... special teams, injuries, penalties, and a team flat out quitting on its coach, the Giants brass knew right away what they were looking for in a coach.

 

And they didn’t have to look far.

 

Tom Coughlin had been unemployed for only a year before the Giants came calling for him in desperate need of a disciplinarian. General Manager Ernie Accorsi was so confident he would revive the Giants bleak standing that he told Wellington Mara, “If we don’t win with this guy, I’m taking up tennis.”

 

A bold statement coming from a man whose team he had built was in complete disarray and would have to go under a rebuilding phase. But Accorsi, wise to the ebbs and flows of NFL life, knew Coughlin was the exact man to rebuild his player personnel around.

 

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