It’s 1978 over again.
A aircraft flying over MetLife Stadium Sunday morning carried a banner with a scathing message for Giants co-owner John Mara:
“MR MARA ENOUGH – PLZ FIX THIS DUMPSTER FIRE,” the black, block letters learn throughout the sky.
“MR MARA ENOUGH – PLZ FIX THIS DUMPSTER FIRE” banner being flown over and round MetLife Stadium earlier than as we speak’s #Giants #Saints recreation pic.twitter.com/K1adqBWGQT
Mara noticed this 46 years in the past on the doorstep of what he as soon as referred to as “no question the low point in the history of the franchise.”
The 1978 Giants had missed the playoffs for a fifteenth consecutive season, and that wasn’t the worst of it. They’d suffered an unfathomable last-minute Nov. 19 house loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on “The Fumble,” Joe Pisarcik’s turnover when a kneel-down would have sealed victory, returned for a landing by Herman Edwards.
Followers later protested and burned tickets within the Giants Stadium car parking zone. Then one fan flew a rented aircraft over the sector throughout a Dec. 10 win over the St. Louis Cardinals with an indication that learn: “15 Years of Lousy Football….We’ve Had Enough.”
The Giants fired coach John McVay and ended Andy Robustelli’s tenure as director of operations. And that preceded an notorious Feb. 1979 dueling press convention that includes Mara’s father, Wellington, and Tim Mara, John’s cousin.
This comparability clearly places Joe Schoen and Brian Daboll in regrettable firm, nevertheless it’s the place they belong.
It’s arduous to think about them returning for a fourth season, in the event that they even make it previous Monday morning.
Again in 1979, NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle famously beneficial George Younger because the Giants’ new director of operations and first true normal supervisor as a result of neither Wellington or Tim Mara would settle for one another’s candidates.
In actuality, Mara confirmed that his father Wellington had been tipped off about Younger, the Miami Dolphins’ director of professional scouting, by former Giants Frank Gifford and Tom Scott. And he had recommended that Rozelle pitch Younger as an goal occasion.
Regardless, the purpose is that when it will get this dangerous and the followers present this stage of disgust, sweeping Giants change follows.
