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Historic Knicks Parade Expected to Topple Records as Fan Gear Sells Out | Boomer & Gio

WFAN Daily

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Sports

3.8795 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Excitement builds for a massive New York Knicks ticker tape parade as merchandise sales soar to record-breaking levels. Comparisons are drawn between this historic moment and the 1994 Rangers championship, highlighting the deep passion of New York sports fans across the tri-state area.

01:26 - Knicks Ticker Tape Parade

04:50 - Historic Knicks Merch Sales

07:54 - 1994 Rangers Championship Gear

Transcript

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0:00.0

Parade tomorrow. Someone asked me yesterday. I went on a radio show at Nashville.

0:04.4

Oh, you did? Yeah, radio show in Nashville.

0:07.1

Call me and wanted to talk about the Knicks. And the host, John Burton, says to me, what are we going to see with this parade tomorrow?

0:13.7

And I said, my taillights going in the other direction. Because it's going to be seven million people probably.

0:20.3

It's going to be chaos and a lot of fun for a lot of people. But I'm just going to enjoy it on television once I get home. Good morning, Boomer. How are you? Yeah, good morning, Jay. I'm doing all right. And I think Mayor Mondami got this one right. This will be the biggest ticker tape parade that New York City has ever seen. I don't know. I think there was a ticker tape parade after World War II. You know, and I'm assuming that was pretty big, but I don't think there were as many people living here. I think we need to retire ticker tape parade. Why? Because it's not, they don't have ticker tape anymore. I know, but they do have confetti. How about confetti? Well, no, because it's not a conf't have ticker tape I know but they do have confetti how about confetti but just well no because it's not a confetti parade that sounds that doesn't sounds like a child's thing but that's why they could still call it a ticker tape but there's no ticker tape anymore but there's going to be over over a ton of paper being thrown out of windows and everything else and there's going to be a huge celebration.

1:16.5

I was listening to our favorite weatherman on, as a colleague of ours here at Odyssey,

1:18.4

LaTroy Thornton.

1:19.4

Oh, LaTrooy Thornton. Yeah, yeah, he was talking about possible rain tomorrow morning, but then he said, you know,

1:23.5

maybe later in the afternoon it would be thunderstorms.

1:26.4

Oh, great.

1:26.8

And hopefully it's going to be clear for this parade.

1:31.5

But everybody's nice and drunk.

1:33.0

The thunderstorms get rolled through, right?

1:35.3

Well, we hope not.

1:37.0

But anyway, it's just, you know, it's going to be,

1:40.7

people are going to be shocked as what this looks like and we often talk here about fan bases

1:47.3

and who's got the largest fan base who's got the most passionate fan base look i think all the

1:52.0

fan bases are passionate don't get me wrong yeah but in terms of just sheer size and a total

1:58.2

tri-state area love fest um i i don't necessarily know that there will be a bigger one ever. I mean, like, there's the Yankee fans, but then there are the Mets who can't stand the Yankees. There are the Yankee fans that can't stand the Mets. And the same thing, I don't necessarily know I feel that way about the Jets and Giants, but I know Giant fans have called up here in the last 10

2:17.8

years when they have been really bad and have said to us, at least we're not the Jets.

2:23.3

You know what I mean? So there is, but there is a community spirit that surrounds the

2:29.2

next because they play in Manhattan and because it's been 53 years. Yeah, so what I'm seeing here on the Weather Channel app is 91 degrees and only 24% chance of rain

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