Tom Coughlin to Stay with Giants
The New York Giants coach Tom Coughlin has become the oldest coach in history to win the Super Bowl, and the 65-year-old will stay with the team another year.
Coughlin added that he looks forward to the parade and a couple of weeks off, but that he sees no reason to retire just yet.
"I mean, it's what I do," Coughlin said Monday morning after the Giants 21-17 win over the Patriots in the Super Bowl. "So the alternative I've never really given is a whole lot of consideration. [I'll coach] as long as I can."
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It was clear that Coughlin was not prepared to retire, as the coach added, "I don't fish, I don't golf… My wife keeps telling me, 'You better have something to do, buddy boy. If you think you're going to hang around here, you're crazy.'"
Coughlin is the only other coach aside from Bill Parcells to have led the Giants to two Super Bowl titles. Coughlin led the Giants to their second championship in four years on Sunday.
The coach signed a contract that runs from July to the next football season, but his duties could extend even beyond that if the Giants earned another Super Bowl win.
"I'm very thankful and very grateful for the opportunity that I've had as a head coach of the New York Giants," said Coughlin to FOX News. "The wonderful players that I have worked with, the coaches that have surrounded us and the support from ownership, that's what this is all about."
Giants chief executive John Mara assured the media that Giants team members wanted to keep Coughlin as their coach.
"He might be 65, but he's got the energy of somebody quite younger than that," said Mara.
The coach is also a candidate for the Hall of Fame.
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