Sunday, August 30, 2009

The future is unwritten…..?????


This morning I went to the NYC fan club of Liverpool FC, which strangely enough is a bar, and they had this mornings game on. Being a minor game here there was only about 400-500 people there in a bar the size of a small front room, so it was quite close. The mode change during the games were fun to watch. As the bar was on the lower east side I wondered around there after the game. This is the part of the city that poor immigrants have gone for hundreds of years (for those who have seen the truly bad ‘gangs of New York’ you will have some idea of how long.) These days this means East Asia, there are whole street where there are no English on any signs I could see. There seams to be a whole lot of churches and fortune tellers, which is an interesting comment about poor people taken out of their country. I walked from there to the financial district which is only about ½ an hour. On Wall street there is a very nice church and Morgan Stanley seams to be doing very well. An interesting comment about the masters of the universe…..

I then went off to an American football game, this is a pre-season game between the two NY team so there was about 60,000 people there this didn’t quite full up the stadium. This stadium is being pulled down at the end of this year to be replaced by a $US1.4 Billion stadium right next door, which is smaller but has more corporate facilities so should make more money (It is covered in corgiate iron and they have just put a train station right next to it, wow what an idea if only someone else had thought of this.) The game was actually quite interesting, this guys are amazing big and strong and can run very fast. The most bizarre thing was at half time there was a group of US shoulders just back from Iraq. Lets just say the whole ‘support the trops’ thing is VERY big here even in the liberal blue states up here in the north east. It was very noticeable that most of the crowd left at ¾ time, to try and avoider the traffic on there way home. By the end there wasn’t many more than a Hurricanes warm up game in Masterton, but even as New Jusry seams to be bad industrial areas and a swamp it isn’t that bad………. (sorry John 1)

2 comments:

  1. How will Iraq wear jackets now it has no shoulders?

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  2. I've always supported the trops. Such as Julia Trops (Canadian artist) and Trops Tropical Liqueurs (be aware they are stronger than most regular cocktails).

    Glad you had fun at the game(s).

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