When HBO’s Hard Knocks first appeared several years ago, New York Giants’ co-owner John Mara made it clear that his team will never be on the popular cable reality show.
“That announcement will come,” Mara told the NY Daily News back in 2010, “when I’m next to my father in Gates of Heaven cemetery.”
The problem is that the Giants fit the NFL’s criteria to appear on the show. In case you’re wondering what that is see below:
- The team does not have a first-year head coach.
- The team has not made the playoffs in either of the previous two years.