![]() ![]() To most of us under 60, however, Gifford was primarily a broadcaster-that or a disembodied spousal reference on Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee (Mark Consuelos replaced him in that regard when Kelly Ripa took over). Gifford was also an unwilling icon of the sport’s violence, losing a year and half to a vicious hit from the Eagles’ Chuck Bednarik, who became an icon himself for the same play. To New York football Giants fans such as Exley, Gifford was a league MVP and a key player on the 1956 championship team it was their last until Bill Parcells won the Super Bowl thirty years later. ![]() 1 1“Exley,” unless noted otherwise will refer to the fictional Exley going forward. Or, at least, the Exley who narrated his fictional memoir, A Fan’s Notes, an alter ego for whom Gifford was an obsession to the point of becoming, as the author claimed, a further alter ego. ![]() Nobody would have mourned football legend Frank Gifford, who died this week at the age of 84, quite like Frederick Exley. ![]()
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