It's not a celebration without any gunplay.
Did they have any food vendors?
Originally Posted by CG2014
A few vendors showed up on their own. They had concessions for sale inside Choctaw. But at some point prior to when we got there at 10:30 they stopped allowing people to cross the street to get inside the loop that formed the parade route.
That was one part that wasn’t thought through very well, but then I don’t think they spent much time thinking through the whole event. Given the crap they got in 2011 when someone dared bring up planning for a parade while the team was still playing, it appears they did no prep work that would require them to reach out to the broader community (like food truck vendors, which would have been easy to do).
They did not try to police what people brought to the parade, so lots of folks came prepared, particularly with booze. I saw quite a few folks who were carrying nothing but a 12-pack lol. We had packed snacks and water, as I suspect was the case with a lot of folks with kids in tow.
Just another complication you don’t have to worry about when you have a parade in a city center. Restaurants are already there and can open for business. When you have a large section of the 2-mile route running through parking lots, there aren’t restaurants…or restrooms…readily available.