"The multiple annoyances of having The Big'Un in your town do not really become evident until Thursday, and sometimes even as late as Friday. That's when the rubes show up in their cheap Fanatics knockoff jerseys, clogging the airports and highways, swallowing all the restaurant reservations and generally acting like the kind of people you would emigrate to avoid; a peaceful and moderately civilized living experience is suddenly and overwhelmingly overrun by Americans, with all the turbo-ick that implies."
"the Rooney Rule to help promote the advancement of black coaches went from being named for Art to being named for Mickey, how Roger Goodell is planning to farm out the 32 18th games to different countries ("You are looking live from high above Ljubljana, Slovenia . . . "), and now the return of the high comedy and low tea of the Hall of Fame Conspira-fest."
Major sporting events bring large, often disruptive, influxes of visitors that overrun local transportation, restaurants, and hotels. Visitors clad in inexpensive team merchandise create a pervasive cultural clash with residents. San Francisco concentrates fashionable and expensive activity within a small area, producing extreme room rates and funneling traffic through two freeways and two bridges. Hosting games in suburban stadiums displaces congestion across regions and multiplies travel burdens. The NFL sustains an insular small-world culture: symbolic rules like the Rooney Rule have been reduced to branding oddities, commissioners plan global exhibition games, and Hall of Fame controversies and covert voting breaches fuel public spectacle.
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