Reply With QuoteApparently, "this bar got shut because they were pouring beers from the balcony into the mouths of the people on the street. it took 40 cops to clear everyone out!"
(click on pic for larger view)
Johnnie Utah
Giants Take Manhattan, and It Takes to Them
Michael Strahan jumping on the podium and lifting his knees to his shoulders to demonstrate what he called
“stomping you out.”
By JOHN BRANCH
Published: February 6, 2008
The Giants surprised even their most ardent fans with their Super Bowl victory. On Tuesday, the new N.F.L. champions were the ones left awestruck.
Two days after beating the Patriots, 17-14, the Giants were honored with a rousing, confetti-laced parade up Broadway in Lower Manhattan, stopped for a pep rally at City Hall, and had a homecoming party at Giants Stadium.
“I’ve had so many goose bumps in one week’s time, it feels like they’re normal, like they’re supposed to be there,” Coach Tom Coughlin said.
The Giants played all their postseason games away from home. Tuesday was their chance to officially bring the N.F.L. championship back to New York and New Jersey. During the parade, Coughlin, quarterback Eli Manning and defensive end Michael Strahan shared a float and took turns holding the Vince Lombardi trophy.
Manning, the most valuable player in the Super Bowl, was serenaded often with choruses of “M.V.P.!” Strahan, pondering retirement, was showered with requests for “One more year!”
“It’s very tempting,” he told the crowd at City Hall.
On a cool and damp day, with the tops of skyscrapers dipped into the low clouds, the Giants boarded red, white and blue floats that took them up Broadway, the Canyon of Heroes route that has welcomed everyone from Charles Lindbergh to soldiers to the Yankees and the Rangers — but never a football team.
The Giants won the Super Bowl after the 1986 and the 1990 seasons, too.
There was no celebration the first time because Edward I. Koch, the mayor at the time, said that his city would not hold a parade for a team from New Jersey, where the Giants had moved a decade earlier. The second Super Bowl victory came only days after the start of the Gulf War, and a large celebration for a football team was deemed inappropriate.
There were no limitations to this party. Hundreds of thousands of fans, decked in the team’s colors and some with their faces painted, jammed sidewalks from the gutters to the storefronts. At intersections, like the one with Wall Street, the sea of smiling faces could be seen for two blocks or more. Silhouettes filled most of the office windows that could not open, and smiles, waving arms and overturned boxes of shredded paper popped out of the ones that could.
Strands of paper and toilet tissue stuck like icicles from window sills, flagpoles and street lights. Confetti turned the Canyon of Heroes into a deafening snow globe.
General Manager Jerry Reese, from Tiptonville, Tenn., laughed as he recalled previous parades he had attended. In his hometown, the Christmas parade had “one fire truck, a police car, a high school band and two floats.”
He added: “I’ve never seen anything like this before. It’s unbelievable.”
Many players held video cameras, aimed at the people who were aiming cameras right back at them.
“I felt like I could go out and play another game,” guard Chris Snee said. “So much energy, so much excitement. You can really see what it means to a city.”
The unofficial chant of the team — “Let’s go, Giants!” — echoed through the buildings. Also popular were many stabs at the Patriots, the 18-0 team that the Giants beat on Sunday.
“Eighteen and one!” was one popular chorus. So were more venomous ones aimed at Boston, which had celebrated five titles for the Red Sox and the Patriots since the last time New York was the site of a championship parade.
That was for the Yankees in 2000. The route, through Manhattan’s financial district, edges near the eastern flank of the World Trade Center site.
“I could not believe that that many people would come out,” said the Giants’ co-owner, John Mara. “To see them all dressed in blue, and to see the reaction of our players, to see how much they enjoyed it, that was the best part.”
One notable absentee was receiver Plaxico Burress, who caught the winning touchdown pass on Sunday with 35 seconds left. He attended the afternoon party at Giants Stadium, and said he did not go to the parade because he “was a little sore.”
Many fans held hand-scribbled signs, part of the short-hand postscript to an unexpected championship season. Promoting Manning for president was a popular idea. Some signs teased the Patriots — “18-Oh well” — or played off the spying scandal that has entangled them and their coach, Bill Belichick.
