Boston's Super Bowl victory parade will happen on Tuesday, despite two heavy storms in one week and big piles of snow along a route that likely will attract at least tens of thousands of throaty fans.
Boston's Super Bowl victory parade will happen on Tuesday, despite two heavy storms in one week and big piles of snow along a route that likely will attract at least tens of thousands of throaty fans.
Mayor Marty Walsh on Monday announced the parade as more than a foot (30 cm) of snow was expected to hit the city. Even before the New England Patriots won their fourth Super Bowl on a heart-stopping sequence of plays Sunday night, the mayor had city crews removing truckloads of snow along a planned parade route.
Walsh told WHDH-TV Channel 7 in an interview that this was done "quietly" so as not to jinx the team.
The mayor wasn't being cocky about the hometown team, but after a blizzard hit the city last week he had to be ready for a potential victory parade.
The Patriots looked almost certain to lose the game as the Seattle Seahawks were just a yard away from scoring a game-winning touchdown. But Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson threw an interception with 25 seconds left on the clock, allowing the Patriots to win 28-24.
Temperatures are forecast to be about 12 Fahrenheit (-11 Celsius) when the parade kicks off at 11 a.m. EDT (1600 GMT) Tuesday at Boston's Prudential Tower and heads to City Hall about a mile-and-a-half (2.4 km) away.
The team, including star quarterback Tom Brady and Malcolm Butler, the rookie who intercepted Wilson's pass, will tour the route in duck boats in what has become a tradition for the city's championship-winning teams.
Fans are calling Sunday night's game one of the best Super Bowls in the history of the National Football League.
The buildup to the 49th Super Bowl had been dominated by a controversy over deflated footballs used by the Patriots in a blowout win over the Indianapolis Colts in the AFC title game that earned them a trip to Arizona to play the Seahawks.
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