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brooklynite

(94,602 posts)
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 11:22 PM Jul 2019

Women's Soccer Team to Get Ticker-Tape Parade in New York's Canyon of Heroes

Source: New York Times

Throngs of people on Broadway. Marching bands carrying American flags. Thousands of scraps of confetti paper raining down on the procession below.

For over 100 years, ticker-tape parades in Manhattan have celebrated many events, including the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge, the return of the Apollo 11 astronauts and numerous World Series victories by the Yankees.

Next comes the United States women’s soccer team, which claimed its fourth World Cup title on Sunday in a 2-0 victory over the Netherlands. It will be honored with a ticker-tape parade on Wednesday, according to the office of Mayor Bill de Blasio.

The winning squad from the 2015 World Cup is the only other women’s sports team that has been honored with such a parade.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/07/nyregion/uswnt-parade-nyc.html

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Women's Soccer Team to Get Ticker-Tape Parade in New York's Canyon of Heroes (Original Post) brooklynite Jul 2019 OP
Oh, can you just see Trump fuming? madaboutharry Jul 2019 #1
I was hoping for this. mobeau69 Jul 2019 #2
The Big Mac Of Parades Me. Jul 2019 #3
They need some fake Sherman tanks painted in rainbow colors.... KY_EnviroGuy Jul 2019 #4
You beat me to it...will there be tanks?? Sancho Jul 2019 #10
It's going to be huge. Iliyah Jul 2019 #5
So many young girls.... SCVDem Jul 2019 #6
Trump won't be happy - he wants to be star of this - that pic in the oval office with him surrounded Demovictory9 Jul 2019 #7
Hoping it is a HUGE crowd. riversedge Jul 2019 #8
I heard NYC would do this if they won! BigmanPigman Jul 2019 #9
It is wonderful on its own but I do hope Trump is insulted that the attention is taken off of HIM. CTyankee Jul 2019 #11
Good for the team and NYC. n/t MicaelS Jul 2019 #12

madaboutharry

(40,212 posts)
1. Oh, can you just see Trump fuming?
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 11:27 PM
Jul 2019

These women are going to have a better parade than he had!

And no doubt a bigger crowd.

Demovictory9

(32,457 posts)
7. Trump won't be happy - he wants to be star of this - that pic in the oval office with him surrounded
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 11:56 PM
Jul 2019

by winners. he LOVES that.

BigmanPigman

(51,611 posts)
9. I heard NYC would do this if they won!
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 02:17 AM
Jul 2019

Having it take place after the fucking moron's bomb of a parade and his not inviting them to the W House
(like they would even attend it. HA!) makes it even better.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
11. It is wonderful on its own but I do hope Trump is insulted that the attention is taken off of HIM.
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 10:30 AM
Jul 2019

And, of course, Bill deBlasio is running for President...

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