Comments on Advance Indiana™: Ballard Taking 30-Member Team On Junket To Super Bowl

Most folks will not plan week-long trips to Indian...

2010-01-28T21:46:22.348-05:00

Most folks will not plan week-long trips to Indianapolis like they do when the Super Bowl is in a warm weather city like Miami. People will fly in on Friday or Saturday and head out on the first flight Monday. The plan is to create a green zone downtown. Blocks of the downtown area will be blocked off for credentialed attendees and not accessible to the general public. There will be many heated temporary enclosures within the closed off streets as I understand it. Essentially, if you aren't attending the Super Bowl or have a special invitation to one of the parties, you will be on the outside looking in.

You guys are on the right track. Indy will regret ...

2010-01-28T18:56:46.704-05:00

You guys are on the right track. Indy will regret putting itself on a national stage. Indy will be humiliated by the criticism it receives from the national and world media.

It was the dam silliest thing for Indy to put that stadium downtown, as it kills the downtown. In Indy, there's nowhere to go. In most cities, you can go downtown, which is kinda businessy, and you can head for a bunch of cool neighborhoods or waterfront areas.

In Indy, there's a tiny and boring downtown that's going to be cold, and there's what else? The two blocks of Broad Ripple would be invisible in any other city.

Look for visitors to say "we can always go to [Cincy or Chicago]."

If they held the Super Bowl in Miami, every year, few would mind.

Melyssa, That's actually one of my concerns...

2010-01-28T11:09:01.799-05:00

Melyssa,

That's actually one of my concerns. Come 2012, eyes will be on Indianapolis. It'll only take one reporter to wander a few blocks away from LOS to see how our city really is. I can easily think of a dozen or so abandoned buildings in the downtown area.

So more of my tax dollars have to pay for football...

2010-01-28T10:23:24.509-05:00

So more of my tax dollars have to pay for football when my city is rotting with more than 15,000 abandoned homes?

Perhaps people need to picket the city during the Super Bowl in front of the world's television cameras with signs that point to the fact that within mere blocks of the grand Ir$ay Gladitorium our city is in decay.

Isn't travel abuse a hallmark of Republican go...

2010-01-28T06:56:45.548-05:00

Isn't travel abuse a hallmark of Republican governmental employees?

Recall Heather Bolejack, Silvia Miller (now at Corporation Counsel), and the rest of the retinue at Indiana Criminal Justice Institute that got stung for excessive travel.

And they have yet to start on the practice facilit...

2010-01-27T21:35:18.364-05:00

And they have yet to start on the practice facility, I believe.

There was a story on one of the local newscasts last week about projects that were laid out by the NFL but are behind schedule or not started.

Let the good times roll !

2010-01-27T17:58:58.615-05:00

Let the good times roll !