The trio will be honored during halftime of the Giants’ Week 10 Monday Night Football game against the Cincinnati Bengals on November 14.
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Tom Coughlin, Justin Tuck and Ernie Accorsi will be inducted into the New York Giants’ Ring of Honor this season. Some discomfort followed the move, as Coughlin interviewed with the San Francisco 49ers and the division rival Philadelphia Eagles for their vacant head coach jobs and continued to visit the Giants’ team facility on a somewhat regular basis for a time.
All three were part of the franchise when NY defeated the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII, while Coughlin and Tuck would also win Super Bowl XLVI. He will join Bill Parcells, Steve Owen and Jim Lee Howell as the only head coaches in the Giants Ring of Honor.
Tuck’s career with the Giants will always be more memorable than his two short seasons in Oakland to end his career, but it is nice to see a player who was a true pro with the Raiders get recognized by the team he spent the majority of his career with. Tuck played with the Giants from 2005-13 and was a pivotal performer in both of the Giants Super Bowl wins against the Patriots as he led the teams’ pass rush. He served as the team’s general manager from 1998 through 2007 after previously serving in an assistant GM role. “I’m very, very excited about it”.
The official announcement noted they will bring the Ring of Honor total to 42.
“I can’t even put into words what an honor it is, especially with this franchise”, Accorsi said in a release. He had 5.5 sacks in the postseason, including two in each of the Giants’ Super Bowl victories he played in. The Giants won the Super Bowl the following season (and gave Accorsi a championship ring) and again in 2011.
“It’s 12 years, and God bless Ernie”, Coughlin said.
Congrats to all three, as it’s a well deserved honor for three of the franchises’ best to get into the Ring of Honor, and all three very much deserve it. The Giants are in the midst of a lot of change, but they clearly know that these three men helped them have most of their recent success, helping the team rise to the top twice over the last decade. How I look at it is I will be the third of this group and the other two are unbelievable with what they have been able to accomplish, not just with the Giants, but with football in general. I am pretty lucky to be even considered in the same light as those two.
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Accorsi and Coughlin are also thrilled to be joining the Ring of Honor as a trio with Tuck. They were both first-round players, but we took a risk because they didn’t play as well.
