Dan Reeves was head coach of the New York Giants from 1993 through the 1996 season, compiling a 31-33 record in the regular season and going 1-1 in the 1993 playoffs. Credit: Newsday/Paul J. Bereswill
On paper, Dan Reeves was a miscast character on the New York sports scene – a guy who grew up in Georgia and played football in South Carolina and Texas, and who had the old-school drawl to match.
Then he became famous as a coach in Denver, far off the NFC East radar.
So when Reeves arrived as the Giants’ head coach in 1993 – as general manager George Young’s third choice for the job after Tom Coughlin and Dave Wannstedt – some feared it would be an ill-fated mismatch.