Re: Giants dealing with Tisch's inoperable cancer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - The New York Giants are dealing with the terminal illness of one of their co-owners for the second time in less than a month.Robert Tisch, 79, who purchased 50 percent of the team in 1991, has inoperable brain cancer.On Oct. 25, Wellington Mara, who had co-owned the team since 1930, died of cancer at 89. His son John, the team's executive vice president and chief operating officer, has overseen the team's operations for the last several years.On Saturday, the day before they faced the Minnesota Vikings at Giants Stadium, general manager Ernie Accorsi, head coach Tom Coughlin and players Tiki Barber and Michael Strahan visited Tisch at his home in Manhattan.Sons Steve, the Giants' executive vice president; and Jonathan, the team's treasurer; addressed the players after practice the same day."Probably with all his assets, with all his recognition, with all his titles, the one job in his life that he most loved was co-owner of the Giants," Jonathan told the team. "My father loved the players. He loved the organization."Every Sunday, he was so looking forward to being in the football world. That's what brought him a lot of pleasure, and will continue to."Tisch was the U.S. Postmaster General from 1986-88 and president and CEO of Loews Corp., a company he and his late brother, Laurence, purchased in 1959 when it was known as Loews Theaters.He headed numerous civic and charitable organizations in New York City, including the New York Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 1990-93, and the Citizens Committee for the Democratic national conventions held in New York in 1976 and 1980. He was appointed the city's ambassador to Washington in 1980 by Mayor David Dinkins, and held the post until 1993.http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/5082466
Re: Giants dealing with Tisch's inoperable cancer It's really a shame. I hope he turns out alright and doesnt go, and being a new yorker im kinda rooting for the giants to do real good this year in honor of Wellington and now Tisch. Plus you gotta love watching their offense with Manning, Shockey, Barber, Burress and Toomer.
Re: Giants dealing with Tisch's inoperable cancer Giants co-owner Tisch dies at 79 NEW YORK (AP) - Robert Tisch, co-owner of the New York Giants and a civic leader in New York City for several decades, died Tuesday of brain cancer. He was 79.Tisch died at his home, family spokesman Jeffrey Stewart said. The Giants' other co-owner, Wellington Mara, died Oct. 25, also of cancer.Mara was the son of team founder Timothy J. Mara. Tisch bought 50 percent of the Giants in 1991 from Tim Mara, Wellington Mara's nephew, not long after the Giants beat Buffalo in the Super Bowl."To lose Bob Tisch so soon after we lost our father is especially heartbreaking for the Mara family," said John Mara, the Giants' chief operating officer. "He not only was a great business partner, he was a dear friend to our family and to me personally. ... We will miss him terribly, and we will never forget everything he did for our family, our team and the numerous charitable causes to which he was devoted."Tisch was also U.S. postmaster general from 1986-88 and chairman and director of Loews Corp., a company he and his late brother, Laurence Tisch, had purchased in 1959 when it was a movie theater chain. The company changed its name from Loews Theaters in 1971 and currently owns and operates Loews Hotels, the Lorillard Tobacco Co. and Bulova Corp., among other interests.Tisch was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor in 2004 and had curtailed his regular visits to Giants practices and games.During his illness, his son, Steve Tisch, was named the Giants executive vice president and took on a larger role in the operations of the team, particularly in the negotiations between the Giants and the state of New Jersey over a new stadium at the Meadowlands sports complex.Steve Tisch and brother Jonathan Tisch, the Giants' treasurer, addressed the team after practice on Saturday, the day before the Giants lost to the Minnesota Vikings at the Meadowlands.The Giants will continue to be co-owned by the Tisch and Mara families."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. "For the 14 years he's had the privilege of owning this team, it's been the greatest gift for him, professionally and personally."A native of New York, Robert Tisch was involved in numerous civic organizations in the city. He served as the chairman of the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau for 19 years and was chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Democratic national conventions held in New York in 1976 and 1980.Mayor David Dinkins in 1980 appointed Tisch the city's ambassador to Washington, a post he held through 1993. He also was chairman of the New York Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 1990 to 1993.Football was his love, his family said."It gave him so much pleasure and so much pride," Steve Tisch said. "Sunday after Sunday after Sunday, this is what he lived and loved."Among the charitable organizations Robert Tisch helped found was Take the Field, a nonprofit corporation that has raised more than $130 million to renovate and rebuild public school athletic facilities in New York.Born Preston Robert Tisch on April 29, 1926, he attended Bucknell University and, after serving in the military in World War II, earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Michigan.He is survived by his wife, Joan Tisch, and three children.http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/5088292
