Read: Phil McConkey High On Giants WRs
Recently we caught up with former Giants WR and special teamer Phil McConkey at a charity event in NYC. He was always a player that could get the team fired up. To this day, he is as animated and entertaining as ever…..
A lot of young guys with incredible potential. I think what you see out of Steve Smith, one of the best clutch guys in the league. They have Manningham on the outside and Nicks, he could be a beast. Ramses Barden, we haven’t even seen anything out of him
Phil Simms wishes he had some of those guys! (laughter) If Phil Simms had those guys he’d be off the charts setting records.
Tell us about getting traded to Green Bay and Bill Parcells getting you back.
Unbelievable. Forrest Gregg calls me in his office telling me they traded me back to the Giants. I about died. Parcells gets on the phone he says “those Packers drive a hard bargain. I had to throw in a couple of clip boards and a blocking dummy to get you back.” (laughter)
It wasn’t any great Knute Rockne speech. All I can remember him saying was ” fellas, I don’t mind losing but not that way.” Because we just didn’t play very well.
I think we were over-prepared. We were ready to play that game on Tuesday. That was our problem in the first half. Then we got our legs under us and we were OK in the end.
(Shaking his head) Nah, I was a role player. man, I was a special teams guy. I was a dirty work guy, go across the middle. You know I wasn’t a star, but you what? We had a team made up of the right guys.
Not everybody could be the greatest player of all time in Lawrence Taylor. Not everybody could be a Hall of Famer like Harry Carson. Or a Mark Bavaro or a Phil Simms or Joe Morris.
We had guys that played special teams. We had Maurice Carthon, we had Lee Rouson. We had these gritty guys. I consider myself one of the lunchpail guys. I was just an ancillary piece to the whole puzzle that fit together.
Ugh, the frustration yet elation of getting to a foot line and not scoring. But knowing we scored that pretty much clinched the game so that the gamut of emotions or the mix of emotions I had were incredible. And then when I got it off the tip, man, it was incredible. I was delirious. I was out of my mind at that point.
