Photos: Super Bowl LVIII victory parade and celebration

February 15, 2024

Brock Wilbur,

The main stage of the celebration, outside Union Station. // Photo by Sarah Sipple

Following Sunday’s nail-biting overtime victory for the Chiefs over San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII, the team returned to town yesterday for a triumphant parade—taking over the entire metro area in a sweeping punch-drunk celebration.

The parade swept through town and ended at Union Station, where a joyful celebration of the players, the team’s support, and the city as a whole took place.

We had a number of photographers and writers covering this event, and their work captures what was set to be one of the best, most joyful days in Kansas City history. This was immediately turned upside down by the tragic events in the final moments of the city-wide party, as shots rang out and a mass shooting forever relegated Valentine’s Day 2024 into the darkest pages of our history.

While we will spend days (and certainly weeks, months, or years) unpacking and exploring what happened in this violent outburst, an important part of this history includes documenting the glee and togetherness on display in the hours before the path of our world changed forever.

Included below are moments now frozen in time of what came before, for it is vital that we do not forget what we are capable of, together, at our highest highs.

Photographs by Anthony Mixon and Ethan Thompson of Mixon Media: