Co-owner John Mara met with the Giants’ participant leaders just a few weeks in the past to debate his most cancers battle and stated one thing that resonated.
“That best treatment possible is wins,” large receiver Darius Slayton recounted Mara telling the group.
So it was apparent who deserved the sport ball from Sunday’s 34-17 season finale win over the Dallas Cowboys: the chief of this group, who was right here in particular person at MetLife Stadium to help the workforce.
“He’s been fighting a battle recently that nobody should have to go through,” Slayton stated. “To see him have a chance to smile, get the game ball and whoop up on the Cowboys, I was happy for him.”
Mara smiled when interim coach Mike Kafka handed him the sport ball and stated: “I’m going to be able to jog to my treatments tomorrow.”
Kafka stated that Mara “brings that energy to the locker room” regardless of what he’s battling personally. The Giants snapped a nine-game dropping streak to the Cowboys and received consecutive video games for the primary time since 2023, in order that they delivered wins to their ailing co-owner at a key time regardless of the season’s 4-13 end.
“He was there today. We presented him with the game ball,” Kafka stated of Mara. “Toughness and resiliency, he’s the poster child for that. He continues to lead our organization. I’m very proud and fortunate to work for a man like that.”
Quarterback Jaxson Dart stated it was “sweet” to see Mara honored after the victory.
“It was a good moment for us as a team and for him to be the leader of our organization,” Dart stated. “He’s going via lots. So the truth that he exhibits up for us, nonetheless involves the ability to work and he loves ball, he loves this group … he provides every part that he has.
“From my perspective, everybody has the utmost respect for him and is rooting for him and praying for him,” he added. “He’s a special individual, and to continue to support us while going through probably the hardest time of his life says a lot.”
The win dropped the Giants decrease in April’s NFL Draft order to No. 5 total. However today was about greater than soccer and the long run.
It was in regards to the current and Mara, in the beginning. And the Giants did it proper.
