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Keidel: As Sad And Painful As It May Be, It’s Time For Giants’ Coughlin To Go

By Jason Keidel
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One of the longtime hallmarks of the Giants, which has thrust them ahead of the Jets as a monolithic NFL franchise, is stability.

They are old-school. Corporate cool. Suits and ties. The NFL iteration of an Original Six club. The Yankees of NY football. They could play in pinstripes if they wanted. Their handle, after all, says it all…

The New York Football Giants.

At first the handle was meant to distinguish them from the New York Baseball Giants, who played in the Polo Grounds when baseball was our pastime, in the pristine elements of postwar America.