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I'm sure there are many of you here that plan on attending this.

So here's the info on the

NY GIANTS 2008 SUPERBOWL VICTORY PARADE!!!

WAY TO GO BIG BLUE!!!

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New York's Giants Victory Parade Set for Tomorrow (Update3)

By Erik Matuszewski

 Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- New York City will celebrate the Giants' Super Bowl victory over the New England Patriots with a ticker-tape parade tomorrow in Manhattan.

The parade will begin on Broadway at Battery Place at 11 a.m. New York time and continue through the financial district, an area known as the ``Canyon of Heroes.'' A ceremony will follow at City Hall Plaza, city officials said.

The Giants, known to fans as ``Big Blue,'' upset the previously undefeated Patriots 17-14 last night in the National Football League's championship game. The Giants won their third Super Bowl title after Eli Manning's 13-yard touchdown pass to Plaxico Burress with 35 seconds remaining erased a three-point fourth-quarter deficit.

It ``was a great night for the Giants, and a great night for New York,'' Mayor Michael Bloomberg told reporters last night at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. ``New York has come back many times in the past and Big Blue proved that you should never, ever, count us out.''

Members of the championship team also will ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange before celebrating with their fans, NYSE spokeswoman Stephanie Scotto said in a telephone interview.

Trains, Subways

New York's state Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the city's subways and buses and the Long Island and Metro-North commuter railroads, is urging fans planning to attend tomorrow's parade to ride mass transit.

The LIRR, the largest U.S. commuter railroad, will add 14 trains, six into the city after the morning rush hour and eight eastbound trains after the parade, said spokeswoman Susan McGowan. Metro-North said it will add a train on both its Harlem and Hudson lines in the morning and two to the Hudson Line in the afternoon.

New York City Transit told fans to arrive early and expect crowded conditions on subways and platforms and detours on bus routes. They should avoid the 4, 5 and 6 trains on the Lexington Avenue subway line, which is normally crowded during weekday rush hour, and use the 1, 2, 3, A, C, E or J lines.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said it will double midday service on its Port Authority Trans Hudson, or PATH trains, to the World Trade Center station located a block from the parade route.

Parades' History

More than 200 ticker-tape parades have been held in the ``Canyon of Heroes'' since 1896, with honorees including the New York Yankees and Mets baseball teams, Charles Lindbergh and Dwight Eisenhower, according to the Downtown Alliance. The last parade was held in October 2000 after the Yankees won Major League Baseball's World Series.

The Giants finished the season with a 14-6 record and denied the Patriots a fourth title in seven years. They also ended New England's attempt to join the 1972 Miami Dolphins as the second team in NFL history to go undefeated and win the Super Bowl.

``This season was for the guys in that locker room, for the coaches, the Giants and the fans,'' defensive end Michael Strahan said at a news conference.

Strahan has spent his 15-year NFL career with the Giants and although he considered retiring before this season, he said last night he had other things on his mind.

``I am actually thinking about the parade that moved from Boston to New York City,'' Strahan said.

[SPIDERMAN]

Somebody cap Toomer, he's a no class punk ass chithead

[Hugh Janis]

I'm sure the '72 Dolphins will be in attendance.......  They may even have their own float!

[SPIDERMAN]

Is Toomer Mecury Morris's bastard son ?

[Keats]

the Giant's?   caution!  adult content!