UPDATE 2-Fans pack Boston streets for Patriots' Super Bowl parade
Unseasonably warm weather -- with a forecast high of 63 Fahrenheit (17.2 Celsius) -- helped swell crowd sizes at the city's 12th professional sports championship parade since 2001. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh had forecast that the crowd could pass 1 million. Police offered no estimate of the crowd's size.
Fans packed the route from Boston's Prudential Tower and down Boylston Street to City Hall, with players including wide receiver Julian Edelman tossing footballs to the crowd. Patrick Cronin, an 18-year-old high school student, said he was thrilled to cheer a team he said was often doubted during its regular season.
"So consistently everyone was like, 'They're too old,' or they have some stupid reason why Brady is no good," Cronin said. "It's so satisfying when they're so good again." (Writing by Scott Malone Editing by Tom Brown and Susan Thomas)
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