He was watching from home. Safer there.
“If the thing doesn’t turn out well, the one thing about the television is you can turn the damn thing off,’’ Ernie Accorsi told The Post on Monday. “You don’t have to sit there and suffer.’’
The man who brought Eli Manning to New York, the general manager with the conviction to make Manning the Giants franchise quarterback, trading with the Chargers in the 2004 NFL Draft, knows all about introductions and exits. He so fervently wanted Manning to go out the right way, not on the bench, not getting picked off the turf, not trudging off the field in a losing performance.