I can just hear those “Ray Must Go, Ray Must Go” chants again. Good god. What was Young thinking? Maybe it’s better off we don’t know as those were two of the most disgusting years in Giants’ history following their dramatic Super Bowl XXV win over Buffalo in arguably the best SB. Let the debating again.

As for that outstanding Myers’ column from the News’ best football columnist (his Sunday has always been a must read), here’s one troubling excerpt of how Belichick wound up out of New York and instead coached the Browns before his quick one-day Jet stint then turning up in Beantown:

“I don’t know why,” one Giants insider said. “George had his mind made up. You have to understand, George was a cerebral guy. Ray Handley was a cerebral guy. There is no use dragging that up.”

My fave columnist Mike Lupica had a decent story on what this week has been like for Giant kicker Lawrence Tynes whose older brother Mark is in jail serving a preposterous 27 years for intent to distribute 100 kilograms or more of marijuana across state lines.

The hero from that thrilling NFC championship OT win over the Packers at Green Bay had some very interesting quotes on what it’s been like for himself dealing with all the media requests for his jailed brother in Arkansas.

Here were a few strong ones from one of Lupica’s better written stories:

“I can’t let this take away from the experience. I can’t and I won’t. It wouldn’t help my brother and it wouldn’t be fair to me.“

“Everybody has a story. Everybody had a road to get here, to get to this game. Mine is what it is. I can’t change it, I’m not embarrassed about it, I’m not going to be shy about it.“

“I’m going to say I talked openly about this situation when it was a proper time to do that, which means last week. This week is about me and my football team. I love my brother, but it’s not about him. What’s talked about with his situation has been talked about and I don’t expect anybody to give me a pity party because of things that happened with my brother. But I want to focus on this game, because it’s the biggest game of my life.“

Lawrence Tynes said:

“Is my brother guilty? Yes? But 27 years? I understand how the system works. I was a criminal justice major. I understand what happens if you have priors. But still, 27 years? My brother being in prison isn’t the injustice. The sentence was the injustice.”

It really puts a lot of perspective on what it’s been like for the former Chief kicker who speaks to his brother three times a week. Mean time, his other brother Jason is never talked about despite a great track record with the Army serving the country where he was in Kuwait, Bosnia and Iraq. He currently runs a reserve unit out of Charlotte.

You have to feel for Lawrence as that can’t be an easy family situation. The kicker along with his Giant teammates will try to make more history against the best team in the sport aiming for history of their own.

One other really nice story which was an entertaining read was written by Giant beat writer Ohm Youngmisuk on the unassuming Eli Manning. Only as it turns out, there was a lot more to the soft spoken fourth-year starting QB than what we get to see.

Believe it or not, the youngest Manning predicted his Super future back as a senior at Isidore Newman School in the 1999 Yearbook.

Here are a couple of excerpts:

There is another side to the reserved quarterback nicknamed “Easy” that those outside his inner circle and the Giants’ locker room rarely see. Deep beneath that Southern “yes sir, yes ma’am” exterior lies a fiery, cutthroat competitor. Not only does he have a drive that matches Peyton’s, he has a sense of humor that isn’t all that far from the one the Colts QB displays in commercials.

Sure, Manning sounds as dull as Tom Coughlin during interviews. But during his college days at Ole Miss, Manning was known to blast tunes on the karaoke machine in his apartment: Easy-E belting out “Bohemian Rhapsody”? Watch out world, indeed.

Peyton, 31, is the emotional and intense one with the legendary work ethic. And Eli, 26, is the mama’s boy of the trio. Since he was the youngest and alone at home when his older brothers were in college and his father traveling for speaking engagements, Manning took on many of his mother’s traits.

“She is very calm,” Archie says of Olivia. “I call her the great equalizer. She can handle any situation with calm and she has good judgment and makes good decisions.”

What this nice piece written by Youngmisuk does is present the Eli we aren’t familiar with. He has been more noticeable in commercials lately even appearing in one with his older brother who won last year’s Lombardi Trophy and Super Bowl MVP to get the collective monkey off his back. If you caught that Sports Center one where they playfully kick each other while touring Bristol, it’s a classic in every sense of the word.

Fyi…why was it necessary for the Patriots to stage a pep rally last night up in Massachusetts before boarding a plane to Arizona?!?!?!?!?!

Are they freaking kidding? That is about as bush league as it gets. The Pats represent pure evil. They have spoiled their legions of fans rotten to the core. If anything, it should’ve been the other way around with the underdog Giants having one. Oh wait. This just in. Our teams don’t pull such ridiculous stunts.

A little fun trivia to conclude this Monday edition of SB XLII: What do you call a Massachusetts state driver on a highway?

Answer supplied tomorrow.