So Mayor Pat McCrory has some chicken riding against some Seattle chicken over Sunday’s NFC Championship game. How chicken! Think big, guys!
How about this?
The loser has to pay for the other city’s light rail line. Now that’s a bet worth making. That’s a $500 million bet, people.
Better still, Seattle would jump at it because those folks had to abandon their monorail pipedream for lack of funds. Now Charlotte can catch them at a weak point, all drunk and happy on the Seahawks and stick ’em with the bill for the McCrory Line. Perfect! It is like racing for pick slips after some emotional guy breaks up with his girlfriend — it only sounds dangerous.
Besides, Charlotte needs to be a little more aggressive because the city is essentially a free-agent — we get no back-up from the Down East kleptocrats in Raleigh. Case in point, the governor of Colorado has issued a proclamation calling on all state residents to wear Bronco orange today. The governor, a Republican, was joined by the Denver mayor, a Democrat, in making the announcement. Can you imagine our AWOL guv doing anything like that?
The closest he’s been to Panther game is clicking past it on the way to re-runs of Hee Haw.
