Super Super Tuesday

I have been privileged to begin this brand new blog in a time when sports and politics are clashing with great vigor. Yesterday, I made my way to New York's Financial District to partake in the Giant's Super Bowl parade. There are few words to describe the scene occurring in Manhattan on that day. Some come to mind though: mayhem, chaos, bedlam, pandemonium. Above all else, however, the parade was breathtaking, a truly amazing experience. Hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions, of people lined Broadway and surrounding streets and avenues to cheer for the new NFL champions.

Unfortunately for the likes of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the parade happened to fall on Super Tuesday. I first realized how this would affect the day's media coverage and the overall reception of the nationwide primaries as I entered the train station early in the morning and saw several Clinton supporters equipped with campaign pins, signs, and flyers attempting to engage potential voters as they walked by. These poor people fell to the wayside as droves of fans dressed from head to toe in Giants gear roared passed them, paying them no mind, and occasionally shouting at them, "G-Men!!!" and "Go Giants!!!"

My friends and I decided to establish our position at City Hall, normally a venue for politics and an area filled with business types and politicians. On this day, however, the entire area was mobbed with Giants fans. Scattered in between the masses of parade goers were several of these working men and women, pushing and shoving their way forward, screaming they had to get to work.

After surviving the parade, I returned home and put on the television and was not at all shocked to see the event in Manhattan was the leading story and gained a considerable amount of news coverage. It goes without saying that the actual parade was telecast on all the major networks.

On a day typically dedicated to politics, my TV screen displayed Michael Strahan's rousing speech in front of City Hall, followed by his hilarious words at Giants Stadium later in the day mocking Howard Dean from a few years ago. At least Strahan tried to bring some essence of Super Tuesday back into the conversation.

For this one time, politics, at least in the Tri-State area, took a back seat to Eli Manning and the Super Bowl XLII champion New York Giants.