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re: "official" count of whodats at the SB parade? PMS edition
Posted on 2/11/10 at 9:02 am to Swagga
Posted on 2/11/10 at 9:02 am to Swagga
I was not able to make it but watched every bit on tv. Not only were People from the gulf coast there but also from Houston - they interviewed some. I'm going with 800,000.
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Posted on 2/11/10 at 9:12 am to thelawisafterme
I was walking there and people were stopping me and asking me where was St. Charles Avenue. They had no clue.
Posted on 2/11/10 at 9:18 am to TortiousTiger
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and the people doing crowd control guessed it at 25k.
Posted on 2/11/10 at 10:12 am to Y.A. Tittle
St. Charles by Herbsaint at 4:00
Around 5ish
Around 5ish
Posted on 2/11/10 at 11:30 am to MSTiger33
HAHAHAHA, TT...*shakes head*.
FACT: New Orleans Metro Area has 1.3 million population here is a link for you TT. LINK
FACT: People from all over Louisiana and the Gulf Coast region attended the parade.
FACT: It took me 3 hours to get out of the riverwalk parking lot due to the traffic on the streets. I've been to many many Mardi Gras parades in NO and never experienced anything like that.
They said last years Steelers parade was 350,000. If you don't think that more people were at a parade for the NEW ORLEANS SAINTS SUPERBOWL WORLD CHAMPIONS, during Mardi Gras season, packed hotels...then you're either really dumb or just trying to rile everyone up.
I'm not sure why you say that 25% of Louisiana residents didn't go? Are you saying that 75% did? Then that's 3.3 million?
Are you going to admit your overwhelming ineptitude?
FACT: New Orleans Metro Area has 1.3 million population here is a link for you TT. LINK
FACT: People from all over Louisiana and the Gulf Coast region attended the parade.
FACT: It took me 3 hours to get out of the riverwalk parking lot due to the traffic on the streets. I've been to many many Mardi Gras parades in NO and never experienced anything like that.
They said last years Steelers parade was 350,000. If you don't think that more people were at a parade for the NEW ORLEANS SAINTS SUPERBOWL WORLD CHAMPIONS, during Mardi Gras season, packed hotels...then you're either really dumb or just trying to rile everyone up.
I'm not sure why you say that 25% of Louisiana residents didn't go? Are you saying that 75% did? Then that's 3.3 million?
Are you going to admit your overwhelming ineptitude?
Posted on 2/11/10 at 11:36 am to thelawisafterme
Took 2 hours to get to Elysian Fields from Mandeville. Had to park on neutral ground because you couldn't go any further towards the river. I have never seen a Mardi Gras parade like that - had to be more than 600K people.
We waited an hour and a half afterwards to let traffic die down, and we still had to wait an hour and a half in traffic after that.
IT WAS EPIC.
We waited an hour and a half afterwards to let traffic die down, and we still had to wait an hour and a half in traffic after that.
IT WAS EPIC.
Posted on 2/11/10 at 11:41 am to TigerPimpNationTrank
wow, Tortious Tiger is more kige than Kige
Posted on 2/11/10 at 11:43 am to nola tiger lsu
I know a bunch of people that went to the parade from Pensacola and Alabama.
Posted on 2/11/10 at 11:47 am to pcolatiger28
I came from northshore and traffic was backed up at 1 o clock to get on the causeway and everyone had their car flags flying so you gotta fiqure in northshore along with south mississippi cause they are huge saints fans also, I'd say 800,000 easy
Posted on 2/11/10 at 11:50 am to championship101
NOPD said 300-500K
ESPN said tens of thousands
Blaine Kern said 800K
None of them could provide any backing proof for their claims. I would tend to think it might be towards the high end of the NOPD estimate, just given the limited population of the region it's highly doubtful it could go much higher.
ESPN said tens of thousands
Blaine Kern said 800K
None of them could provide any backing proof for their claims. I would tend to think it might be towards the high end of the NOPD estimate, just given the limited population of the region it's highly doubtful it could go much higher.
Posted on 2/11/10 at 11:57 am to el tigre
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NOPD said 300-500K
ESPN said tens of thousands
Blaine Kern said 800K
None of them could provide any backing proof for their claims. I would tend to think it might be towards the high end of the NOPD estimate, just given the limited population of the region it's highly doubtful it could go much higher.
Limited population? The metro area alone has over a million people. You add in the people from BR and all along the Gulf Coast and you could get to 800K pretty quickly. Hell, I had a group of 14 by us that drove in from Houston.
Posted on 2/11/10 at 11:58 am to MightyYat
I talked with people who drove in from Fairhope, AL, Atlanta, GA, Pensacola, FL, and Port Arthur, TX, and this was all within 10 feet from where I was standing
Posted on 2/11/10 at 12:12 pm to bee Rye
I've never seen a crowd anywhere near as big as that parade. I have no idea what the official count is, but I know I am proud as hell to have been in that number.
Posted on 2/11/10 at 12:15 pm to Solo
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I've never seen a crowd anywhere near as big as that parade.
Exactly. And on the busiest Mardi Gras days, it's freaking huge, like the police estimates above.
I'm sticking with Kern's #.
Posted on 2/11/10 at 12:20 pm to Sophandros
This was not a good threat for tort tiger 
I was there and I saw the people and traffic, I'm going with kerns number also
I was there and I saw the people and traffic, I'm going with kerns number also
Posted on 2/11/10 at 12:20 pm to Solo
quote:This. I was at the airport also and that crowd was impressive, 20k probably. The parade? Never seen anything like it. I got a look at it from Poydras, Loyola, Howard, Lee Circle and Convention Center Blvd and it was simply packed densely everywhere. If NOPD said 500k and Kern said 800k, I think a reasonable estimate would be 600-700k. It was a lot of fn people.
I've never seen a crowd anywhere near as big as that parade. I have no idea what the official count is, but I know I am proud as hell to have been in that number.
Posted on 2/11/10 at 12:21 pm to DBG
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This was not a good threat for tort tiger
Why do you think some of us are bumping it?
Posted on 2/11/10 at 12:22 pm to MightyYat
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Limited population? The metro area alone has over a million people. You add in the people from BR and all along the Gulf Coast and you could get to 800K pretty quickly. Hell, I had a group of 14 by us that drove in from Houston.
yes, that's a very limited population to get an 800K crowd on that short of notice, on a weekday.
% wise, it makes 800K pretty unlikely, but could easily have been in the 100's of thousands. Massive, regardless.
Posted on 2/11/10 at 12:26 pm to Sophandros
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Exactly. And on the busiest Mardi Gras days, it's freaking huge, like the police estimates above.
but keep in mind, on mardi gras the crowds are solid all the way to Napoleon. This parade was in a much more concentrated area so the same number of people could look like a lot more.
Posted on 2/11/10 at 12:31 pm to el tigre
quote:
yes, that's a very limited population to get an 800K crowd on that short of notice, on a weekday.
% wise, it makes 800K pretty unlikely, but could easily have been in the 100's of thousands. Massive, regardless.
It wasn't on short notice. That parade has been planned for a few weeks now. It was going to happen win or lose.
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