The Super Bowl champion Giants are home.
The team’s plane landed at Newark Liberty International Airport around 2 p.m. and was welcomed by hundreds of fans.
Giants head coach Tom Coughlin smiles as he walks off the plane at Newark Liberty Airport this afternoon. (Rich Schultz)
As the Giants’ flight came into the airport, water cannons were launched as a way to salute the return of the Super Bowl XLVI winners. The cannons are traditionally used as a way to send off retiring pilots.
As the players, friends and family members filed off the United Airlines flight, bagpipes played and scores of Giants supporters snapped photographs and took videos using their cellphones.
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The Giants loaded onto five buses, led by a police escort, that carried them to the Timex Performance Center, the team’s headquarters, in East Rutherford.
Fans lined the road, the buses dropped off the players, and they swiftly gathered their luggage and went inside.
New York City will play host to the Giants on Tuesday morning when the Giants parade down Broadway to the Canyon of Heroes for the second time in the past five seasons.
The Giants defeated the Patriots 21-17 on Sunday, becoming the first 9-7 team to win the Super Bowl.
It was the franchise’s fourth Super Bowl victory and the second under head coach Tom Coughlin. Quarterback Eli Manning was named the game’s MVP, joining Bart Starr, Joe Montana, Terry Bradshaw and Tom Brady as the only players to be named MVP multiple times.