Detroit's 'Surreal Bowl'

[4morewars]

By Sandy Grady
Wed Feb 1, 6:43 AM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20060201/cm_usatoday/detroitssurrealbowl
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"Hard to believe many folks at Wixom will line up for Super Bowl tickets, face value $600-$700 but many selling for $2,700 and up. Nor do I expect laid-off Wixom workers will be found in Ford Field's 132 suites, where high rollers can sip half-time cognac. An Internet site advertised a 40-person suite for $261,000, The Seattle Times reported - that's in a city where the median house price is $169,000.

They should call this one the Surreal Bowl. And hire Bruce Springsteen to sing his blue-collar anthem, Born in the USA. Or have someone read the Roman poet JuvenaCalculate's lines about "bread and circuses," because a Super Bowl in a job-hurting city echoes the spectacles by Caligula, Claudius and Nero in another empire."

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"By the way, affluent fans may spring for the autographed version of the NFL's book XL: Forty Years of Super Bowls, which weighs 85 pounds, bound in white calfskin, selling for $25,000.

Don't expect Wixom plant outcasts, more worried about unemployment checks, to belly up at the bookstore."

:wtf:
Spending millions on parties for millionaires and billionaires, woops, no money left for the workers !
Maybe some of it will "trickle down ?"