There’s No Way Only 700,000 People Attended the Eagles Parade
Maybe the Inquirer and their Brit “experts” were still drunk when they crunched the numbers.
Photo by HughE Dillon.
You may have already heard, but a whooole lot of people packed Broad Street and the Parkway on Thursday for the Eagles parade. Given our city’s blistering zeal for the previously Super Bowl-less Birds, this was appropriately billed as the parade to end all parades ahead of Thursday’s festivities.
Roughly 2 million were on hand to celebrate the Flyers in 1974 and the Phillies in 2008, so it wasn’t too outlandish to think upward of 3 million would be out along the parade route for this particular glory ride through the heart of town. However, when it came time to first report the tally, the typically fastidious folks over at the Inquirer really blew it by saying “nearly” (NEARLY!?) 700,000 people were in attendance.
If true, we came up pitifully small, Philadelphia. Good thing more discerning eyes have that figure rightfully pegged closer to reality.
Philadelphia doesn’t give out numbers because the one term @PhillyMayor Kenney is arrogant. It wasn’t his event so he won’t give #eagles credit or their fans. Easily over 3 million and I think over 3.5M https://t.co/7Ap0Qf3Qnx
— Howard Eskin (@howardeskin) February 9, 2018
I’ve been to every Championship parade in Phila and story https://t.co/4I2tPRALVm ran on the #eagles World Championship parade of attendance is a joke. university in England estimated 700K. In words of Jason Kelce..are you friggin kidding me. Biggest I’ve ever seen. 3-4 million
— Howard Eskin (@howardeskin) February 9, 2018
We’re with ya, King, and have no idea what the Inky is smoking. (But whatever it is, we want some!) Maybe their British “experts” were doing a bit of drinking, too, when they made their count. Either way, it’s laughable that the paper would even print such an embarrassing number. All you had to do was poke your head outside to see that it wasn’t true.
Satellite images show massive crowd in the streets of Philadelphia for the Eagles' Super Bowl victory parade earlier today. https://t.co/iINwg13jfm pic.twitter.com/uhyIWqQyFI
— ABC News (@ABC) February 9, 2018
