February 4, 2019 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Monday, February 4, 2019
The Patriots won the Super Bowl. I know we’re all shocked. However is was the lowest scoringSuper Bowl game in history.
- Want to know where Georgia falls in the lineup for the cost of a case of beer? It’s not awful by comparison, but we can do better, y’all.
- I’m just going to be REAL honest with y’all and let you know I didn’t watch the game. However, my Facebook and Twitter feed was full of how awful the halftime show was. Some went so far as to say that Pepsi was better than the halftime show. Not having watched, it’s hard for me to be a fair judge of that comparison. However, I have tasted Pepsi. And it feels really unfair to the halftime entertainment to be so harsh.
- Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam(D) on Sunday reportedly called for an abrupt senior staff meeting as he faces calls to resign over a controversy involving a racist photo. And his wife has urged him to stay in his position.
- This guy called the police when McDonalds got his order wrongand put onions on his burger. And then the police arrested him.
- The Chattahoochee Hall of Fameadded 8 new members over the weekend.
- Super Bowl commercials rated for your viewing pleasure.
- ICE arrested Rapper 21 Savage on Sunday. Am I the only one who has no idea who he is?
- El Chappo is making headlines again. Here is a summary.
- Super Bowl Sex Trafficking sting is up to 40 arrests.
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The game, summarized in a tweet:
“This Super Bowl is so bad that Gladys Knight took an earlier train.” – @Will_Bunch
You’d think such a low scoring game would feature incredible defense. You’d be wrong. The Rams quarterback was downright awful, taking bad sacks and failing to see open receivers on nearly every play. Tom Brady was equally crappy, but got bailed out by some good running from Sony Michel (who got robbed in the MVP vote).
The halftime show, summarized in a tweet:
“If gentrification were a Super Bowl halftime show” – @jemelehill
Atlanta is a city that has made significant contributions to pop music and pop culture writ large. Nearly everything being played on Star 94 or any major station in the country can be traced back to something TLC, Goodie Mob, Outkast, etc. were doing 25 years ago. Instead of honoring that you trot out Maroon 5, the Jimmy Fallon of pop bands? Look, I get it, a lot of artists rejected the NFL out of hand over the league blacklisting Colin Kaepernick, but you can do better than the musical equivalent of white bread dunked in vanilla ice cream.
#Free21Savage
At least there have been lots of praise for Atlanta’s efforts. Haven’t heard any tourist horror stories.
The game was boring but the week leading up to it was the most alive this town has been since the 96 Olympics. I attended several events and I thought everything was first class.
I’m not sure about the cost benefit of a Superbowl because I witnessed a massive use of taxpayer resources to host an event for which the profit went to a private entity. All 2000 Atlanta police officers were concentrated in a 40 block area for seven days. If I lived Atlanta I would have hoped and prayed that I wasn’t a crime victim or had a fire emergency for the seven days leading up to the game.
The beer price thing: I’m surprised Georgia’s wasn’t higher. Sin taxes have always been popular here. Well, except for legalizing and taxing the oldest profession. Then you get to the “sex trafficking” thing: Arresting pimps during Superbowl weekend. Isn’t that the equivalent of hunting over a baited field?
Aversion to sin, yes. Taxes no. State liquor taxes aren’t high though one wouldn’t know that based on price. (Thanks package store lobby.) Tobacco taxes are very low. The proposed casino taxes were lower than average.
Here are the chamblee54 links and comments from last week https://chamblee54.wordpress.com/2019/02/04/best-choice-to-serve-virginia/
Atlanta has had their day in the sun With Mercedes Benz Stadium and Superbowl 2019 in the books. SO the new question is when will it be coming back? Well at a minimum not until maybe 2025 because it’s booked until 2024. In 2024 it is scheduled to be back at the New Orleans Superdome for a record 8th time. And I thought Football was supposed to be played outside in the open air. Next year it will be in Miami for the 7th time. To put this in perspective the Georgia Dome hosted it only 2 times. All in all maybe we should feel lucky because scores of other cities only hosted it once. Still due to the cost to taxpayers I don’t feel too lucky. Maybe New Orleans and Miami taxpayers do…..
2024 will actually be the 11th time the game has been played in New Orleans. Super Bowls IV, VI, and IX were held at Tulane Stadium.
2020 will be the 11th time the game has been played in the Miami area. The Orange Bowl hosted Super Bowls II, III, V, X, and XIII.
From 1967 to 1982 the game effectively rotated between Los Angeles, Miami, and New Orleans (which makes sense, seeing as those cities were home to the three biggest bowl games in college football). I don’t know when Atlanta will host again, seeing as the NFL likes to use the Super Bowl to help its owners grift cities for taxpayer-funded stadiums, but I’m of the mind that the Super Bowl and the NCAA Championship game should just exist on a fixed rotation of “warm-weather” cities that are fun to visit and easy to get to:
New Orleans, Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles… no need to go anywhere else.
I stand corrected. I forgot about Tulane and Orange bowl venues…
I only remembered Tulane Stadium because the broadcast mentioned the Steelers and Vikings posting a 2-0 score at halftime.
I really hope the city/state takes a good look at the cost/benefit of hosting this event before embarking on another grab at the latest bright shiny object
A crowded field for the open Atlanta City Council District 3 seat, due to the untimely death of Ivory lee Young, Jr.
Young, Shalise
Clay, Greg
Cardinale, Matthew Charles
Simama, Jabari
Estrada, Erika
Amos, Byron
Brown, Ricky
Brown, Antonio
Crayton, Patricia
Mainor, Mesha
This district includes Ga. Tech, Atlantic Station, Mercedes stadium, GWCC, and then west all the way to (but not including) Hamilton Holmes MARTA station.
The election is March 19.
We import the parts from Asia into Savannah, roll them over to High Point, we then roll the SUV’s to Brunswick and export them to Europe…
Globalism.
http://gaports.com/media/press-releases/articleid/218/artmid/3569
Last week the resident was wonder where the global warming went, tell us we needed it to come back…
Found it.
https://www.axios.com/australia-just-had-its-warmest-month-heat-flooding-1ab2f556-fbdc-4136-a551-2ba60e53ba51.html
I this title. The write up is good too.
https://thebulwark.com/how-the-foxconn-boondoggle-resembles-the-fyre-festival/?utm_source=afternoon-newsletter&utm_medium=email
Trump is bringing back Ronny Jackson as his physician.
Recall that Trump tried to reward Jackson with VA Secretary post for reporting Trump’s height at 6′-3″ instead of 6′-2″, Trump’s height when he dodged the draft, because well, it’s a fact that an increase in height after 50+ years at 6′-2″ isn’t uncommon in one with good genes like Trump’s.
That inch was imperative to a narcissist like Trump since a 6′-2″ 236 lb Trump would be obese.