The New York Giants dug deep into their quarterback depth chart Sunday and gave rise to an instant New York folk hero. Tommy DeVito, a 25-year-old rookie who played at Syracuse and Illinois, made his NFL debut after Tyrod Taylor suffered a rib injury in the first half against the New York Jets. (Taylor was starting in place of Daniel Jones, who’s sidelined with a neck injury.)

DeVito instantly thrilled many New York fans, not with his play, but his name and heritage. The New York area has a sizable Italian-American population, and many of those fans jumped on social media to trumpet DeVito’s NFL debut. By the way, if the name sounds familiar, it was the name of Joe Pesci’s character in the popular 1990 film Goodfellas.