[Updated and bumped] Via the Jawa Report comes the following interview with Lt. Col. Gadson the gentleman mentioned in the article I cited below with reference to comments by Giants Coach, Tom Coughlin.

I can’t think of a better “good luck charm.”

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It remains to be seen if the New York Giants can spoil the perfect season of the New England Patriots.

When I don’t have a home town favorite in the big game, I tend to root for the underdog so I suppose that indicates where my heart will be on Sunday.

Think about it, if the Giants should pull an upset, football history would be made. Brothers who are both quarterbacks could then claim Super Bowl wins.

One of the things which often is a turn off prior to the big game (games) in professional sports is the trash talk which emanates from the players.

Coaches, however, when interviewed tend to say say very little or simply stress the strengths of their unit as opposed to their challenger.

Tom Coughlin in an interview with a NY Post reporter supplied this quote which sets him aside from many others:

“The experience of 9/11, right here in New York City, the personal aspect of 9/11 for me … I was in college through the whole Vietnam thing,” Coughlin said. “But seeing what’s taken place here in Iraq, and having an opportunity to meet Gen. [Ray] Odierno, to meet Greg Gadson, to really reach out and touch guys that are the real heroes - who represent us in this war on terrorism so that we can sleep under the blanket of freedom … the depth of that for me, and I keep coming back to the red, white and blue, because that’s what we are, that’s what our nation is, red, white and blue, that’s what the New Giants are. I take a lot of pride in that.”

Well said Coach Coughlin.

[Quote provided is located on page two of article]