I approached Giants guard Chris Snee today and started to ask him a question about his father-in-law, Giants coach Tom Coughlin. But I could barely get the first syllable of the word "father" out before he gave me a tired, rehearsed answer.
"Good relationship from day one on and off the field," Snee said, clearly sick of being asked this question.
Snee attended Boston College with Coughlin's daughter and was dating her when the Giants drafted him, and not long after he got married, making his father-in-law his coach. Obviously, that's an interesting story, and one that will be explored ad nauseam when the team it happens on makes the Super Bowl.
And obviously, Snee is sick of it. Coughlin was a little more tolerant of the question, saying, "When we're at work we work. When we're out of the building we're family."
Coughlin also knew that Snee's status as the coach's son-in-law made things tough in the locker room. "The players like to razz him," Coughlin said. "The players like to give him some heat.
