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02:16All my friends were ice skating out on Lake of Patcon in New Jersey and I'm sitting in the car
02:27listening to the game and they're all out there having a good time.
02:30And I remember how sad I felt after it was over.
02:34So that was always in my heart, my team that I had a special feeling for.
02:44The team Parcells called his own would move into a stadium, a five-minute drive from his hometown.
02:53The Giants hoped their new surroundings would produce a winner.
02:57Instead, they constructed new ways to lose.
03:03Under 30 seconds left of the game, from here on in, Pizarcic can just fall on the football and there
03:09is nothing the Eagles can do.
03:11And Pizarcic stumbles the football.
03:13It's picked up by Herman Edwards.
03:14After the Giants tried to reverse their fortunes with a change in direction at quarterback.
03:30I'll never forget when Ray Perkins told me about a week before the draft, he says, now, if you're there
03:34at number seven, we're going to pick you.
03:36And I remember telling all my friends, that'll make the people of New York really happy.
03:40New York Giants first round selection.
03:44Quarterback Phil Simms, Moorhead State.
03:53He's laughing because he knew Simms was going to get booed.
04:02Years after selecting an unknown quarterback from Kentucky, the Giants drafted highly-touted linebacker Lawrence Taylor.
04:12Parcells became the team's linebacker coach and defensive coordinator.
04:17Together, Parcells and Taylor would transform one of the league's worst defenses into one of the best.
04:26Be more aggressive on that special now.
04:28They'll come back with that.
04:29You know that slant counter there?
04:31Yeah.
04:31Kick it over.
04:32I want you to know how to play that.
04:33Yeah.
04:34Kick it over.
04:34Go, Warren.
04:34Kick it over.
04:35Yeah.
04:37Bill knows a lot about football.
04:38And I'm in love with his football philosophy.
04:41That's what really sets Bill apart from a lot of the coaches is that football philosophy.
04:48He sees things and he can envision things and he knows how to let his players play.
04:56You know?
04:57The health, all the stupid stuff.
05:00You know, just let your players play.
05:02Taylor had great respect for Parcells, but thought little of the team's fair-haired quarterback.
05:10I first saw him talk to him.
05:11I didn't really want to talk to him.
05:13As I saw it, he was one of the guys you see on TV that drank tea with the pinky
05:18up, you know?
05:19Stuff like that.
05:20The perception that Sims wasn't tough enough began to bear out on the field.
05:30Three years in a row, he suffered season-ending injuries.
05:35Parcells was named head coach in 1983.
05:38His first big decision was whether to keep starting the injury-prone Sims or go with Scott Bruner.
05:45I go in and sit down in this room.
05:47Scott Bruner was terrible.
05:50Terrible.
05:51Terrible.
05:51That's the dumbest thing Parcells ever did.
05:55There's a desk between the two of us.
05:58And, you know, I'm thinking he's going to ask me a few questions.
06:01We're going to talk.
06:01Before I can really even sit in the chair, he goes,
06:04Phil, we've decided to go with Scott Bruner, the second quarterback.
06:06You got any problems with that?
06:08And, wow.
06:10So I go, yeah, I got a lot of problems with it.
06:12And I said things to Bill that day that it's amazing our relationship ever had a chance.
06:21I said, look, Bill, I can't play for you.
06:23You've got to trade me.
06:24He goes, well, I'm going to trade you then.
06:27Well, all I can say to that whole thing is thank God it didn't work out.
06:30The front office refused to trade Sims, and Parcells stuck with Bruner as his quarterback.
06:39That was a mistake.
06:40I made it.
06:42Almost paid for it dearly.
06:44The team finished with just three wins, and rumors circulated that Parcells would be fired.
06:50Jimmy, the New York Giants are in the midst of a pathetic season.
06:53What about Coach Bill Parcells?
06:55Is he secure for next year?
06:58Parcells inherited quarterbacks.
07:00He inherited bad drafting.
07:03Now the Giants are looking to get rid of him, Grant.
07:06I'll never forget Bill Parcells saying to me in the weight room that offseason.
