The NFL is expected to change the way Super Bowl parades are held following last week’s incident in Kansas City.
The Chiefs were celebrating a second successive championship with their fans in said location when gunfire erupted near Union Station, leading to the death of one person, with dozens of others getting injured.
Andy Reid’s team is now keen on a threepeat. However, should they win a third straight Super Bowl, it’s going to be interesting to see whether they have another parade given what happened in their last one.
According to the Associated Press, such events are now likely to change moving forward.
“They have to think twice about having these parades,” Bill Evans, a former Boston Police Commissioner, told the publication. “When you have that many people hanging around in one place, nothing good’s going to happen.”
Boston has hosted the most parades this century. The Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins, and Celtics have brought multiple championships to the city, resulting in lots of revelry.
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“If we’re blessed enough to win a Super Bowl again, do we do this again? Or do we all just say, ‘Go to Arrowhead Stadium. Walk through metal detectors. Have a very secured, vastly smaller event,’” KC Mayor Quinton Lucas told KMBC.
“I think a lot of us, particularly those of us who are thinking about bringing our children somewhere, may ask, at least for a little while, ‘Is this the sort of thing that we want to risk?’” he said. “It’s a shame that this is what we’ve come to today in America and in our city.”
The NFL has yet to provide any insight as to how parades could be held in the future but they have lots of time to figure it out. They could also leave it to the local authorities in the winning city to decide what’s best.
