One of those NFL coaching internships he got?

I am also a huge Rodney Hampton fan, those long sad seasons in the ’90’s when he carried an offense that featured such notable QB’s as Dave Brown, Kent Graham, Danny Kanell, and Tommy Maddox were very troubling during my formative high school years. But Rodney would always come out and drag the team on his back, usually to a loss against the crack smoking, gun toting, ho banging Cowboys. His jersey is the only one that hangs on my wall, and one of my proudest days as a fan was taking it down (still being able to fit into it) and wear it to Ralph Wilson stadium for the game when they clinched the playoffs in the blizzard two years ago.
Wheatley on the other hand got a concussion from an illegal spear tackle in an exhibition game against the Jets. Never was the same afterwards, at least in the blue unis. Huge bust for what he was supposed to be, but God yes he was still better than Dayne.

He was such a lazy sack of shit when he played for the Giants.

The only nice thing I can say about him is that Ron Dayne made Tyrone look like Rudy F*ing Ruettiger in comparison.

And while I’m at it, EFF YOU DAN REEVES AND EFF YOU JIM FASSEL.

Phew! I feel much better now.

Gotta give some big credit to Spaz Sports, which had this last night. Heck of a job there.

http://twitter.com/SpazSports/status/8838733719

http://www.idiotsonsports.com/2010/02/roger-exits-stage-left.html

You guys amuse me – as a 33 year old Jets fan who’s watched the Giants win three world championships in his lifetime, I can say that I feel absolutely no sympathy for the “sucky” Giants years. As a fan of Gang Green, I’ll go toe to toe with you fine gentlemen, should you ever wish to compare five year windows of suckage. That’s one area where the Jets have dominated the NYC football scene for years! Look at my handle – I know what I’m talking about!

I’m an SU student, hardly old enough to remember the good ol Rodney Hampton days. But, I was old enough for him and Kent Graham (ugh) to be my first 2 Giants memories. I wasn’t old enough for me to remember specific events. But I remember loving every second of watching him rush as I did love every second of him speak to the media as I did hate every second of losing every single game. I grew up going to Giants Stadium with my grandparents on their season tickets (RIP, god damn PSL’s). I loved him so much I still hold onto his Rookie card. It brings back fond memories. Whenever anyone mentions his name it brings a smile to my face.

That being said, I did also enjoy Wheatley almost as much, for some strange reason. And I love this hire. Brings college credibility and success and with that automatically comes respect, no matter what happened in the NFL.

“Jersey” Joe Pisarcik, Norm Snead, & Jerry Golsteyn quarterbacking when you were growing up.

I really hope Tyrone is a better coach then he was RB for the Giants.

I lived through the Rob Johnson era. Nothing better than taking a 9 yard sack instead of an incompletion because it would hurt your stats.

Ha, I always place these 4 rb’s together just because they have sweet names and I loved watching them play:

Tyrone Wheatley
Rodney Hampton
Marion Butts
Natrone Means

Memories, memories…