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      What's up everybody! It's Bowlegged Lou of Full Force here as EUR's guest writer. All I have to say is Go New York Giants! Wow, what a hell of a game. Whew!

      Though a former NY mayor says the Giants are foreign to him because they should be called The New Jersey Giants since they don't pay in New York at all. Whatever ex-Mayor.  Until they change their name to the New Jersey Giants, we all just have to settle on them being called The New York Giants like they have been called since their inception. No knock on Jersey but The Giants played with that New York type of resiliency that they've displayed all through the playoffs and captured the football world championship in miracle fashion.

      The World Champion New York Giants. Again, what a hell of a game! (Something told me that I should've bet money on the game with actor "Cheap Anthony Anderson." I could've taken all his lunch money.)

      But anyway ... as much as the Giants beat The New England Patriots with the  talents of  Plaxico Burress, Michael Strahan, Eli Manning, David Tryree, Kevin Boss, Amani Toomer, Justin Tuck, Steve Smith, Ahmad Bradshaw, Lawrence Tynes and the rest of the on-field athletic playing Giants, the coach Tom Coughlin and The ownership of John Mara and his band of merry men (the defensive coach especially), deserves all the attention they got on nationwide TV. 

      BUT ... after seeing a lot of winning sports teams give their General Managers some grateful exposure on the winning stages for all the world to see, I wish they could have at least give an eye-opening shoutout to one of the main men responsible of putting the final 2008 team together.

      There has NEVER in the history of the Super Bowl been an African American General Manager like the likes of Mr. Jerry Reese. Sir Jerry's fingerprints are all over the Giants roster!

New York Giants General Manager, Jerry Reese

      Owner Jon Mara's office was getting hate mail about a week into the free agent signing and as soon the Giants' rabid fan base concluded that the new general manager, an African American, wasn't doing enough or spending enough, they started funneling a lot of negative mail that said, "What are you doing?" "You should've gone outside and hired a competent general manager." John Mara's response was, "Can u give this guy a chance?"

      Jerry Reese (44 yrs old) was a Giants scout for over ten years and though this is his first year ever as the general manager of the team, he still considers himself a scout at heart.  When I saw the NY Yankees of baseball win a world championship, another African American ... Bob Watson was brought out by owner George Steinbrenner before the world's TV cameras to speak his peace. I saw Jerry Reese in the background when the Giants' other members of their hierarchy were getting interviewed on air, I just wish somebody would've grabbed Jerry Reese and brought him to the podium and introduced him as the general manager and at least gave him a shoutout and let him give some shoutouts. I felt Jerry Reese should've gotten to go to that mic and say something. I know that his bosses rewarded Jerry with faith and patience when they hired him a year ago, but I just wanted the world to see Jerry's face on the TV screens getting interviewed too.

      This championship is also in addition to everything else; a huge testament to the job that the GM has done, even though the modest Jerry Reese insists he was "a beneficiary of a strong core of players" and that "really, all I had to do was not mess it up." The scouts and the rest of the front office may be "unsung heroes" as Reese says, but he was the one taking the criticism while the Giants were ignoring the free agent market and he was the one loading up with no-names during a player's draft that looked like a total failure. The new players that Reese chose to piece together with the veterans already on the team were strokes of genius.

      Bottom line: the final makeup of the world champion NY Giants was the responsibility of General Manager Jerry Reese. To the surprise of most, Reese and the team he assembled are the pride of the city and the envy of the league. (Even though most of the other football teams wanted the 18 and 0 New England Patriots to lose.) A team that, a year ago was looking for a new GM and nearly searching for a new coach, is the shining example of the benefit of stability.

      "That's why you try to have some patience and let the season play out," Owner John Mara says. "Then you hopefully get to enjoy the rewards such as what we are enjoying right now."

      All that said, me personally ... I agree with Jerry Reese that there might be some unsung heroes amongst the Giants personnel but I feel that Jerry Reese himself is definitely an unsung hero who contributed prominently in assembling this World Championship Giants team! And that's why I wish Jerry would have gotten some visible TV light of recognition last night.

      So with the new history setting winning ways right now of the New York Giants, lets not forget that Jerry Reese is the first black general manager ever in the history of the Super Bowl to not only be a part of one but also to win it. Congratulations Jerry and u got your shoutout from me! Maybe somebody on Youtube will do a visual TV tube tribute to Jerry Reese!

      "Stay Blessed and Not Stressed"

www.ForcefulWorld.com- Sent from my Bowlegged BlackBerry device

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