Fighting Through the Giants Parade Dude Throng
OK. The Giants won the Superbowl. They deserved it and everything. I’m not a huge football guy but it was still a bummer to see Boston lose one to New York (finally.)
Because of the victory, the city is throwing the team a parade which, of course, means streams of grown men dressing up like professional athletes by wearing absurdly over-sized “official” game jerseys and getting drunk by 10am so they can serve up better chest bumps. Not that I’m criticizing, as I did the same thing when the Sox won the Series in ‘04 (minus the game jerseys and chest-bumping.)
This morning, following my activity of responsible citizenry (i.e. voting) I jumped on the PATH in Jersey City to head into the city. This involved roughly six minutes on a train packed with Giants fans and a 15-block walk to work against a steady stream of dude-guys. Hand-blistering high-fives and rumbling chants of “18 and 1″ were common place. Given the losing battle that AM sobriety was fighting coupled with the fact that it is ALSO Fat Tuesday, I don’t envy the city’s sanitation crew.
Oh yeah. Go vote. Voting today will likely have more of an impact than in November.
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