Tommy DeVito will be making Giants history on Sunday

[MightyGiants]

https://x.com/art_stapleton/status/1722083566018793769?s=20

[spiderblue43]

Can we have a priest to pray for Tommy's health prior to kickoff? 

Maybe Kafka should rely on a Magic 8 ball with his call sheet.

[Giant Jim]

Does anyone know if he's the first quarterback of Italian descent to start for the Giants?

[MightyGiants]

Does anyone know if he's the first quarterback of Italian descent to start for the Giants?

I believe that honor goes to Paul Governali (1947 and one game 1948)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Governali

https://ens.sdsu.edu/people/emeritus-memoriam/paul-governali/

[babywhales]

Can we have a priest to pray for Tommy's health prior to kickoff? 

Maybe Kafka should rely on a Magic 8 ball with his call sheet.

Read him his last rights before he'd runs out of the tunnel ?

[Dgoodmantrublu]

Looking forward to people blaming Kafka for this talentless QB playing like crap on Sunday.

[MightyGiants]

Giants head coach Brian Daboll confirmed that DeVito will make his first NFL start in Dallas during his Wednesday press conference. The undrafted rookie will be backed up by Matt Barkley, who will be signed to the 53-man roster off of the Giants' practice squad.

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/tommy-devito-will-start-at-qb-for-giants-sunday

[T200]

DeVito will also be the third Giants QB to start a regular season game in the same season. Is that a record for the team also?

[afan56]

The Cowsgirls must be shaking in their boots!
With laughter.😢

[MightyGiants]

DeVito will also be the third Giants QB to start a regular season game in the same season. Is that a record for the team also?

Actually, that has happened multiple times, with the most recent being Jones> Glennon > Fromm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_York_Giants_starting_quarterbacks

[Painter]

Per the Athletic::

DeVito will be the 10th rookie quarterback to start a game this year, the most rookie starters since 1950. It's only Week 10! Bonkers.

Not even counting DeVito, 46 quarterbacks have started a game this year, 14 of whom did not begin this year as a starter.

I dare you, without cheating, to name the colleges for these QBs who have started a game in 2023: DeVito, Tyson Bagent, Aidan O'Connell, Clayton Tune and Jaren Hall. We'll run answers tomorrow for the good-hearted among you. What's also true: NFL QBs are getting younger — a lot younger — by average, as the older generation of signal callers slowly washes out after some astonishing longevity (Brees, Tom Brady, Eli Manning, etc.). Even before injuries to Aaron Rodgers and others, this year's Week 1 starting quarterbacks were the youngest in league history since 1957.

Cheers!

[TDToomer]

Actually, that has happened multiple times, with the most recent being Jones> Glennon > Fromm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_York_Giants_starting_quarterbacks

Tark was quite the Iron Man. The mad scrambler was probably hard to sack.

[kartanoman]

This is going to be as exciting as the rookie duo of Dave Brown and Kent Graham playing the Cowboys on Turkey Day in 1992. I've prayed we'd never have to see another performance like that again except, this time, I'm afraid it could be much, much worse.

How many of us long for the days of Glynn Griffing or Gary Wood?

Oh brother!

Peace!

[Giant Obsession]

Actually, that has happened multiple times, with the most recent being Jones> Glennon > Fromm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_York_Giants_starting_quarterbacks

No Sir.

1966

Earl Morrall
then
Gary Wood
then
Tom Kennedy.

Kennedy was signed midway through the season from the minor league Westchester Bulls.  He went 55 for 100 with 8 TD's and 7 Int.

In fact he so impressed HC Allie Sherman that, after Wood was lost in the expansion draft and Morrall was slated for trade, he was scheduled to be recently acquired Fran Tarkenton's backup in 1967.  Sadly a training camp knee injury ruined those plans.  The Giants held off trading Morrall to the Colts for a year until they could reacquire Wood following the 1967 season.

Kennedy went on to become a stuntman in Hollywood.

[Giant Jim]

The Giants held off trading Morrall to the Colts for a year until they could reacquire Wood following the 1967 season.

Morrall led the Colts to the super bowl loss to the Jets the first year after the trade. Craig Morton, also 1 of 3 in 1974, led Denver to the super bowl loss after the Giants traded him about 10 years later. Giants paid high prices to obtain both and got nothing in return for either in play or acquisitions. Tarkenton gave them good seasons before he left for little return and led Minnesota to 3 super bowl losses.