07:10He goes, Sims, if I survive this, trust me, we're going to do it my way.
07:16In 1984, Parcells did return.
07:22He replaced nearly half the roster and named Sims his starting quarterback.
07:30Sims threw for over 4,000 yards.
07:33The Giants made the playoffs.
07:36The foundation for success was now in place.
07:39The Giants were finally in a position to end their championship drought.
07:48We could have probably beaten them maybe one out of ten times.
07:53But that day was one of the days that that could have happened.
08:04The Giants landed several big hits, but were ultimately undone by a miss.
08:09And data from his end zone.
08:12Bears look at good field position.
08:13Oh, he missed it!
08:14This is the football!
08:15He missed it!
08:16It's on the field!
08:16All right!
08:18It's Sean Gale!
08:20And after the game was over, we're in the locker room.
08:23And I think I might have said it to Lawrence Taylor.
08:25I go, why is everybody around Sean Landetta's locker and getting on him so much?
08:31He couldn't help but the punt was blocked.
08:33And I remember all the players looking at me and going, you don't know?
08:37And I said, no, I don't know.
08:39He whiffed it.
08:45Sean Landetta's whiff symbolized a giant blown opportunity.
08:50And foreshadowed an off-season of uncertainty.
08:56In March of 1986, Lawrence Taylor's drug problems first became public.
09:04Embarrassed by the negative publicity, Taylor tried to take matters into his own hands.
09:12Three days after that story came out, I left rehab and tried to rehab on the golf course.
09:18Taylor's golf game did little to improve his ongoing drug problem.
09:24Luckily, Bill was with me dead 86 season and helped me.
09:28There was a little bit of a sentiment, particularly in the media in New York, that we just kind of
09:35swept this stuff with Lawrence under the rug.
09:38And that's the furthest thing from the truth.
09:40We were trying pretty hard to stay on top of everything.
09:44In the 1986 season opener, Taylor was still in no shape to regain his title as the most feared defensive
09:52player in football.
09:53I remember we played a lot of plays.
09:56The defense was on the field a lot of plays.
09:59Ahead by four in the final minutes, Taylor was spent.
10:04With the Giants needing one last stop to seal the victory,
10:08Herschel Walker ran right past him for the winning score.
10:29Coach Parcells looks at Lawrence and goes,
10:32You know, Taylor, I'm going to just have to change your name.
10:35And Lawrence, yeah, what's that?
10:37He knows it's coming.
10:38He goes, I'm just going to change your name to what's the matter with?
10:42Because every reporter, that's all they want to know.
10:44What's the matter with Lawrence?
10:46Bill?
10:48I thought he was arrogant.
10:51I mean, he was just cocky.
10:55And he was crude.
10:58I mean, and cruel and all that.
11:00I think Lawrence's personality and my personality really are somewhat alike in the respect that we pretty much say what
11:10we're thinking.
11:11Hey, Sula, you better hope I never get back in there.
11:13I'm going to kick your ass.
11:15What the f*** are you doing staying 10 yards in the f***ing backfield?
11:19Get up on the line.
11:20Don't you know how much time's on the clock?
11:23And every day he was on my butt.
11:25LT, I don't care if I could never do nothing right.
11:28All right, LT went inside.
11:30Look at this.
11:34Once in a while there was a confrontation and really not that many.
11:37Some of these guys got to get their head out of their ass around here.
11:42I told him, listen, hey, you're going to have to either get somebody else in here to play my position,
11:48trade me, put me on the bench or something.
11:51But you got to get the hell off my back.
11:54And after that, we had a good relationship, I mean, a great relationship as a coach and a player.
12:03In 1986, Taylor rebounded from his disappointing start to have the best season by a linebacker in NFL history.
12:13He finished the year with 20 and a half sacks and won the league's most valuable player award.
12:29Three weeks after the loss to Dallas, with the Giants now 2-1, Taylor's turn to great began to take
12:36shape.
12:38His re-emergence solidified the defense, but the offense was crumbling.
