Quite a weekend to be in Indianapolis, and it was an interesting night to say the least. After the Colts prevailed, the city celebrated. And while I only saw it on TV (it was below zero wind-chill), I’ve never seen anything like it. A traffic jam at 11 pm over a mile long leading to downtown… People climbing in the circle monument… Stores opening for a few hours to sell shirts (some waited 2 hours in line just to pay for the shirts)… Schools delaying the start or even closing… Businesses closing… The reactions to this football game are much more drastic than the announcements of armed conflict / war that I’ve been alive for.
I’m still processing it all. There’s a parade this afternoon and a rally in the dome, but I’m not going for a few reasons… One is that it’s before I get off work… and then because the parade will be players inside buses due to the frigid conditions (My car said -2 this morning when I arrived at work)… If Indianapolis had better parking facilities, I’d go… I’m more interested in taking pictures of the fanatical nature of my fellow citizens than cheer on the Colts. Sure, I’ve really enjoyed the past month and am very glad they won… But it’s just a game. They won… The season is over… Celebrate some, but I’m starting to be more interested to see the proposed national budget at this point. $2.9 trillion and a fistful of CO2?
2 Comments
1 Rikki wrote:
If you got some good pictures of the ribald celebration excesses, please post. I hope everyone involved enjoyed every blessed minute of it. Now, if only I could get involved in some of that “partnershipping” Jim Irsay kept talking about, maybe I could have some of the magic rub off a bit ….
2 B wrote:
even though we were content with gourmet food from many sources, there were no pictures during the festivities in Charmwood… In fact there had to be a few rules due to poor behavior of some in attendance (i.e. no cell phone call in the football/commercial viewing room)…
And I have not seen any local pictures of the celebrations that evening downtown… All the local photographers were in Miami I guess. I can tell you that an hour after the game, south-boud traffic trying to get to the circle was backed up bumper to bumper past 13th street (it’ was something like 4 outside with a -15 wind chill also). Washington St. was closed, as was part of Market and the circle given some time to clear it…