The Worst Parade in Super Bowl History (Documentary) 

I was at both parades, the Dallas was worse than the Kansas City one, as a kid I was separated from my mom and brother. I ran, if anyone from Dallas remembers, where the DART buses did their hourly lineups, I was grabbed by a officer and took to the station. My mom lost me in crowd when grabbing my brother who was 3 at the time. My grandmother picked me up from the station because my mom was hysterical but we did reunite to next morning. I didn't understand my mom actions that day until a few days ago because as my family was walking towards the area where they were filming First Things First when I thought I heard firecrackers but then we saw the people running, at this point I grabbed my two youngest and my wife grabbed the oldest and we ran, we're ok, but recounting this to my mom she broke down. TL:DR: I was at both the Dallas and KC parades and left traumatized both times.

My heart goes out to Lisa Lopez and the Chiefs fans all they wanted was to celebrate with the Chiefs bringing another SuperBowl

This was the parade planning equivalent of doing nothing but spiking the ball into the ground on every single play.

The Bears were probably fortunate they held their parade the day after their win. They probably wouldn't have held it if they didn't hold it that day because the day after the parade is when the Challenger disaster occurred. That tragedy is why the Bears didn't visit the White House until 2011.

In the NFL, the Dallas one in 1993 was the worst one ever. Most of parades have been successful without anyone getting hurt, so these are rare occurances. There was a small shooting at the Toronto Raptors victory celebration in 2019 which shows you that this happens widespread and it's not an American problem. There might be an area where a shooting occurs or some type of riot or violent act.

Dallas and poor security/disasters in a downtown parade, name a better duo

I was at this Dallas parade that day. As crazy as it sounds in light of this video report, we had no idea of violence until we heard about it on the radio on the way home to the outlying area. It seemed most of the terrible behavior was in the area of the McDs downtown. From what many of the players witnessed, it seems now understandable why they weren't especially willing to engage the fans at City Hall where the parade ended. Many seemed very relieved to get in the buses provided them and sty there til pulling out.

This was such a disaster that it actually made one episode of John Bunnell's "World's Wildest Police Videos" series. Apologies if this is brought up in the video or has already been mentioned in the comments.

In the UK, victory parades have the team on an open top bus, they're not allowed to travel seperately. So, while a riot MIGHT happen, at least the team is (reasonably) safe.

Love your channel man, it's gonna keep growing. You know your stuff. Was at the chiefs parade right about where it happened. My girlfriend and I thought it was fireworks bc it happened at the end and I guess we didn't think there'd be a friggin AR there. We didn't know anything was wrong until a mom was running away from the area with her crying daughter in the stroller and saw numerous cops with AR's rush in. Awful.

A sobering reminder that evil exists in the world and there are people who do not care who gets hurt or who suffers because of their actions.

We as a society need to do something about gang violence and gang culture so something like this doesn't happen again

A few years ago I told someone that when I was a kid players who played in the super bowl pretty much always went and played in the pro bowl the following week. He didn’t believe me.

Good video. I wonder if you can do a deep dive about the SB 42 in Arizona when a guy who was upset he didn't get his bar license was gonna go to the Super Bowl site and start a shooting rampage. He changed his mind and turned himself in.

Thank you for making this. A great majority of my family still alive is from Kansas City and in Philly, and even though I've lived in Tucson since 2015, the incident still broke my heart. I can't imagine what those people in Dallas went through and probably still do to this day.

There is another irony to the Dallas parade in 1993. I'm reminded of another parade in the same city (indeed on some of the very same streets), which I'm a bit surprised you didn't mention, although this was not a sports parade. Friday, November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was in a motorcade (attended by at least 250,000 on the sidewalks, to say nothing of the scores of people viewing from office buildings) through downtown Dallas on his way to deliver an address at the Trade Mart when he and Gov. John Connolly were both struck by assassins' bullets. Tragically, the president died of his injuries. Ironically, the remark had just been made to the president: "Well, at least you can't say Dallas wasn't friendly." It had been widely reported that both the Dallas Police Department and the Dallas County Sheriff's Office had made unprecedented preparations for this parade, particularly in light of what had happened a month earlier when United Nations ambassador Adlai Stevenson had visited the city. And, still, the president ended up leaving Dallas in a casket! To add to the shame of the parade itself, within forty-eight hours, the prime suspect himself would be assassinated on live television as he was being transferred from the city jail to the county jail. It could be said that the main reason for this latter incident is the fact that the time of the transfer had been announced in advance. Not even two security sweeps that Sunday morning would have prevented what happened because it had already been announced. That whole weekend was a disaster for Dallas because the city officials wanted to take advantage of their time in the lime light. Twenty-nine years later, the city still had the lessons of that parade on which to draw. Yet they chose not to. Again, the victory parade route covered many of the same streets covered by the presidential motorcade. (Commerce Street is definitely a common link between the two parades.) That clearly should have raised serious red flags, particularly for those who were serving in the same city departments during both events. But, apparently, it never even came up. Instead, it took a riot breaking out during the victory parade for the city officials to finally learn any lessons whatsoever. As you mentioned, what happened during the 1993 victory parade was completely avoidable. After all, the officials could see how well the team was doing during the season. And, to allow for the assigned players to participate in the AFL-NFL Pro Bowl at Honolulu, the parade was a week and a half after the World Championship Game. The city had time to plan the event and experience with similar events in the past. Even so, what ended up occuring was a shocking display of incompetence-particularly against the backdrop of what had occurred twenty-nine years earlier during a presidential parade in the same downtown area of the same city.

