Former New York Giants All-Professional defensive finish Leonard Marshall hopes at some point to be enshrined within the Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
The 2-time Tremendous Bowl champion is third all-time in Giants franchise historical past in sacks behind Corridor of Famers Michael Strahan and Lawrence Taylor and isn’t being egocentric in his quest for a gold jacket.
“I need this for everybody concerned in each side of my life,” Marshall instructed Large Blue View throughout an unique interview. “My household, my teammates, my coaches, all the lads that touched my life as a boy and I represented by way of their management.”
One well-known former coach, says Marshall, who will again his candidacy is Invoice Belichick, who served because the Giants’ defensive coordinator beneath head coach Invoice Parcells throughout the Giants’ glory days of the Eighties.
“I had a dialog this morning over electronic mail with Invoice Belichick. He assured me that I might get his endorsement, and that meant a hell of so much to me as a result of this man helped me change into who I grew to become in that Large uniform,” Marshall stated.
Marshall will all the time be remembered for his devastating hit on San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana that turned the tide within the 1990 NFC Championship Recreation.
Marshall was a second-round pick of LSU by the Giants again in 1983 and performed with Large Blue till 1992, profitable two Tremendous Bowls. He completed his profession in 1994 after stints with the Jets and Washington.
Marshall was inducted into the Giants’ Ring of Honor in 2022.
