Remember when I complained about traffic

Katybug

Katybug

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Charlotte, NC
....while they were filming HOMELAND down the street. That was nothing!!! Apparently Monday Night Football is 2nd to nothing and tonight it's being played in Charlotte. There must be 1/4 million more people here in some capacity for the game. Who are these people? It's standing room only on any given home game. The fact it's being televised throughout the nation, and the outlandish media attention (from every state, I think) boggles the mind. There is more trouble traffic wise than I could ever explain within a mile of my home and I can hear the roars from my patio. This is football country, there is never a seat available, so you've got massive troubles already with just the locals attending games. You avoid them like the plague, but this one was too big to avoid so what are ya gonna do? Add to that what seems like another 1/4 million arrived today and you're talking grid lock. I sat through 5 traffic lights 8 times. What should have taken me 10 minutes to get home took me 1 hr 40 minutes. And the back routes were more congested than the main routes, probably because what looked like 500 policemen were attempting to direct. Whew, what a mess!

But I'm watching it on TV and am all caught up in it....yelling for our team, and I don't even know what the hell they're doing, just know we're winning. That's all that matters.....that, and thank God tomorrow they will be gone!
 

Bunches of sympathy Katy. It was like that when the Olympics were on in Sydney. I only lived around 4 kilometres from the stadium, and could see the lights and fireworks but it would have taken me over 2 hours to get there. Quicker to walk! I sat and watched it on TV too, no way I was fighting the throngs and public transport to 'be there'. Cars were largely banned around the area so they all backed up around our area. Parked everywhere and abandoned while their owners trekked in on foot I presume. It's was Hell. ... and it lasted for weeks! aaaaghhhh.
 
Katybug.. had the same traffic scenario when I lived in Arlington, TX..first they built the Rangers Stadium, then came the Cowboys stadium, throw Six Flag in the mix, all in close proximity to each other. Then play the Rangers and the Cowboys games on the same day, and what you have is a traffic nightmare of monumental proportions. I lived on the other side of town from the stadiums so I avoided the area like the plague. But, if you had the misfortune of living in the area, you were a virtual prisoner in your home on game days.

What to do? I moved.
 

You 2 ladies know exactly what yesterday was like....not fun! But I found out it's the first time in 5 years the Charlotte Panthers have been featured in MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL and what a huge deal that is coast to coast. It appeared to bring in anything resembling a sportscaster in the country..not to mention all the cameramen & staff feeding it out. I was reading that dozens of people from Charlotte flew in just for the game, from wherever they're living now. Hard for those of us who don't appreciate football to even imagine.

No more complaining, we won, and it was well played by both teams. And FINALLY we are in serious competition for the Super Bowl....the only time I am EVER interested in football. We've held an embarrassingly tight rein on last place or next to last place for so many years, I can't even remember. And throughout it all, with loss after loss, the loyal fans kept the stadium full every home game. Bet there are some extremely serious celebration hangovers this morning, but everyone is over the moon with the win against a team that rarely loses.
 
Diwundrin said:
Bunches of sympathy Katy. It was like that when the Olympics were on in Sydney. I only lived around 4 kilometres from the stadium, and could see the lights and fireworks but it would have taken me over 2 hours to get there. Quicker to walk! I sat and watched it on TV too, no way I was fighting the throngs and public transport to 'be there'. Cars were largely banned around the area so they all backed up around our area. Parked everywhere and abandoned while their owners trekked in on foot I presume. It's was Hell. ... and it lasted for weeks! aaaaghhhh.
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Easy enough to take for 1 day, but I don't even want to think about weeks of it.
 
Ozarkgal said:
Oh, did I mention, I hate football? The frenzy and hype over it is a mystery to me.
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It's a rare woman who likes it and my g'daughter is one of 'em. I would rather clean house any day than watch a game, but the stakes do go up greatly for me when it's your home town team -- that with one all too brief exception has always been a major underdog.
 
So why doesn't our government enact a special entertainment tax on these yahoos? Toss in a $5 surcharge on every ticket, make every televised game a PPV with the tax added on.

You'd see the national debt begin to fall rather quickly.

Give them bread and circuses ...

"Plays, farces, spectacles, gladiators, strange beasts, medals, pictures, and other such opiates, these were for ancient peoples the bait toward slavery, the price of their liberty, the instruments of tyranny. By these practices and enticements the ancient dictators so successfully lulled their subjects under the yoke, that the stupefied peoples, fascinated by the pastimes and vain pleasures flashed before their eyes, learned subservience as naively, but not so creditably, as little children learn to read by looking at bright picture books. Roman tyrants invented a further refinement. They often provided the city wards with feasts to cajole the rabble, always more readily tempted by the pleasure of eating than by anything else. The most intelligent and understanding amongst them would not have quit his soup bowl to recover the liberty of the Republic of Plato. Tyrants would distribute largess, a bushel of wheat, a gallon of wine, and a sesterce: and then everybody would shamelessly cry, 'Long live the King!' The fools did not realize that they were merely recovering a portion of their own property, and that their ruler could not have given them what they were receiving without having first taken it from them."

Etienne de La Boétie

Discourse on Voluntary Servitude
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Katybug said:
But I'm watching it on TV and am all caught up in it....yelling for our team, and I don't even know what the hell they're doing, just know we're winning. That's all that matters.....that, and thank God tomorrow they will be gone!
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A lot of controversy today in the media over the last play of that game. Myself, I could care less who won, but I feel the Patriots were robbed by the refs. They (refs) blew it at the end.

And I'm with TICA ... Love football... watch way too much!! .. the college games on Saturday, and the NFL on Sunday.
It's been part of my life forever ...
 
Boo's Mom said:
A lot of controversy today in the media over the last play of that game. Myself, I could care less who won, but I feel the Patriots were robbed by the refs. They (refs) blew it at the end.

And I'm with TICA ... Love football... watch way too much!! .. the college games on Saturday, and the NFL on Sunday.
It's been part of my life forever ...
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I only wish I understood football and if I had enough interest, I'm sure I would. If I weren't so prejudiced for the Panthers and watched Tom Brady walking off the field arguing the last play....well, whatever he said. There aren't many men I comment on as to being very appealing. Tom is one of the exceptions!
 

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