Throughout a coaching career that has seen him work for three college teams and five NFL teams since 2000, Mike Groh’s authentic, game worn Lawrence Taylor stayed in moth balls, hanging in the back of a closet.
Now that he works for a sixth team, Taylor’s New York Giants, a team his father coached for and that he rooted for as a kid, that jersey is no longer in hiding.
“Had it hanging up in my closet all those years,” said Groh, now wide receivers coach for the Giants. “Now I’ve got it out.”
Mike’s father, Al Groh, was Giants linebackers coach in 1989 and 1990, and defensive coordinator in 1991.