New York Giants Super Bowl Parade and Team Rally Today: New York City is planning a ticker-tape parade to celebrate the Giants’ Super Bowl victory over the New England Patriots today. The parade is schedule to start at 11:00AM on Broadway at Battery Place and is expected to follow a route north to Chambers Street. It will end with a ceremony at City Hall Plaza, set to start around 1:00PM.
Fans can then join the team for a rally at Giants Stadium at 2:30PM.
Redskins Expected to Interview Defensive Coordinator Steve Spagnuolo: Defensive Coordinator Steve Spagnuolo is expected to interview with the Washington Redskins for their head coaching vacancy at some point in the near future. “Obviously, I don’t want to lose him,” said Giants’ President and CEO John Mara. “That’s what happens when you have some success, you are going to lose some of those guys. We’ll make every effort to keep him. But there are only 32 of those jobs out there. The question is he going to want to go where a staff is already waiting for him?”
The Redskins have already hired their offensive and defensive coordinators.
Burress Played the Super Bowl With a Sprained Knee: It was revealed after the Super Bowl that WR Plaxico Burress sprained the medial collateral ligament (MCL) in his left knee last Monday before the game when he fell in the shower. When Burress missed practice on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, it was believed publicly that the knee injury was related to his long-standing ankle injury.
“Until (Sunday) morning, I honestly didn’t think I would be able to go, and it broke my heart,” said Burress.
Burress only caught two passes for 27 yards in the Super Bowl, but one of those was the game-winning touchdown catch with 35 seconds left on the clock.
“If anyone could ever know how close he came to not playing,” Wide Receivers Coach Mike Sullivan said. “He shouldn’t have been out there.”
Article on the Giants Next Season: Giants: We Want Another Trophy by Ralph Vacchiano of The Daily News
Articles on Super Bowl XLII:
- Amazing March by Mike Vaccaro of The New York Post
- Giants Coaches Outclass the Masters by Hank Gola of The Daily News
- Giants Still ini Awe of Eli Manning-to-David Tyree Miracle Catch by Ralph Vacchiano of The Daily News
Notes and Quotes: Super Bowl XLII was the most-watched Super bowl in history with an average audience of approximately 97.5 million viewers. A record 148.3 million people watched at least a part of the game. It was watched by an average of nearly a third of Americans over the course of the game and half the population for at least a portion of it. Only one other show in American broadcast history was watched by more people, the “M-A-S-H” finale in 1983, which drew 106 million viewers.
Officially, since the Giants were designated the visitors in the Super Bowl, their victory extended their consecutive road win tally to 11 games.
The Giants’ post-season record improved to 20-23, including 7-14 on the road. The Giants are now 6-12 in NFL Championship games, including 3-1 in Super Bowls.
This was the first of the 42 Super Bowls in which the lead changed hands three times in the fourth quarter.
At 41 years and 333 days old, P Jeff Feagles became the oldest player to ever play in the Super Bowl.
Patriots’ WR Randy Moss on the Giants and Super Bowl XLII: “The Giants just had a better game plan. I think their intensity from the beginning snap to the end of the game, was really higher than ours. We just couldn’t meet that intensity.”
Patriots’ HB Kevin Faulk on the Giants: “They outplayed us. From the start, they showed how us badly they wanted it. They wanted it real bad, and they won it. They just outplayed us.”
Patriots’ QB Tom Brady on the Giants: “The Giants deserve it. They’re a great football team. As difficult as it is for us, you have to hand it to them. They made more plays than we did.”