February 4, 2008
To NY Papers, Giants' Super Bowl Win is All About Eli
After the Giants' wild underdog Super Bowl win last night, it's no surprise that New York area papers are reveling in this victory. The Daily News give its readers a special commemorative Super Bowl victory cover (inside, there's a traditional front and sports back cover - sans Giants mention). Both the News and the NY Post feature Eli Manning holding the Vince Lombardi trophy. Maybe this is their way of apologizing for ragging on him mercilessly (though with reason) for his first seasons.
Newsday and amNew York opt for during-the-game shots, with Manning being embraced by Brandon Jacobs on Newsday's cover and a Manning's second touchdown jump-for-joy on amNY.
The NY Sun also uses Manning's touchdown to Plaxico Burress; the NY Times goes for action, with one of the night's many Tom Brady sacks.
And in Boston...well, things are just sad there. Per Bostonist, Bianca De La Garza of WCVB said, "We did get reports of grown men crying." One newscaster looked at the New York victory headlines and said, "It's enough to make you sick."
Sick, awesome, amazing, super, you name it - and it's a New York team's (in name, if not town-where-they-play, only) first victory since the Yankees won the 2000 World Series (the NJ Devils won the Stanley Cup in 2003).
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I wonder if anyone is tracking the number of domestic violence reports in New England as of 10:03pm last night.
Giants fans were celebrating in Time Square last night. Hundreds of people blocked traffic in Time Square for a couple of hours.
Here are some pictures: Giants Fans in Time Square
There is no question that the Pats did not show up last night and were outplayed, especially by the Giants defense. However, the Pats broke every major record this year save one. Brady will go down as the games greatest QB. Let's just keep that in mind. Oh, and the yankees still suck.
Stats are meaningless. Just ask Dan Marino. And the game's greatest QB never lost a game in the Super Bowl.
Brady the best QB? If you don't count Bradshaw, Montana, Unitas... you know, all the greats who didn't lose a championship game.
That strange, wonderful feeling of well=being and serenity that you all felt this morning (well, maybe not you JGNY) was caused by the earth returning back to its correct axis, and NYC being restored to its rightful place... standing tall and astride that dumpy cowtown four hours to the north. Order has been restored. Dogs will no longer lie down with cats. Beaneaters will now have to return to obsessing over baseball and inferiority.
And BTW, the Yanks are comin', baby!
I was in a bar full of comedians and burlesque people, we all erupted in the last few minutes.
That was kind of amazing.
The only solace I can take this crushing loss is that in every future NFL game when ever someone gets close to breaking some stat they will always be competeing against Brady, Moss, and the rest of the 2007 Patriots. So no, stats are not meaningless. Plus Brady has already proven himself a championship QB.
ELI!!!
Wawawahh JGNY. Bring on the Dunkin Donuts! All this celebrating has made me very hungry.
Here's a stat:
18-1!!!!
The stats that count are the ones you wear on your fingers.
I'm sorry - but I have to agree with those that are saying that stats are rather meaningless, at least to the players. I'm sure Tom Brady would have preferred to have thrown fewer regular season TD passes if it meant a Super Bowl victory. I believe most players are being honest when they say they're not often even thinking about breaking records, that they care more about getting to the playoffs and winning the Super Bowl. Stats seem far more important to the fans - especially as a way to continue bragging about one's team, even in the face of a upsetting defeat.
Anybody care that New York City, which gets little economic impact from the New Jersey Giants, is about to throw a parade down Broadway a week after telling its public schools to immediately cut their budgets in the middle of a schoolyear? Anybody?
simply awesome - as I picked up my NY Papers with the same images so they can be plastered around my bar at home for when my Boston in-laws and friends come to sit and be annoyed with my NYY front page WS images I wondered what the Boston papers would put on their front and back pages, thanks for sharing.
While Brady is probably the best QB in the league, and maybe one of the all time greats, yesterday it didn't mean a damn thing. The Giants defense pressured the hell out of him, and he played scared - although he deserves a lot of credit for that drive that gave the Pats the late lead. http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/6929/a1mz9cir3.gif
But Eli is the MAN right now.
"The stats that count are the ones you wear on your fingers."
That would place Aikman up there with Bradshaw and Montana, since he won 3 in 4 years, but Unitas only won once.
of course not. I have nothing against the Giants.
went to a school in NJ and I think there are more Giants fans there than in NYC.
but why a parade for a team that plays in NJ? and by a mayor who's from Boston? what's wrong with East Rutherford, NJ? can't they get their Giants in a parade?
Yankees, OK, Mets, OK, Rangers, OK, Knicks? sure, OK
why don't we have a paraded for the Nets while we're at it?
This Super Bowl was like Rocky IV and the Patriots were Drago. Seemingly unbeatable, not entirely on the level, arrogant and communists. Ok, maybe not the communist part, but still, it fits.
