The Giants shut down Manhattan for half the day Tuesday with their NFL championship parade, and while magnificent, it didn’t register alongside these epic sports victory celebrations:
1984: After watching Fuzzy Zoeller take the U.S. Open title, more than 800,000 fans crowd the streets of lower Manhattan, trying desperately to get just one glimpse of their beloved hero
1991: Pro Bowl MVP Jim Kelly rides the lead float through throngs of cheering AFC fans in downtown AFC City
1994: Hakeem Olajuwon is strapped to the top of a station wagon so his head won’t slam into Houston’s many low-clearance tunnels
1997: Michael Jordan heroically overcomes the flu to sit on a float for an hour and glare at Chicagoans
2001: The Arizona Diamondbacks regret not naming themselves the Phoenix Diamondbacks, as they have to spend 14 months attending a parade in each town in the state
2010: The world champion New Orleans Saints hold the dullest, quietest, least-interesting parade in city history
2019: When the underdog Vikings finally win a Super Bowl after many unsuccessful trips, the resulting jubilation and exuberance spills out into the streets of their home city, totally shutting Los Angeles down
