Ed Snider Tries To Make Philadelphia Think He’s Cool So He Can “Hang”, Continues To Not Get It
You sure give it a good effort, Eddie The Snide. You can save all the junior hockey rinks you want to try and ask for pennance. But honestly, Philadelphia just doesn’t like you that much. Now, there’s really nothing wrong with that. Some people just don’t get along, you know? We can be civil. You keep putting money into the Sixers and Flyers, we’ll let you eat lunch at our table once in a while and not make fun of you (too much). But here’s the deal. We’ll let you in on a little insider tip: Philadelphia is a… blue collar town, and pretty solidly Democratic. Shh, shh. Don’t let that get around to too many people. As far as sports are concerned, well, we know a good portion of the people in pro sports are raging conservatives. But we can take that with a grain of salt if you don’t rub it in our face. But when you uh, found something like The Ayn Rand Institute and ask the Republican vice pres nominee to drop the first puck at our city’s season-opening hockey game, it’s not going to work. And don’t think we didn’t pick up on the underlying slap in the face to Michael Nutter, whose budget cuts would have closed those rinks. Did you think it was going to be like that scene at the end of Tommy Boy, where Tommy is watching TV and Zalinksi The Auto-Parts King comes on and he’s hanging out with local families and being real friendly and Tommy is like “He seems like a nice guy” and David Spade has to remind him that’s the man trying to buy out their company? Sorry Ed, no dice. We still know you’re a boner.
November 25th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Between 1883 and 1929, industrialist / robber-baron Andrew Carnegie (and his foundation) built 1,689 libraries across the U.S., primarily in small towns. One afternoon, whilst sipping a cordial in a book-lined, leather-chaired club room somewhere in the vicinity of Wall Street, a fellow businessman leaned across the room and said to Mr. Carnegie, “You know, Andrew, it doesn’t matter how many libriaries you build, you are still going to hell.”
November 25th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
@chuck63: Coincidentally, one of those libraries is the Logan branch, which is on the hitlist.
November 25th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
I actually like Ed. After all he gave 19,000+ hockey fans the chance to boo the Republican VP candidate. Thanks Ed.
But he is a shrewd one. Reported in the PBJ account of the rink saving deal. Ed is “working with the city to procure land for a hub facility that would have a computer lab, classrooms, administrative offices, and multiple ice surfaces, as well as public space for meetings and other community functions.”
Ed saves city rinks, gets land for complex. He’s got the Skatezone Northeast. How about a megarink at the Naval Yard?
November 25th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
@chuck63: your story should end: Then the businessman got his ass beat for being a jerkoff. Carnegie gave away 90% of his wealth before died. About $4 billion in today’s dollars.