Giants Celebrate SBXLII Win With Parade
February 5, 2008 by David Kindervater
Filed under N.Y. Giants, Super Bowl XLII
Blogging the National Football League, Blogging the NFL
The N.Y. Giants did the Super Bowl victory parade thing today with 50 tons of confetti littering the streets of New York. It began at the tip of lower Manhattan in Battery Park and proceeded north on Broadway, going past the financial district and the site of the World Trade Center before the City Hall Park finale where a victory rally was held.
Ticker-tape parades in the “Canyon of Heroes” have celebrated everything from Charles Lindbergh’s Atlantic flight to sports championships. The last parade was in 2000, when the Yankees won the World Series. And according to Kenneth Cobb, assistant commissioner in the city Department of Records, this parade was the first for a football team. Crowds were 20 deep in some places. After the Manhattan festivities, the team took buses back to New Jersey, where they were met by a crowd of more than 20,000 fans at Giants Stadium.