Can we get over the fact that Giants Stadium is in New Jersey? There's an imaginary line that runs down the middle of the Hudson River - that's it. I know many of you will say Jersey is light years away from New York culturally and you look down on the people of New Jersey but it's a friggin' stadium. The Giants played in Yankee Stadium for decades. They're a New York team. If I start using your logic then the Mets and Yankees should have to hold their parades in the Bronx and Queens. They don't play in Manhattan and as such should not be allowed to have parades in Manhattan. John Glenn didn't do anything special in New York! He should have had his ticker tape parade at Cape Canveral! And who gives a crap where Bloomberg is from originally?
because he's a great big phoney,
thanks to family for the reference.
After all is said and done, Brady has a hotter girlfriend than Eli. She lives in the Village and do you think she's going to the parade with her boyfriend?
It's a very real line that runs down the Hudson River. It separates two different states. The Mets and Yankees play in New York City. The Giants are not a New York team and haven't been for decades. Did NYC throw a parade when they won the other Superbowls? No. There were no parades because Ed Koch didn't want to pay for it, and rightly so. Is there a town in NJ that is helping defray the costs of this parade? I don't think so.
I would more compare Montana (who would get my vote for #1, for what it's worth) and Bradshaw with Brady because they played their whole careers in the Super Bowl era. With Unitas, and Bart Starr for that matter, you'd have to go back to NFL championships. With that factored in, Unitas would actually be 2-1 ('58, '59, then lost SB III), and Starr is 5-0(!!!) with championships in '61, '62, '65, plus SB I & II).
Brady is great, no doubt about it. And their team is great. But he was starting to ascend to that very very heights, now he steps back from that.
And (though I hate the Cowboys) you do have to give Aikman his due. He never lost an SB, either. Three in four years is pretty hot.
Gothamist:
Your home for three sore losers since 2008
Get over it--either get excited or get back to your calligraphy class.
Tim N., good point about the NFL championships. I can't believe I didn't take that into account. And thanks for the props even though you hate the Cowboys. Although I'm a Cowboys fan for life, I could never bring myself to hate the Giants (the original LT was one of the greatest linebackers of all time). The Redskins? That's another matter entirely. They suck as bad as the New England Patriots (whose name is an oxymoron and apparently not proud enough to call themselves the Boston Patriots).
Cowboys are doodoo. One of their greatest supporters was Hitler as witnessed by the following short.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=K2triiYXSY8
Hey, HOWBOUTDEMCOWBOYS, are you still happy the Cows didn't make it to the Superbowl? Are you still afraid of the big, bad Patriots?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH!!!!!!!!!!
There is absolutely nothing any of the haters can say right now to wipe the huge grin off my face.
NEW YORK FOOTBALL GIANTS, WORLD CHAMPIONS
They shocked the world. It's unbelievable.
All I have to say to the NY Giants is THANK YOU!!! You all did a fantastic job.
I was so sick and tired of hearing from all the Patriot fans how the Giants were going to lose. There were signs up in the bars saying, "Come watch the New England Patriots defeat the New York Giants in Superbowl XLII."
The Patriots' fans and the players needed a little reality check and what greater way than to have the underdog NY Giants do so.
No doubt the New England Patriots set many records and had a very good season. But, when the game was on the line the team who really wanted the win more came away with it.
It was such a wonderful feeling going into work today. I didn't have to say a word, because the final score said it all. All I had to do was smile...and play Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York" as loud as my computer speaker would go.
All I have to say to the NY Giants is THANK YOU!!! You all did a fantastic job.
I was so sick and tired of hearing from all the Patriot fans how the Giants were going to lose. There were signs up in the bars saying, "Come watch the New England Patriots defeat the New York Giants in Superbowl XLII."
The Patriots' fans and the players needed a little reality check and what greater way than to have the underdog NY Giants do so.
No doubt the New England Patriots set many records and had a very good season. But, when the game was on the line the team who really wanted the win more came away with it.
It was such a wonderful feeling going into work today. I didn't have to say a word, because the final score said it all. All I had to do was smile...and play Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York" as loud as my computer speaker would go.
That's awesome. Even as a Yankee fan, I had never really put much stock in the Pats-Giants game having much to do with the Boston/NY rivalry. But since the Boston fans seem to think that, I'm glad they're suffering today.
I just saw Eli Manning's "I'm Going To Disney World" commercial. Phil Simms was the first player to do that, 21 years ago after Superbowl XXI.
I think Boston likes to make the rivalries. What upsets me is, New England isn't just Boston. But whatever. Yeah I like the Yankees too. It sucks being a NY sports fan in Boston. Everyone is so hostile and serious about the Red Sox and Patriots.