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SUPER BOWL XLII

After all the good things that happened to us in Arizona, the thing I think back on that I got to share with my teammates was the parade they had for us in New York. I had heard of the Canyon of Heroes but I didn't know much about it. We were all gathering at the team facility in New Jersey and Coach Coughlin told us about it. He named all the famous people that they had ticker tape parades for, the war heroes, the presidents, the great athletes that had been down that path. But I truly didn't understand the magnitude of it, and how many people were going to be there. I figured, "Hey, we've got a little parade to do, maybe it will be fun." We took buses into lower Manhattan and they put us on different floats. I was on the first one with Coach Coughlin, Michael Strahan and Mayor Bloomberg. We had the Lombardi trophy and the NFC Championship trophy, too, which we kind of rotated around. Trust me, you didn't want to be the guy holding up that NFC trophy. You start in the financial district, go up Broadway and end up at City Hall and nothing can prepare you for what it's like. There were several million people, some of them hanging off buildings 40 stories high. People -- Giants fans wearing blue, city people all dressed up -- are wall to wall, as far as you can see. The paper's coming down and it was a rush. Just the sheer excitement was something I've never experienced. It was chaos, and it was unexpected how moving it was. I called Peyton afterward and said, "When you won, I know y'all had a parade. Well, we had a real parade."
-- As told to Greg Garber of ESPN.com