Brewers Parade: Police Planned for 400,000
From the BBN segment “Brewers parade crowd tops 750,000, double police's estimate”, cut down to under a minute.
The full story and the real reporting behind it (Yahoo Sports) →
From the BBN segment “Brewers parade crowd tops 750,000, double police's estimate”, cut down to under a minute.
The full story and the real reporting behind it (Yahoo Sports) →
What BBN said on air. The facts are in the original report: Yahoo Sports.
Rex "Two-Point" GridleyPolice say more than seven hundred fifty thousand people packed the Brewers parade, when they'd planned for about four hundred thousand.
Kenji MoonfieldThey missed their own estimate by three hundred fifty thousand people. Nobody has ever been that wrong about a crowd and been that happy about it.
Rex "Two-Point" GridleyLook, this is the first World Series since the team came to Milwaukee in nineteen seventy. After a franchise-record one hundred three wins.
Rex "Two-Point" GridleyYou show up for that, I'm telling you.
Kenji MoonfieldMilwaukee Public Schools canceled classes so everyone could go.
Rex "Two-Point" GridleyThat's a snow day with a trophy.
Kenji MoonfieldAnd Christian Yelich told the rally, quote, we've had way too many parade beers. ESPN has it.
Kenji MoonfieldThat's the most honest post-game quote of the year.
Rex "Two-Point" GridleyMeanwhile in college football, Miami leads North Carolina seven to nothing with seven forty-six left in the first quarter, and USC leads Ohio State seven to three with four twenty-six left.
Rex "Two-Point" GridleyOle Miss finished Auburn forty-five to fifteen.
Kenji MoonfieldPolice planned for four hundred thousand. The other three hundred fifty thousand were just the second parade.