During his 19-year-career as head coach of the Giants, Patriots, Jets and Cowboys, Bill Parcells became known as much for his exacting personality as his on-field success. Here was a man who could win two Super Bowls and three conference titles while coining aphorisms such as, “You are what your record says you are.”
However, a forthcoming book appears to support the notion that Parcells has a big heart in spite of the rigid exterior he projected to the football world.
Gary Myers, a longtime writer for The New York Daily News, The Dallas Morning News and other outlets, claimed Friday that Parcells has loaned $4 million over the years to former Giants in need.
“It’s just incredibly generous what he’s done with these guys. Bill has loaned out $4 million to 20 players that played for him, who come to him in this financial crisis. Bill knows when they come to him it’s a last resort,” Myers told WFAN-AM in New York on Friday morning, per the New York Post.
Myers’s account of the 1986 Giants’ Super Bowl season, Once a Giant: A Story of Victory, Tragedy, and Life After Football, is due out Sept. 12 via PublicAffairs.
“People are going to find out how Bill Parcells has made this transition from a guy who had love-hate relationships with his players to the patriarch of that ’86 team," Myers said.
