Most passionate Giants fan of all time weighs in on this season
Ron Freiman
It came from a Post reader named Ron Freiman  who’d seen my Sunday column advancing the Giants-49ers game. In it  I referred to this tenuous time for Giants fans as approaching the low-point days of the 1978 revolt by season ticket holders  which included ticket burning and an airplane banner flown over Giants Stadium reading: “15 Years of Lousy Football — We’ve Had Enough.’’
 Freiman  recalled the catalyst to  his  becoming the leader of that ’78 fan revolt as “sitting at that Philadelphia game when they had the fumble  and I couldn’t get up from my seat I was so stunned. It was a victory that they just threw away.’’
The day after The Fumble   Freiman  purchased a display ad in the Newark Star-Ledger for $120 that included a post office box urging angry fans to send their tickets in.
“We’ll burn them and they’ll play in front of an empty stadium ’’  Freiman  said.
“Hundreds of people sent their tickets to be burned ’’  Freiman  said. “I was totally baffled by the reaction. There were a lot of disappointed fans … as I’m sure there are now.’’
The famous airplane banner came the following Sunday.  Freiman  said  he  and another season-ticket holder named Peter Valentine  an attorney  arranged the plane flyover.
“[Valentine] knew somebody who had this [plane-rental] service and we decided  ‘Let’s fly this thing around and see what happens ’ ’’  Freiman  recalled. “It caused quite a stir … and it did some good because they got rid of a lot of people  and they still talk about it.’’
 Freiman  said  he  later met Young at a luncheon at the old Giants hangout  Manny’s in Moonachie  N.J.
“He knew I was the guy who did it  so I wasn’t looked upon too well by Giants management ’’  Freiman  said with a laugh. “I sent the ashes from the ticket burning to Wellington Mara in a urinal  one of those hospital bedpans  and I don’t think they took very kindly to that. It’s probably still sitting up in their offices.
Though he said he’s “still an enthusiastic fan ’’  Freiman  said  he  doesn’t get as riled up about the Giants’ failures as  he  once did in  his  season-ticket days.
“It doesn’t bother me now the way it bothered me 40 years ago ’’  he  said. “But I know there are other people that are really upset by it now. I can understand how they feel about it.’’
It came from a Post reader named [TGT]  who’d seen my Sunday column advancing the Giants-49ers game. In it  I referred to this tenuous time for Giants fans as approaching the low-point days of the 1978 revolt by season ticket holders  which included ticket burning and an airplane banner flown over Giants Stadium reading: “15 Years of Lousy Football — We’ve Had Enough.’’
 Freiman  recalled the catalyst to  his  becoming the leader of that ’78 fan revolt as “sitting at that Philadelphia game when they had the fumble  and I couldn’t get up from my seat I was so stunned. It was a victory that they just threw away.’’
The day after The Fumble   Freiman  purchased a display ad in the Newark Star-Ledger for $120 that included a post office box urging angry fans to send their tickets in.
“We’ll burn them and they’ll play in front of an empty stadium ’’  Freiman  said.
“Hundreds of people sent their tickets to be burned ’’  Freiman  said. “I was totally baffled by the reaction. There were a lot of disappointed fans … as I’m sure there are now.’’
The famous airplane banner came the following Sunday.  Freiman  said  he  and another season-ticket holder named Peter Valentine  an attorney  arranged the plane flyover.
“[Valentine] knew somebody who had this [plane-rental] service and we decided  ‘Let’s fly this thing around and see what happens ’ ’’  Freiman  recalled. “It caused quite a stir … and it did some good because they got rid of a lot of people  and they still talk about it.’’
 Freiman  said  he  later met Young at a luncheon at the old Giants hangout  Manny’s in Moonachie  N.J.
“He knew I was the guy who did it  so I wasn’t looked upon too well by Giants management ’’  Freiman  said with a laugh. “I sent the ashes from the ticket burning to Wellington Mara in a urinal  one of those hospital bedpans  and I don’t think they took very kindly to that. It’s probably still sitting up in their offices.
Though he said he’s “still an enthusiastic fan ’’  Freiman  said  he  doesn’t get as riled up about the Giants’ failures as  he  once did in  his  season-ticket days.
“It doesn’t bother me now the way it bothered me 40 years ago ’’  he  said. “But I know there are other people that are really upset by it now. I can understand how they feel about it.’’