Riki Ellison was a linebacker for the 49ers in the 1980s, but he has plenty of friends against whom he played on the Giants. He’s run into Lawrence Taylor recently, he said, and been in touch with Ottis Anderson. He’s close with Harry Carson.
“They tease me a lot,” Ellison said in a phone interview with Newsday this week. “They say that I’m with them now.”
In a way he is. His son is Rhett Ellison, the Giants’ tight end who signed with the team this offseason and is now getting ready for his first taste of a rivalry that his father considered one of the tops in any era of the NFL.