At This Point The Giants Need To Step In And Help Abdul Carter After He Got Publicly Rejected By Lawrence Taylor And Phil Simms' Family

This is how I know we're starting to enter the slow time of sports. It really hits once the NHL/NBA playoffs are done and you've got some golf and summer baseball. You just start counting down the days until you see an NFL preseason game, maybe your fantasy draft, whatever it might be to let you know that sports are around the corner again. But, the whole retired jersey thing has really stepped in and taken over Giants news. 

I kinda love that Abdul Carter asked Lawrence Taylor for 56. It shows that Carter has enough of lunatic in him that he should be great. You don't ask for 56 (which is one of those numbers that should never be worn again) unless you think you can do something to make it worth it. Then he goes to 11 and Simms' family turns him down. Brutal to get denied by a family after the guy who, you know, played said he doesn't care if Carter wears 11. 

This is an important process though. Jersey numbers can make or break a player, at least from my brain standpoint. You have a bad number? You're not going to be good. I don't trust basketball players who wear like 46 or something dumb like that. Same goes for guards who wear 52 or bigs who wear a small number. We can't have our top pick, next defensive star, getting publicly humiliated at this point. That or he just needs to keep asking for retired numbers as a bit. Call up Eli, see what he says about 10. Just keep going up and down the list because why not? The whole jersey debate is fairly stupid in terms of people being up in arms about it. 

So step in and tell him what number to wear. Think about going a little Jessie Armstead and wear 98. Maybe pay homage to Antonio Pierce and 58 or rock 55. Whatever leads to wins and people stop complaining about asking to wear a number. We got games to win.