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If Chicago hosts the 2016 Summer Olympics, will you buy a ticket to go watch an Olympic event?
State Journal Register ^ | October 1, 2009 | steelers 6

Posted on 10/01/2009 7:28:10 PM PDT by Steelers6

If Chicago hosts the 2016 Summer Olympics, will you buy a ticket to go watch an Olympic event?

Yes 23.7% No 76.3%

Total votes: 615


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Miscellaneous; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 2016olympics; obama; olympics; poll; tickets
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“Way too pricey to even think about.”
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Yep. I went to the Barcelona Olympics, and the tickets seemed a bit expensive, but after that they basically doubled in price. I couldn’t imagine going now.

BTW, I heard today on the radio that the average family of four attending an NFL game spends over $400.00, including parking, tickets, food, program and hats. At the new stadium in Dallas, that total is over $700.00. (At that rate, there had better be NO lines for the restroom!)


21 posted on 10/01/2009 7:38:07 PM PDT by married21
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To: HiTech RedNeck

A nuke does not have to be fired by a missile or dropped by a plane to be deployed. It can be planted in a city in about 100,000 different ways and nobody will realize it until after it is all over.


22 posted on 10/01/2009 7:38:13 PM PDT by DarthVader (Liberalism is the politics of EVIL whose time of judgment has come.)
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To: Steelers6

You gotta be kidding. I wouldn’t go to the olympics if they held it in the field behind the grocery store down the road from my house and gave away free corn dogs.


23 posted on 10/01/2009 7:38:50 PM PDT by San Jacinto
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To: vaudine

Why the hate?

My son goes to Moody Bible Institute in downtown Chicago. We love to go visit him. It seems to be a safe clean city as long as you stay where you belong.

If I got decent tickets and could crash in his dorm I’d go. He’s a slow learner so he just might still be there in 7 years.


24 posted on 10/01/2009 7:40:01 PM PDT by JusPasenThru (Never let a good crisis go to waste.)
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To: Steelers6

Drudge headline link showing it looks like it’s between Rio and Chicago ... I put Rio first as my choice. Who would want to go to the ghetto anyway? Oh, forgot, Michelle.


25 posted on 10/01/2009 7:42:52 PM PDT by fujimoh
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To: BunnySlippers

I lived tgought the 84 Olympics traffic was non existed the city was safe and it was wonderfull


26 posted on 10/01/2009 7:43:28 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom ;))
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To: NRA2BFree

“I wouldn’t go to Chicago if they gave it to me!”

Got stopped towing a race car through there in 56 and luckily I had enough smarts to have a $30 follded up under my drivers license.

They can keep that corrupt hole!!!


27 posted on 10/01/2009 7:43:43 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: Nervous Tick; Slings and Arrows

The equestrian events will be replaced by pit bull fighting.


28 posted on 10/01/2009 7:47:16 PM PDT by Salamander ("All my toys are broken....and so am I, inside, Mom......")
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To: Batman11

And if Chicago doesn’t get the Olympic’s, you won’t watch Bo’s Ho Mo in the Shot Put competition???


29 posted on 10/01/2009 7:47:22 PM PDT by Pit1
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To: al baby

I also did the 84 Olympics. It was amazing. The local traffic stayed home. I drove everywhere so easily.


30 posted on 10/01/2009 7:48:18 PM PDT by jimfree (Freep and ye shall find! - I am Joe Wilson.)
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To: Steelers6

Freep’d. At 2248ET:

If Chicago hosts the 2016 Summer Olympics, will you buy a ticket to go watch an Olympic event?
Yes 21.9%
No 78.1%
Total votes: 672


31 posted on 10/01/2009 7:48:52 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Change we can look forward to.)
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To: JusPasenThru
It isn't hate--it is the fact of the crime rate and sleazy corruption in Chicago. I was there about 20 years ago in a 5 star hotel on Michigan Ave. and my husband and I got scared to death within a block of our hotel by a black guy evidently high on something, who came toward us saying scary things about whitey and what he intended to do. We crossed the street and did not look at him or acknowledge him. Also, the govt. housing was horrible and the el trains, too.

No thanks!

Yes, Chicago is interesting and parts are beautiful, but is run by those on the dark side. If they get the games, I think the tickets should read--"Come here at your own risk."

vaudine

32 posted on 10/01/2009 7:50:45 PM PDT by vaudine
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To: Steelers6

Moot, Chi town’s not getting it.


33 posted on 10/01/2009 7:51:29 PM PDT by bvw
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To: Steelers6

I wouldn’t attend an Olympic event if it was free and across the street.


34 posted on 10/01/2009 7:52:45 PM PDT by Peter W. Kessler (Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
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To: JusPasenThru

Moody Bible and Chicagolady are about the only good things in Chicago other than the Bears, Sox, and Bulls. I have made it a point not to ever give Chicago any more of my money and even though I went there a lot in the 80’s and 90’s I have avoided the city since 2000 and I live in Illinois.

Chicago Sucks and so do most of the people who elect the bums that have destroyed the state of Illinois. I hope Rio gets the Olympics but we all know Obama is going to Copenhagen to pick up his gift.


35 posted on 10/01/2009 7:53:09 PM PDT by Steelers6
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To: Steelers6
...will you buy a ticket to go watch an Olympic event?

Eff-ewe-see-kay NO...

36 posted on 10/01/2009 7:53:09 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
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To: Steelers6

No.


37 posted on 10/01/2009 7:55:16 PM PDT by Marie2 (The second mouse gets the cheese.)
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To: fujimoh

Tokyo is out because Beijing, an Asian city just had it and London is getting it next and Athens had it in 2000. Australia had it in 2004. So North or South America haven’t had it recently. Rio should be saying that South America has never had the games. It’s our turn.


38 posted on 10/01/2009 7:56:01 PM PDT by Steelers6
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To: Steelers6

No.


39 posted on 10/01/2009 7:56:35 PM PDT by A. Morgan (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. Lawrence)
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To: Steelers6

I intend to go either way. We will surely know some athletes that year. Chicago would be easier than rio.


40 posted on 10/01/2009 7:58:16 PM PDT by Yaelle
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