Outside of a few collapsed years, they were always exciting and always had good talent. Hell, Clive Rush, Taliaferro and Joe Kapp were the same pre fairbanks era. Sure they were awful, but damn, Clive Rush was entertaining.
From almost electrocuting himself at his introduction to the press,... to hosting Will McDonough naked with the AC on freeze for an interview... to calling the released Bob Gladieux back during the half over the P.A. system (Harpo made the tackle on the 2nd half kickoff) to borrowing some players from the offense because he didn't have enough black defensive players to man his patented "Black Power" defense..
We were laughing so hard we didn't notice the gap between Holovak and Fairbanks (though mazur wasn't bad IMO, just wrong place wrong time, ask Duane Thomas
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What I'm trying to say here is, it didn't matter. This was our team. No more Giants. For all his faults, do you think anyone else would have kept a team alive despite the stadium situation (Boston Politics)? I don't. They would have been spld out of state in a couple years. Just my opinion.