Bavaro detailed his struggles in “Once A Giant” by Gary Myers.
This book tells the story of the 1986 Super Bowl champion Giants with new interviews.
“You think about it,” he said. “You’re like, ‘What the f–k?’ You’re on top of a burning building and how long can you stay there until you jump off? You come to understand a lot about other people and what they go through.” Even with an ablation procedure in 2015 to treat atrial fibrillation, Bavaro’s heart was beating strong. It meant he would have to consciously decide to leave his wife Susan and his adult children. The debate kept raging inside him. The pain wasn’t football pain. He long ago became conditioned to feeling like crap on Monday mornings and just about every morning during his playing years. It was his emotional side that was damaged, insisting life really sucked with no end to his misery in sight.
He’d never liked the nickname, which he believed was disrespectful to Vietnam veterans, including some in his own family. Still, Bavaro’s toughness was legendary. He played golf the next two days after Easter and came home the second night feeling like he had a cold. “I knew I had it,” he said. “I just assumed it was Covid.”
Susan called paramedics. They checked his vitals, which were fine, and he avoided a trip to the emergency room. He had wrenched his neck. He had unforgiving headaches. His face was black and blue. “That was the beginning of all my troubles,” he said. “There were months,“I really ripped my nose up. I think I had a concussion. And my neck was off,” he said. “The hat trick, you know. I had three things going on. I was a wreck. I was a mess.”
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