ARE YOU SIRI-OUS?

Tom Coughlin muses about talking to his iPhone as he discusses future with Giants

PHOENIX – There is no “I” in team, but there is one in Tom Coughlin’s cell phone.

The Giants coach, who is not exactly technologically advanced, has an iPhone and was proud to say Wednesday that he’s learned to text. “I’m a hunt and peck guy,” he said.

He then related a very funny story about using the know-it-all Siri function on his iPhone to get directions. Who knew Coughlin had stand-up comic potential.

“Two weeks ago, I’m trying to get to a roller hockey game my

grandson is playing,” he said. “Marc Ross (the Giants VP of player evaluation) has showed me how to talk to this phone. I don’t trust the lady on GPS. They don’t send you the right way. I hit the button, I go like this, ‘Park Ridge, New Jersey.’ She comes back on, she’s giving me directions. Now I figure out where I am. I hit the thing and say, ‘Thank you very much, I know exactly where I am now.’ She comes back and says, ‘You don’t have to thank me.’ I swear to God, that’s what she said. Then I couldn’t get her to shut up.”

Siri continued with the directions. Coughlin didn’t know to make her stop. “Take a right here,” she said. “I know where I am. I’m a block away from my house,” Coughlin answered back.

Coughlin had the media at his table at the coaches breakfast laughing very hard. He was laughing very hard. “She’s telling me where to go. I said, ‘I know where I’m going.’ ”

It was suggested to Coughlin that it’s a shame the moment was not preserved on video. “That would have been a classic,” he said. — Myers