Bob Glauber
Bob Glauber has been Newsday's national football columnist since 1992. He was Newsday's football writer covering the Jets
It was around the time Jim Fassel was about to work his first game as an NFL head coach when Ronnie Barnes took him aside, a look of concern etched on the Giants trainer’s face.
“Jim, are you feeling OK?” Barnes asked.
“I’m feeling fine, why?” Fassel responded.
Barnes then asked the first-year coach how much he weighed. Fassel knew he had lost some weight since first taking the job in January 1997.