The History of the Rose Bowl Parade in Pasadena California
The parade is being celebrated today on January 2, 2012. The parade is the 123rd and it's on New Year's Day and has never been celebrated on Sunday. The parade is festival of flowers, floats, marching bands, equestrians and a college football game. The purpose of the parade is to show the mild weather of California and a place where flowers bloom all year round. If it falls on Sunday and is moved to Monday "a deal with God never to hold it on Sundays and he will never let it rain the parade."This will also prevent conflict with NFL games, and church goers, and to prevent traffic for the horses. It originally started on January 1, 1890 and watched by hundreds of thousand of spectators and watched nation wide on television. In 1902 they added Rose Bowl college football to aid in the cost of the staging of the parade.
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