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Could the New York Sports Teams Step Up for the Community -- Just Once?
Posted on Saturday, July 26 @ 11:53:48 EDT by jfbailey
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WPCNR VIEW FROM THE UPPER DECK. By Bull Allen. July 26, 2008: It’s been two weeks now since Mount Vernon football, basketball, baseball, track and all their other teams, learned that there will be no sports this year unless the $1.2 Million to run the sports program is raised privately.
Where are the New York megafranchises when you need them?
Yankee Stadium 1956
No More Mount Vernon-White Plains Classics?
It's Up to the Big Leagues to Act Big League.
RACING FOR THE WINNING TD: Brian Mix leaves the Tigers behind ih a 2005 football classic, in Old Parker Stadium, won by Mount Vernon, 38-32. Mix breaks out of the backfield on a trap, uses speed to get outside and is about to head into the endzone for the Winning 6 to end the second overtime.
They love celebrity golf tournaments and toys for tots drives – which cost them nothing. But – help young athletes who have been betrayed by school district mismanagement? Forget about it.
The New York Giants and Jets are building a new stadium. The Mets and Yankees are each building new stadiums. The Yankees are even getting a train station built for them. The Nets are getting a new arena in Brooklyn. The Devils have a new arena in Newark.
Madison Square Garden (Cablevision-owned) mints money at the Garden and has delivered underachieving (out in the first round, or bad intramural playground basketball for 12 years).
Where are these teams that ripoff the public with “mediocrity for more” (Giants excepted, but wait until they play the varsity schedule this year) ?
The Jets signed an untried player yester for $30 Million for 5 years. Come on. The Jets throwing around that kind of money – and they and the Giants can’t write Mount Vernon a $1.2 Million between them – before it’s too late?
The Giants are selling Season Seat Licenses -- a disguised price increase.
The Steinbrenners, the Wilpons (who are very generous) could step up. Considering the money thrown at those two clubs for their stadiums (part of which they are paying for) But the football teams should.
Denzel Washington did.
The fact that none of New York’s sports teams has is a disgrace.
That Madison Square Garden isn’t even renting their ice to local hockey, figure skating and synchronized skating teams over in Greenburgh is another disgrace.
Fans should think twice before renewing season’s tickets and instead send the money to the Mount Vernon Educational Foundation Inc., P.O. Box 476, Fleetwood Station, Mount Vernon, NY 10552, write “Sports” on the memo section of the check.
Why should any fan care about all these sports clubs any more? They like nothing better than championing organized causes, they portrays them as “good citizens,” but – a simple act of contributing just a little to the community without expectation of getting something back is beneath them?
For that matter the National Football League, the NBA, and Major League Baseball itself could step up with a Million-‘Five. Considering the cost of the Super Bowl Party alone – a bacchanal of sickening proportions – the NFL should dig deep and be the first to step up.
Where’s a big play when you need one?
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