Fred588 wrote:Be careful. With all the alcohol likely to be consumed, things like that can erupt pretty quickly.
Duncan Edwards wrote:If, and I realize it's a substantial "if", we win in Pittsburgh, the crazy will reach most way to Heaven on Sunday night. The major music festival of the year begins here that night too. Downtown is going to be epic off the charts.
And my woman and I will be right in the middle of it.
Fortunately the arena is located in an area that is door to door with honky-tonks and taverns. Anchored on the corner by
Tootsie's Orchid Lounge which, despite it's modest appearance, seems able to hold about 38,000 people at once on busy days and was here before Native Americans arrived. Drinking is not permitted outside and everyone has a convenient spot to fall down.
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Things have changed a lot over the decades but Nashville is still Nashville. Sort of. An indication of which might be that in a crowd of 50,000 revelers on Sunday night there were six arrests for punk in drublic. That equals the number of arrests for attempting to sell counterfeit tickets and they were all foreigners from New York and such places. They should know that nobody here is going to trust a damnyankee to make a deal no matter how drunk they are.
The ever-vigilant MNPD did make some changes last night when it was realized that there were three times as many people outside the arena blocking the exits as were inside. The downtown amphitheater was opened and several thousand made their way in there. It was much more orderly last night. Everyone is kind of aware of their surroundings if you know what I mean after the evil in London. My biggest fear is that any incident would turn lower Broadway into the largest shooting gallery since Beirut. The CMT Musicfest, always a big draw, is scheduled for the same area at the same time as game 6. That might turn into a crises as hooch runs low. The city fathers are contemplating a pipeline from Lynchburg.
In all seriousness it is an area I have known well since my youth and you know I will be one of as many as five completely sober people there. Should be great fun. Great practice for our next SuperBowl party in a couple of years.
Can you get enough Jack Daniels in the Stanley Cup for 100,000 people to have a taste?