NEW YORK — Ticker tape floated out of the windows of the law firm at the corner of Broadway and Vesey Street in gentle flurries at first. But by the time the float bearing Megan Rapinoe and Julie Ertz passed by, huge clumps of shredded legal documents were falling out of the sky. Tangles of paper—and at one point an actual book—rained down over the gathered crowd chanting “USA! USA! USA!” as the stars of the U.S. women’s national team rolled by during their victory parade.
A little girl wearing a headband with red, white, and blue pom-poms on it stretched her arms through the falling paper toward Rapinoe, screaming “Megan!