Don’t mean to break form here but as long as there’s no real Yankee news and the Giants are going through an existential crisis... Just a brief NYG note.
I read today that if the Giants continue to lose like they are they might very well get the #1 pick in the draft for the first time since 1965.
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With the first pick of the 1965 NFL Draft the New York
Football Giants select…
Tucker Fredrickson. RB Auburn
Ah, Tucker Fredrickson seen here doing what he did best. A
guy who could always get three yards. Actually he could only get three yards even
if he had an open field.
Why did the Giants fail to have a winning season for the next TWENTY years? Here's who they skipped in the first round…
#3 Dick Butkus
#4 Gayle Sayers (Just a bit better than Tucker.)
and all the way at #12 some guy named Namath.
Hindsight is easy but their entire draft was:
Round One -
Fredrickson
No second round pick.
Round Three - Chuck Mercien RB from YALE! That's two running backs in two picks and
none of them Gayle Sayers.
Round Four - Henry Carr ANOTHER RUNNING BACK!!!!!! I'm Not kidding. WTF!!!!
Round Five - Frank Lambert an End
Round Six - No pick.
Round Seven - No pick.
So to sum up... Seven rounds. Four players. Three running backs. None of them Gayle Sayers. Got it.
At this point I just want to apologize to Dave Gettleman. Compared to what I just read, the man was a genius.
Wrapping up…
In the 9th they picked John Frick instead of
Jerry Smith who became the all-time touchdown leader for tight ends for years and
years.
They picked Ben Crenshaw in the 10th - Great golfer.
Ernie Koy in the 11th as a… wait for it… Running Back. Apparently they didn't have one. He probably
looked at all the potential Hall of Famers in the running back room and became
their punter. Cowboys take Jethro Pugh
three picks later.
Whoever was calling the shots for the Giants must have called for too many shots of Bacardi 101 and finally passed out allowing his assistant to draft, in round thirteen, Spider Lockhart. One of my all-time faves.
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Ah, the incompetence extends its tendrils through the mists of time.
I like Spider, too. But Tucker was no Ron Johnson.
That's pretty funny, Doug! I remember watching all those guys, as my father was a fanatical Giants guy. Ernie Koy...was actually a better running back than Tucker Frederickson—but again, that didn't take much.
As a poor athlete, I lived in fear of being drafted by the Giants.
LOL
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