Not my son… just a stock photo… but you get the idea

 Not sure whether it was due to budget cuts, a crappy economy, or over-drinking the night before, but the brigades I watched “walk” up Broad Street this year, just did not bring it.

Has the Mummers Parade become a made for TV event, where brigades just walk up Broad Street, playing obnoxious RECORDED music, with their instruments dangling by their sides, until they hit the judges stand and TV cameras?

No strutting? No live music? No performing? From South Street to City Hall? At least for the hour and a half that I watched. WTF?

Even my one year old son (who is very easily amused) seeing the parade for the first time, looked bored.

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