“Yes, the tyrants are always pleased when “panem et circenses” keep the masses preoccupied.”
It can’t go on forever; the bar business in my town, which really capitalized on football, is in tatters as fewer and fewer people have any money to spend in a bar. Even the Hispanic sports bars that are replacing “American” bars are having a hard time making a go of it (as our illegals are idled). Anyone I knew who held season tickets to the Giants or Jets gave them up when the new stadium was built; it was simply the worst timing imaginable...
Anyone I knew who held season tickets to the Giants or Jets gave them up when the new stadium was built; it was simply the worst timing imaginable...
...sounds like things are pretty grim in Jersey...i grew up in Union County, just north of the Watchung Mountain, a little town called New Providence...it was moderately affluent when I was there, and I understand it still is...