New York Giants' Chris Canty says prepare for a parade

INDIANAPOLIS _ Chris Canty isn't looking past the Super Bowl. But he thinks New Yorkers should keep their calendars cleared for early next week.

Canty, in a television stand-up with New York's WNBC during Wednesday's media availability, was asked to give a message to the Giants fans back home. He obliged, providing the latest layer of bravado and bluster that has filled the air in Super Bowl week.

"Get ready for a great game on Super Bowl Sunday," he said, looking into the camera, "and get ready for a parade on Tuesday."

This is a team that once sneered that "talk is cheap." Now it's like Facebook stock. The Giants have been verbally taunting the Patriots since shortly after Lawrence Tynes' winning field goal sailed through the uprights in San Francisco, showing extreme confidence in their chances of winning Super Bowl XLVI and a complete disregard for who questions or disagrees with their attitude.

Even when asked if his remarks might find their way to a Patriots bulletin board, Canty could not care less.

"Doesn't matter," Canty said. "Obviously, Tom Brady made a statement at their pep rally. Obviously, both teams are here to try to win a football game."

The Giants seem to be the only ones who are comfortable talking as if they know the result, though. Sure, Brady made a reference to a victory party at Gillette Stadium next week when addressing 25,000 or so fans at a bon voyage pep rally in New England. But he wiggled away from those comments later in the day. For the most part it's been the Giants whose comments should come with a spoiler alert for giving away the ending.

"I think we're going to win the game," linebacker Mathias Kiwanuka said with a smile when asked bluntly for his prediction. "I know what you're trying to do. But you don't come out here and say we're going to go out there and give it our best. I believe every guy in that locker room thinks we're going to win the game. If they didn't believe that, they shouldn't be in the locker room."

The Giants hit the practice field at the University if Indianapolis for the first time yesterday, finally putting aside the silliness of Super Bowl Week and getting ready for the task at hand and making their predictions (but not guarantees!) come true.

"I know that I'm going to go in and run full-speed, because I need it," Jason Pierre-Paul said before practice. "I feel like I've been off for like two weeks now without practice, and that's just not me. I feel like I'm home just relaxing. I know that I'm going to pick it up full-speed, and when it is time to play then I'm going to play."