Jennings played for the Giants from 1974-84. He holds the franchise records for punts (931 \u2014 405 more than second-place Sean Landeta) and yards (38,792). Jennings was selected to play in the Pro Bowl in 1978, \u201879, \u201880 and \u201882. He punted a career-high 104 times in 1979, which was the Giants record until Brad Maynard had 111 punts in 1997.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cDave Jennings was one of the all-time great Giants,\u201d team president
\nJohn Mara said. \u201cHe was a valued member of the Giants family for more
\nthan 30 years as a player and a broadcaster, and we were thrilled to
\ninclude him in our Ring of Honor. More importantly, he was an
\noutstanding person who battled his illness with rare courage and
\ndignity. We will miss him dearly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Giants
\nchairman Steve Tisch said Jennings lived his life with class and
\ndignity, and he was the ultimate professional as a player and
\ncommentator.<\/p>\n
\u201cDave is and always will be a Giants\u2019 Giant,\u201d Tisch said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The NY Giant punter from the 70's and 80's, and also onr og their radio commentators, after his retirement. He was only 61 and evidently had Parkinson's Disease since 1996. Ver ywell liked by everyone. I used to enjoy listening to him on "The Giant's Radio Network." Jennings played for the Giants from 1974-84. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6222,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715\/revisions\/6222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}