David Tyree: Giants Super Bowl Hero Out For 6 Games
David Tyree’s amazing off-the-helmet catch helped the New York Giants beat the undefeated New England Patriots in the Super Bowl last February but he won’t be assisting his team for the first six weeks of play following a knee injury.
Tyree has been rehabbing his surgically repaired right knee (surgery was in May) and has been able to participate in training camp which opened in July.
He was placed on the physically-unable-to-perform(PUP) list today and once the six weeks is up, he has 21 days to be reactivated or he is done for the season.
In an interview with ESPN’s E:60, Tyree also talked about dealing with the demons in his life: alcohol addiction, drug dealing and the loss of his mom at the end of the 2007 season.
“Somebody asked me what my name was and I told them ‘the devil’,” Tyree says in the interview. “I can’t make this up. There’s no benefit in me telling the world that basically I was demon-possessed.”
The interview has a purpose, to promote his new book “More Than Just The Catch” and in it he chronicles the tough times in his life. He goes into detail about his family praying over him during the time he heard voices and believed that he himself was Satan.
“I remember actually slithering off the couch, and you know, stuff that you would pretty much see in movies,” Tyree said. “It was almost like a modern day exorcist without, you know, without the green face.”
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