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John Mara walked out with the game ball, given to him by Brian Daboll, on a night when the quarterback he has been awaiting for what seems like an eternity and a defiant, tough team he hasn’t witnessed in far too long must have been the very best kind of treatment for his battle with cancer.

“One tough cookie,” Daboll told The Post’s Paul Schwartz, referring to Mara, and he could have been talking about his rookie quarterback and his team as well.

Jaxson Dart, with help from his rookie sidekick Cam Skattebo, stared down Jalen Hurts and the Eagles, 34-17, and gave the classy owner hope that maybe this will be the dawn of a new day; maybe that humongous gap between his Giants and the hated Eagles can begin to close.

Dart doesn’t care about the Giants’ sordid past. He wasn’t here for any of it. He will do everything in his power to drag the franchise out of the darkness of despair and into a brighter future.