As reported last night by our Fistpumps beat writer, the New York Football Giants agreed to trade dysfunctional tight end Jeremy Shockey to his visor-wearing boy Sean Payton in New Orleans.
Many outside of the Giants' faithful are questioning this maneuver as, when healthy, Shockey has the ability to be a tremendous offensive force. Shockey has, undoubtedly, been one of the premier tight ends in the league. From a white trashy perspective, arguably the best.
However, what the DEFENDING SUPERBOWL CHAMPION Giants' fans realize, which what fans around the league need to take into account, are the fistpumping aspects of this move.
Shockey's fistpumps, although passionate and intense, were arguably too over the top histrionic, perhaps for the team's own good, often morphing into idiotic bicep curl poses (which I never understand. Doesn't every NFL player have massively 'roided up muscles, with the exception of anyone wearing the numbers 1-13 and Ike Hilliard?)...
What the Giants do get in replacement of Shockey is the meticulous fistpumping ability of Kevin Boss. Although Boss' fistpumping sample size is relatively small, and therefore has a greater chance of a standard deviation error about the mean, it looks like Boss will provide timely, muted, yet powerful fistpumping. The kind of fistpumping that defined the Bill Parcells' coached Giants of the late 80s...
Boss will provide the kind of stalwart fistpumping that is simply just debilitating to the opposition, combining a warrior like zeal with the grace of the fist. The kind of fistpumping splendor that is a complete 180 from Shockey's maleficence, and harken back to the halcyon days of Pete Sampras' competitive fistpumping style, where you just knew you were in trouble when this guy started pumping some hard fist...
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