Wellington Mara
Wellington Mara
Wellington Timothy Marawas the co-owner of the NFL's New York Giants from 1959 until his death, and one of the most influential and iconic figures in the history of the National Football League. He was the younger son of Tim Mara, who founded the Giants in 1925. Wellington was a ball boy for that year...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth14 August 1916
CountryUnited States of America
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It's never needed vindication. It was that fancy stuff that needed to prove itself.
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I wanted a football man. Now I'm extremely happy the way it turned out.
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Ronnie, why are you so good to me?
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We should all share I guess, ... Or we're going to lose some of the smaller teams down the line, and we've all stuck together.
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I can't help but think he would have been so embarrassed by this. He would have shook his head and tried to hide in a corner somewhere.
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Giants ownership has left at least $150 million of team net worth on the table.
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My earliest recollection of the Giants was on a Sunday morning in the autumn of 1925,
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We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.
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I think when the bottom started to drop out, we didn't recognize it.
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The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe.
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Now cracks a noble heart. Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
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I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.
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The Church, presumably in the person of Cardinal O'Connor, had at one time refused to let the Governor preach in certain churches and school halls.
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Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.