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50 tons . . . why that’s 100,000 pounds of paper — this for a team that plays in New Jersey:

About 50 tons of shredded paper is expected to rain down upon fans and members of the 2008 Super Bowl champions, the Giants, as the team travels up the storied Broadway route to City Hall for a ceremony to commemorate their win over the Patriots.

The parade marks the first victory march through the Canyon of Heroes for the Giants, a franchise that before Sunday’s upset victory had won the Super Bowl twice. The Yankees were the last New York team to receive the honor, after winning the World Series in 2000.

In preparation for the 11 a.m. parade, the city yesterday procured 1,000 pounds of shredded paper donated by a packing company in Brooklyn, Atlas Materials. The rest of the expected 49 tons of paper will likely come from the bowels of shredders belonging to companies along the route.

Following its first Super Bowl victory, in 1987, the team was denied the opportunity to hold a ticker-tape parade because Mayor Koch said he didn’t recognize the Giants as a New York team after their decision to move to New Jersey for a lucrative stadium deal.

In 1991, the Giants won the Super Bowl for a second time, but with the Gulf War weighing on the country, it was decided a parade would not be appropriate, an assistant commissioner of the New York City Department of Records, Kenneth Cobb, said.