The Giants

New York might return to its normal snappiness sometime this afternoon, but for now -- on this unusually mild primary election day -- as the floats parade up Broadway toward City Hall, we are all still cheerfully in the clouds where the Giants put us Sunday evening around 10 PM when Plaxico Burress caught Eli Manning's 13 yard pass for the go-ahead and winning touchdown. Fox's high camera had the moment before it actually happened, the ball out of Manning's hand and Burress breaking free from his defender, the perfect pass headed straight for his break and time enough for the impossible thought "The Giants are going to win the Super Bowl" to lodge in my brain the instant before the ball settled in Burress' arms. It's still pretty amazing. Fox had a good producer too, who almost immediately cued up footage of Manning throwing virtually the identical pass to Burress in pre-game workouts.

And we'll be watching the Eli elude and Tyree catch play for years of YouTube and highlights, just like The Catch in 1982 when Montana to Dwight Clark beat the Cowboys in the NFC championship game.

A game for the ages, as -- in fact -- the Giants win over the Packers also was.