The LA riots were only 8 months before and many urban kids were actually obsessed with rioting and found any reason to commit violence

Some of the scenes remind me of the 1992 Los Angeles riots--which occurred 9 months before this. What a Whiskey Tango Foxtrot... This reminds me of some of the English football (or soccer) matches in the 1980s which had riots/hooliganism--look up the Celtic-Rangers 1980 riot for an example...

This was especially sickening to me as I live just a couple miles up the road from Michigan State University, which 1 day before the mass shooting at the KC SB parade, cancelled all classes to allow people to commemorate the tragic mass shooting 1 year ago on that date. People won’t like this next sentence, but IDGAF: America needs federal gun control again. There’s no way around it. We had it from 1994-2004, and in that single decade time span, *violent crimes **_across the entire nation_** were down 70%.* I don’t want to read any responses that say it won’t work, because I just proved to everyone that that is a crock of bullshit.

At this point after what happened in Kansas City and Dallas in 93 they should have the Parade of Players and Coaches escorted by a Police Motorcade so no one gets hurt(If they don't do it anyways they should)

I lived in Texas this is about normal Texas Level of "Planning"

Dallas has had bad luck with parades. When the Mavericks made the NBA Finals in 2006, the city planned the parade in advance. But when Mayor Laura Miller announced the parade route after the Mavs won Game 1 and they ended up losing the series, everyone went after Miller for "jinxing" the team - just for making sure another 1993 wouldn't happen! By contrast, when the Mavs DID win the championship in 2011, the city - which was under an interim mayor at the time - declared they weren't planning a parade AT ALL and only relented to allowing one when Mark Cuban declared he would pay for it. Given how spontaneously that must have been prepared, we're pretty lucky another such riot didn't happen.

There's a reason why I dont go to team celebration parade and I did planned to take my niece to the local fair but when words got out on Facebook that he was planning to threatened few people my sister advised me to dont go

I was lucky enough to experience a safe Super Bowl victory parade for the Seahawks in Seattle 10 years ago. Especially w/ my kids (16 y/o daughter & 5 y/o son). Waiting for 4+ hours in 15-20F temps & everyone there was happy, excited & saw no disturbances. Granted it was only in 1 area of a parade route that was about 2+ miles in Seattle that had about 700k+ in attendance. I couldn’t imagine chaos happening on a day like that & lucky it never happened.

That also happened during the Boston Marathon bombing incident back in 2013 where a pipe bomb exploded near the finish line and many of them were dead and cause injuries. Same thing happened on 9/11/01 which was the horrific day where both planes crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center were destroyed causing hundreds of deaths, and of course, the New England Patriots victory broke into a riot back in 2004 and the Denver Broncos Super Bowl victory broke into a riot back in 2007. Look at baseball during the past years. The late 1990’s where the New York Yankees won 3 straight World Series titles and a victory parade. But thankfully, there were no riots at the event. And of course, there was the 1986 World Series where the New York Mets won the World Series title and went on a victory parade with no riots or any other incidents with no arrests, same goes with the Yankees victory parade in 1996, 1998 and 1999 with no arrests.

This is very similar to what happened a couple of years ago in Argentina when Argentina won the World Cup. Like with this, the parade through the streets of Buenos Aires was poorly thought out & hastily put together a few days before. For example the city government of Buenos Aires only had 950 police officers deployed for the parade. Then during the parade itself in which 5 million people attended, all hell broke loose as fans tried to jump into the team bus that was carrying the players (which included Messi) & the coaches. Some fans even jumped from a freeway overpass onto the roof of the bus. The team was unable to finish the parade route as a result of this. Also there were clashes between fans & riot police that resulted in one death & a 5 year old being hospitalized in a coma because he sustained a head injury during the chaos. Things got so bad that the Argentine government had to deploy the military to quell the crowd.

Dallas doesn't have a good track record with parades. Kennedy

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As a Chiefs fan, I could only wish that Travis Kelce being drunk out of his mind was the worst part of the celebration last Wednesday. R.I.P., Lisa Lopez-Galvan

Best parades were the ones in NY down the canyon of heroes in 2008 and 2012 and they weren't shown on ESPN

I really love the outstanding noble citizens at 26:32, really showing some class

What a tragic set of circumstances. I have no words. Amazing job on these as always.

San Francisco -Oakland California had over 20 parades and never had any problems.

