Now I’ve seen it all
Following last night’s Dallas Mavericks-Chicago Bulls game at the American Airlines Center, I actually did a double take on the way back to my rental car (don’t ask).
Right outside of Victory Park, a guy was hawking Barack Obama Texas Primary T-shirts. I surely expected — and saw — a flood of Jason Kidd jerseys in the point guard’s triumphant return to Big D, but sports fans buying political T-shirts after a game is a new one for me.
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I noticed that too. I said to my dad- “look he’s selling Obama t-shirts!” I saw those kinds at the rally last week.
Clearly you dont live in New York or any other urban metropolis where capitalism, business and politics do seem to go hand in hand. Think: the largest sports arena in North Texas near an international hotel in an urban development. How does that not add up? Maybe that is why Dallas is so far behind in thinking and not exactly catching onto urbanity—>politics is one of THE biggest games on tv and covered by the media. Not to mention–you were in Victory Park–as a writer you should know that the area around the AAC is a media hub analogous to Times Square home of CNBC, Conde Nast, MTV… Isn’t that your industry? And afterall, aren’t the media responsible for the majority of the messages in the free world. Again, let me ask, how does the venue NOT make sense?!