Montclair Loves David Tyree

And Tyree showed the love right back today, donning an MHS sweatshirt here. And from the New York Times...

On the lawn in front of the school, where Tyree played high school football a decade ago, the message board read "Our M.V.P." in a salute to the unlikeliest of heroes in the Giants' victory over the unbeaten New England Patriots. Inside the school, scores of students, teachers and administrators wore blue and white T-shirts paying homage to a player who caught only four passes for 35 yards during the regular season and then somehow caught a desperate 32-yard pass from Eli Manning with just over a minute to go Sunday night.

On the shirts were two numbers, Tyree's 85 with the Giants and his 7 with the Montclair Mounties. In between classes, and during them, any number of the school's 2,000 students marveled at how an unsung professional player who was a wide receiver, defensive end and special-teams player at Montclair had become America's newest sports celebrity.

How about Tyree as the next grand marshal for the July 4th parade? More about Tyree, his family and that circus grab catch, here.