It's an event containing 800k people using public spaces that has to be set up in less than 48 hours. Anything better than a complete disaster is probably a success. A lot of cities struggle to host the Super Bowl with years of advance notice. The fact they pulled this event off with two days of notice is fantastic. I'm sure it was planned before then, but you only have 48 hours to execute and you don't know when the series will be over.

Whats amazing to me is, looking at the pics, how many of those people could even see anything on the stage? It just seems kind of pointless to go down there if you cant see anything?

But i guess people just wanted to share in the experience. I get that.

Yeah, seems like most people just went for the party, and that's OK.

Yes, i agree. im not criticizing. I think thats great. Theres something to be said for a communal experience.

Went to the parade but didnt get to Union Station for the rally...

Thought I recorded it at home but apparently it didn't, anyone know if it's online anywhere or if it'll re-air on TV?

I shudder to imagine what would happen if the Chiefs ever managed to win the Super Bowl.

Super high-resolution photo of the crowd at the rally, you guys that went should be able to find yourselves.

http://kansascity.royals.mlb.com/pho...d=kc&year=2015

Flash? Really?

Why does that matter? The "best fans in baseball" didn't match it their first, second, third, etc time...

Couldn't go, live in PA, but the word out is that almost a million people showed up. There were no reports of rioting or violence. Nobody back here can believe it..I do. And I am so proud that I grew up back there. Real people.

Yup... It's time, and it needs to start with runs to (Clockwise) the Smithville area, Liberty, Independence, Lee's Summit/Raytown, Leawood/OP/Olathe/Lenexa/Shawnee, Western JOCO, THE AIRPORT(!!!!!!!!!!!!!)...

OK so what's a fetty wap?

We went planning to get to, and see, the rally. But it became obvious pretty quickly that wasn't going to happen, so we partied for a bit out there then walked to a bar to watch.

When you jizz in your own mouth on accident.

So like, where did you guys piss? I went 1 time as soon as I got off the shuttle, then didn't go again until I got home. Did anybody wear Depends?

Someone should have done a better job in the 36 hours following the end of the World Series of planning out how to accommodate 800,000 people for a free-to-the-public event on a shoestring budget.

My office is downtown right next to the parade route, t'was not an issue for my group.

We actually had a church 50 feet away (9th and Grand) offering bathrooms and free bottles of water. With my kids there, it was a lifesaver.

So, Jesus is a Royals fan too. Somehow I already knew that!

What did they have for food and beverage options ?

I wasn't comparing you to Cardinals fans. Why do you insist on doing so? I was simply asking a question.

evil hypocrite christians

I could count 2 food trucks from the hotel room.

I inquired about room service at the hotel and was told it was six hours behind.

We ended up eating snacks and halloween candy and drinking booze.

How in the world do you get 6 hours behind? It blows my mind how a lot of places didn't seem to alter their SOP for this event. We walked by a donut shop on Grand on the way to the parade that had "Sold Out" signs up. How in the hell, as the owner of that shop, do you not say, "Hey...everyone is working tomorrow from sun-up and we're going to make 10x the number of donuts we usually make!" ??

I assume it's because they had a budget like any other business. And ordering and delivering enough supplies with less than 48 hours notice to make 200,000 doughnuts may have been out of that budget.

The parade didn't seem to have anything at all. I heard food trucks applied to participate but the city (or whoever ran the thing) said there wasn't enough room.

There are restaurants around but we walked about a mile away to Martini Corner and it still seemed like half the restaurants were at capacity and not letting anyone else in.

It also helps that every fan was mostly awesome.

I was there by the stage. Could not find any family or friends that were not on the trolleys. Absolute blast. Met lots of great friendly people of all colors just enjoying what the team accomplished.

My only complaint was there were not water vendors.

I think they did a great job for the most part. They were guessing 200-350k.. Then schools let out. that is 100k+ just in kids if not more.


I read there were only 3 arrests?

Besides the poor speeches for the most part it was great. They know what to do for next time.

I think this had a lot to do with it. A lot of parents had to get the day off and figured they might as well go to the parade. I didn't hear much about it until schools shut down for the day, then it seems everyone I knew suddenly said they were going.

Final verdict.....Parade attendance was around 200,000. Sounds like those 800,000 numbers were waaay fudged....


http://www.kcconfidential.com/2015/1...ans-seriously/



However, when Kansas City’s mayor got into the crowd estimating game and certain national media started picking up on claims by “officials” that as many as 800,000 people had been involved, a reality check was in order.

According to whom? Officials? What officials? And how did they arrive at those numbers?

Enter City Hall spokesman Chris Hernandez who claimed Jacobs Method had been used

“Jacobs would turn over in his grave if he heard that count,” Evert quips. “I’d like Chris Hernandez to introduce me to the person who used Jacobs Method.”

Uh, fat chance (more on that later).

“We used Jacobs Method – exactly as he laid it out – on the Plaza – we didn’t do it here because we would have needed two dozen people to do it properly,” Evert continues. “And since that wasn’t available, I used Google Earth.”

And who did the count for KC’s mayor?

“Who did the count?” Hernandez gulps. “Oh, someone who works at City Hall, but it’s clearly just an estimate.”

May I speak with him please, I asked?

“No, because here’s the deal,” Hernandez tap danced. “It’s someone who works in my department and he just did it for us. He’s not an expert.”

According to Hernandez, said dude looked at aerial photos and somehow came up with 720,000 people, which was then “rounded up” to 800,000 to account for parade watchers on rooftops and inside buildings.”

Which brings us to Evert’s numbers, measured using a very liberal crowd density factor.

“My figure was 216,000 people using a density of one person for every three square feet,” Evert says. “We’ve all been in elevators where everybody was jammed in like sardines – but to stand like that for two hours? Go measure an elevator and tell me if you want to stand in there for a couple hours with 15 of your closest friends…But 800,000 people is total bullshit. I got 167,000 at the parade and another 60,000 at Union Station and on the lawn. That’s 216,000 and that was extremely generous.”

Lol that guy says there was only 60k at the rally?

Yes did he count the people jamming every street downtown, stuck on a bus or in traffic, and the people turned away that could not even get close. Take Arrowhead filled to capacity and times that by 5 to 6 and that would be a good start.

There's no way in hell there was anything close to a million people there. 200-300k is probably right.

Yeah that estimate is a joke. There was probably 4 to 5 times as many people there on Tuesday.

Here is the best image I could find of the 2008 Obama rally at Liberty Memorial and the estimate was 75k.

http://www.thelope.com/images/08-10-18-321.jpg