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SuperB(r)owl XLII NY Giants Victory Parade

This weekend was SuperBowl Sunday - a season long end of National Football League.
Here is a brief description of the Game.
The competetion started in Mid August and ended with a final between New York Giants and New England Patriots.
Giants were underdogs and Patriots had had a clean season - they had won all their 16 games in the Tournament and were favorites to win. But in the end the Best Team Won.
To pay respect to a brilliant win - I attended the Giants victory parade (locally called as Ticker Tape Parade) in Manhattan (called in sick :( at the office :)). Here are some pics.....

Go GIANTS!!!!!

The li'll GIANT

The Enron Ticker Shards

The FANS

Most Valuable Player (MVP) Eli Manning

The Spirit of New York

The Victory Paper Trail
I like to attend such events - where for those moments everyone becomes one - there is no difference between classes, race, color, sexes - its just mass Hysteria. Here is a link to additional pitures.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.....

37 comments:

Jaggu said...

I am completely jealous of you. NY is always great to chill out. Good that you enjoyed it. And by the way why dont you show that great photo also which you took in the Puerto Rico parade...yaad aaya??

Anonymous said...

i heard that the rivals of NY giants cheated ? at least metro said so and in our office we had the merchandise of NY giants being sold!!!!!!!!!!!

Mez said...

Sometin happens to me at the sight of firangs. U know why i say that. Sorry..

--xh-- said...

man, you had arocking time. itz the magic of sports - no creeed, no cast,no sex - no barriors... nice fotos of celebrations...

Sameera Ansari said...

Great that you had such a good time!Though I am not a fan of the game,I can totally feel the enthusiasm here :)

True,it feels so good when people of all standing come together for such occasions,even if for a while.

Preethi said...

hey those are cool shots. It wud've been an awesome crowd right? I think the lines get formed pretty early i see u cudn't get the front lines.
Eli must've looked as calm and collected as ever.... nice....

and hey ur new pic. looks cool. why have you cut the head part!!?? ;) i can take a wild guess......

KP said...

NICE snaps.....

hope u enjoied it.....:)

Man I am hoping our Bengals or Browns win Super bowl....so I can go to one of this parade.........:)

That was gr8 game!!!

Anonymous said...

ahha... enjoyed ehh?!

well where r u in the pics?!
:D
i know i think i read the same thing on KP's blog :)

but can't refrain from commenting can we?!
:D

Impressionist said...

nice pics bro!
I donno much about the game since I have never watched it!

-Jeevy

Cinderella said...

"Mass Hysteria"...whoa !!!
It really feels like you're one single entity, and are vouching for one cause..
I'm watching 'Contender' now...talk about 'mass hysteria'...eh ?
Glad you had fun !

ceedy said...

@jaggu

I did not tell you to leave from here.....well about the pic from Puerto Rico Parade - yes I remember that - but have no reason to put....

ceedy said...

@ashu
as long as they dont say that giants cheated everything is fine....

did you buy anything?

Pavi!!!! said...

oh wooww..u were at the super Bowl!? Looks like u had a blast!

Actually i knew nothing abt the game until recently...n this Sunday i was rootin for Patriots:( Boo-Hoo they lost...but nice game!

n yeah... i love the ads as well!

ceedy said...

ooopss...well i think you ought to always have sun glasses with you - that way they will look dark...

ceedy said...

@-xh-

yup a great time....sports and also sometimes tragedies have the same effect.....

we all need something to show our best i guess

ceedy said...

@sameera

it was cool - thanks

ceedy said...

@preethi
I was there at 9.00 but had to attend a meeting...by the time i came back...had to walk 16 blocks to get this spot........but it was worth it :)

did not get you on the pic part...wats your wild guess...

ceedy said...

@kps

best of luck dude......it was fun...maybe once in a few year event...

ceedy said...

@veens
I was alone....so nobody to take a pic....

yeah its the same thing...I just experienced it first hand :P

ceedy said...

@veens
I was alone....so nobody to take a pic....

yeah its the same thing...I just experienced it first hand :P

ceedy said...

@jeevy

agree...it took me 6 yrs to completly enjoy it...

i have given a link above - its succint and explains it...read it if you like :)

ceedy said...

@cinderella

yes a different way to look at it....in a way we were all one entity.......

let me know how you like contender...hmmmm is smg going to come out for hillary ???

ceedy said...

@pavi

thanks for your visit :)

yeah it was cool - but this was just a parade - wish cld have been at the real game...

yeah it takes times for us to get used to these sports - took me almost 6 yrs before i seriously followed it :)

and the ads are the best part - agree

Anonymous said...

my manager wore the hat and jacket he got with NY giant imbibed on it :)

some ppl might not even knw what superbowl is, yet for sake of goodie good commenting they do it....

whoooooooooof

Anonymous said...

blogrolling.com is down!!!!!!!!!!!

Mel Avila Alarilla said...

Hi Ceedy,
Congratulations. Your team, the Giants, won the championship. The ticker tape parade was probably awesome. I just hope nobody from your office read your blog otherwise you will be caught malingering. He, he, he, *lol* O what we will do for our favorite sports heroes. Thanks for the post. Have a great and pleasant day always.

Reeta Skeeter said...

NY always has such interesting things going on. envy you :P

Pri said...

heehee now i know what keeps u soo busy...
hope bossie dear dosent read ur blog though ;)

have fun!!

ceedy said...

@ashu

cool :)

ceedy said...

@mel

yeah :)

thanks

ceedy said...

@reeta

I agree and dats y I am shtuck around here :)

ceedy said...

@pri

shoooooooo...

please dont leak this information :)

radiohead said...

oh I rem the superball episode from the series 'how I met your mother' .. I just loved it :D

football is alwyz fun .. and full of so much adrenaline .. its hard to escape

ceedy said...

@anuj
yeah....

Gunjan Aylawadi said...

great pictures!!
m double j of u nw!!

ceedy said...

@gunj...

:( but really (:))

Unknown said...

that's pretty cool!