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November-14th-2005, 10:52 AM
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For Giants, Tisch news gets worse
BY RALPH VACCHIANO
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
The heavy hearts the Giants have been playing with all season have gotten a little heavier in the last few days.
For the second time in three weeks, the news is troubling about one of their co-owners. Tom Coughlin informed his players Saturday morning that Bob Tisch is "very, very ill." The 79-year-old Tisch has been battling brain cancer for more than a year. But his situation apparently was grave enough that his sons, Steve and Jonathan, addressed the Giants on Saturday morning as well.
"We are very sad with Mr. Tisch's health situation," Coughlin said yesterday after the Giants' 24-21 loss to the Vikings. "We have been hoping beyond hope that things would get better, and I received word coming off the field Friday night that it was not the case, that he was, in fact, very, very ill."
The Giants already were aware that Tisch was ailing - a message they got prior to their dramatic 24-23 win over Denver Oct. 23, when they were also told that co-owner Wellington Mara was ailing. Two days later, Mara died of cancer at the age of 89. Tisch was too ill to attend Mara's funeral.
Tisch's condition has not gotten any better, which Coughlin told the team after the Saturday morning walkthrough. After that, the Tisch sons let the players know how proud their father has been to be a part of the team.
"I wanted to express to the players, the coaches and really the whole staff what being involved with the New York Giants has meant to my father," Steve Tisch said. "I think the qualities of the whole Giants family are the qualities that he loved about being involved with the team - the team being so much a part of New York, the character, the commitment, the talent and how athletic and special these guys are."
"Probably with all his assets, probably with all his recognitions, with all his titles, the one job in his life that he loved the most was co-owner of the Giants," Jonathan Tisch added. "Every Sunday he was so looking forward to being in the football world."
Tisch, a former Postmaster General who made an even bigger name for himself in the business world, is fighting the final stages of his battle with cancer from his home in Manhattan. Coughlin, Giants GM Ernie Accorsi, Tiki Barber and Michael Strahan all visited him there after Saturday's practice. Giants CEO John Mara was planning to visit him last night.
And while the Giants did not give any specific updates on Tisch's health, the tone of their press release and the words of Coughlin and Tisch's sons made it clear the end is near.
"It's obviously been a very tough month," Jonathan said. "Some of the players, like Michael and Tiki, are veterans, but a lot of them are young kids, and to have to go through the pain of potentially losing both owners within two or three weeks - it just was important for us to come out and tell them how much we care about them, because we know they care about us."
Originally published on November 14, 2005
For Giants, Tisch news gets worse
BY RALPH VACCHIANO
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
The heavy hearts the Giants have been playing with all season have gotten a little heavier in the last few days.
For the second time in three weeks, the news is troubling about one of their co-owners. Tom Coughlin informed his players Saturday morning that Bob Tisch is "very, very ill." The 79-year-old Tisch has been battling brain cancer for more than a year. But his situation apparently was grave enough that his sons, Steve and Jonathan, addressed the Giants on Saturday morning as well.
"We are very sad with Mr. Tisch's health situation," Coughlin said yesterday after the Giants' 24-21 loss to the Vikings. "We have been hoping beyond hope that things would get better, and I received word coming off the field Friday night that it was not the case, that he was, in fact, very, very ill."
The Giants already were aware that Tisch was ailing - a message they got prior to their dramatic 24-23 win over Denver Oct. 23, when they were also told that co-owner Wellington Mara was ailing. Two days later, Mara died of cancer at the age of 89. Tisch was too ill to attend Mara's funeral.
Tisch's condition has not gotten any better, which Coughlin told the team after the Saturday morning walkthrough. After that, the Tisch sons let the players know how proud their father has been to be a part of the team.
"I wanted to express to the players, the coaches and really the whole staff what being involved with the New York Giants has meant to my father," Steve Tisch said. "I think the qualities of the whole Giants family are the qualities that he loved about being involved with the team - the team being so much a part of New York, the character, the commitment, the talent and how athletic and special these guys are."
"Probably with all his assets, probably with all his recognitions, with all his titles, the one job in his life that he loved the most was co-owner of the Giants," Jonathan Tisch added. "Every Sunday he was so looking forward to being in the football world."
Tisch, a former Postmaster General who made an even bigger name for himself in the business world, is fighting the final stages of his battle with cancer from his home in Manhattan. Coughlin, Giants GM Ernie Accorsi, Tiki Barber and Michael Strahan all visited him there after Saturday's practice. Giants CEO John Mara was planning to visit him last night.
And while the Giants did not give any specific updates on Tisch's health, the tone of their press release and the words of Coughlin and Tisch's sons made it clear the end is near.
"It's obviously been a very tough month," Jonathan said. "Some of the players, like Michael and Tiki, are veterans, but a lot of them are young kids, and to have to go through the pain of potentially losing both owners within two or three weeks - it just was important for us to come out and tell them how much we care about them, because we know they care about us."
Originally published on November 14, 2005