He is the Giants fan from the Castleton Corners section of Staten Island, and Susan Wagner High School and Wagner College. He will be taking so many Big Blue boyhood memories with him to Super Bowl 2022 and reaching for that precious Lombardi Trophy with a rollicking city and a franchise that has only dreamed of hoisting it.
“It was unbelievable. It was a great experience,” Anarumo said. “And then getting to be able to talk to Mr. [John] Mara and Mr. [Steve] Tisch about the job was a great experience for me.” Anarumo won’t have to worry about Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford pulling the Roadrunner act that Mahomes did to exhaust the likes of studs Trey Hendrickson and Sam Hubbard.
“We just knew that we could build around him because of everything that he’s made of, and that was on display on Sunday,” Anarumo said. “In the most critical point of the most critical game, he’s one of the guys who rose up. He [Mahomes] was running ’em ragged a little bit and they just never relented, none of ’em. You could tell the inner fortitude of those guys up front, especially led by Sam, that they weren’t gonna give up no matter what. You can win a lot of games with guys like him.