February 5, 2008
Fans Tackle Giants Super Bowl Gear
Moments after the Giants won, visitors to www.giants.com were greeted to this page about getting Super Bowl gear; of course, it wouldn't ship in time for today's parade
Commemorative sweatshirts and hats haven't been so popular since... the Yankees won the World Series in 2000! All around the region, Giants Super Bowl XLII Champions clothing and doodads attracted long waits and some empty hands.
Trucks delivered the Super Bowl Champions-emblazoned items to stores at 4AM. In Staten Island, 200 caps were bought minutes after the New Dorp Modell's opened at 6AM. A fan, who waited six hours to get his $30 hat, explained to the Staten Island Advance, "A hat lasts forever. You get sauce on one of those white Super Bowl shirts, it's the end of it. [But] even if you get fat, the hat still fits." Ah, spoken like a true sports fan.
Right after the Giants won, the MVP shirt was nameless, but still available for order; now the MVP shirt shows Eli Manning
Modell's CEO Mitch Modell told the Post, "Its unbelievable, it's as big as the day before Christmas. It's a record-breaking day. We have trucks, planes and vans flying stuff in from all over the country." And one man said he took Monday off and would take today off too, "I needed a personal day because I have to pick up my outfit for [today's] personal day [for the parade]. I will have to work when I actually am sick, but it's a small price to pay for a ring."
And the Giants weren't the only ones benefiting from the Super Bowl: Tom Petty's Free Fallin' became #10 on Amazon, jumping from #319.
At about 10:26PM on Sunday, we got this email from Macy's
You can get Giants Super Bowl gear at a sporting goods store near you or, if you can wait, from the online Giants Pro Shop.
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Meanwhile, watch the news in about three to six months to see various third world natural disaster victims, civil war refugees, or just poor African villagers walking around on camera in their free 19-0 t-shirts.
many of these designs are horrendously ugly.
I wish I could superimpose that football in ever debeers commercial!!
there are too many people at the parade. They are coming out of the woodwork! More people than at the Yankees parade which I thought would be impossible. Interesting note is Yankees fans had a lot of puerto ricans and dominican hispanics but Giants fans are a mix of Guidos and Irish and Long Islanders.
How many Patriot fans are going to be willing to shell out $200 for that Waterford Crystal Giants ball just to be able to smash it in frustration?
why are championship designs always so ugly? surely you could get some good NYC t-shirt designers on that, and make something really cool. i'd like to see the aNYthing/bathingape/thehundreds version. it probably would be $200, but it would be interesting.