2021 *Will Not* Start Well. Rose Parade Canceled Due to Pandemic

[Different Drummer]

One of my two favorite events of any given year, the other being The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.

Link to tweet

[gratuitous]

1. Wow, that had to be a tough decision

Anyone with a connection to the parade might want to drop a line of encouragement to the folks in charge.

[milestogo]

2. Is college football going to happen? Rose Bowl?

[Nevilledog]

6. I don't think so unless there are immediate and drastic changes made.

[madinmaryland]

12. Highly unlikely. Nothing will happen in the sports world until sometime in 2021.

[CTyankee]

20. The Ivy League season! Have pity on us all, there will be no Yale-Harvard Game this year!

We can't get drunk and fall on our asses at the Yale Bowl?

[roamer65]

21. I doubt the Rose Bowl will happen.

Both the Big Ten and PAC 12 are only going to play conference games. No non conference games. Bowl games tend to be in high outbreak states.

We will be lucky if we see complete conference schedules and a championship game.

[Merlot]

3. The 2021 Rose Parade being cancelled is actually a good start to the year

It means we're not living in some right-wing fantasy, and instead are accepting science and reality.

There will be more parades.

[lagomorph777]

29. Agreed; same for Westminster.

[Baclava]

4. Billions of flower lives saved, not so good for the nursery business

[Maru Kitteh]

17. There will be plenty of memorial services, unfortunately.

[panader0]

5. I think 2021 will start very well. When Joe is inaugurated.

[a kennedy]

7. and I know this is damn serious, but when the network indicated there would be no Rose Parade.....

while they were saying it, they showed the University of Wisconsin Marching Band. Go Badgers Go. and I know it's damn serious.

[madinmaryland]

13. Your next post will be number 20,000! Congrats!

[tandem5]

8. Are we certain that there'll be 2021?

[Totally Tunsie]

9. +100

[Initech]

16. Entirely depends on who is elected.

Biden yes, Trump no. I know how I would choose!

[tandem5]

18. I can see things going south in both scenarios.

In fact I cannot imagine a scarier time than the period between Biden being elected and his inauguration.

[roamer65]

19. Yes, there will be a 2021.

[tandem5]

28. Well, implied-eye-roll right back at ya.

Was that really the meaning of my comment?

[Totally Tunsie]

10. There's a snowballing number of events being cancelled at least

to the end of the year. This IS a good thing.

The only one who doesn't "get it" sits in our WH.

[StarryNite]

14. Yes, although sad, it is a good thing.

And tRump knows he doesn't have control over everything. He can't order things to look normal to win the election.

[Olafjoy]

11. The Rose Parade news went through my family

Like wildfire. We are all crying 😢 Lived in Pasadena for 10 years. Everyone would come out and go to parade. Is very strong in our house. Considering buying flowers and holding a Biden parade down our street.

[GoCubsGo]

15. So, the Rose Parade committee is in on the hoax now, too, eh?

[marlakay]

22. We are in for the long haul folks

I am pretty much counting everything not normal until next summer.

[maryellen99]

25. I'm surprised they haven't cancelled the Thanksgiving Day parades yet nt

[Hortensis]

23. :) January 1 was when I'd do my annual rose pruning with

the Goodyear Blimp visible at the end of the valley and many neighbors also out and enjoying starting a new year at home. My pruning was always a gentle cut-back and thinning of leafy shrub roses so rebloom could begin as soon as possible, but meant dozens and dozens of flowers went to the compost pile.

It's sad that we'll skip a Rose Parade, but 2021 will have other, much bigger doings. Meanwhile the roses will still bloom all year round there and people around the nation will still celebrate 2021 puttering around home. Next next year for the parade.

[Cha]

24. It could be one of the Safest ways to start 2021

[Awsi Dooger]

26. There will be a Rose Parade for me

I still have the 2020 version on tape, and have not watched it yet

Now I know when I will

[PasadenaTrudy]

27. I live here and I'm happy to hear this n/t