Posted on 02/18/2024 11:22:19 AM PST by Drew68
BOSTON (AP) — With back-to-back Super Bowl victories for the hometown Chiefs, Kansas City football fans gathered for another championship parade and a second celebratory pep rally in a row.
Don’t expect there to be a third.
Not because the Chiefs, with star quarterback Patrick Mahomes still just 28 years old, can’t win another NFL title. But even if they do, officials are unlikely to allow so many fans in one place to cheer them on, security experts said in the wake of Wednesday’s shooting just after the rally had ended.
“They have to think twice about having these parades,” said former Boston Police Commissioner Bill Evans, who in 38 years with the department worked 12 championship parades and the aftermath of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. “When you have that many people hanging around in one place, nothing good’s going to happen.”
As many as 1 million fans turned out to cheer on the Chiefs on Wednesday, three days after their 25-22 victory over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl 58. The event included a parade down Grand Boulevard, followed by a rally in front of Union Station.
The celebratory music was still playing when gunfire broke out in the crowd. A mother of two was killed and 22 others were injured — half of them under the age of 16. Two teens were in custody, Police Chief Stacey Graves said.
The Kansas City violence is part of a troubling trend in which sports celebrations turn deadly, with alcohol often the fuel and guns the spark that ignite violence.
Just in the last year at least 10 people were wounded when gunfire broke out in downtown Denver amid fans celebrating the Nuggets’ NBA title...
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You're not lying.
The NFL needs to clean up their own house as well. Some of these players have no business in professional sports no matter how good athletes they are.
Ha.
As a refrigerator magnet phrased it:
I always thought old age would take longer to get here.
Bobcat Goldthwaite joke:”So, I ask the
guy WHY did you overturn that car?
He kinda looked at me sheepishly and
said, ‘(chuckle)...’Niners...’ “
2004 ALCS Red Sox come from behind 3 games
to 0 and win last 4 to beat Yankees.
Crowd on streets starts to get out of
hand. Police officer shoots pellet
gun and misses target, hitting
Victoria Snelgrove, 21—goes into
her brain and kills her. Boston
pays $5M to family in out of
court settlement.
Treating the symptom and not the cause, leads to perpetuity of violence...
In 2003 after the Sox won, the cops in Boston fired bean bags from shotguns near the Fenway. I think it killed one of the kids.
…A couple of jerks who “upgraded” their pistols to full auto mini machine guns. That will ruin any party.
Yea. These things happen.
Yep. And very little chance they hit whomever they were actually aiming for.
And the Super Bowl, for that matter. And the NFL, too. :-P
Well, they did manage to kill a totally innocent bystander, a married mother of two, so there's that.
There have been riots in a lot of cities and shootings etc but until lasts week none in KC. But Mr. M and I have noticed that in Lawrence close to where we live there have been a lot more shootings and such with most of the troublemakers coming from Topeka and KCKS. And we now have a pretty substantial homeless problem. I won’t go down town, even in the daytime. I think that there will be a celebration when the Chiefs win for the third time but my guess is that the parade will go to the Kaufman stadium where they can provide better security.
You mean 2004?
Championships are inherently exclusionary and should be abolished. Just hand out participation trophies. No more need for parades. Problem solved.
“I always thought old age would take longer to get here.”
Mark Twain said something along the lines of : “Don’t worry about old age, it won’t last long.”
All of the championships in Boston…they just all blur together…LOL
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“So apparently because of a few bad people we have to cancel parades? We cant demand good and decent behavior now?”
Except pride parades we won’t ban those.
Just ban aspiring rap artists
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