2012 SF Giants World Series Championship Celebration-The Fans
Ecstatic throngs of people, estimated at more than a million, lined San Francisco’s Market Street Wednesday to watch a confetti-drenched parade and rally celebrating the San Francisco Giants 2012 World Series Championship — a Halloween treat made even sweeter as a repeat performance from 2010..
The parade began about 11 a.m. and worked its way up from the foot of Market Street – festooned with the team’s holiday-appropriate orange and black colors on balloon arches – to the Civic Center, where an overflowing crowd stretched from the steps of City Hall to U.N. Plaza to view a massive community celebration.
Even before the parade started, pitcher Matt Cain made his way along a chain-link fence at the staging area, signing autographs. Other fans tossed hats over the fence that pitcher Ryan Vogelsong and catcher Buster Posey signed and threw back. When World Series MVP Pablo “Kung Fu Panda” Sandoval appeared, the crowd began chanting his name and he playfully started throwing candy to the adoring crowd grasping at the fences.
A sea of hundreds of thousands of fans dressed in every kind of Giants garb imaginable, including the ubiquitous ‘Panda’ hats, were lined up 30 deep behind the barriers along the parade route – with many sitting on building ledges and rooftops and others leaning out of windows and climbing trees – for a look at their favorite players waving from convertibles.
Read MoreThe parade began about 11 a.m. and worked its way up from the foot of Market Street – festooned with the team’s holiday-appropriate orange and black colors on balloon arches – to the Civic Center, where an overflowing crowd stretched from the steps of City Hall to U.N. Plaza to view a massive community celebration.
Even before the parade started, pitcher Matt Cain made his way along a chain-link fence at the staging area, signing autographs. Other fans tossed hats over the fence that pitcher Ryan Vogelsong and catcher Buster Posey signed and threw back. When World Series MVP Pablo “Kung Fu Panda” Sandoval appeared, the crowd began chanting his name and he playfully started throwing candy to the adoring crowd grasping at the fences.
A sea of hundreds of thousands of fans dressed in every kind of Giants garb imaginable, including the ubiquitous ‘Panda’ hats, were lined up 30 deep behind the barriers along the parade route – with many sitting on building ledges and rooftops and others leaning out of windows and climbing trees – for a look at their favorite players waving from convertibles.
