New York City is celebrating the Super Bowl victory with a ticker-tape parade on Super Tuesday. I attended this event. The parade began on Broadway at Battery Place at 11am.
17. “ It was the 177th ticker-tape parade up Broadway and the first since 2000,when the Yankees defeated the Mets to win the World Series.” Also see: http://tinyurl.com/2yx6cm
19. “ The last time Giants won the Super Bowl I was 17, now I’m 34.You never forget something like that.” Sources: Tommy Molinelli, NY Daily News, Feb 6,2008
20. “ New York Giants” take down the New England Patriots on Fox this past Sunday. The broadcast, which attracted 65% of all viewers watching TV that evening, according to Nielsen, was the second-highest-rated program of all time. It fell just short of the final episode of M*A*S*H* in 1983, which was seen by 106 million people. ” Sources: BusinessWeek Feb 18,2008
21. “ Big Bule’s fans let out those long pent-up cheers for a team that was not supposed to make it to the Super Bowl, but did, and a team that wasn’t supposed to beat the Patriots, but did.” Sources: Daily News Feb 6, 2008
22. It is my first time to attend a ticker-tape parade.
23. “ Fifty tons of recycled paper fluttered gracefully down on the Canyon of Heroes in a city that was denied real snow for all of January---and a victory celebration for so much longer.” Source: Daily News Feb 6, 2008
24. “ A future Eli Manning? Every young fan knows who is No. 1 in New York on Tuesday.”