The Giants have landed in Indianapolis, immediately shuttled to their hotel and presented to the media Monday afternoon.
It’s not like the Giants have a practice to go. Just time to kill. We saw a group of Giants that weren’t set to meet with the media awkwardly standing around at Starbucks killing time, while a few fans lingered nearby trying to figure out who they were.
We’ll dive into more later, but here were a few quick hits from the Giants media session.
1. Asked about no longer being big underdogs, Mathias Kiwanuka seemed surprised. He said the team would have to find more room for the bandwagon.
2. Victor Cruz, who couldn’t contain his glee about reaching the Super Bowl, answered about five minutes of questions in Spanish. He relayed a prank that Eli Manning pulled on him this morning which involved dousing Cruz’s towel with hand soap.
Other Eli-to-Cruz pranks over the years include putting baby powder in his cleats and dye on his gloves. All the classics.
3. The Giants uniformly dismissed Tom Brady’s words at a Patriots rally Sunday as a form of motivation. Kiwanuka said it wasn’t legitimate trash talk.
4. Dumbest question of the day goes to the reporter that asked Tom Coughlin to predict the Super Bowl MVP.
5. The picture above is Giants tackle James Brewer carrying a teddy bear off the team plane. We’re going to assume someone made him do that.