They didn’t have a Super Bowl parade in 1991 because of a war on the other side of the planet? Weird.

JG9, I lived in Dallas during the 3 Cowboys Super Bowls. Fortunately, I worked on all 3 parades. In a way it might have been better if the parades were on the weekend. Downtown Dallas, at the time, was a ghost town after 6PM during the week, and other than The West End Marketplace and Deep Ellum, a practical ghost town during the weekend.

They ain't called fans for nuthin! Lol

It should have been 59-10 because the refs blew a call when Frank Reich was clearly across the line of scrimmage

I am glad I never hear anything bad when the Packers except it can be really cold to hold a parade, which they did in 1997 after winning Super Bowl 31 (or XXXI). There is video of that parade on RU-vid. And after the Packers won Super Bowl 45 (or XLV), there wasn't a parade but a rally in front of over 50,000 fans who braved temperatures that reached 5 degrees Fahrenheit (which is -15 degrees Celsius for myself and other Canadians or other countries that use the Metric system). I don't think there was any violence at either event. Then again, I am talking about Green Bay, a city whose population is just over 107,000 and a metro area over 320,000. Those are numbers most major NFL markets expect to attend a parade. I think I need to see another Packers victory sometime soon since I doubt I'll ever see a Maple Leafs Stanley Cup parade in my lifetime.

Thank goodness Tampa's people didn't have this issue when the Lightning and Buccaneers staged their league title parades.

what was more poorly organized 1993 cowboys parade or Super Bowl 45

JG9, Steve Bartlett was, actually, a rather popular mayor.

Sounds like the Labor Day Parade/festivities in Brooklyn in this case (minus the planning)

didnt know the knockout game, frequently played by "teens" and "youth" started in early 90s...

Well in all fairness to the politician and the violence being forgotten 2 days later this is the same general area that is still one of the most infamous places for violent action taking place at what was supposed to be, in all accounts, a joyful occasion. Just 3 letters and a guy name Ruby definitely trumps in everyone's minds what happened in '93 and not only in the Dallas/Fort Worth area but pretty much the world over. (JFK- 1963) I felt I had to include the letters especially since almost everyone under the age of 27 fail to think anything of note happened prior to their arrival to planet Earth. To this day the local authorities in Dallas still argue about exactly who or how many possible Gunmen the U.S. govt and its agencies sent to Texas to assassinate Kennedy. They probably had an argument about that exact thing day after Superbowl when wondering details on the celebration

"America's Team"... 🤦‍♂️

I briefly thought this was going to be about Super Bowl XXXIV, but then I remembered that the fight didn't happen at a parade. (It's the main reason I know the name of Ray Lewis.)

No more championship parades, period.

When it comes to motorcades and parades the City of Dallas, TX is all thumbs.

I think the worst parade in all of sports are any back to back championship parades. Like this years chiefs parade.

We actually did live in a more insensitive society in tge 1990s

I hate saying this, but maybe it’s time to end victory parades, and simply hold championship celebrations in controlled environments like stadiums? I’m watching an ad about Sandy Hook Promise after this documentary. Multiple people have been killed by assault weapons at individual parades (July 4). Think about the Las Vegas/Jason Aldean massacre. The availability of these killing machines in uncontrolled atmospheres - and the expansion of legal rights to carry them in certain states - makes it a situation where you’re asking for deaths to happen. Why do you think Super Bowls, World Cups & Olympics are military-zone security? And to those who argue “guns don’t kill people, people kill people,” a person intent on massive violence who only has access to a knife or a non-semi-automatic gun can only kill 1-2 in the few seconds before they are detained. The one with the weapon of mass murder can kill dozens. Isn’t it better to save the dozens of lives? My grandfather was a police detective. He once did security in the 60s for a circus parade where elephants were going on a downtown street. He saw someone who was going to light firecrackers under the elephants. He stopped the dude, seconds away from a mass trampling disaster. There were very few automatic & semiautomatic weapons in public availability then. There were some in Feb. 1993 for sure. There are a ton now, a lot more. Add that to a much more mentally-unhealthy society, and I think it may be time to reconsider holding major uncontrollable events anymore. Or at least innovate a new way to do them.

Stop having parades!

Good video, jg9! 😮😮😅😅😅

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We Faithful WOULD NOT have being this undisciplined. Just saying😊

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This is funny

Smh 🤦‍♂️ The end of the world is coming soon.Dallas has some terribly violent inner city neighborhoods next to downtown Dallas.All black and hispanic neighborhoods infested with gangs,drugs,people that rob at gun point,poor people tryin to come up by committing crimes.That parade in Dallas in 1993 was too close to several gang rival neighborhoods that probably saw each other at that parade and started shooting at each.That parade was crazy.Be careful people please.I love ya'll.I mean i dont know ya'll but i still love ya'll and i dont want to see or hear about ya'll losing your life in sports team championship parade. 🙏

If you look to history, the Nika riot most brought down the Byzantine Empire. So no, this is not new.