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News 12's Pat O'Keefe speaks on the new book written by longtime NFL author and writer Gary Myers capturing the story of the 1986 New York Giants team.

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Welcome back. We're checking back in with storm watch team, meteorologist, Alex Calamia, Alex. You were actually saying today is gonna be a little warmer than the last few days. Yeah, it is 56. We love to see that and we've got the sunshine too at least early this morning, but the clouds will thicken a bit. So let's talk about that. Um We definitely are expecting fifties, which is beautiful all afternoon. Uh But then we've got to talk about the elephant in the room which is Sunday in the morning. This time tomorrow we have drizzle, very light winds. Not a big problem. As far as that goes early in the morning. Steady rain though develops throughout the later half of the afternoon. Dinner time could be a wash and the evening will also come with really gusty wind that could reach 40 MPH. So, so let's just take a screenshot of this. Just enjoy your Saturday. Enjoy even Sunday morning. We don't have any huge problems. Highs should reach Loga mid fifties because of that south breeze. Places like Marine Park, Coney Island rockaways. You're all looking a little bit cooler than just a little inland Bushwick in the mid fifties tonight, forties, a little bit of fog. It looks good though. We're dry for dinner time and we're dry even very early Sunday morning. But around this time tomorrow, we will see a few quick little spritzes and that will continue until lunch. So the first half of Sunday is not a total washout, but you should have the umbrella all day. Sunday. The wind is going to pick up and temperatures actually continue to climb after the sun sets. We probably don't hit 60 until 67 o'clock at night, which is just ridiculous. And obviously that does come with some problems because all of that air is literally fueling these storms. Now, we're not necessarily listening to thunder with this, but it will be lots of heavy rain, gusty wind through, I would say about dinner all the way to bedtime and even after midnight, look at some of this wind gusts at midnight. We're near 30 to 40 mile per hour. Gusts right along the Atlantic communities there. So Sheeps head bay could see 40 mile per hour gusts JFK. If you know anybody coming in from a flight, that's gonna be a problem Sunday evening, Monday morning commute. It is breezy but it is dry so no problems for a Monday morning commute. Latest model guidance showing possibly 2 to 3 inches of rain. I do think some of that's a little over exaggerated. Another model showing still two inches of rain. So definitely rain is the name of the game. We're gonna have plenty of it. And unfortunately, that could cause some localized flooding. It is dry though for the whole work week.

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Remembering the 1986 New York Giants 

One of the most memorable teams in the history of the New York Giants is chronicled in a new book and news. 12 sports director Pat o'keefe spoke with the author in the history of the New York Giants. The 1986 team stands above the rest in winning Super Bowl. 21. Those giants made up one of the most dominant teams in the history of the franchise and the history of the sport. Longtime NFL author and writer Gary Myers captures their story then and now in his recently released book, Once a Giant, these guys had an awful lot of fun uh winning a championship together, which has bonded them for life, but at the same time as they grow old together and they still care about each other. There's really a lot of suffering going on. Perhaps nowhere is that suffering illustrated more than with the travails of Mark Bavaro, the bruising tough guy tight end on that 86 team. He had a six or seven month battle with long term COVID and it, it really affected him to the point that he considered taking his own life. Um You know, fortunately he got help that he needed it. He got on the right medicine, he got starts to see the right psychologist but he was suffering from anxiety and paranoia and depression. The highs of winning a championship are as high as any but the post career lows can be pretty low. Several members of that team have run into rough patches. Oftentimes their hall of fame coach Bill Parcells has been there to lend a hand. The thing that's really eye opening in the book that I had no idea about. And it seems to have taken everybody by surprise is that, you know, financially, he's been willing to help some of his old players who uh might be having difficulties, you know, for whatever legitimate reason it is, it remains a team bonded all these years later by reaching the pinnacle of its sport. And once a giant, I I tell the story of one team uh and, and what their, what their lives are like now that they're in their mid fifties to late sixties and, and the impact that playing such a collision sport uh has had on them in basically every the good and the bad Pat o'keefe News 12.

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