In 1987, the New York Giants won the Super Bowl for the first time, although they'd won four NFL Championships in the pre-Super Bowl era. Since 1976, they've played their home games in East Rutherford, New Jersey, about six miles from Times Square -- almost exactly the same distance as Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds, where they'd previously played (1956-73 and 1925-55, respectively). Their new stadium will also be at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford. Yet in '87, New York's Mayor Ed Koch called them "this foreign team" and refused to give them a ticker-tape parade, as many other championship teams in the City had gotten (and many have since). When they won again in 1991, Mayor David Dinkins upheld the Koch precedent. Now that they've won in 2008, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said they're a New York team as much as a New Jersey team, and he gave them a parade. I've always hated the Giants for coming to my home State but not changing their name. That all changed when they beat the cheating, previously-undefeated, shamelessly smug New England Patriots. Now, they get many, many tributes, including this song.

Party on, Eli!