NY GIANTS @ CITY HALL
6 02 2008
New York City hosted its first football celebration in Lower Manhattan’s Canyon of Heroes with the NY Giants ticker-tape parade on Tuesday. With over 4,500 seats for guests and fans, the parade ended with a ceremony at City Hall. Whoppi Goldberg and elected officials like Senator Chuck Schumer and Governor Elliot Spitzer said a few words before Mayor Bloomberg gave a key to the city to each of the NY Giants coaches and players.
Though I don’t care much for the sport, witnessing the ceremony from the media risers was phenomenal. Michael Strahan’s speech was the most exciting moment for me as he called his teammates a “bunch of goofballs,” and explained how they “stomped out” the Patriots and all the other NFL teams. This being Strahan’s fifthteenth year with the Giants, his fans don’t know if this would be his final year in the sport. So in unison fans shouted “one more year, one more year…” But all Michael could say was, “we’ll see”.
Overall Tuesday, Februay 5, 2008 was a historic day for the NY Giants and the city. Plus with the unprecented primary election between a woman and an African-American, it was also a historic day for the U.S. *mercedes sanchez
