Former Giants Head Coach Tom Coughlin speaks to the crowd during a halftime ceremony to honor the 2011 Super Bowl Championship team at MetLife Stadium on Oct 17, 2021 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Credit: Mike Stobe
Super Bowl pregame shows traditionally range from silly to banal, with occasional flashes of insight or inspiration filling in the margins.
In NBC’s case, one of those positive moments came relatively early in the five-hour runup to Super Bowl LVI, at about 2:39 p.m. on Sunday.
That was when the network presented a three-minute piece on two-time Super Bowl-winning former Giants coach Tom Coughlin and his wife, Judy, who suffers from a brain disease called progressive supranuclear palsy.