Rolling rally route set
By Donovan Slack, Globe Staff
The Celtics victory parade will begin at 11 a.m. on Thursday at the TD Banknorth Garden, with roughly 16 duck boats transporting the NBA champions through Boston in a rolling rally ending at Copley Square (check out the route map). Two flatbed trucks will carry Celtics dancers, former Celtic greats, and NBA champion trophies from past seasons as the city celebrates its 17th basketball crown.
To celebrate the bevy sports championships in recent years, city officials have organized what they call a "rolling rallies" rather than an event at a single location. The parade spreads out crowds and makes it easier for police to control the celebration. The route Thursday will head in the opposition direction of the last rolling rally in October, which honored the Red Sox sweep of the Colorado Rockies in the World Series.
Setting out from the Garden, the duck boats will take Causeway Street and take a left on Staniford Street. The parade will go left on Cambridge Street and pass City Hall Plaza.
The route will follow Tremont Street along Boston Common, taking a right on Boylston Street. The rolling rally will end at Copley Square.
City officials said the duck boats will not stop along the route. There will not be a rally at the start or end of the parade.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino will discuss the plans at a press conference later today at City Hall.
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No Rally just a parade!!! This is bull!!! The Celtics fans deserve more than just a parade, and even more the Celtics players who have worked so hard to give this city thier first championship in 22 years deserve more!!!!!!!! i am absolutly outraged at this and think that Mumbles Menino need to rethink what he is doing, just because that beach bbq is at City Hall Plaza, he should have thought about that befor hand and scheduled that for next week...... DUMB@$$!!!!
Mayor Menino. Ruining Championship celebrations since 2004.
No rally at the end of the parade is a joke.
Why don't they have these on the weekends!! So people who work during the week (as most do) can go!!??
What would a 20-30 minute Rally hurt? We want the Boys!! We want the passion raw emotion and our turn to give it back to them. This is the time !! Here and now. Maybe Menino will change his mind > In the words of KG anything's possible!!! (We can hope)
I believe the rolling rally concept was launched because of difficulties the B.P.D. had with the crowd after the Pats' second Super Bowl celebration at City Hall Plaza in Feb. 2004.
I recall many reports of bad behavior and it was described as a "hostile" or "dangerous" scene before the team arrived for the actual pep rally.
After that, it's been nothing but rolling rallies to mitigate the possibility of an ugly scene at City Hall Plaza.
It's not such a bad thing. The fans still get to see the players and the crush of humanity jammed into one static setting like City Hall Plaza is avoided.
I agree with Tony....The rolling rally keeps everything safer and makes it easier for more people to see the players up close without getting trampled at City Hall Plaza. I also do wish that they would do these on the weekend (as the 2004 Red Sox rally was on a Saturday) but I'm sure that they players, coaches and their families want to go home, go on vacation, and relax....it has been a long, tough season. Go Celts!
menino sux who the hell is he? we get notime time to hear from the players o r show our appreciation to them at stops? remember 86 at city hall plaza or moses eats #(*&? mumbles is an #(^%*#$! has no respect for the accomplishment
, the players or the fans. scum bag mayor. accolades passing in the night, BS! we we deserve better and so do the players, @*^% HIM i WON"T VOTE FOR THAT MUMBLING STRONG ARMED, PUPPET EVER AGAIN. celebrate this not as a fleeting look mumbles, the fans want to here from the players! dickhead menino. its like a birtthday cake without the candles, @*^hole
I believe that City Hall Plaza is currently occupied by the Phantom Gourmet's BBQ Beach Party until Sunday. So that is most likely the reason why the Mayor is not having a rally there. Maybe he thought that there isn't another location in the city that is as big & as local to the T to have it at. So that could possibly be the reason for no rally after the parade. :(
If people didn't get out of control, they could have the rally. But unfortunately there is a generation of angry morons.
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