Super Bowl Hero David Tyree Cut by Giants
September 5, 2009 by Stephen Kersey
Filed under Football
To help the New York Giants win the 2007 Super Bowl championship, David Tyree came down with one of the most memorable catches in the history of the Super Bowl. On Saturday, the Giants decided to cut the wide receiver.
While Tyree’s catch will go down in Super Bowl history, him getting cut isn’t that much of surprise. The Giants have at ton of options at wide receiver and Tyree admittedly wasn’t having the greatest of training camps.
Said Tyree: “I’m not going to sit there and say I had a great camp and why would they do this. I didn’t have a great camp. I had a very average camp. It started terrible and worked up to average. It’s about performance.”
Prior to becoming a Super Bowl hero, Tyree didn’t have much of an NFL career. In the regular season, he had 54 receptions, 650 receiving yards and four touchdowns over the course of five seasons. Last year, he missed the entire campaign due to injury.
By all accounts he’s a great guy so it’ll be interesting to see if a team brings him in to serve as a mentor who has been there and definitely done that.
Here is the David Tyree Super Bowl Video for the few people who missed it:
David Tyree - Super Bowl Hero (Image: Zuma Press)
