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September-12th-2008, 04:18 PM
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Shockey: Giants made him feel forgotten
Forgotten. Obsolete. Stashed away.
That's how Jeremy Shockey felt as the former Giants Pro Bowl tight end watched his team win the Super Bowl after he went on injured reserve last season.
Blogshockey “Everyone wants to know what it feels like to watch your team go to the Super Bowl and win without you," Shockey says in the latest issue of ESPN the Magazine. "I’ll tell you: It’s like how every year you get older and fewer and fewer people realize it’s your birthday. It’s supposed to be your special day, and you’re not being noticed.”
The Giants traded Shockey, who broke his leg in Week 15 last year and missed the rest of the season, to the New Orleans Saints in the offseason. Shockey joined his former teammates at Super Bowl XLII to witness the defeat of the Patriots, but said the team made him feel like an outsider.
“I flew myself out on a five- to six-hour flight in a middle seat," he said of traveling to Arizona for the game."Then the Giants wouldn’t let me sit on the sideline … I didn’t get invited to the parade or the party or the celebration.”
Shockey, who had a combustible relationship with the team and said Tom Coughlin's staff was "outcoached" after a 2006 loss, said he would have continued to be a distraction in New York if the Giants hadn't traded him.
Said the tight end of the move, "The Giants got a good deal. The Saints got a better deal."
And he couldn't help but stick it to reigning Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning, comparing him to Saints quarterback Drew Brees.
“Drew is such a high-energy guy," he said. "That’s different from what I’m used to. Eli Manning is a great guy—he was just built differently. Drew’s very active … and he never messes up. I mean, the guy is like a machine. He’s a hard-working, professional guy.”
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Shockey: Giants made him feel forgotten
Forgotten. Obsolete. Stashed away.
That's how Jeremy Shockey felt as the former Giants Pro Bowl tight end watched his team win the Super Bowl after he went on injured reserve last season.
Blogshockey “Everyone wants to know what it feels like to watch your team go to the Super Bowl and win without you," Shockey says in the latest issue of ESPN the Magazine. "I’ll tell you: It’s like how every year you get older and fewer and fewer people realize it’s your birthday. It’s supposed to be your special day, and you’re not being noticed.”
The Giants traded Shockey, who broke his leg in Week 15 last year and missed the rest of the season, to the New Orleans Saints in the offseason. Shockey joined his former teammates at Super Bowl XLII to witness the defeat of the Patriots, but said the team made him feel like an outsider.
“I flew myself out on a five- to six-hour flight in a middle seat," he said of traveling to Arizona for the game."Then the Giants wouldn’t let me sit on the sideline … I didn’t get invited to the parade or the party or the celebration.”
Shockey, who had a combustible relationship with the team and said Tom Coughlin's staff was "outcoached" after a 2006 loss, said he would have continued to be a distraction in New York if the Giants hadn't traded him.
Said the tight end of the move, "The Giants got a good deal. The Saints got a better deal."
And he couldn't help but stick it to reigning Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning, comparing him to Saints quarterback Drew Brees.
“Drew is such a high-energy guy," he said. "That’s different from what I’m used to. Eli Manning is a great guy—he was just built differently. Drew’s very active … and he never messes up. I mean, the guy is like a machine. He’s a hard-working, professional guy.”