This speech made Jim Fassel a legend in New York and ended with a Giants Super Bowl

The New York Jets had their famously outlandish guarantee. And, thanks to Jim Fassel, the New York Giants had their own. Three decades after quarterback Joe Namath vowed his underdog Jets would beat the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III, coach Fassel promised the football world that his Giants — fresh off a home loss to the mediocre Detroit Lions — would improbably climb to their feet and make the playoffs.