The Natty
I have always wanted to attend a championship parade. I've watched from afar as my Steelers (2005, 2008) and Penguins (2009, 2016) paraded up and down Pittsburgh after winning the championship and there honestly could have been a parade to celebrate the Pirates when they returned to the playoffs for the first time since before I was born in 2013. I watched Shaq rap and dance , Marshawn Lynch eat Skittles and smoke cigars, and just this past June I watched J.R. Smith go shirtless and Clevelanders scale buildings . But for the first time yesterday, I was able to attend a championship parade myself. I'm not sure what the reports have indicated, but there could easily have been 70,000 peoiple in and around Death Valley yesterday to celebrate Clemson University's first national championship in 35 years (coincidentally the same point total required to bring another title back to Clemson this season). It honestly looked like any other gameday in the tiny city of Clemson, ...