PITTSBURGH, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Pittsburgh plans to welcome home its triumphant Steelers Tuesday with a ticker-tape parade.
The parade, with Steelers players in vehicles escorted by high school marching bands from around the area, is scheduled to proceed through downtown Tuesday morning. The parade ends with a rally at Point State Park.
Sunday night, the city erupted in an impromptu celebration when the home team defeated the Seattle Seahawks 21-10 in its first Super Bowl victory in 26 years. The Pittsburgh Post Gazette reports that most of the fans were light-hearted, defying bitter cold and blowing snow to gather in the street yelling, embracing and throwing toilet paper.
Police had prepared for the crowds, closing streets to traffic in some neighborhoods. But the mood turned ugly in a few places with at least one car destroyed.
Parking meters were vandalized in one area. Police made at least 34 arrests.
By midnight, crowds thinned out, and, for the most part, the mood was joyous, like a shirtless 22-year-old Chuck Peterson who screamed "You gotta have faith" or a kneeling 25-year-old Ryan Dedlin who yelled, with raised fists, "This is the greatest day."
