Giants President Wellington Mara, circa 1930's. (National Football League)

Kyle Rote, right, Southern Methodist University's great back, signs a one-year contract to play professional football with the New York Giants. Wellington Mara, secretary to the National Football League Club, watches the signing on March 8, 1951 at Dallas, Texas. Terms were not disclosed. Rote was the bonus draft choice of the Giants. (Associated Press)

Green Bay Packers' professional football coach Vince Lombardi, and his longtime friend Wellington Mara of the football New York Giants, bitter foes of the packers on field, are presently visiting Rome. Mara, left, and Lombardi cross Rome's fashionable street Via Veneto as they went sightseeing, Feb. 2, 1962. (AP Photo/Jim Pringle)

Wellington T. Mara, left, president of the New York Giants, hands over the Super Bowl trophy to head coach Bill Parcells, right, after the Giants defeated the Denver Broncos 39-20 in Super Bowl XXI on Jan. 25, 1987 in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Ray Slubblebine)

New York Giants owner Wellington Mara talks with Giants cornerback Jason Sehorn following practice in East Rutherford, N.J. Thursday, Sept. 13, 2001. (AP Photo/Daniel Hulshizer)

New York Giants owner Wellington Mara watches the team practice at mini-camp Monday, June 14, 2004, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)

Wellington Mara, left rear, then New York Giants secretary and his brothers Jack Mara, right rear, Giants' president, pose with George Weiss, Yankees general manager, left front, and NFL Commissioner Bert Bell, near a mural of Yankee Stadium in New York, Jan. 27, 1956. Wellington Mara of the New York Giants, one of the NFL's most influential owners for more than a half century and the last of the league's founding generation, died Tuesday Oct. 25, 2005. He was 89. (Associated Press)

Mike Haynes, Wellington Mara, Don Shula, and Mike Webster pose with their bronze bust after being enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame Saturday, July 26, 1997, in Canton, Ohio. (AP Photo/Phil Long)

New York Giants President, co-owner Wellington Mara gives his acceptance speech into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. (National Football League)

New York Giants President, co-owner Wellington Mara and Co-owner Robert Tisch. (National Football League)

Giants vice president Wellington Mara in the locker room, circa 1963. Roosevelt Brown is in the background. (National Football League)

New York Giants President Wellington Mara with New York Jets owner Leon Hess. (National Football League)

Kansas City Chiefs owner and AFC President Lamar Hunt, NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, and New York Giants owner and NFC President Wellington Mara on July 14, 1985. (National Football League)

New York Giants owner Wellington Mara talks with the media in the locker room following the Giants 16-13 victory over the Los Angeles Rams in the 1984 NFC Wild Card Playoff Game on December 23, 1984 at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim, California. (National Football League)

The Wilson "The Duke" football is the official football of the NFL. The "Duke" nickname is in honor of the late New York Giants owner, Wellington Mara. Each ball is signed by Commissioner Roger Goodell. (AP Photo/Kevin Terrell)

A memorial in the memory of Wellington Mara and Bob Tisch overlooking the NY Giants NFL football training camp in Albany, N.Y., Saturday, July 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)