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Posted: **Thu Dec 01, 2022 1:51 pm**

Here's another entry about how Parcells almost returned to the Giants in 97:

https://www.giants.com/news/giants-were ... 7-14787303

Posted: **Thu Oct 02, 2025 10:26 am**

sheajets wrote: ↑Mon Nov 28, 2022 11:28 am
7DnBrnc53 wrote:Another interesting Parcells tidbit I found out about: Someone has posted ESPN's pre-game show for SB 25 (a Bills' fan site). At the 35 minute mark, Fred Edelstein comes on with Chris Berman to discuss goings on around the NFL at the time. Berman asked him what Parcells was planning on doing (remember, he left the Giants in May of that year). Edelstein said that Parcells secretly accepted Atlanta's job before SB 21, but the Giants found out and blocked the move.

Amazing how flighty he was. How he could never settle in somewhere, have success, and build something long and lasting...always easily seduced/lured...would commit and then back off things. Pinning him down anywhere was impossible

Parcells always had one foot out the door while he was walking in the door.

Gary Myers recent book on the lives of the ‘86 Giants recounts a similar story from Accorsi about 1997. The Giants owners had agreed to ask Parcells back but Young hearing that immediately made the offer to Fassel. He boxed them in by saying Fassel had accepted and supposedly Mara thought it would be dishonorable to rescind it after Fassel accepted.

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