John Mara
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"John Kevin Mara" is the president, CEO, and co-owner of the New York Giants.

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A minor inconvenience.

He was very reluctant at first.

I don't see why we would have to do that, ... We've been working on this for close to a year, and we've spent millions of dollars for a seating bowl and other concepts. We can't start over now.

I was never 100 percent sure that we'd ever get over the hurdles.

So I felt like coming into [Thursday] that if this really was the last major issue on the table to get the deal done, I was prepared to do it.

He was the finest man we've ever known or will ever hope to know, ... and he was our dad.

[Wellington T. Mara would have had none of it, according to his son.] I couldn't help but think he would have been so embarrassed by all this, ... He would have just shook his head and tried to hide somewhere.

I'm not sure that it is [enough time], ... But we'll do what we can before we reach the finish line.