The truly great ones continue to leave us one by one, taking away one living link after another to the old days.
On Sunday, it was Frank Gifford taking his leave at age 84, passing quietly at his home in Connecticut from natural causes. And so erodes yet another connection to what truly was the Giants’ Golden Era. With the likes of Andy Robustelli, Charlie Conerly, Kyle Rote, Rosie Brown, Dick Lynch, Em Tunnell, Jim Katcavage, and Mel Triplett gone before him, only a few like Sam Huff and Rosey Grier and Dick Modzelewski remain to bear direct witness to the Giants of the Jim Lee Howell mid-’50s and Allie Sherman ’60s that played for six NFL championships and won it all in 1956.