The Missus isn’t big on betting, so we kept the terms fairly benign. If her hometown Pats won–and beat the spread–her pedicure was on me (I don’t know, something to do with her feet).

If the Giants won, or at least came within 12 of the mighty Brady Bunch (Brady Bundchen?), I was able to demand a ride to the train station on the day of my choice–and not one of those days when it was raining/snowing/sleeting and she was going to drive my sorry ass anyway.

OK, it’s not exactly plunking down $10Gs on the craps table at Binion’s, a starlet on each arm, but this is what we call excitement in our post-baby, suburban world.

Thanks to Eli, Plaxico and the boys–not to mention Strahan, Kawika and those defensive-minded types who turned Brady into a walking hemoglobin today–I get my ride to the train and don’t have to contribute to the dubious pedicure industry.

(Kawika Mitchell. Has ever there been a more bad-ass individual?)

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Better yet, I came up big–huge, even–in the office pool, taking a few “hunge,” as the sales guys here might say, in the sales guy pool.

I’ll have to double-check my day planners from the last few decades, but I think it was one of the 10 greatest days of my life, not counting my wedding, Little G’s birth and getting an Atari 2600 in 1981.

If you want to take part in tomorrow’s Giants parade at Battery Park, Metro-North is kicking in some extra trains. On the Hudson Line there will be an 8:41 a.m. departure from Poughkeepsie serving new Hamburg, Beacon, and Peekskill and arriving in Grand Central at 10:11 a.m. 

On the Harlem Line there will be an 8:30 a.m. departure from Southeast serving Brewster, Goldens Bridge, Katonah, Mount Kisco, Chappaqua, North White Plains and White Plains and arriving at Grand Central at 9:48 a.m. 

If you’re on the New Haven line, well, you’re on your own.

Well done, Big Blue.

[photo: ESPN]