E-GIANTS
Dave Klein was the Giants' beat writer for The Star-Ledger from 1961 to 1995.
He is the author of 26 books and he was one of only three sportswriters to have covered all the Super Bowls until the past few. Dave has allowed TEAM GIANTS to reprint some of his articles.

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By Aaron Klein

That's game, everyone. With the passing of my father, Dave Klein, E-GIANTS has come to the end after over 20 years.

Everything ends, good and bad, and they keep telling me that it's a natural progression, which it is. In this case, however, another door will not open in this space.

With him goes nearly 64 years of sports writing and a special connection to the NFL, especially the New York Football Giants. For 64 years, his name was either adjacent to or planted firmly in the world of the Giants.

He didn't stop, though there were gaps and slow moments along the way. He didn't want to stop. I don't think he knew how to stop, even in the face of health problems, world problems or just changing times. He could have closed the book on covering the Giants - no matter the method or the outlet - a long time ago and it would have been perfect. Anticipated. Understood. Except, writing about the Giants and the NFL, Olympics, boxing, novels and so much more, was what he did... what he was in many ways.

Now that he is gone, this whole professional life lives on only in memory. His name was synonymous with the Giants from the glory days of The Star-Ledger, The Giants Newsweekly and to E-GIANTS... and that's the way it will remain.

This is the last transmission of E-GIANTS. I learned so much from him and the experience of contributing to the Newsweekly and E-Giants. I used to think about following in his footsteps. That's not right... I assumed that I was destined to follow him, his father, Willie, the former Sports Editor at the Star-Ledger, and my uncle, Moss, who covered the New York Yankees and much more for the same paper. They were my heroes, not the players.

That world of newspapers offered me a priceless, fascinating experience. I learned to be honest, objective, fair and tough in my writing and everything else. I was lucky enough to be a part of it and do so much, but that world was not really mine. I was in it and around it, but I was merely a visitor, living in the shadow of something so much bigger.

I come from a newspaper family. In the old days, when real newspapers were a thing, when journalists typed their stories on a typewriter, when they weren't dictating over the phone, to let the editors and typesetters know that they had reached the end of the story, no one typed "The End." Instead, they used a transmission code that some say originated during the Civil War era.

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