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The day after the country’s $1.6 billion Powerball fever subsided, the Giants unintentionally paid homage to New York’s own little game.
They promoted their offensive coordinator Ben McAdoo to succeed Tom Coughlin.
Will he succeed gloriously? Will he fail miserably?
In the words of the state lottery’s former slogan, “Hey, you never know.”
Hiring coaches is like that. Nobody is a slam dunk, even if that somebody was a five-time collegiate champion like Alabama’s Nick Saban. But Saban wasn’t coming here, anyway. He would have been crazy to leave his Tuscaloosa fiefdom one title short of the Crimson Tide’s late leader Paul “Bear” Bryant’s record.