It seemed like a fairly tame celebration compared to some others after a World Series championship, even compared to the one in 1982, the previous year the St. Louis Cardinals won one of these things which also was at home.

Of course, 24 years later, one might hang out at different places. Even someone with a bad case of arrested development makes adjustments over that period of time.

Outside the stadium a couple of hours after the game ended, there was still a lot of horn-honking and there were beer bottles on the street outside Busch Stadium. People called from cars and waved pictures of players, towels, flags, whatever they had that was red or said Cardinals on it.

“This is the greatest feeling,” a young man yelled from a car stopped for a red light on Market Street. Many of the cars turned up streets headed to the city’s areas where there are bars. And no doubt things were hot in the Laclede’s Landing area not far from the ballpark.

Earlier, the celebration had continued for a long time inside the ballpark with fans who nearly all wore something red, either hats or shirts or both, while some even wore Santa Claus hats, perhaps because the Detroit Tigers did their best to gift-wrap this World Series with eight errors.

A couple of nitwits in the stadium were shaking beer bottles and spraying them like they’ve seen celebrating players do with champagne bottles. The crowd stayed in the stadium, watching the postgame interviews from the field that were being played on the scoreboard television.

One fan had a large stuffed replica of a tiger and was carrying it around with a noose around its neck.

One fan offered to buy the game scoresheet from someone who had kept score during the game. The sounds of stadium fireworks interrupted the music, which, of course, included "We Are the Champions."

There was a rush to pick anything remaining at the souvenir shops at Busch Stadium. Cardinals souvenirs were big all over town. A day or two earlier, a couple was observed at Union Station, leaving a Cardinals souvenir store in the station mall with five bags full of Cardinals stuff.

Early Saturday morning, an Irish pub near Union Station on Market Street about 20 minutes walk from the ballpark was filled with Cardinals fans wearing typical red shirts and hats but they were quiet and polite, mostly sitting at tables.

As early morning wore on and sleep overtook most, the occasional sounds of a car horn could be heard.

A parade is scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday.