Fans scramble for the most popular keepsake of KC Chiefs parade: All that confetti
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The hottest keepsake at Wednesday’s Super Bowl parade? The confetti.
And there seemed to be tons of it.
From a spot near the beginning of the parade, KSHB morning anchor Lindsay Shively kept getting hit in the face with blasts from the confetti cannons.
“Every time they release that confetti gun it’s just fabulous madness,” she yelled over the sound of the crowd. “It’s like being inside the best snow globe you’ve ever seen.”
She joked that some of the Chiefs players riding by wearing ski goggles needed the protection from the confetti.
Even before the parade, Chiefs fans plotted on social media how to procure the pretty paper pieces in red, gold and white.
“Do they shoot confetti at the rally or from parade busses? I need to know where to get some,” one Facebook user urgently asked fellow Chiefs fans on Tuesday.
People who couldn’t make it to the parade begged and bartered on Twitter and Facebook, asking people who planned to attend to grab them a handful. Some even offered to pay for the confetti that lies dead and free for the taking after these celebrations.
The confetti clamor was high for the stuff that flew at the game on Sunday.
“If anybody has some extra confetti from the Super Bowl I would love to get in contact with you! I have a special project that I’m working on!,” Twitter user Zachary Robles tweeted.
One woman in a Chiefs Facebook fan group wrote that she just moved to Houston and “I would be happy to pay for mailing and give you a box of the original Mahomes crunch in exchange for some pieces of the parade.” She meant the confetti.
On Tuesday night, Twitter user Robert G. Alberino Jr. gave away three plastic baggies full of confetti from the Super Bowl game itself. There were two kinds. Red and gold rectangles of fluttery, tissue-like paper. And the really good stuff: Confetti shaped like the Vince Lombardi Trophy.
“Who wants some confetti from the #SuperBowl field??? Like & follow!! Choosing three people as we prepare for a parade,” he tweeted.
Nate Taylor, Chiefs writer for The Athletic, tweeted a photo of a plastic baggie bulging with red and yellow confetti from the Super Bowl game. Yes, he wrote, “I have confetti for our listeners & subscribers of @TheAtlantic.”
Wrote one fan: “How blessed are we to have @ByNateTaylor part of the chiefs kingdom? Not only is he a great writer and podcast host, the man goes out of his way to collect confetti from the Super Bowl and mail it to us. Thanks, Nate!!”
One of his followers offered to “trade a couple more voice overs for some confetti.”
What do fans do with the confetti? They use it to decorate Christmas ornaments and display in memory boxes.
“I NEED SOME SO I CAN FINALLY FRAME MY MAHOMES SIGNED JERSEY,” one fan tweeted.
“Parade tip if you are crafty or know someone who is — collect confetti and save it to make ornaments or other crafts. My daughter had me collect some at the last parade. I looked like a total fool picking up trash in the freezing cold and wondered if it was worth the effort,” one woman wrote in a Chiefs Facebook group.
“But she bought clear Christmas ornaments at a craft store and decorated them with gel pens with Chiefs Super Bowl LIV and put the confetti inside.”
Harvesting parade confetti meant fans had to go prepared, as did this fan who wrote on Facebook: “I have already packed ziploc baggies for tomorrow!”
This story was originally published February 15, 2023 at 12:28 PM.
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