. 'Have you offered the job to Fassel yet?' George says 'Yes, I
have.' 'Has he accepted it?' 'Yes.' 'Okay.' The Maras being the Maras, once
the offer had been extended on their behalf, they weren't about to take it
back."

Tom S.