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    Championship parades likely to change in wake of shooting at Chiefs Super Bowl celebration

    by Jimmy Golen Feb 15, 2024 4 minutes
    Source: Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

    With back-to-back Super Bowl victories for the hometown Chiefs, Kansas City football fans gathered for another championship parade and a second celebratory pep rally in a row.

    Don’t expect there to be a third.

    Not because the Chiefs, with star quarterback Patrick Mahomes still just 28 years old, can’t win another NFL title. But even if they do, officials are unlikely to allow so many fans in one place to cheer them on, security experts said in the wake of Wednesday’s shooting just after the rally had ended.

    “They have to think twice about having these parades,” said former Police Commissioner Bill Evans, who in 38 years with the department worked 12 championship parades and the

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