Protecting players with proper equipment has always been my priority, and one piece of protection is essential.

Or so do you think?

What do you believe?

I can't give one away.

It's just restricting and uncomfortable, I think is very uncomfortable.

I would imagine.

I don't know.

I never won one.

So it's not really a big deal for me not to wear when they're not, like dumb and dumber.

It's a risk I'm willing to take.

For those who don't wear a cup, there are cautionary tales that pop up from time to time.

I had an incident recently tried to hurt of a guy.

Wow, millions of people watching Thursday Night Football.

You gotta be able to hide the pain, but on the sideline, if they follow you with the camera, you see through a lot of it.

That particular moment, a couple would have been so bad.

Even two decades ago, it was an afterthought.

It's difficult to pinpoint when players stopped wearing them, looking back at, you know, great school and so forth.

You know the coaches back in those days, you know, told us saying, This is a mandatory piece of equipment.

You know, I think Mom and Dad wanted you to wear it as well.

But I think that change, really, You know, as around high school years, I don't think I knew anybody four teams that I played for.

They actually wore a protective cup.

Frankly, this goes deeper than the NFL.

All across the country, equipment managers can't find a taker.

This is a protective cup.

They've been around since the late 18 hundreds.

This is how it's worn.

It's only a handful of football players continue to wear the cups on most of those air.

For medical reasons.

Who would have ever thought that this coverage would become more essential than this?

Coverage?

Maybe a couple of times where you get caught in the wrong position and you get up like man like, kind of heard I might.

I probably wear a cup, tried it on my home, and it was like, You know, this is not it has your butt all out.

I don't like that it is hard to roll with a couple.

I'm just not a fan of that.

I like to be Freeman I'm a free man without getting too deep into the, uh, anatomy of it.

It's It's harder for a shoulder, big shoulder pad or a big helmet to get into a small area, as it is for like a baseball.

For a baseball player, everything in the NFL is about speed, speed and quickness and so forth.

You don't want anything, you're really slowing you down.

I risk taking one blow out of 10,000 snaps, then you know, wearing a cup, being uncomfortable for 10,000 snaps.

We get those shots and we don't even blink.

We just drive on and play football.

It's equipment manager's job to be prepared.

If a player needs one, we'll be ready.

For 20 years, we've packed this little fella for every single game the Giants have played.

I haven't wearing a cup, never want a cup.

Don't plan on wearing one, so I'm not gonna want to avoid that.

I'm gonna ask you get a cup and I'm gonna see what they give me.

I'm not gonna permanent were no shot, but I might try it out.

Mhm.