Giants arrive home to adoring fans

The Super Bowl Champion New York Giants are home.

The Giants' plane landed at Newark Liberty International Airport at around 2:00 p.m. ET Monday with players and coaches being welcomed by hundreds of fans.

As the Giants' flight came into the airport, water cannons were launched 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 of the United Airlines flight, bagpipes played and scores of Giants supporters snapped photographs and took videos using their cellphones.

The Giants loaded onto five buses, led by a police escort, that carried them to the Timex Performance Center, the team's practice facility, in East Rutherford, NJ.

Throngs of fans lined the road leading up to the facility. The buses dropped the players off and they swiftly gathered their luggage and went inside.

New York City will play host to the Giants Tuesday with a parade up Broadway along the Canyon of Heroes.

The Giants defeated the New England Patriots 21-17 Sunday night in Indianapolis, becoming the first 9-7 team ever 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 Super Bowl MVP multiple times.