It was so sweet to see Cowboy owner Jerry Jones and his guests, George and Laura Bush, and his 105,000 fans get their hearts crushed by the New York Football Giants last night. Even the Philly Sports Radio folks were reveling in the devastation.
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Just having the Cowboys lose is satisfaction enough for me. The fact that it was the inaugural game at the new stadium just adds a cherry to the top the sundae.
Good times.
A last second field goal was the whipped cream.
My aspiring Gandhiism keeps running up against my Dallas Cowboy hate.
I remember as a kid in the late ’60s hating the Cowboys. Players and coaches come and go, but as I’ve gotten older I’ve just kept finding more and more reasons to hate the Cowboys.
It’s good to know, in our ever-turbulent times, that some things will never change.
Somehow I can even imagine Gandhi smiling a little as that kick sailed through the uprights. Hey, he’s only human.
Why do you always call them the “New York Football Giants” instead of the “New York Giants”?
Just asking.
So that you don’t confuse them with
the New York baseballSan Francisco Giants.This picture was posted on the Cowboys’ mega HD jumbotron:
http://deadspin.com/5363990/this-must-have-looked-awesome-on-the-jerrytron
As a Niners fan, that game last night was the only thing that could make the Niners win even better. But then I’ve hated Dallas since 1963.
I hate both teams with a passion. But Jones sends me over the top. Did anyone else see what he said before the game?
Paraphrase;
“I wish I was out there because I would be really good and kick some ass.”
Then the crowd (and the announcers) sending him accolades for charging them an arm and a leg to get into a concrete edifice to his over sized ego was unbelievable. Why anyone gives their money and reverence to billionaire owners is beyond me. They are being played for suckers.
The only thing worse than seeing Jones’ mug is to watch the east coast sports media fawn over the Giants. I once watched SC give a Giants LOSS 20 minutes of a one hour show, with loser interviews. All the other teams got 30 minutes.
If you take all the letters of Cowboys and Giants and mix them up, and throw them in the air, they land spelling;
SUCK!
nalbar
What! Have been busy past few years but didn’t realize how out of touch with pro football I’ve been till I went to read about the game last night…and discovered the Cowboys have a new stadium…and its price. I just can’t fathom $1.15 billion being spent on a sports venue.
In another story, I then learned,
Now I am really dated. If my memory is correct, I think I paid less than $15/ticket to watch the Dolphins play when I was a kid. I stopped attending pro football games because the ever-escalating prices made it easy to find other more enduring uses for my money. I cannot fathom paying $15 (+ $$$ for kids to come along) to enter an empty stadium. They charge for that??
And, how many times a year do they use that concrete wonder box? Eight home games, maybe a play-off game or two. Say ten times a year or 115 million dollars per game the first year. After ten years , at the same ratio, the price per games drops to ll.5 million per game. Only in Texas would such gargantuan stupidity exist.
No wonder billionaires love that state so much.
A (very) rough calculation: A $1.15 Billion cost amortized over thirty years at around 5% would average around $30 million in annual interest plus another $35 million a year to pay off the original cost – or $65m cost per year. Cowboy Stadium seats 80,000 versus Texas Stadium’s 65,000 gives an extra 15,000 seats for the money (the 105,000 figure in yesterday’s game includes “standing room” areas the popularity of which can be expected to drop precipitously in the near future). If we allow the Cowboys one home game in the off season that’s nine x 15,000 or 135,00 extra seats per season, which comes out to $480 cost for each extra seat. That’s a lot of money. Admittedly this doesn’t include the cost of refurbishing Texas Stadium if they decided to stay which would have cost a pretty penny; nor does it include the revenues from special events like concerts and monster truck rallies but still … a $480 facility cost means a ticket price northwards of $500. Since it’s safe to assume Jerry Jones isn’t an idiot the difference has to come from some sort of combination of public levies (because the public are fools) and not paying rent to Irving, TX for Texas Stadium. Now the good councilors of Irving might have been charging the Cowboys an OUTRAGEOUS amount in lease payments, but my monies on gullible public.
Thanks for the computations; they are spot on. I wonder if the Texas public would be interested in buying any stock in bridges like the Brooklyn or the Golden Gate, should they ever come up for sale.
The old school, skinflint, family owned & operated builders have been replaced by billionaire investors.
That bean counter Goodell in the league office is personification of the shift in business focus.
100K seat stadiums will be to the NFL what the multi-use parks of the late 60’s early 70’s were to MLB. Too much seating capacity built over a demand curve decline.
from a comment at the NT Times:
It’s tough being a fan of football or any major sport when you think of the excess, while people go hungry, homeless, and uneducated. 1.3 bil buys a lot of relief.
I’m a die hard Giants fan myself but it strains my ethics, to say the least. The militarism associated with sports needs to go too.
The only thing that could have made that ending better would have a wide kick on the first attempt, then the second doing exactly what it did. Cowboy fans would be screaming for Phillip’s head.