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After five seasons with the Giants, it seems like Kerry Collins will no longer be a Giant. Collins joined the Giants in 1999 after a stint in alcohol rehab, but turned the Giants and himself around, making the Super Bowl in 2000. He started 67 straight games until he was injured in December of 2003.
Collins's career with the Giants was all but over the moment the Giants made a draft-day trade for Eli Manning. The Giants traded the rights to Philip Rivers and several draft picks, including a first round pick in 2005, for the rights to Manning. The Giants had hoped that Collins would restructure his contract and remain with the Giants as either a starter or back-up next year, but Collins was unwilling to renegotiate.
It's unfortunate that the Giants and Collins are departing like this, but like Kerry said, "It's a lousy business and a great game." Gothamist will miss your boozing hard-nosed ways and hope you'll find a place to play next year. Meanwhile, we see Manning getting hit a whole lot next year, the Giants finishing poorly, and a high draft pick for the Chargers.
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Glad I don't have you in my life Tien Mao - real forgiving of past mistakes, aren't you? FYI - thanks for the stylesheet!
what? i mean, i said i was going to miss his hard-nosed ways.
yeah, have fun with that stylesheet. it's so hard to come up with some colors of your own.
Oh, come on, Kerry Collins' boozy past is totally a part of his persona. And I think this is the first semi-insult/taking-of-stylesheet comment ever on Gothamist.
Defend your piece - "Goodbye, Vodka Collins" is the name of your post! Drunk-hater! (Sarcasm alert: realize my comments are in jest, and yes, witz.org sucks at designing, much like the fake-Gothamist in Germany)
I actually named the post! I asked Tien what he thought, and while he felt it was a bit mean, he still blessed it. And "Vodka Collins" is so catchy.
Catchy - and delicious.
As a Redskins fan, I can't wait to see Manning and the Giants get pounded this season :)
when all is said and done, I'm sure that the decision to sign Vodka Collins as a free agent was preferable to drafting Jim "Drunken Raper" Druckenmiller.
good luck with your rookie QB, Giant Fan. and I say that as someone who has suffered living under the regime of a highly touted (but highly inexperienced) bonus baby quarterback. namely, Joey Harrington. see you in the playoffs in 2007!
Gothamist can't take an asian joke, but can ridicule a man's alcoholism. Delicious! What's the George Will line from the DC niggardly scandal a couple of years ago...something about this logic having a chink in it's armor?
A Vodka Collins joke might have been acceptable to a Giants fan up until about last Friday. Now, it's not tasteless but it's not exactly a happy subject to the G-Men.
Collins right now deserves a bit of respect, as did Jim Fassel when he was similarly pushed out the door pretty hard. Sure, you know that these people are human, and maybe even losing their touch a little bit, but the fans have rooted for these guys and stuck with them for a few years, and now they have to deal with Accorsi chopping heads, going after big names, and leveraging the team's future on people that no one thought the Giants really needed.
I'm not saying that these new people aren't talented, and they will certainly be accepted as a new part of team, but they HAD talent in those positions. Their 4-12 season was a result of the part of the team where they DIDN'T have talent. The team had a crap offensive line last year, so the GM makes bold moves with the coach and quarterback? He's going to cut Palmer now and sign Testaverde? Yikes!
I still don't see what they did with the offensive line that's going to make them any better than 8-8 next year, and the fans can only hope this year ends so happily.
Meanwhile, the relations that a management staff has with their personnel says a lot about the character of a organization, and that applies anywhere. Right now, their character is looking awfully low. I think that the changes that were made are not entirely bad changes (except that, if they don't work out, start rooting for the Jets until 2007), but it really sucks to see Fassel and Collins struggle to make graceful exits in disgraceful circumstances. I'm very unhappy to see that and I think karma comes back to you. It puzzles me that Wellington Mara, the respectful man he's been over the years, is letting Accorsi act like a mad butcher. The Giants have a solid reputation for being a classy organization, but I'm not so sure about that anymore.
(should have been a forum post...)