Former New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin, who won two Super Bowl titles during his most recent stint in East Rutherford, suffered four fractured ribs, a punctured lung and required several stitches in his head following a bicycle accident last weekend.
Coughlin confirmed the accident to ESPN, telling the outlet that another man on a racing bike “comes out of nowhere and clips the front of my bike.”
The tough as nails 73-year-old first went home before his family convinced him a trip to the hospital was necessary. It was a very on-brand move for Coughlin.
After undergoing some X-rays and a CT scan, doctors in the Baptist Health emergency room informed Coughlin he faced a four- to six-week recovery.
Coughlin most recently served as the executive VP of football operations for the Jacksonville Jaguars, which is where his head coaching career began back in 1995. However, Coughlin was fired by owner Shad Khan last December after the NFLPA warned players to think twice about signing with the team due to excessive fines and player grievances.
Although that disciplinarian style did not work in Jacksonville, it did work in New York, where Coughlin won a total of three titles — the first of which came as a wide receivers coach in 1990.
Coughlin was inducted into the Giants’ “Ring of Honor” in 2016.
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