[NU Sports] Our feelings are hurt again

[Jason Singer]

Or maybe, just maybe, NYC'ers don't feel superior at all, and Chicagoans
feel massively inferior. Cuts both ways, methinks.

Listening to Bears fans whine about lack of respect probably sounds
identical to Yankees fans ignoring White Sox and Cub fans (although being a
New Yorker who is a Red Sox fan - I'm with ya there).

Point being, we all love our teams and our regions and anybody making a
blanket comment either way, is talking out of emotion rather than objective
observation.

As for the basketball line, I'm sure he was referring to the fact that
before the 60's, maybe even the 70's, New York was the center of the
basketball universe, both pro and college. That has obviously changed and so
could be construed as an offensive comment to those that think otherwise,
but there is no ignoring that NYU, the NIT, the Garden, inner-city kids both
Jewish (from the 1910's through the 1950's) and African American (1930's and
beyond), all made basketball famous, and that is a fairly objective
observation. Again, no longer true in any form (especially the Garden -
Knicks are soooo stinky).

Anyway, we have enough to deal with here, what with disagreeing about
coordinators and occasionally, politics. Let's agree that Chicago has always
had a bit of a problem with NYC and that NYC has always sort of ignored
Chicago.

Don't we have a game against Illinois this weekend?

Jason Singer SP'86

-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of Dennis W. Brandt
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 12:12 PM
To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
Subject: [NU Sports] Our feelings are hurt again

Hi yo Silver!  The politically correct ride again.

If you were offended by John's comment, I suggest buying a case of Tuff Skin

and applying it liberally and often.  My goodness, be an adult.

<NY fans have probably forgotten more about basketball than fans in almost 
any part of the country
 (save, perhaps, Indiana) ever knew about the sport.

Now there's an unbiased comment if I ever read one.  Did God inject 
super-smarts into the heads of New Yorkers the rest of us don't know about?

You like your city?  Good for you.  On 9-11 New York belonged to us all. 
But in all other categories, admit to its faults.  If you think that many 
New Yorkers do not think themselves superior to the rest of the country, you

have lived there so long you can't see the forest for the trees.  Any 
outlander moving into the region (as I did) quickly finds the New York air 
of superiorty unbearable.  It kind of goes along with being the biggest and 
most expensive, I reckon.  Badda bing badda boom!


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