Indiana

Sports Sunday

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

The man who gave me my first news job back in 1993 once told me, “Abdul we’re all ignorant, just about different things.”  For me that usually applies when talking about something sports-related.   However, I honestly think my ignorance of sports just might be surpassed by the ignorance of the Indiana Pacers and Indianapolis Colts.

It was reported Saturday that the Colts are raising ticket prices for some seats in Lucas Oil Stadium, but these are same people who looked at raising the ticket tax to help cover the Stadium’s operational shortfall like a parent looking at Michael Jackson showing up to babysit.

The Pacers have not shown much better judgment.  Their owners have been pushing the story about how they’ve lost money over the years.  To use another analogy, that’s like the guy who patronizes cheap brothels and and then complains about the STD he got.  The Pacers problems are self-inflicted.  By putting up with so much thuggish behavior for the past 4-5 years, all they did was turn off fan after fan.

The only team I haven’t heard complain too much are the Indianapolis Indians, even though they say any increase in tickets will hurt them.  But even they need to be hit over the head with a whiffle bat for not understanding the mood of the public.

This is pretty simple folks, if I were a professional Indianapolis sports team, I’d stop the posturing and start making concessions.  The public is not in the mood for it, and if you threaten to leave, a good chunk of the people would not care and would probably come down and help you pack, and in this economic climate right now, who’s got the cash to take you anyway?

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on February 15, 2009 (boomark / email).