February 5, 2008
Watching the Giants' Ticker Tape Parade
Photograph of Michael Strahan, coach Tom Coughin (holding the Vince Lombardi trophy) and quarterback and Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning by Tien Mao
Update: Here are some of our photographs from the parade route - it look us a few hours to download the photos and decompress/shake out the confetti from the parade. We'll be adding a slideshow later.
Photograph of NFC Championship hero, kicker Lawrence Tynes, by Tien Mao
Photograph looking down the Canyon of Heroes right before the parade by Kidsturk on Flickr
The Super Bowl champion Giants' ticker tape parade is in full swing, and if you're not in the midst of crowds along lower Broadway (the Canyon of Heroes), you can watch the parade online via streaming video from WCBSTV 2, WNBC 4, WABC 7, FOX 5, and the NYC government.
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The float carrying Eli Manning, Michael Strahan and owners John Mara and Steve Tisch just started moving. It's always cute to see the players with their own cameras and video cameras, filming the crowds for t heir own memories.
Those of you watching from office windows downtown, tell us what the crowd is like. You can even share your photos by sending them to photos(at)gothamist(dot)com or tagging them "gothamist" on Flickr. And do you know anything taking the day off to go to the parade?
And here's information on street closures and where the NYPD has set up pedestrian crossings.
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It is mother F'in Crazy!!!! I've never seen so many Guido's, Irish, and Long islanders in my life. It's the northeastern rednecks club. All around me is a bad Brooklyn stereotype. I only thought people said "Fuhgeddaboutit" and "whatsamattaU!" in the movies. I was wrong. The Yankees parade is usually full of puerto ricans and Dominicans but at least you feel safe. I feel like I'm about to be gangraped out here.
I also forgot to add people from "Joisey" and Staten Island. Basically the worst caucasian scum on the planet is at this parade.
Wow, you're probably voting in the primaries today too and think that you're open minded. These people are Giants fans who are either using a vacation day (if they have any) or they work the late shift while you sit at home with your thumb up your butt. They want to go out and support their team. You don't have to be ugly about it.
at least it's OUR caucasian scum. I had the displeasure of living in Boston when the Pats won the first Superbowl of their recent dynasty run, and let me tell you, that New Englander white trash scum is terrifying. They were climbing up lamp posts, and screaming "Yankees Suck" (uh, isn' this FOOTBALL you retards?), puking drunk at 9 am. I lived in the North End and had to walk through Government Center, where the parade ended, on my way to work that day. Talk about feeling like your life was in danger...
A priest form the church at Broadway and Wall was blessing the parade from a ladder.
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/5583/abcd0003vs2.jpg
NYC and Boston sports ain't exactly what I'd call leaders in diversity.
I saw so much more diversity at the parade today than I have at any other parade of this scale in New York City.
There are crowds of mostly 20-30 year old white guys wearing blue jerseys and blue hats who seem to have never been in New York City before in their lives outside from Penn Station/midtown. The place where I got my lunch is selling "ice cold beers" -- people made a b-line. I am glad to be safe inside my office now. The best part was the people dumping shredded paper out of their office windows and toiletpapering Broadway. It's a mess! The tail end of the parade is just people on trucks who don't appear to be the players (I missed the players go by)...the crowd are shouting "who are you!??!".
I'm watching in the lunchroom and I have to ask: When looking for a Master of Ceremonies that defines New York football, how many of you would choose Whoopie Goldberg?
why are the politicos being introduced. Do I really need to know the mayor of East Rutheford NJ is attending?
I wrote Leaders in diversity, both ny and boston weren't too anxious to break any color barrier.
and that includes that ugly busing scene in boston.
old habits die hard.
No, and that wasn't the point of the parade either.
I like how as much as they are adulating the Giants they are denigrating New England. The NY Post is the worst about it. It's like the patriots raped their mothers and they are trying to get back at them through print.
"It's Tuesday, people work on Tuesdays."
Schumer spotted a video camera and a crowd and had to join in.
babyhitler: Appropriate name for an asshole.
nuts
don't knock Wassamatta U., Bullwinkle J. Moose graduated from there.
What a clusterfuck! The cops were disorganized, the routes were not clear, and I couldn't see or hear a damn thing! That said, I hardly regret calling out sick or standing for two hours. Woo!
From lower Manhattan to Penn Station I'm predicting 50 degrees and moderate to heavy vomit fall for tonight.
WAAAAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOO!!! is all that I have to say.
ugh. Why the bagpipes? WHY?????? Is it a Scottish funeral or some shit? Ban the pipes.
babyhitler: I recommend you stay in your apartment, don't go outside and especially stop blogging.
First off I despise NY fans. Most are fairweather a-holes who thought Plaxico was a allergy medicine three weeks ago. Secondly I couldn't get to my office for two hours. The NYPD were totally unhelpful (one of them said "sorry, not from around here"). Some "Joey" tried to start a fight with me probably because I was wearing a tie and not running around shirtless yelling 18-1. Why even bring that up, it just shows how good the Pats were this year. Idiots.
Too bad Belichick didn't attend. I hear he owns a video camera, too.
We all lost on Sunday because we were forced to watch the worst commercials ever to punctuate a Super Bowl. Read on.
http://tombomb.typepad.com/tombomb/
As a Giant fan, I have to say that I hate it when fans, instead of celebrating their teams success, chant things like "18-1," "Boston Sucks," "1918," or anything lame like that.
Did you hear about this?
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02052008/news/nationalnews/18_1_pats_loss_is_gain_for_ny_fan_583844.htm
I love this sign.
I f*cked Giselle too.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nyer82/2244289595/
By the way, can someone help me tag the players in my other photos? I don't really know who is in a lot of my shots.
babyhitler: you're whack.
JGNY: First off, I'm sure not many NY Giants fans knew that much about Plaxico Burress before he came to NY because he had spent his previous 5 seasons in the AFC with the Steelers. Secondly, so why didn't you just go get a coffee and chill? You and all the other morons complaining about the crowds are crybabies. It was a parade. In NYC. Get over it.
Finally, 18-1 is a good season, if the only loss wasn't in the Super Bowl.
All this complaining is just shameful. You people aren't real fans and you aren't real New Yorkers, I don't care if you were fucking born here and lived here all your life or not.
For five fucking minutes..or even maybe a few hours, you can put aside your fucking wannabe "NYC experience" trying too fucking hard lives and just enjoy the fucking moment cheering with the hometown fans for the fucking hometown team that just won the fucking Superbowl.
Seriously, you haters can pound it up your collective take-yourself-waaaay-too-seriously asses.
Oh and one other thing:
GO BLUE YAY BLUE..BLUE BLUE..>!!!!>>..>BLUE!!!!