12:45The Giants trailed 17 to nothing, and tight end Mark Bavaro had broken his jaw.
12:51Of course, they took him away for an x-ray, and he came back, and his teeth kind of gritted.
12:57I couldn't talk, and he was like this, and kind of punched me in the back, and went, you know,
13:04I'm ready to go.
13:20How you doing, kid?
13:31And Mark didn't miss any games with that broken jaw.
13:35It was wired together, and he was eating his cereal out of a straw for the next couple of weeks,
13:41but we went forward from there.
13:47Enough to improve their record to 6-2, and overcome a passing game that was mired in a prolonged slump.
13:56We got to a point, we were awful.
13:59We couldn't complete passes.
14:03We couldn't get it down the field at all.
14:11The player who received the brunt of the blame for the Giants' pass...
14:14What do you mean, we?
14:18You...
14:18Could not.
14:21...was the team's struggling quarterback.
14:25You try not to read the bad things in the paper, but you can't help when the headline says Giants
14:29will never win as long as Simms is quarterback.
14:31Oh, there it is. You see it.
14:32I tell you, I wish that Simms had just come out there and get hot.
14:35Hit about eight in a damn row.
14:37Yeah.
14:38That's gonna be a tough one in the night.
14:39All right.
14:40We can do something against these guys.
14:43In the rematch with Dallas, Simms hit his lowest point of the season.
14:52The Giants won the game, thanks to another strong defensive effort.
14:57But Simms suffered one of the worst performances of his career.
15:01And the home plans turned against him.
15:12I knew they were booing me, and that's just the way it is for a quarterback.
15:17But it was hard.
15:20Everywhere you go, you feel the animosity towards you.
15:24How do you react when fans say that, well, Phil Simms is responsible for a lot of these little baubles
15:28we're having?
15:29Well, I handle the ball more than anybody else.
15:31So, of course, I'm gonna be in the center of everything that just about goes wrong.
15:34And I'm not gonna sit here and try to defend myself or whatever.
15:36I prepare and play, and I play pretty well.
15:38I'm not saying I'm the greatest quarterback in the NFL, but if the Giant team can win, it can win
15:42with me.
15:43And I know that.
15:43The Giants were 7-2.
15:46And although Simms may not have won many games with his play, his resolve had won over one of his
15:52harshest critics.
15:54Phil Simms is really quite a unique guy.
15:57He tries to do everything he can to ensure the success of the team.
16:03He's very unselfish.
16:04I think it's important that the rest of the team know that the quarterback is a fighter.
16:19Things I can say about Bill Parcells, you know.
16:22First off, I wish I would have listened even more.
16:25I was just mad all the time.
16:28No matter what went on.
16:30I gotta get something going.
16:37Phil.
16:46But he would go right to the edge.
16:48Phil, look, when we call him the Y-Ted, that's who we're trying to throw to you.
16:55Don't be too inventive, okay?
16:57Okay, they took him.
16:57They're covering him.
16:58I know.
16:58I see him.
16:59They're covering him the last night.
17:00Yeah.
17:00Yeah.
17:01Just, all right, I'll see what I'm doing.
17:09I'm not proud of our blow-ups.
17:28But, you know, he kind of taught me to be that way.
17:33Tell that undisciplined center we got to get his 10 out of his ass.
17:38He missed about 10 today.
17:39All right, 40 seconds here.
17:41Unbelievable.
17:43Here I am coming to the sideline during the game.
17:45And I'd be 10 yards from him.
17:47He'd go, shut the up.
17:50You can play.
17:52I'll coach.
17:53You got it?
17:55I understood that.
17:57Hey, Phil, I'll run the game.
17:59I don't know who you're sending in.
18:01I'm sending goal line in.
18:02Well, somebody give me something.
18:04I've got time to make a call.
18:05It was unbelievable, the timeouts.
18:08It was a minute of getting cursed at.
18:12All I can say is, I'm so glad I had the experience to play for him.
18:17And there's never, I really mean it, there's never a day that goes by where I don't try to put
18:24some wisdom on somebody.
