HOUSTON — When players recall their Super Bowl-winning moments, they often think of the confetti, the fireworks and the celebrations that come after the end of the game. For David Carr, he thinks instead of the stillness of the beginning.
“It was dead silent in the locker room two or three minutes before Tom [Coughlin] came and talked to us,” Carr, a backup quarterback for the Giants in Super Bowl XLVI and now an NFL Network analyst, said on Thursday. “It had never really been like that before. Not in a high school or college locker room. Guys were so locked in.