As the title says, it's been a busy summer so I'm trying to catch up with photo threads - this batch is from the epic championship parade for the Cleveland Cavaliers  :clap:

 

I'd never seen anything like this - I live in Tremont and people were parking there and walking; I heard others parked their cars on the side of highway offramps near downtown - just unreal.

 

 

Crowds starting to fill in at East Ninth and Superior:

 

Crowds REALLY filling in at East Ninth and Superior:

 

As the meme said "Cleveland - we didn't burn our city down, we just climbed all over it!"  :-D Lots of more interesting 'perches' ahead:

 

I found a decent spot at 925 Euclid - fortunately one of the column bases was open which boosted me up a little.

 

To give you an idea of the crowds on East Ninth - scroll --->

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cavs spirit squad:

 

 

 

 

Cavs mascot:

 

Lake Erie Monsters hockey team - the Calder Cup champions:

 

 

 

 

Machine Gun Kelly - the crowd went nuts when he started performing "Till I Die"  :-)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cleveland Gladiators arena football team:

 

 

Legendary Browns player, Jim Brown:

 

 

 

 

 

Cavs owner Dan Gilbert and family:

 

 

Cavs Head Coach, Tyronn Lue:

 

JR "who needs a shirt when you have a Ring!" Smith  :-D

 

 

Kyrie Irving - people were throwing shirts, etc. for autographs:

 

Then inexplicably, some dumbss[/member] threw their phone?  :roll:

 

 

Unfortunately (but understandably due to security, etc.) Lebron was in a car instead of up on a truck, so waaay too many people in the way to get a great shot. Ah well, the team made enough great shots this year we got to have this awesome parade so I'll let it slide ... this year  :-D

 

Richard Jefferson, who is hopefully enjoying a well-earned retirement:

 

Time to make my way over to the main event at Mall B - I could NOT believe how many people were just *everywhere*:

 

 

 

Finally over at the Convention Center overlook at Mall B - I'm not a huge fan of giant crowds in confined spaces so I stayed further back. Still was an amazing site :-)

 

 

 

 

The parade *finally* made its way through the teeming masses:

 

 

 

Crowds at Mall B ------>

 

Hope you enjoyed, I know I did - GO CAVS!!!  :clap:

 

 

 

 

 

Wow!  Great set! Nice get on the idiot tossing the cell phone.  My favorite is probably the 4th to last one.  Nice work!!

Well done. 

I heard others parked their cars on the side of highway offramps near downtown - just unreal.

 

 

People were stopped on the Innerbelt westbound over E. 9th when the parade got going.

I KNEW these were going to be good. You did not disappoint!