18:25And I quote him because I remember them all and because they're all so true.
18:31Before the Week 11 game with the Vikings, Parcells offered some advice to his embattled quarterback.
18:38His words did not come out of anger, but out of respect and served to inspire Sims for the rest
18:44of the season.
18:45I said, I don't know what you're thinking, but here's what I'm thinking.
18:49You got your team in first place.
18:51I said, you just beat your three biggest division rivals three weeks in a row.
18:56I said, don't pay any attention to what they're saying.
18:59Just go out there and play and don't let that menia affect you as far as trying to be a
19:05daring quarterback.
19:07You just go out there and let it go and I will support you 100% no matter what happens.
19:12Can you imagine in this day and age, a coach saying to their quarterback as he's walking out of the
19:17locker room,
19:19take some chances.
19:20I don't care if you throw four interceptions.
19:23Just keep throwing it down.
19:25You know, coach now, they get down and genuflect and don't have a turnover.
19:30And, you know, oh my God, you know, it's incredible to listen to some of these guys now.
19:35But Bill, just saying, the words he gave me, told me during that week, made me feel better.
19:42And that was the end of the tailspin of our passing game.
19:47Against the Vikings, Sims completed 25 passes for over 300 yards.
19:53But it's his last throw that will live in giant lore.
20:03Half right W motion, 74 XN.
20:08So, it's pretty vivid in my mind.
20:11As we were getting ready to break the huddle, I said to Bobby Johnson,
20:16Bobby, be alert.
20:18I might have to come to you late.
20:38Those are the kinds of plays that turn seasons around.
20:41And to Phil's credit, he stood in there and waited until the last minute and took a pretty good funk.
20:52The pass led to a game-winning field goal.
20:55And the quarterback, who had already won over the coach, had now won over the team.
21:00From that time on, I felt that if we're going to win a championship or we're going to excel as
21:05a team,
21:06it's going to be behind the arm of Phil Simms.
21:09And he became my man right then.
21:14It was one of the greatest plays I've ever seen in football.
21:17It was at the end of a pretty sustained drive by Denver.
21:20He was very tired at the time, physically.
21:26Intercepted, George Martin, 30.
21:29I didn't think the old man was going to get all the way down.
21:32So, I said, hey, hey, flip it over here.
21:3745.
21:38At the 45, Elway takes it and breaks the title.
21:41He started the lateral gym.
21:42I'm like, I'm right here.
21:43Come on, give it to me.
21:46And then I thought he was dead right here.
21:49He was dead.
21:51But being the great athlete he is, he goes in and scores.
22:06After beating one future Hall of Fame quarterback, the Giants traveled to San Francisco to face another.
22:14Joe Montana staked the 49ers to a 17-0 halftime lead.
22:21And I remember coming in at halftime.
22:24And Bill Parcells was already in there.
22:26And I could see the look on his face.
22:28Sims, we can do this.
22:30And I've never seen him in this kind of mood.
22:33It was like, we're so close.
22:35Let's make this thing finally happen.
22:37And wouldn't you know it, the second play of the second half is to throw to Mark Mavarro.
22:43Complete to Mavarro down to the 35.
22:45Down to the 30.
22:46Down to the 25.
22:48Down to the 20.
22:49He's got four men on his back.
22:50And gets down to the 17.
22:52I don't respect anybody in the league more than I ever respected Ronnie Lott.
22:56And to see Mavarro dragging Ronnie Lott's like, yeah.
23:02Those kinds of things don't happen very often.
23:06That was a very inspiring play for our whole team.
23:10Sims threw for a season-high 388 yards.
23:14And the Giants came back to win 21-17.
23:19Things like that happen.
23:20Then you know you're good enough to do it.
23:22The Giants needed only to defeat Washington to clinch their first ever NFC East title.
23:28I loved going down there and playing at RFK.
23:32The atmosphere, it was awesome.
23:37And we're walking out in 1986 to play down there late in the year.
23:40The fans let us have it.
23:41They were good.
