Super Bowl LIII planners: Shutdown brings 'uncharted territory'

[struggle4progress]

By Jeff Martin Jan. 15, 2019

ATLANTA — A day after travelers waited nearly 90 minutes in snail-speed security lines at the world’s busiest airport, Atlanta’s mayor is concerned about the waits that could result when the city hosts the 2019 Super Bowl.

The ongoing partial government shutdown is “uncharted territory” amid planning for one of the world’s biggest sporting events, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said Tuesday ...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/Super-Bowl-LIII-planners-Shutdown-brings-13536580.php

[Moostache]

1. Tell the NFL owners to hire private security...and pay for it themselves!

They are a majority of greedy assholes that support GOP policies for "limited" government and lower taxes on their massive fortunes and out-sized billions in profits...they can damn well afford it.

[RockRaven]

2. Trump resents the NFL, he'll see disrupting the Super Bowl as a reason to prolong

the shutdown.

[jcgoldie]

4. He might hate the players

Because a majority are black and making more money than he thinks they should... but if he interferes with that game it will piss off a lot of Trumpers sitting on their couches eating guacamole.

[RockRaven]

7. He hates the owners too. They wouldn't let him join their club, more than once.

His grudge holding probably is stronger than his desire to make MAGAts happy.

[marybourg]

11. Guacamole? They eat that?

Isn’t that Mescan food?

[akraven]

13. LOL! Better than the ranch dip the fatass will be munching on in

OUR White House!

[dalton99a]

6. +1. His resentment - and thirst for revenge - is well documented

[underpants]

3. Might this slow down the strippers from getting there?

Super Bowls are stripper fests. Celebrities hang out there because cameras are forbidden. In host cities without a large enough supply of strip joints (like Indianapolis) they set up event tents cities in parking lots.

[duforsure]

5. Everyone in protest should kneel

Just to show support for everyone effected by trump and the gop shutdown at the Superbowl.

[FakeNoose]

8. It's not fair for Atlanta, not fair for all the SuperBowl fans

The SuperBowl game has become an unofficial "American holiday" and the game is watched by people all over the world. Trump is such an asshole to have caused these problems.

This can all be fixed so easily.

[SWBTATTReg]

9. You can take football and shove it up your A&& if you're that concerned about football vs. ...

a government shutdown/other more important issues. Professional sports has always been involved with way too much money, while lots of other sports get sidelined w/ little to no money in support.

Besides, as other posters have said, I don't feel like supporting billionaires. Football is owned by maybe plus or minus 20-30 people in the whole league. This is deliberate and the league again needs to be closely examined for monopoly operations of the football league. Somehow in the past they managed to obtain a hall pass to allow the monopoly in football to continue (I don't understand how).

Too many times cities and states have been taken advantage of by football league owners when they move their teams from city to city. This practice sucks and doesn't help anyone except the football owners themselves. Cities need to band together and demand more.

The same thing happens too when companies announce a major expansion (Amazon for example)...look at what happened in the aftermath of Amazon's headquarters announcement. Cities outbid cities, states outbid states, and continue to do so until in the end, no one wins except the football league and / or Amazon, because in the end, cities/states overspend in an attempt to gain jobs / etc. (and the number of available jobs is almost never what they hyped).

[struggle4progress]

12. Practicasl politics is about groupings of critical-mass: it's not simply a game

of finding one single defensible message

[gratuitous]

10. Let's see how Georgia's new governor handles this

All other issues aside, I'd bet a shiny nickel that a Governor Stacy Abrams would be making a plan and getting it done so that Atlanta and Georgia weren't embarrassed on the national stage.