League patriarch vs. likable computer geek

Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me. | January 29, 2006 | Copyright

DETROIT (AP) - Dan Rooney was attending the funeral of Giants owner Wellington Mara last October when he felt a tap on his shoulder.

He turned around and saw Bill Parcells.

"You have to carry the torch," the two-time Super Bowl-winning coach told the owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers. "You're our guiding light now." The 73-year-old Rooney has been one of the NFL's inner circle for a quarter-century or longer.

But the death of Mara, the New York Giants owner who died at 89, made Rooney the last active member of the NFL's founding fathers. Or, more accurately, the son of a founding father: Art ...

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