23:42They could say things.
23:43You go, wow, that was creative.
23:46And Bill Parcells was next to me going out for warm-ups.
23:48He goes, you know what, Sims?
23:50They hate us so much here.
23:52They like us.
23:53Playing at Washington had added significance for Virginia native Lawrence Taylor.
23:59Washington Redskins just happened to be my father's favorite team.
24:03I always like to do something a little special playing the Redskins.
24:11Taylor unleashed his most impressive performance of the season.
24:22Couldn't have happened to a better quarterback than Jay Schrader.
24:32The Giants won the game and the division.
24:43And I got a funny feeling that we're going to meet him somewhere down the road again
24:48before the 86 season is over.
24:51Game.
24:53What's the Giants won?
25:00Where's Peter King?
25:01Here.
25:02I'm proud of my guys, Peter.
25:06To clinch home field advantage.
25:09Hedged throughout the playoffs,
25:11the Giants needed to beat the lowly Packers in the season finale.
25:15The Giants led 24 to nothing
25:18before the Packers stormed back to close within seven by halftime.
25:23I think in my coaching career,
25:25the most upset I've ever been with a team was at that moment.
25:29So I went down to the offense.
25:32And I told them
25:33that if we scored 45 points
25:37in this game,
25:38we might be able to tie the game.
25:40I walked down to the defense
25:42and I grabbed the week's 55-gallon
25:45plastic barrel we had
25:47with the tape
25:48and the orange juice
25:50and the Gatorade bottles
25:51and everything that was in there for the week.
25:55And I pulled it out
25:56and I started dumping it
25:58on top of these guys
26:00and I said,
26:01you guys belong here with the rest of this
26:05I guess I can say.
26:07Okay?
26:08And then I threw the barrel
26:09off the back wall of the meeting room
26:12and I left.
26:13He is such a baby.
26:16He pouts
26:17and he pouts
26:19all the time.
26:20He pouts,
26:21pouts,
26:22pouts,
26:22pouts.
26:22I mean,
26:23at that season,
26:24he's always pouting.
26:25Stop pouting,
26:26man.
26:26We're going to win.
26:27Let's go.
26:29Now,
26:30I'm pretty sure
26:30I built with garbage.
26:31He ain't throwing in my direction.
26:36The offense
26:37did not score
26:3845 points.
26:40I mean,
26:40they scored
26:41and shut down
26:45backers.
26:48And team captain
26:49Harry Carson
26:49determined
26:50it was now
26:51Parcell's turn
26:52to get dumped on.
26:55At about five or six of them
26:56said,
26:57what are we now,
26:59Bill?
26:59Tell us what we are now.
27:00Are we still
27:01horse or are we
27:04regular
27:05or are we
27:06just horse,
27:06are we?
27:07And that went on and on
27:08because by the time
27:09I got in
27:10and said the team prayer,
27:11now the whole team
27:12was kind of harping on it
27:13a little bit.
27:15Where should we go?
27:16Should we go right
27:16into the garbage
27:18or should we change
27:19and go to the shower?
27:20So it kind of took
27:21on a life of its own,
27:22but hey,
27:23those are some
27:24of the great days
27:24that I remember.
27:26Speaking of showers,
27:27they did the
27:27shower.
27:31I'm lying
27:31because I knew
27:32that was going to
27:32be a better week
27:33for me.
27:35After being beat up
27:36by Parcell's,
27:38Club 13 set out
27:39to punish
27:40the 49ers
27:41defensive line.
27:44Let's go,
27:44Joe.
27:45All right, guys.
27:47I can remember
27:48it like it's yesterday.
27:50Handing it off
27:50to Joe Morris
27:51early in the game
27:52and as I'd hand it off,
27:53I'd turn around
27:54and watch and go,
27:55oh, man,
27:56we are whipping
27:56them big time
27:57up front.
28:02Sims benefited
28:03from great protection
28:04and threw
28:05four touchdowns.
28:13His counterpart,
28:14Joe Montana,
28:15wasn't nearly
28:15as fortunate.
