Let’s hear it for the Giants – this year’s Super Bowl champs

This story about today’s ticker tape parade for the world champion NY Giants provides a nice break from politics:

February 5, 2008 — With a snowstorm of confetti and paper raining down from skyscrapers, Michael Strahan cradled the Super Bowl trophy like a baby Tuesday as thousands of New York Giants fans celebrated on Manhattan’s streets and saluted their improbable champions.

The Giants rode in floats and many players carried video cameras to record the moment, waving to the throngs and basking in the delighted screams. A huge cheer went up when MVP quarterback Eli Manning joined Michael Strahan at the front of a float.

The float also carried Mayor Michael Bloomberg as well as the Vince Lombardi Trophy, which was well protected in Strahan’s massive arms.

That’s all well and good, but I’m more interested in the moment of this NY Post picture of Giants QB Eli Manning, who is lookin’ kinda hunky for a change:

Not sexy, mind you, but very cute all the same.

In all seriousness, congrats to Eli and the Giants on their huge win. Not only did they defeat the team that was supposedly undefeatable, in the Super Bowl no less, but now Eli can finally step out of his brother’s shadow as he has earned the respect of his peers and skeptics alike.