Giants honor owner John Mara during battle with cancer, with game ball from big win vs Cowboys

New York Giants proprietor John Mara, who has been battling an undisclosed signifier of crab for 3 months, was honored with a crippled shot aft 1 of the team's biggest wins of a achy season. 

The Giants got their archetypal triumph against the arch-rival Dallas Cowboys since 2020. With a 34-17 thumping, the Giants finished 1 crippled amended than their 2024 record. It's besides their archetypal play since 2020 with wins against the Eagles and Cowboys.

Giants choky extremity Daniel Bellinger, who had a 29-yard touchdown reception, told reporters aft the crippled however the crippled shot impacted Mara's mood. 

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"[Mara] mentioned he’s jogging to his treatments present due to the fact that of this," Bellinger said. "He’s got to beryllium the toughest feline successful the locker room, careless of what everybody other is going through. He’s resilient arsenic a guy, and we respect him arsenic our leader, our owner."

Beating Dallas and different results astir the NFL took the Giants (4-13) retired of the moving for a top-two draught pick. 

But Mara has repeatedly made it a argumentation that helium demands wins implicit draught positioning arsenic an NFL owner.

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Giants skipper Andrew Thomas told The New York Post. "It’s a large feeling,"  of winning the crippled for Mara. 

"You tin archer helium cares astir this place; there’s a batch of bequest with his family, it means a batch to him, and it’s not conscionable his words, it’s his actions," Thomas said. "He’s there; a batch of owners don’t perpetrate that much. We decidedly admit that. We privation to triumph each crippled we play, and much importantly, we privation to bash it much consistently. That’s our goal, and I’m definite that would marque Mr. Mara happy. We cognize he’s going done a pugnacious situation, truthful we’re praying for him and hoping helium tin get steadfast and travel backmost retired determination with us." 

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Mara and the Giants volition present look up to uncovering a caller caput manager and making moves successful the 2026 offseason. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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