28:16He's flying tonight.
28:22Goes quietly.
28:23Intercepted.
28:24There goes
28:40the Giants
28:41trounced the 49ers
28:42and advanced
28:43to the NFC
28:45championship game.
28:47The only team
28:48blocking their path
28:49to the Super Bowl
28:50was their division rival,
28:52the Washington Redskins.
28:55Bill, you acknowledge
28:56that you might
28:56see the Redskins
28:57down the road.
28:58Does the thought
28:58of that
28:59to scare you?
29:02Let me tell you
29:03what I'm scared of.
29:06I'm scared of spiders,
29:08snakes,
29:11and the Redskins.
29:13Not the Redskins.
29:14Well, you know,
29:15they're in our league.
29:16It's competition.
29:17I look forward to that.
29:20Parcell's biggest worry
29:21was not lining up
29:22against the Redskins,
29:24but rather facing
29:25the 40-mile-per-hour
29:26wins of the Meadowlands.
29:30We won the toss,
29:33and the last thing
29:34you want to do
29:35is give a team
29:35that you think
29:36you got a chance
29:37to beat at home
29:38a little momentum.
29:39So I said,
29:40okay,
29:40we're going to defend
29:41a certain end,
29:43and that end
29:43is going to have
29:44the win behind us
29:45for the first quarter.
29:47And with that decision,
29:49the tone of the game
29:50was set.
29:50The Redskins' offense
29:52never found its mark.
29:55The Giants' offense
29:56soared early
29:57and cruised
29:58the rest of the way.
30:05I remember
30:06one of the best performances
30:07I've ever seen
30:08in professional football
30:09that day.
30:10Sean Lindetta
30:11punting the football.
30:12He rebounded
30:12from the whiff
30:13of 85.
30:15He was kicking
30:1645-yarders
30:17right through the wind.
30:19And the punter
30:19for the Washington Redskins,
30:21he's kicking it.
30:22He can't even get it
30:22in the air,
30:23and they're going
30:23about 15 yards,
30:24and it was
30:25a huge part
30:26of our victory.
30:29Unbelievably,
30:30a punter
30:30was the key
30:31to the victory
30:31of that game.
30:38Three weeks earlier,
30:40the coach
30:40dumped garbage
30:41on the players
30:42in disgust.
30:45Now the fans
30:46showered the players
30:47with garbage
30:47in a celebration.
30:50Yeah, exactly.
30:53And hold on.
30:59I'd just like to point out
31:01that Sean Lindetta
31:02made up for his mistake
31:04the previous year.
31:09three seasons,
31:11the Giants
31:12had gone
31:12from winning
31:13three games
31:14to playing
31:16in the biggest game
31:17of all.
31:31going to the Super Bowl,
31:33I just thought,
31:34man,
31:34that's for other people.
31:35That's not for people
31:36like me.
31:37And I think
31:38when it was finally over,
31:39I thought,
31:39wow,
31:40so going to the Super Bowl
31:41is not just for
31:42the superstars
31:43like Joe Montana.
31:45I'm going to get
31:45a chance
31:46to go there.
31:48Huh.
31:51Oh, that's it.
31:52Save something
31:52for the game.
31:53Let's be careful.
31:54Let's don't leave it all.
31:56And I was like
31:56looking at him
31:57going,
31:58what's wrong with you?
31:59Because, you know,
32:00he's always screaming
32:01at practice,
32:02do it better.
32:02That stinks.
32:03You stink.
32:03A week that was
32:05already strange
32:06then became surreal.
32:09Disney,
32:10the company
32:10that promotes itself
32:11as the place
32:12where dreams come true,
32:14approached Sims
32:15to be part of
32:16a new advertising campaign
32:17should he win
32:18the Super Bowl MVP.
32:20You know what they say.
32:22Dreams are better
32:23when you show.
32:24I said no to it
32:25all week.
32:27John Elway
32:27agreed to it.
32:28I said,
32:28oh, no,
32:29I can't do that.
