""No, I'm not the least bit interested. Thank you very much," he said, before hanging up the phone."
"Handley's career with the Giants began in 1984, when he was hired as an offensive backfield coach under Bill Parcells. Handley won a pair of Super Bowls as an assistant in New York before being named head coach when Parcells surprisingly retired for the first time following Super Bowl XXV."
"Handley landed in New York in large part because of his relationship with Parcells. The two had worked together on the same staff in West Point for Army in the late 1960s and reunited when Parcells was the head coach at Air Force in 1978."
Ray Handley died at age 81, with his death confirmed by his nephew Rob Handley. Handley's Giants tenure began in 1984 as an offensive backfield coach under Bill Parcells and included two Super Bowl wins as an assistant. Parcells' first retirement after Super Bowl XXV resulted in Handley's promotion to head coach, where he compiled a 14-18 record across two contentious seasons marked by media battles and waning fan support. He was replaced by Dan Reeves after the 1992 season and, despite being only 48, never coached again in the NFL. Handley previously coached at Stanford and had longstanding ties to Parcells from Army and Air Force stints.
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