CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Former New York Giants general manager Ernie Accorsi was in a posh Charlotte hotel on January 8, 2013, waiting for Dave Gettleman to return from dinner with Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson.
Gettleman would be named Carolina’s general manager the next day. Accorsi, who recommended his then 61-year-old friend and former colleague with the Giants to Richardson, wanted to have a celebratory beer in the hotel bar.
On Gettleman’s tab, naturally.
“Dave comes down wearing a T-shirt, flip-flops and shorts," Accorsi vividly recalled. “We’re sitting at the bar and I said, ‘Look.