Patriots'     Day!


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On Tuesday, February 5th, 2002, ONE MILLION TWO-HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND PEOPLE honored the SUPER BOWL XXXVI WORLD CHAMPIONS, the NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS, in Boston, Massachusetts with a 2-mile parade from Copley Square to a HUGE rally at City Hall Plaza. We waited for hours in the windy, bitter cold "concrete canyon" for the Pats' appearance at the rally. I was freezing, but I had a great spot, about 15-20 feet from the front and maybe 60 feet from the stage. Here are some of my pictures!

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We got there at 8am, but
last-minute preparations began in earnest about 9:30.
(Can you say, "I haven't used the #@!*# bathroom since five o'clock!"?)
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^^   Homemade signs, Patriots flags, and "Stars and Stripes" were the order of the day.
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The city of Boston, and
ALL of Massachusetts, have quickly become "Patriot Nation"!
As the hours went by the crowd grew and grew...the rally ALONE was attended by an estimated 800,000 people!
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People waited on lamposts, in trees and on top of buildings to get great views of both the parade and rally.

Finally...THE PATRIOTS ARIVE!!! (Pictures below) Though several politicians attended, they let the Patriots do the talking! Troy Brown, hoisting the Vince Lombardi trophy high, talked about never touching the AFC Trophy because "...number two ain't a winner!" Bob Kraft was coaxed into doing his own version of an end-zone dance. Lawyer Milloy spoke about the lack of respect the sports world has had for a team that, through consistentcy, efficiency, and sheer domination (REAL football and forget the glitz!), has been the BEST in the NFL! "...but we got respect NOW, right?" He then led the crowd in chanting, "We're number one! We're number one!"

Alas, so many things I could NOT get pictures of...like one fan's neon green sign that said, "Silence of the Rams!" I love it! My sign said, "HOW DO LIKE ME 'EM NOW? PATRIOTS!" And other than a little body-surfing and sporadic throwing of shoes (?!?), the crowd was well-behaved. We mainly passed the time by talking, throwing Nerf footballs, singing our own versions of songs, like "The Rams Bite the Dust" ("Another One Bites the Dust"), cheering and waving our signs and, yes, making paper airplanes out of red-white-and-blue program pages! I have never been in a crowd of over a MILLION people, and it is something I will NEVER forget! WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!!

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