32:29That is messing
32:30with football gods,
32:32the karma
32:33of the game.
32:34And, you know,
32:34Bill Parcells
32:35constantly preached
32:37to us,
32:38careful what you say,
32:40you know,
32:41don't seek glory,
32:42don't be this,
32:43don't be an eye,
32:44all this.
32:45And, you know,
32:45I really believed in that.
32:48In the first half,
32:49Sims remained
32:50in the background
32:51while Elway
32:52positioned himself
32:53to play the commercial's
32:54starring role.
33:01Late in the second quarter,
33:03the Broncos led
33:0410 to 7
33:05and had first
33:06and goal
33:07at the 1.
33:08The former linebacker's
33:10coach needed a stop
33:11and the crew
33:13he once molded
33:13delivered.
33:17That's one
33:17that the great players
33:19make plays.
33:20Taylor made one,
33:22Carson was in on one,
33:25and then Banks made
33:27another one.
33:32And then,
33:33by some stroke of luck,
33:35they missed the field goal.
33:37So,
33:37we went in,
33:38really outplayed
33:39very badly
33:40the first half.
33:41We're only down
33:42one point.
33:43I told them at the half,
33:44I said,
33:44you know,
33:45we got a good chance
33:45to win this now,
33:46we can't play that bad.
33:47Okay,
33:48now,
33:48offense,
33:49we're getting the ball,
33:50and we're going to run
33:50and pass the ball
33:54down the field
33:54right now.
33:55More importantly,
33:57things start going
33:57a little rough,
33:59you better pull together.
34:01Pull together.
34:02It's a team,
34:03man.
34:03It's a team.
34:04One guy can't do it.
34:05It takes all of us.
34:09On the opening drive
34:10of the second half,
34:11Parcells jump-started
34:12the turnaround
34:13by calling a fake punt option
34:15on fourth and one.
34:18Jeff Rutledge had the choice
34:19to run a sneak
34:20if the Broncos failed
34:21to set up
34:22to defend against him.
34:25Jeff looked over there
34:26and he was trying
34:27to look at me,
34:29and I just kind of
34:31nodded my head to him,
34:32and that means
34:33go ahead with it,
34:35and he did it.
34:36After Rutledge
34:38got the first down,
34:39Parcells' next call
34:40was for Sims
34:41to pass the Giants
34:42to a championship.
34:44I didn't have any sense
34:47that it was going to be
34:4922 for 25
34:50with two drop passes.
34:53He really was
34:54spectacular that day.
35:00Sims led the Giants
35:01to scores on five
35:02straight second-half
35:03possessions.
35:04In one of the best
35:05performances
35:06by a quarterback
35:07in Super Bowl history.
35:39His final touchdown confirmed. On this night, Phil Simms could do no wrong.
35:52I looked at the scoreboard. I said, we've won the Super Bowl. It's a... We have now won.
36:03Simms knew the touchdown that clinched the game.
36:07But his coach wasn't quite ready to forget about the play before.
36:13He goes, come here, come here, come here.
36:15I think he's going to come over and he's going to say, Phil, you were great. You're great.
36:19And he goes, now look, Simms, you can't take a sack in that situation.
36:26And I go, who gives a... I don't want to hear it.
36:34Could no longer be described as the quarterback who would never lead his team to a championship.
36:40Now his title was Super Bowl MVP.
36:53That moment being an MVP, I didn't realize it was...
37:18What the...
37:21What the...
37:31What am I supposed to say? I'm going to Walt Disney World.
37:37It's the chase that's exciting.
37:40You build up to this big game.
37:42The big...
37:44And once it's over, it's like, okay,
37:46well, let's go out and party.
37:48But everybody's tired.
37:50Too tired to go out and party too long.
37:55Bill Parcells knew how he wanted to celebrate the Giants' first championship in 30 years.
38:01The coach who grew up a Giants fan
38:03and had listened to the 1958 championship on the radio
38:06asked his players to give him the ride of a lifetime.
38:10I didn't want this ride to be very long.
38:13I wanted it to be kind of a short ride and that was it.
