  Alley Member Username: Alley Post Number: 278 Registered: 02-2008 |
need to get it off work ASAP! | ||
Tetsua Member Username: Tetsua Post Number: 1667 Registered: 01-2004 |
Friday | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 2285 Registered: 09-2007 |
"Friday" lol, all of those people aren't going to be standing outside in their Jerseys with this spell of heat coming... | ||
Alley Member Username: Alley Post Number: 279 Registered: 02-2008 |
FOR SURE? ? ? | ||
Sitlet Member Username: Sitlet Post Number: 16 Registered: 03-2007 |
i hope its not friday, i wont be able to go. if its saturday im already going to teh tigers game at 3:55. maybe they could have the parade saturday at noon so it wont interfere with the tigers | ||
Alley Member Username: Alley Post Number: 280 Registered: 02-2008 |
I hear it will definitely be Friday but I don't know what time. GO WINGS! | ||
Dtwflyer Member Username: Dtwflyer Post Number: 71 Registered: 01-2005 |
Friday 11am! DETROIT! | ||
Cub Member Username: Cub Post Number: 460 Registered: 02-2007 |
Its Friday at 11:00am | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 6948 Registered: 08-2004 |
It would be better if it were Saturday... with the Festival of the Arts in Midtown and later the Tigers game, an AM Saturday parade would be ideal. If it is Friday, parking will be limited because downtown employees will be taking up a lot of the available parking, and lots of people in metro Detroit will be at work and can't make the parade. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 6949 Registered: 08-2004 |
Friday??? Dumb!! | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 4894 Registered: 02-2005 |
Pretty sure every other victory parade has been on weekdays. People just skip work. But, I would like a Saturday parade, too. | ||
Alley Member Username: Alley Post Number: 281 Registered: 02-2008 |
I love that it's Friday, I went into freak mode when someone said it's Saturday...I have to work then with no hope of getting it off. THANK GOD! Everyone that IS supposed to work, call in late-noonish isn't THAT late! | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 6950 Registered: 08-2004 |
LOL... wonder if Kwame will be there amongst a crowd that he can't control!  If so (which I doubt) the booing will be thunderous.... | ||
Chandyside Member Username: Chandyside Post Number: 18 Registered: 08-2005 |
Friday = Office workers. Gistok, your points about the other points of cultural synergy are right on, but lunchtime Friday means everyone (myself perhaps included, ahem) pouring out of towers and work joints for extended lunch hours. No double dipping on an audience that will already be heading down. Jeez, wtf am i talking about?! GO WINGS!••••(and as the grandson of a newf, a hearty "well done, boy" to Dan Cleary) | ||
Mrnittany Member Username: Mrnittany Post Number: 24 Registered: 10-2007 |
Oh Kwame .............it's time to come out and play Friday! Give him hell everybody! | ||
Dannyv Member Username: Dannyv Post Number: 229 Registered: 08-2007 |
Don't let politics spoil a great celebration the Detroit Red Wings and their organization deserve. Hockey players are the humblest of athletes and they deserve an honorable parade and day. | ||
Tetsua Member Username: Tetsua Post Number: 1669 Registered: 01-2004 |
quote: He'll probably take credit for the championship too lol. | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 8035 Registered: 11-2004 |
He'll text in a message. | ||
Alley Member Username: Alley Post Number: 283 Registered: 02-2008 |
hahahahaha he can have that message wired in to the scroll board at Hart Plaza | ||
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup Post Number: 4450 Registered: 06-2004 |
Noticed Big Tiger at the ballpark has a Wings jersey on since Spirit is getting a bath. | ||
Rjlj Member Username: Rjlj Post Number: 548 Registered: 11-2003 |
The parade is Monday but they keep running the ticker on the TV that says Friday at 11AM. What is the deal? | ||
Jrvass Member Username: Jrvass Post Number: 720 Registered: 01-2007 |
Lilpup, One of the babblers on WDIV thought it was "great" that the Tigers would dress one of their statues with a Wings sweater. Gee... How nice of the Tigers to support the Red Wings. | ||
Alley Member Username: Alley Post Number: 284 Registered: 02-2008 |
Rjlj... the parade is Friday, not Monday. FOR SURE! At 11 | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 12997 Registered: 12-2003 |
You saying one of the Tigers is a cross-dresser?! Wonder how the crowd will welcome Kwhyme...this one I've got to see. | ||
Jrvass Member Username: Jrvass Post Number: 721 Registered: 01-2007 |
Gannon, You are thinking of the Lions coaching staff. | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 8038 Registered: 11-2004 |
Actually if it was a Lions coach, they'd be naked in a Wendy's drive-thru lane. | ||
Atwater Member Username: Atwater Post Number: 233 Registered: 09-2007 |
Does anyone know exactly why all of the victory parades are always on weekdays, when, at least to me, weekends would make more sense? | ||
1953 Member Username: 1953 Post Number: 1574 Registered: 12-2004 |
Why not have it on Monday!?! | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 12998 Registered: 12-2003 |
I'd say putting it on a weekday limits the number of non-fans who would bother coming down to rabble rouse the crowd. | ||
Detroitstar Member Username: Detroitstar Post Number: 1142 Registered: 01-2006 |
I am truly shocked that this thread is 30 posts deep and the tight asses around here have not yet questioned who is paying for the police monitoring tomorrows parade. | ||
Rax Member Username: Rax Post Number: 364 Registered: 11-2007 |
Hey, I'm just concerned about how many non-fans will be down here. | ||
Sturge Member Username: Sturge Post Number: 257 Registered: 05-2007 |
I assume this time the parade will go down Woodward? | ||
Rjk Member Username: Rjk Post Number: 1124 Registered: 11-2003 |
A lot of these players probably have their bags packed and plane tickets purchased to go elsewhere. They probably pack as many of these team functions in a short time period so the players and coaches can get on with whatever they have planned. Their summer will be short enough as is. Before you know it they'll be starting training camp for next season. | ||
Southofeight Member Username: Southofeight Post Number: 134 Registered: 07-2005 |
Love the exclusionary approach that the parade is for "fans" only, like there is some sort of definitive sliding scale on which to measure how one qualifies as a fan. Good to see you've appointed yourself the one to judge who is acceptable to attend and who is not. It's called a bandwagon. People get on and off all of the time, and you can't police that, as much as you'd probably like to, mirrored shades and all. | ||
Greatlakes Member Username: Greatlakes Post Number: 217 Registered: 07-2007 |
Friday: http://www.theparade.org/ quote: | ||
Rax Member Username: Rax Post Number: 366 Registered: 11-2007 |
Southof8, I was being sarcastic. Gannon wasn't. | ||
Downriviera Member Username: Downriviera Post Number: 578 Registered: 02-2008 |
Is Zetterberg bringing his Swedish model girlfriend? What about the Swedish Bikini Team? | ||
Diehard Member Username: Diehard Post Number: 511 Registered: 03-2005 |
Of course Kwame will be there, he can't resist the chance to somehow take credit for this... wonder if he'll be in a plexiglas Popemobile-type vehicle in case people want to throw tomatoes? When he goes by, I plan to yell "Just go!" I encourage others to do the same. | ||
Dtowncitylover Member Username: Dtowncitylover Post Number: 162 Registered: 02-2008 |
Sturge, I hear the route will go from Hockeytown Cafe to Hart Plaza. | ||
Detroitking Member Username: Detroitking Post Number: 2 Registered: 06-2008 |
Man, I’m glad I won’t be home tomorrow when the parade is going on. I Don’t want to be part of that bad show “When Suburbanites Attack”. | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 13006 Registered: 12-2003 |
King, I was at the celebration when a million and a half marauding suburbanites came down to celebrate ten years ago. Even those who came early and started drinking never got beligerent...in ninety degree and better heat. I checked with the Detroit Police regarding that celebration and any altercations beforehand during the playoffs and finals...because Scott Simon from NPR radically dissed the Wings fans with some comment that they made wilding soccer fans look like they just left an afternoon at the Met. (had to do my research before sending off my scathing reply, laughing that he DID piss me off enough to jump my marathon training from the 7-mile plateau right through to the 10-mile one!) Naw...no worries about that...I was merely saying the non-fan drunks would be more at risk for bad behavior, and they would have more of a chance for that on Saturday than Friday if they're working. Any other reading of my words was putting another meaning to them than I intended and delivered. | ||
Alley Member Username: Alley Post Number: 286 Registered: 02-2008 |
anyone have an idea where they're going to watch the parade from? | ||
Paulmcall Member Username: Paulmcall Post Number: 1106 Registered: 05-2004 |
My TV. Going downtown after the parade in late afternoon. | ||
Fishtoes2000 Member Username: Fishtoes2000 Post Number: 553 Registered: 06-2005 |
I'm watching it from my bike saddle. I may have to break out the chopper. | ||
Raptor56 Member Username: Raptor56 Post Number: 334 Registered: 05-2007 |
I went down to the Parade in 2002 and viewed it from the should-have-been-turned-on Heart Plaza fountain. Unfortunately I'm stuck at work tomorrow. had the parade been Monday, I probably could have taken the day off. We're bringing in a small tv to watch it from our cubes tomorrow. Is it just me, or is the weather blazing hot everytime the wings have a parade downtown? | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 1468 Registered: 04-2005 |
Aren't they going to run it on a webcast on ClickonDetroit.com? | ||
Downriviera Member Username: Downriviera Post Number: 580 Registered: 02-2008 |
Parade just won't be the same without Anna Kournikova. | ||
Diehard Member Username: Diehard Post Number: 513 Registered: 03-2005 |
I plan to take the bus downtown (which, come to think of it, will have to be rerouted a bit for this) and watch somewhere around the Campus Martius area for as long as I can get away with before going to work. No parking or traffic hassles that way. Anyone who thinks there will be any problems wasn't there in '97, '98 and '02. Wings fans may drink and yell a lot, but they're good people. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 6949 Registered: 10-2003 |
I was there after the win in 97 and 98. Good crowd, good celebration. And that wasn't the planned parade, that was the impromptu after-game frenzy. I don't forsee problems. Except having a sore hand from all the high fives. I remember in 98 I believe, people were gathered all around but the game wasn't over yet. I saw a crowd of people huddled together and went to take a look. One of the police officers stationed there had a hand held television, and was holding it out as far from him as he could so the crowd around him could watch the end of the game. Good times! | ||
Dannyv Member Username: Dannyv Post Number: 231 Registered: 08-2007 |
Just remember that any lack of respect for the Mayor will be used by him to solidify the base of his constituency. You'll just be playing into his hands. Be respectful and celebrate the achievement of our hometown heroes. Let the other stuff pass. It won't be settled tomorrow. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 6956 Registered: 08-2004 |
I bet that most of tomorrow's crowd could give a rats ass about him or his constituency. Sorry but respect is earned... and he's lost the respect of many Detroiters and almost all suburbanites by blaming others for his problems via the race card. A decent amount of booing will hopefully knock that overstuffed ego down a few notches. And if his constituency doesn't like it... who cares? Their minds are already made up, so there's no point in trying to placate them. |
