New Giants Coach Keeping Tom Coughlin's Stupid Clocks 5-Minutes Fast Tradition

Ben McAdoo was introduced as the new head coach of the New York Giants today. At some point he shared this anecdote about paying tribute to the guy who won two Super Bowls and then promptly went 28-36 over the next four seasons and got fired.

Giants coach Ben McAdoo was looking to honor Tom Coughlin. Coughlin told him, "Don't mess with the clocks." They'll stay 5 minutes fast.
— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) January 15, 2016

I think we now know why the Giants lost six games after being tied or leading with 2-minutes remaining this season.

Tom Coughlin Time is something the New York media has been glamorizing for years now. It’s the idiotic practice of setting clocks 5-minutes fast because telling someone to be somewhere at a certain time and expecting them to show up at that time isn’t a cliched enough motivational technique. This is a stupid thing that Coughlin apparently stole from Vince Lombardi.

Lombardi time is 15 minutes fast because to Vince Lombardi, being 15 minutes early meant you were on time #SNF pic.twitter.com/rSa8AlBKHt
— SNF on NBC (@SNFonNBC) November 10, 2014

Good lord. People know that this doesn’t add extra time to the day, right?