Harry Carson quote from Peter King
“Obviously I will show up. The whole process sort of made me sour. But for me not to show up would be disrespecting those people who really went to bat for me, who really thought I should be there. Where I sort of had a change of heart was when Mr. Mara passed away. I knew how strongly he felt about me being a Hall of Famer. I knew that if it did come, I couldn’t tarnish his memory, because it’s something that he wanted for me. And I would never embarrass his memory, embarrass the Giants’ organization or embarrass the National Football League.” — Hall of Fame inductee Harry Carson, the former Giants linebacker who had said he did not want to be considered for Hall entry because of being annually snubbed by the Hall’s 39-man board of selectors.
I think the most amazing thing I’ve heard in a long, long time was the choked-up, unsteady voice of Bill Parcells over the phone from Dallas Saturday afternoon, after the election of one of his favorite players, Harry Carson, to the Hall of Fame. “I’ve been crying for five minutes,” he told me. “God, am I happy. Harry is so deserving, and I couldn’t be happier for anyone. It’s unbelievable.”
