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Big Blue Fan-Demonium at Giants Ticker-Tape Parade

Brooklynites came to the Canyon of Heroes to celebrate the Giants Super Bowl XLVI Victory over the Patriots.

Big Blue fever was on full display Tuesday as fans from Brooklyn and all the way to New Hampshire swarmed lower Manhattan for the Giants ticker-tape parade on the famed Canyon of Heroes. 

“I’m a big Giants fan. We got to see our heroes, our fans and our city celebrating our Super Bowl victory,” said long-time Park Slope resident Jimmy Torres.

Confetti flew from the big, blue sky as Giants fans flooded the streets, transformed Broadway into a sea of blue—and made look like small potatoes.

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The parade, where Giants players rode floats and quarterback Eli Manning held up the Vince Lombardi Trophy, started at 11 a.m. on Broadway at Battery Park and worked its way up to Worth Street.

But the real revelry was on the side streets, east and west of Broadway, where die-hard fans—decked out in Giants apparel, waving flags, wearing foam hands and face painting—continuously shouted “Blue,” in a long, slow cadence that sounded like a whale’s song.

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They also shouted, “Let’s go Giants, let’s go!” “G-Men, baby!” and even “Patriots suck!”

Families with babies, 20-somethings cutting college classes and professionals all took a day off from their responsibilities to celebrate their team, their city and took ownership of the Giants Super Bowl victory on Sunday night as their own.

“Yo man, my boys did their thing during the big game, and I’m hanging out with my Giants Nation celebrating my victory,” said Mike Tomlinson from Crown Heights while standing in the middle of the street just west of Broadway as his “Giants Nation,” ran around him shouting, “Go Blue!”

He also said that he predicts Super Bowl XLVIII, which he said will be held at Giants stadium, will be the Giants versus the Jets.

Other fans were just grateful that they were able to experience such a parade.

“It’s a once-in-a-life-time opportunity,” said Ed Frick, who was hanging out with a couple of girls from Bay Ridge. “No other town in America, no other city is doing this right now.”


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