38:16But they carried me and kept going.
38:19I couldn't get down.
38:24I'm going to go to Disney World.
38:26I'm going to go to Disneyland.
38:29I'm going to go to Disney World.
38:32I'm going to go to Disneyland.
38:36As I'm saying I'm going to Disney World,
38:38I'm thinking, God, I hope Coach doesn't see me do this.
38:42Again?
38:44Huh?
38:46I'm going to go to Disneyland.
38:48All these people thinking, what the f*** is he doing?
38:53Phil, take it away.
38:56The only performance by Sims that Parcells acknowledged
39:00was the one that made the Giants champions.
39:04I'd just like to say that I think that that ought to dispel any myth about Phil Simms
39:09because I'll tell you, he was absolutely not going to say that.
39:12The great Phil Simms.
39:14You have to preface it with the great Phil Simms.
39:17He was just really an unconquerable guy.
39:20No matter what you did to him,
39:22no matter what kind of beating that he took,
39:26he was getting you the next time.
39:29But Phil and Lawrence and, you know, I can't name them all,
39:33but the Carsons, Martins, Merts, Pavaros, Carthons, Bankses,
39:37those are the guys that propelled Bill Parcells.
39:41There are 20 or 30 of those guys that I wouldn't have had a chance with without him.
39:53The rest of your life, the rest of your life, man,
39:58nobody can ever tell you that you couldn't do it because you did it.
40:09And I want to throw one more pass.
40:11That's all I want to do.
40:13Phil and myself, we had had some problems prior to that,
40:20you know, personality-wise.
40:23And we weren't really, we weren't talking.
40:26We weren't speaking.
40:27I mean, I hadn't talked to Phil at that time in probably a couple of years.
40:36Should I put it on?
40:37But when Bill was going to do his ceremony,
40:41I said, well, I'm going to come to that.
40:43I need to be there.
40:45Well, right before the game started, in the tunnel, I see Lawrence.
40:49I came up to Phil and I said congratulations and stuff.
40:52And we hugged each other.
40:54I mean, we hugged each other for about five minutes.
40:56Because, you know, we both knew that what we had meant to each other, I guess,
41:02you know, over the course of the battles we had gone through.
41:05And he said, man, I want you to come out on the field with me.
41:11I said, yeah, of course, I'll come out with you, right?
41:15I wanted to throw one more pass in my giant jersey.
41:23So, who better to catch that pass than the greatest giant player of all, Lawrence Taylor?
41:32I'm like, okay, all right.
41:34And I got flip-flops on and, you know, I had a couple of beers.
41:38I remember him hugging me and going, man, make sure it's a good pass.
41:42Oh, my God.
41:43Straight down the field.
41:45Real easy.
41:46Yeah.
41:47All of a sudden, it kind of hit me.
41:49I put Lawrence in a really tough spot.
41:51National TV.
41:52He's got dress shoes and a sports jacket on.
41:55And he's had a few beers.
41:57He's going to run down the field.
41:58I'm going to throw him a pass.
41:59Go.
42:00I stepped off about 10 yards like this.
42:05And he looked at me and said, no, no, no, go.
42:07I said, go.
42:09I mean, actually, no, he wants me to run.
42:11And so I saw Charlie running down the field and I thought he was going to throw me like a
42:15little in-cut.
42:16But no, he's still padding.
42:17He want me to keep going.
42:18Keep going.
42:19And he throws his big old bomb down the field.
42:21I'm saying to myself, if I drop this pass, I got to run my black ass all the way back
42:29to the upper side of the river because there's no way I'm going to be able to stay in that
42:34stadium.
42:37But he came through as he always did.
42:49People don't understand what winning a championship does.
42:53Winning a championship will put you together forever.
42:58It's like a blood transfer.
43:01You get their blood and they've got your blood.
43:04And when you think about that time, you can't do it without thinking of those people.
43:11That's Super Bowl.
43:13What it's done for my life and some of the thoughts I have about football, it does give me an
43:19unbelievable feeling of satisfaction.
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