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Giants owner John Mara's reputation tested with Josh Brown situation

Bob Glauber

Glauber has been Newsday's national football columnist since 1992. He was Newsday's football writer covering the Jets and

In the end, John Mara relied on a combination of the circumstances of the case, the withdrawal of domestic violence charges and also gut instincts about doing the right thing in deciding to keep kicker Josh Brown despite his arrest last year for an incident involving his then wife.

“A lot of times there is a tendency to make these cases black and white,” the Giants president and co-owner said in his first public remarks since the team’s 37-year-old kicker was suspended one game for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy.