RIP, **** Lynch

[Smasher_Sloan]

Former NY Giants player and long-time radio broadcaster:

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

 

[beardpuller]

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

 

[goalmouth]

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

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

Jim Gordon died in 2003.

 

[micropolitan guy]

I have coffee several times a week with a guy who played with **** 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.

 

[Corky Ramirez up on 94th St.]

"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.

 

[spaceman]

Gordon: "TouchDOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW he dropped it."

RIP, to a loyal son of Mara Tech.

 

[spnited]

By all accounts, **** 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.

 

[Football_Bat]

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

 

[finishthehat]

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

 

[shockey]

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 **** was the person sitting next to me. this was after losing a son at the wtc. what a strong, caring man.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

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 **** 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.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

Interesting Mushnick column:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09262008/sports/giants/lynch_helped_put_it_in_perspective_130851.htm