Nick Saban says he was offered Giants job in 1997

Nick Saban's two-year stint as an NFL head coach began in 2005. It could have started eight years earlier.

In a Thursday interview with Chris "Mad Dog" Russo of SiriusXM Mad Dog Radio, Saban admitted — eventually — that the Giants had offered him the head-coaching job after the Giants fired Dan Reeves, when Saban was the head coach at Michigan State.