NOVEMBER 20, 2010
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The Cubs ownership seem to be a new breed bent on ruining a good thing. Last week, the ownership came to the public trough thirsty for taxpayer money. They claim they didn’t want any new money just an advance on the amusement tax the City of Chicago now collects. They don’t understand the City does not collect this for the Cubs. It is not a private tax. The tax is for public improvements and crowd control expenses, allegedly, not for the Cubs to spend as they want. The Cubs want the money now to make upgrades in Wrigley Field. What they really want is an interest free. The Cubs make the improvements, keep the increased revenue and never pay the money back.
The Ricketts family bought an aging, decaying ballpark. They had their eyes open but refused to see. The glory days of the world’s largest tavern are over. People are wising up, even Cub fans. If the product is not worth following, they are not going to pay $50.00 a seat, $30.00 to park, $5.00 for a hot dog and $7.00 for a beer any more. Baseball is the product. The sun shines everywhere else for free.
Now the Cubs’ ownership is trying to increase revenue by having a College Football game at Wrigley Field. This is a novelty and will be successful once. Northwestern plays 15 miles away and cannot sell out. The Illini, a bad team, cannot sell out. In Wrigley, they will sell out. In steps the Big Ten, really Eleven. They had this plan before them for 15 months. The Big Ten approved the plan, including the field’s location. 24 hours before kickoff, the Big Ten changes the rules of football to accommodate itself. Now, every offensive play will be heading west, toward home plate area from right field. This is bound to ruin some grass. I know in a regulation game, the teams play on the same grass but they are going in different directions. The cleats are pointed in different directions, the push off from the players is spread around. This will make a difference, including the wind direction now being the same all game long.
The only game I can think of that is widely accepted in the United States where both teams go the same direction, (I don’t include baseball), is bowling.
The excuse for this fiasco is the potential for a concussion injury. That disease of the week has gotten old. Just make a disease of the week movie for The Lifetime Network and be done with it. The game is football. Injuries happen. You play through pain you do not play through injury. Let the players, who have done this their entire, although short, life, make the call. The people who made this decision probably have not played football in a decade or more.
Wrigley Field was the home of the Chicago Bears for over forty years. I don’t recall people dying or suffering catastrophic injuries all the time while playing there. Today the equipment is better, the trainers are better and the medical care is better and quickly available. This is football; let’s keep it that way. This is just another example of someone with a little power imposing their ideas on the masses. When you give someone a little power, they think they must exercise it or lose it. It is better to give someone all the power. Hen they are not as threatened about losing it and will exercise it in a more judicious manner.
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BRUCE A. BRENNAN
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