Shockey’s Super Bowl Chance

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — No hard feelings, Giants, but Jeremy Shockey will play in this Super Bowl.

Shockey, the outspoken former Giants tight end, missed the 2008 Super Bowl with a broken left leg, and did not ride in the ticker-tape parade in the Canyon of Heroes after the Giants upset the unbeaten New England Patriots. Nor did he visit the White House with the team.

Jeremy Shockey said he appreciated his time with the Giants and that playing with Michael Strahan and Tiki Barber helped him become a professional.

But Shockey, who has found new life with the Saints, said he was never angry at the Giants. Rather he was upset that he could not play in the game.

“That was a tough, tough, depressing couple of months,” a humble Shockey said on media day. “Being in a cast, rehab, watching commercials of David Tyree’s catch.”

Shockey, who was traded in 2008 for a second- and a fifth-round draft pick, said he had a great six years playing for the Giants.
“I wouldn’t trade those years for anything,” he said.

He fondly recalled the co-owners Wellington Mara and Robert Tisch.

“When Wellington passed and Tisch passed, it was just rough,” Shockey said. “When they left, a little piece of me did as well.”

Now, Shockey gets a chance to play in a Super Bowl rather than watch one from a luxury suite.

“I’m going to play this game as if it were my last,” he said.

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(nytimes.com)