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Great interview by Chris Russo of Giants' co-owner John Mara talking about Plaxico Burress. Ernie Palladino has the entire transcript.

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said he aint pursuing any of the receivers out there……May be blowing smoke but he’s one of the owners……

by FreeBradshaw on Apr 10, 2009 8:17 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Mara

Is he really one of the owners????

by gobs56 on Apr 10, 2009 10:16 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

oh...

“No, I don’t think so. We obviously looked at the receivers that were out there and made a decision that we were not going to actively pursue any of them.”

He was speaking of free agents not trades… No smoke, I 100% believe that they don’t want any of the free agents, its the trades that they are looking for.

by gobs56 on Apr 10, 2009 10:30 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Yea

I kinda got that about the FA’s too. But he really just said the ones that are out there. He could have meant the dudes that have been rumored to us through trade.

I’d still like to see what Torry Holt wants for a contract tho. To me he costs the least and has the best character out of them all. He’s still fast, he’s got better hands than any of the other dudes and he’s a vet. If we get a young WR who better than to learn from Torry Holt. Manningham and Smith could learn a thing or two as well.

by FreeBradshaw on Apr 10, 2009 6:44 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Garafolo also remarked about Mara on PSLs

Garafolo: I caught the tail end of the interview when I got back in the car and heard Mara talking about PSLs. Russo had told him Wellington “is tossing up in heaven, going crazy” about the PSLs and Mara responded by saying his late father “was dealing with a completely different set of circumstances than we’re dealing with right here.” He also added with a laugh his father “never really would have let us go into this new building in the first place if he (had his way)” and that Wellington “was happy with the Polo Grounds. He told me that over and over again.”

“A completely different set of circumstances?” Who is Mara kidding?! Mara makes the decision to build a new stadium at the top of the market, gets handed cost overruns, then has to sell (naming rights etc..) into the economic downturn and gets screwed by Lehman for 300M on his financing. We ALL surmised that it was NOT a coincidence that the new stadium got done BECAUSE his father died, and now he is blaming a different set of circumstances? Typical denial. And the fans are left to pay the tab, aka PSL. Thanks John for showing us the love.

by andy f. on Apr 10, 2009 11:38 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

From top to bottom

The Giants are a class act.

by mahmoodzaky on Apr 10, 2009 1:15 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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