NFL Patriarch Wellington Mara, 89
Posted: Friday, October 28th, 2005 6:13 pmOctober 26, 2005 — Wellington Mara, the patriarch of the National Football League, who served as a ball boy for the leather-helmeted 1925 Giants and later turned the team - founded by his father - into one of the marquee names in professional sports, died yesterday at his home in Rye, N.Y. He was 89. … Read full obituary