[NU Sports] Chicago Olympics 2016

[NEONRye at aol.com]

As a New Yorker, I have to admit that Ms. Haskins makes a great case for  
"The Windy City"".  In New York much of the outright opposition and lack of  
enthusiasm for the Olympic bid last year was the unfortunate reliance on the  
silly idea to have an 80,000 seat football/Olympic stadium plopped into  Manhattan 
southwest of Times Square along the Hudson River.  There would  simply be no 
way for people to get there other than on mass transit--and, as NU  fans well 
know, gridiron fans like to tailgate.  I think the vision she  paints of an 
Olympics taking advantage of Chicago's natural geography, its  ethnic and 
cultural and diversity, its "can-do" spirit and historical  ability to build and 
re-build, and its love of sports makes a compelling  case.  As someone who 
entered NU in September, 1970 as a provincial Long  Islander, and left in 1974 as 
someone who really loves Chicago and appreciates  its unique qualities, I hope 
it is the U.S. representative.  I actually  have a law partner who does legal 
work for the Olympic Committee, so if the  Olympics had been in NYC, I was 
golden for tickets, but still think Chicago  would make a more logical host.
 
Paul Levinson