Giants co-owner John Mara on the sidelines before an NFL preseason game against the New York Jets at MetLife Stadium on Aug .14, 2021. Credit: Brad Penner
John Mara has lived through nearly all the heartbreak the Giants have produced during his lifetime.
At 67, he’s old enough to have seen Vince Lombardi leave for Green Bay and Tom Landry march off to Dallas to produce Hall of Fame careers with two of the NFL’s most iconic franchises.
He heard the derisive chants of "Goodbye Allie" as the man chosen ahead of Lombardi and Landry presided over a decline in the 1960s that stretched nearly to the end of the '70s.