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 shape of cancer for 3 months, was honored pinch a crippled shot aft 1 of nan team's biggest wins of a achy season. 

The Giants sewage their first triumph against nan arch-rival Dallas Cowboys since 2020. With a 34-17 thumping, nan Giants vanished 1 crippled amended than their 2024 record. It's besides their first play since 2020 pinch wins against nan Eagles and Cowboys.

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

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"[Mara] mentioned he’s jogging to his treatments now because of this," Bellinger said. "He’s sewage to beryllium nan toughest feline successful nan locker room, sloppy 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 nan NFL took nan Giants (4-13) retired of nan moving for a top-two draught pick. 

But Mara has many times made it a argumentation that he demands wins complete draught positioning arsenic an NFL owner.

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

"You tin show he cares astir this place; there’s a batch of bequest pinch his family, it intends 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 want to triumph each crippled we play, and much importantly, we want to do it much consistently. That’s our goal, and I’m judge that would make Mr. Mara happy. We cognize he’s going done a reliable situation, truthful we’re praying for him and hoping he tin get patient and travel backmost retired location pinch us." 

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Mara and nan Giants will now look up to uncovering a caller caput coach and making moves successful nan 2026 offseason. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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