It was that sort of night for Salt Lake, who now, after Western Conference final defeats in 2008 and Champions League heartbreak in 2011, once again had to endure the sight Kreis had feared the day before — "another team parading a trophy on our field".
But now, after a careful study of pictures from the parade, a team of German arms experts thinks the missiles are not quite what they seem.
Updated at 12.05am BST 12.01am BST Wasn't mad about R U Mine, so had a quick peek at Chic – return to find it's Fluorescent Adolescent, greeted by the crowd like an England team parading an Ashes victory.
There was no celebration the first time because Edward I. Koch, the mayor at the time, said that his city would not hold a parade for a team from New Jersey, where the Giants had moved a decade earlier.
To help counter accusations that his foreign policy is flaky, Ron Paul's team paraded an endorsement from Michael Scheur, who was head of the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit more than a decade ago.
During the parade of nations, a team of ten young refugees will enter Maracanã Stadium as their own team — a first in Olympic history.
But it has been a busy week, all the same, with the homecoming parade on Sunday, a team trip to the washed-out Twenty20 international at Old Trafford on Tuesday evening and another official engagement for the Australian hooker Michael Monaghan the following night as he collected his Lance Todd Trophy as the cup final man of the match.
He added that it is also a reflection of a community where children who make travel teams proudly parade their fancy team jackets at school.
Traditionally, the parade is to celebrate a team's bringing the World Series trophy to their hometown, not to mention the excitement, pride and financial gains.
It should be that populist and accessible". They fantasize about a time when there would be homecoming parades not just for a team winning a pennant, but for a play winning a Tony award.
A few days after the Super Bowl triumph, fans lined downtown streets on a rainy midwinter day to watch Williams and his teammates parade by, cheering on a team that brought pride to the city.
