Why Ray Perkins will forever be the man who ‘made Bill Parcells possible’

Ray Perkins was especially thirsty this day, a suffocating afternoon in northeastern Arkansas. He gulped down an iced tea, ordered another, told the waitress at the Jonesboro Holiday Inn: “Keep ’em coming. Hot as blazes out there today.” This was early August of 1992. Perkins – who’d brought the Giants back to the playoffs after…