Chase Blackburn helped the Giants win two Super Bowls. He also played for the Panthers. And he’s starting to see similarities between the two franchises that haven’t always been very evident.
“Carolina, from when I got there, they’ve really evolved over the last few years,” Blackburn told Newsday in a recent telephone interview. “They’ve become a franchise that players enjoy playing for, too, and I don’t know that that was always the case.”
And one of the biggest reasons for that, Blackburn said, actually came directly from the Giants.
Dave Gettleman worked in the Giants’ front office from 1998 to 2012, helping to build a pair of Super Bowl champions.