Chiefs' Super Bowl Parade Compared to Royals' World Series Parade is Downright Sad

Seeing flocks of Kansas City Chiefs fans pile into Union Center before sunrise on Wednesday morning -- hours before the team's Super Bowl LIV victory parade -- suggested that the celebration would go down in history.

After all, fans were commemorating their first world championship in half a century.

As it turns out, the turnout an hour beforehand was genuinely mundane, and it might just be remembered for all of the wrong reasons. We won't go as far as to say that we're disappointed in Chiefs Kingdom, but we expected more...a lot more.

We understand that's a snapshot from a helicopter, but by no means is that a "sea" of red. At best, it's a swarm or herd of Chiefs devotees. Raining on parades isn't what we're about, but this, by all accounts, is objective criticism.

Unfortunately for the Chiefs, photos emerged on Twitter of the city celebrating the Royals' World Series title back in 2015, and they put Wednesday's showing to outright shame.

That, right there, is a "sea" of blue. My goodness. Why wasn't this sort of love showed for Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid, and the Chiefs? Luckily for Kansas City, players brought the energy, as an incalculable number of beers were guzzled as the team made their way through the city.

Still, the letdown in the assemblage of Chiefs fans was downright stunning.