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Super
Bowl 46 was a game between the
American Football Conference (AFC)
champion New England Patriots and
the National Football Conference (NFC)
champion New York Giants to decide
the National Football League (NFL)
champion for the season.
The
parade for the Super Bowl champs
will be Tuesday morning, 7th
February Mayor Bloomberg
announced on Sunday night after the
famous victory. The
ticker-tape parade will begin at
Battery Place and Washington Street
at 11 a.m. and continue northbound
up the Canyon of Heroes to Worth
Street. The parade will be followed
by a ceremony at City Hall Plaza.
This
was the first Super Bowl to be
played in Indianapolis, and only the
fourth time that the Super Bowl has
been played in a cold-weather city,
after Detroit (XVI and XL) and
Minneapolis (XXVI). Downtown
Indianapolis, the home of Lucas Oil
Stadium, featured an outdoor Super
Bowl Village and other programs at
the Indiana Convention Center.
Per
convention as an even-numbered Super
Bowl, the Patriots as the AFC
representatives had the home team
designation. Super Bowl XLVI was the
sixth Super Bowl in which the two
teams had competed in a previous
Super Bowl match up, as the Giants
and Patriots had previously met in
Super Bowl XLII. Both head coaches
(Tom Coughlin and Bill Belichick)
and both starting quarterbacks (Eli
Manning and Tom Brady) returned from
Super Bowl XLII.
The
New York Giants won Super Bowl XLVI
with a score of 21–17. Giants
quarterback Eli Manning, who
completed 30 of 40 passes for 296
yards and a touchdown, was named
Super Bowl MVP for the second time
in his career. The Giants set a new
record for the poorest regular
season record (9–7, win percentage
of 0.563) by a Super Bowl champion.
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