RIP, Dick Lynch

Former NY Giants player and long-time radio broadcaster:

http://www.newsday.com/sports/football/giants/ny-splynch0925,0,5513359.story

 

I seemed to always get his football card in the mid-'60s, in every pack. Along with Ernie Wheelright.

 

Sorry to hear. I liked Lynch best when he was paired with Jim Gordon in the 80s. Whatever happened to Gordon?

 

Jim Gordon died in 2003.

 

I have coffee several times a week with a guy who played with Dick Lynch on the Giants. He was quite upset when I told him today that Lynch had died. Lynch apparently was a great teammate and an even better person.

 

"And the Giants are going to Tampa!" was his call - or something along those lines - when Matt Bahr kicked his fifth field goal against the Niners. God, listening to those Giants games from the 80s and early 90s in the car with my father, a big Giants fan, bring back such memories.

He, Jim Gordon and Karl Nelson were a great radio team. This is such a shame to hear.

 

Gordon: "TouchDOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW he dropped it."

RIP, to a loyal son of Mara Tech.

 

By all accounts, Dick Lynch was a class act all the way.
He also lost his son in the Sept. 11 terror attacks but did not miss a Giants game that season.

 

Not the most popular feller in the Sooner State (thanks to his part in ending The Streak). But RIP.

 

Here's film (in color!) of the winning ND drive:

http://tinyurl.com/4u5nbx

 

r.i.p. to one of the truly genuine good people around. class act and a gentleman all the way.

covering what i believe was the giants' first road game after 9/11, i suffered a broken ankle outside the rca dome in st. loo. giants docs x-rayed my ankle. the maras invited me to fly back to jersey with them on the team's charter and had a kid fetch my stuff from my hotel room. arranged for a car to pick me up at giants stadium and drive me home.

anyway, lynch was probably the most attentive person to me on the flight -- the giants were first-class all the way; two back-up o-linemen n carried me up the steps to the plane -- but dick was the person sitting next to me. this was after losing a son at the wtc. what a strong, caring man.

 

Good story.

Giants have had a number of true class acts, over the years, and Lynch sure as hell was one of them.