“Hey, Belichick, I hope you’re taping this,” one sign read.
At City Hall, several politicians — among them, Gov. Eliot Spitzer, Senator Charles Schumer and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg — and Whoopi Goldberg gave short speeches that featured lots of exclamation points.
The Giants rode buses back under the Hudson River and to the Meadowlands. They did not expect to see Giants Stadium surrounded by cars, or one side of the lower bowl filled with vociferous fans.
“There’s one thing I realized, pulling into this parking lot,” Mara said, addressing the crowd while standing atop a stage set at the 50-yard line. “There’s no place like home.”
Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company
Apparently, "this bar got shut because they were pouring beers from the balcony into the mouths of the people on the street. it took 40 cops to clear everyone out!"
(click on pic for larger view)
Johnnie Utah
lol ^^^ Am I the only one who find it ironic, that the bar's name is the "Patroit"?
Does the Giants' win give new meaning to "Cheaters Never Prosper"
Actually have to agree with TMQ
The football gods were ver y very angry with the patriots and pleased with the Gmen...and people say Karma is a farce!
This Is New Jersey's Team Too!!!
Stadium: 'No place like home'
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
BY COLIN STEPHENSON
Star-Ledger Staff
While their parade through Lower Manhattan got more publicity, the Giants seemed to have almost as much fun in their afternoon pep rally at the Meadowlands.
"I thought the experience we had this morning, going through the Canyon of Heroes, was pretty special," co-owner John Mara told the crowd of about 20,000 inside Giants Stadium. "But I'll tell you -- I realized as soon as we came into this parking lot, there's no place like home!"
Mara later said he did a double-take when he saw one fan sprinkling what appeared to be someone's ashes on the field.
"I thought I saw everything," he said.
With State Senate President Richard Codey (D-Essex) firing up the crowd, the Giants got a chance to double up on the fun after their morning ticker-tape parade in lower Manhattan. And while some of the speeches were similar to the ones delivered in the earlier celebration, there was definitely a comfortable, Jersey feel to the afternoon party.
"It's finally good to hear some cheers at Giants Stadium," quarterback Eli Manning told the crowd, playfully acknowledging that many fans have been tough on him in his career.
Wide receiver David Tyree, whose circus catch on third down kept the game-winning drive alive, drew roars from the crowd when he took the football teammate Brandon Jacobs was holding and pinned it against the side of his head, as he'd done on that pivotal catch in the Super Bowl.
"This is New Jersey man," Tyree said later. "This is my home. That's for Essex County -- we had to 'style out' and do what we do. For Montclair, East Orange, Newark and Irvington, I love you."
---------------------------------------------------
JCMAN Note of The Nite:
Tyree is from Montclair, New Jersey and went to Montclair High. It's only fitting that guy from New Jersey makes the biggest catch in Super Bowl history!!! Also offensive lineman Shaun O'Hara is from Hillsborough New Jersey and went to Rutgers and he is one of the guys that aided Eli's great escape.
Lessons in HUMILITY
I wonder how this imbecile feels now for writing this despicable piece of editorialism......
Boston is the best, NYC sux.....blah, blah blah.Originally Posted by OmegaNYC
Pats fans a cut above
Giants outclassed on the field and in the stands
By Jessica Heslam
Friday, January 25, 2008
Boston Herald Media Reporter
Reporter Jessica Heslam covers the media for the Boston Herald.
New England Patriots [team stats] fans are smarter, classier and healthier and own pricier homes than the riff-raff who root for the New York Giants - and now we’ve got the research to back it up.
Some 62 percent of Pats fans living in the Boston area earned a bachelor’s or postgraduate degree or have some higher-education experience, compared to 59 percent of Giants fans, according to the latest marketing data provided by the Nielsen Co., the TV ratings firm.....
LOL
Like I said...
And Brady, with that you-know-what eating grin of his, did....Keep running your mouths the way the Cowboy fans did....please do.
The 18-1 Patriots QB's exact quote....
"We're only going to score 17 points?" Brady said before chuckling about it. "OK. Is Plax playing defense? I wish he had said 45-42 and gave us a little credit for scoring more points."
The clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ2yK5C9Ae4
Just what the Giants D needed to fire them up and play the game with the ferociousness that they did and here is what they got:
The short end of a play for the ages.......
(animations courtesy of Eugenious)
and the cherry on top....
KABOOM!!!!!
Take that Brady!!!!!!!!
Your ass got ........
STOMPED!!!!!
....by BIG BLUE!!!!!!!
Bush Lauds Super Bowl Champion Giants
Eli Manning, the New York Giants quarterback, handed President Bush an autographed ball at the White House on
Wednesday.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 30, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Add this to the lore of championship ceremonies at the White House: President Bush believes in the Jessica Simpson jinx.
Bush, a Texas guy, lauded the New York Giants on Wednesday for winning the Super Bowl. Any football championship is big to the team and its fans, but this one was all the sweeter because it required a riveting, comeback effort against the New England Patriots, who were heavily favored and had not lost all year.
The president noted that along the way the Giants vanquished a team from his home state -- the Dallas Cowboys. Many Dallas fans pinned their team's surprise playoff loss not on the Giants, but on Simpson. Seems the singer-actress was accused of being a distraction to her boyfriend, Dallas quarterback Tony Romo.
Apparently, Bush bought in.
''I'm a good sport,'' Bush said at the South Lawn ceremony. ''We're going to send Jessica Simpson to the Democrat National Convention.''
Everything is political.
The Giants beat the Patriots, 17-14, in what was considered one of the biggest upsets in pro football history.
Even Bush, an early-to-bed leader, stayed up late that February night to watch the Giants pull ahead and hang on.
He didn't skimp on the superlatives. ''It turned out to be really one of the great, legendary football games in our nation's history,'' he said Wednesday.
With players and coached gathered behind him on a comfortable spring day, Bush praised the team for its resilience. The president gave a detailed recap of the Giants' season, from the shaky start to the road victories to the final game of the regular season, when the Giants lost to the Patriots but gained confidence.
''You won the gratitude of your fans. The New York Giants fans love these Giants,'' Bush said, drawing a burst of cheers from fans in Giant blue.
Front and center behind Bush was Giants quarterback Eli Manning, who endured enormous scrutiny in New York and emerged as the Super Bowl's Most Valuable Player.
The president, as usual, also thanked the players for their off-the-field volunteer work.
The team visited wounded troops at Walter Reed Army Medical Center earlier in the day. Some star players say that experience moved them even more than hanging out with the president at the White House.
''To see their spirit, and the way they reacted to us, was just very special,'' said center Shaun O'Hara. ''That's going to stick with me.''
Sometimes you just have to face your personal dilemma head on.
This is the only part of the Giants/Gents celebration after Super Bowl, that I deliberatedly tried to avoid seeing or reading about. I guess I loathe this President so much that it is difficult to separate him from his customary duties, and simply enjoy the event.
But that is the way it goes, and you ignore him as you watch or read of that team's trip to the White House. The joy on the faces of the players and coaches are worth whatever one might view as a distraction on this National stage.
Another year begins, starting in my mind after the recent NFL Draft, and I wonder what will happen this time. Will an underdog triumph again, or will the season reveal an obvious team that will actually fulfill their mission as expected? Could there be a repeat of the Gents, or will the Pats be more determined than ever, after their devastating demise in the 11th hour, and get their Super Bowl trophy?
Whichever team wins this time, will again attend the White House but with a new President in tow. I hope this as yet undetermined person to occupy the highest elective office in the land, will not be one that I will again be distracted negatively by their presence.
Giants trade Jeremy Shockey to Saints for pair of draft picks
Daily News
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out of town.
A friend of mine, a displaced Giants fan living in Florida, clued me into Shockey when he was at University of Miami. He prophetically wished that the Giants could get a hold of him.
Sure enough.
I bought into the hype of of his 2001 season at Miami.
He's a talented player, and had a good career with the Giants, but it became apparent to me after a few years as a pro that he was overrated. And sometimes an idiot.
The often used reply when star athletes behave like prima donnas is, "We can lose without you as easily as lose with you."
When that becomes, "We can win without you as easily as lose with you," it's best to shut up and play.
Posting Permissions
Bookmarks