Wellington Mara, the late co-owner of the New York Giants, has been named because the group’s nominee for the 2024 Salute to Service Award.
The Salute to Service Award, introduced by USAA, “acknowledges the distinctive efforts by members of the NFL group to honor and help U.S. service members, veterans, and their households.”
Mara, who handed away in 2005, has lately been within the information after the NFL Community aired a documentary about his life final week.
A World Conflict II Navy veteran, Mara “spent his life honoring, empowering and connecting with service members, veterans and their households.”
Mara’s father, Tim, based the New York Giants in 1925 and he and his brother, Jack, took management of the group upon their father’s dying in 1959. The Mara household nonetheless owns 50 % of the franchise to this present day.
All 32 NFL groups are represented by a nominee for the award by which three finalists shall be introduced in January. The recipient shall be introduced on the NFL Honors primetime awards particular to air nationally in February through the week of Tremendous Bowl LIX.
