Newsday · Nov 10, 2019
Ex-Giant CB Perry Williams an All-Pro as an educator
Perry Williams enjoyed an 11-year career as a defensive back with the Giants, winning two Super Bowls. On Monday, Oct. 28, Williams talked about his new career - teaching the sports management program at LIU. (Credit: Newsday / Yeong-Ung Yang)
Perry Williams was walking up the hill toward his dorm room at North Carolina State when Jim Valvano whizzed past him. Valvano jammed on the brakes.
“I see it’s this Mustang convertible, I realize it’s Coach V, and he turns around and pulls up,” Williams recalled of that day in the summer of 1982. “He goes, ‘Perry Williams, right?’ I knew Coach V — everybody knew Coach V at N.C. State — but I had no idea he knew me.”
