Friday, September 02, 2005

New York Football Giant Jerks

Unless they donate every dime to disaster relief, the New York Football Giants are screwing the victims of Hurricane Katrina. It's real nice of them to donate a portion of the gate generated from moving the game to Giants Stadium, but they've created more revenue from concessions, parking, bigger paychecks for employees, and not to mention the rest of the gate that all could have gone to the people in need of it most. I understand the problem playing it in places like the Astrodome and Alamodome that can be used as shelters. And even though Tiger Stadium on the LSU campus can't hold refugees but could hold a football game, it doesn't seem right to have the Saints move in when other parts of the university are housing vicitims of the hurricane. But why not some place like Memphis where at least the crowd will be partial to the Saints. The Giants sell out every game. Fans there are anxious to get the chance to buy single game tickets. How many Saints season ticket holders from the aftermath that is the Gulf Coast are going to East Rutherford, New Jersey to see a football game? If it were 100% (and I would think it would be closer to 1 than 100) the Saints still might not even sell 30,000 tickets. It's just another home game for the Giants against a team that lost its home. I reserve using the word hate only for the Dallas Cowboys, but the Giants aren't fooling me w/ their "generosity" by hosting a regular season NFL game in their home stadium.

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