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Rapper Flavor Flav interrupts the Osi Umenyiora and Dave Tollefson’s interviews during the Giants’ celebration on SNY.
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Giants’ WR Victor Cruz wasted no time cashing in on his shooting star. The Blue’s salsa sensation, who has become a highly marketable commodity after bursting out with monster season, has announced he has signed with the international talent mega-agency IMG Worldwide.
From the Hollywood Reporter….
With NFL success, comes endorsement deals and other money-making ventures. And so it is that Victor Cruz, a wide receiver for the Super Bowl-winning New York Giants, has just been signed with IMG Worldwide, an agency specializing in sports, fashion and media.
IMG, which also represents Gisele Bunchen, aka Mrs. Tom Brady, announced the Cruz deal the day after his team’s victory against Brady and the New England patriots.
“I’m very pleased to be represented by IMG,” Cruz said in a statement Monday. “They have a great reputation around the world. They have represented some of the most iconic athletes across a myriad of sports and I am honored to be among them.”
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Lower Manhattan will be decked out in Blue tomorrow to celebrate the Giants’ victory over the Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI yesterday.
SNY - the TV home of all New York sports – today announced that it will feature live, in-depth coverage of the ticker-tape parade in honor of the Super Bowl XLVI Champion New York Giants on Tuesday, February 7th, 2012. SNY’s live coverage will begin at 10:45am.
On-air talent for the network’s parade coverage will include former Giants star Tiki Barber, Chris Carlin, Gary Apple and other special guests.
SNY will also feature extensive coverage of the day’s events throughout its live shows, including Daily News Live (5:00pm), The WheelHouse (5:30pm), Loud Mouths (6:00pm) and Geico SportsNite live from 10:30pm-1:30am. For up-to-the-minute information about the Giants, fans can check out SNY.tv, which features www.giantsfootballblog.com.
The parade will begin at Battery Place and Washington Street at 11:00 AM and continue northbound up the Canyon of Heroes to Worth Street. The parade will be followed by a ceremony at City Hall Plaza, at which the Mayor will present the NY Giants with Keys to the City.
SNY’s New York Giants Super Bowl Championship celebration coverage is presented by Xiaflex.
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SNY.tv’s Ted Berg and John Fennelly of GiantsFootballBlog.com recap Big Blue’s Super Bowl victory over the New England Patriots.
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Giants quarterback Eli Manning and head coach Tom Coughlin talk about their Super Bowl victory over the New England Patriots.
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Giants’ WR Mario Manningham’s promising NFL career has been one that has been held back by incessant ailments and inconsistent performances. This year, he almost became an afterthought with both Hakeem Nicks and Victor Cruz having monster seasons.
Last night, with the Patriots pulling out all the stops to neutralize Cruz and struggling to keep up with the prolific Nicks, Mario made the best of the opportunities QB Eli Manning presented him with. His 38-yard reception on 1st-and 10 from the Giants’ 12-yard-line with 3:46 remaining jumpstarted the Giants’ game-winning drive.
“On the sideline they were going like this (gesturing a successful catch), so I knew I was in. It was a perfect throw,” Mario said. “They rolled into cover-two at the last minute and I saw the corner was acting like he was going to backpeddle, but he came up to play cover-two and I extended to the side a little bit and worked him outside. Eli (Manning) just put the ball on the money. Great pass protection, great ball. I knew where I was on the sideline. I knew I didn’t have that much room. Good thing I wear (shoe size) 11s, because if I wore 11.5s, I don’t think I’d have been in.”
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Lost in the excitement last night were the serious knee injuries to Giants’ TEs Travis Beckum and Jake Ballard….
Jake Ballard and Travis Beckum were standing together as everyone else ran around on the field.
Their celebration was much simpler: a congratulatory tap of their crutches.
The Giants’ tight ends both suffered serious knee injuries tonight in the team’s 21-17 Super Bowl XLVI victory over the New England Patriots. Ballard tore his meniscus cartilage while Beckum tore his right anterior cruciate ligament. Neither returned to the game, leaving Bear Pascoe as the last man standing.
“The Super Bowl (victory) is good medicine for the injury,” Ballard said.
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Four years ago, the New York Giants prevented history.
On Sunday night, they made it.
Just as they did in Super Bowl XLII, the Giants rallied with a last-minute touchdown, scoring the final 12 points to steal Super Bowl XLVI from the New England Patriots, 21-17, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
The last time New York did something like that, it was a heavy underdog, stopping New England just 35 seconds short of being the first team to complete a perfect 19-0 season.
This time, the Giants (13-7) became the first team with more than six losses in a season to win a Super Bowl; the first to do so after suffering a four-game losing streak; and the first franchise to win a Super Bowl in four different decades.
The victory, New York’s sixth straight to close the season, put a stamp on a recurring refrain that carried the Giants from the brink of playoff elimination following a disappointing Week 15 home loss to Washington, to their second Super Bowl title in five years, their fourth overall, and their eighth NFL championship.
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New England QB Tom Brady said he wanted the ball at the end of the game with a chance to win it. That’s just what he got last night, except he had envisioned a different outcome.
“We got to the 50 (yard line) and just ran out of time,” Brady said after the game. “We threw a hail-mary at the end. I’m not sure how close we were to getting it. Obviously I wish we could have done a little bit more.”
The Giants’ defense stepped up when it counted, but Brady sat at his presser last night lamenting about what could have been. The Patriots left a lot of their game out on the field last night. He felt they did not do enough to beat the Giants – who did just enough to win.
“We just didn’t make enough plays. In the first quarter, we didn’t have the ball a ton,” said the future Hall-of-Famer. “The second quarter, we played a little bit better. Third quarter, we started well and it came down to the fourth quarter. (The Giants) made some plays there at the end. We went out there to win the game. We just didn’t make enough plays.”
No, they didn’t. The most notable missed opportunity was with 4:06 remaining in the 4th quarter. On 2nd-and-11 from the Giants’ 44, Brady spotted his favorite target – WR Wes Welker – wide open in the left flat with room to run. The pass was a bit high and Welker could not reel it in. It is a catch he routinely makes….
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In the NFL these days, you have to leave nothing to chance. The Giants, down 17-15 with a little over a minute to play, had the ball on the Patriots’ six-yard-line. The plan was to run the clock down as much as possible, force the Patriots to burn their timeouts and them kick a go-ahead FG. That would’ve have left the Patriots and Tom Brady only seconds to get up the field and into FG range.
They did not want to score a TD and leave Tom Brady a minute and a timeout and a chance to beat them in the last seconds.
But RB Ahmad Bradshaw did not understand. Until it was too late. He took a handoff from Eli Manning and knifed through the line untouched before he realized what was happening.
That was Bill Belichick’s plan. He instructed his defense to give up a touchdown, citing that the clock and the odds were stacking up against him.
“Yes,” admitted Belichick when asked if he allowed Bradshaw to score. “Yes we did.”
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