Posted on 02/05/2017 8:16:09 AM PST by Kevin in California
I don't see this happening in Foxboro should the Pats win but I do see the potential in Atlanta...win or lose.
If I had a shoe store in downtown Atlanta, I'd already have a UHAUL backed in loading up all my inventory and moving it to a safe sight.
Wait, what about flat screen TV stores? LOL
No kidding. It’ll be a riot.
I think Houston has been tipped off.
Atlanta is not a place to start mayhem either. It isn’t pee in the pants Berkeley.
I was pulling for Atlanta up until the media made it political.
Go Brady!
Read any major work on the Battle of Atlanta.
Confederate forces set fire to stores that they didn’t have transport to move in order to deny it to the Union forces (Standard Operating Procedure!). What’s unclear is if it spread into the city proper. Some historians say it did some say it didn’t, but clearly Sherman’s troops set their own fires also. The likely explanation is both contributed, one deliberately & one accidently.
Some would say the same about life. I hope that isn’t you.
Sherman has more historical markers in the Carolinas than anybody.
Kenmore T-station is closes this afternoon well before kickoff, bars downtown are not allowed to admit anyone after the third quarter, college students are urged to stay on campus. Boston will be interesting tonight, more drunken hijinks than looting, though.
Give free concessions laced with powerful laxatives to the rioters from hot dog carts.
Is that what Yankees tell themselves to make themselves feel better?
Brady & Belichek are great; as a Giants fan, we don’t fear them (and Belichik won 2 Super Bowls with the Giants).
Ceterum autem censeo Atlantam esse delendam.
Vadem Patriotia!
Regardless, the Confederates were acting out of martial necessity, the Union out of malice.
Too costly. Cheaper just to put up a new sign "Public Library". The place won't be touched.
Good Call.
Boston vs Atlanta.
I expect Brady to pull it out. The folks up north will keep their eye out for basketball Jones.
You think it would be wise to leave all that cotton for the Yanks? Fire suppression being what it was in the day, there was certainly a lot of collateral damage from those fires. Read “Sherman’s March. “
You may be right in general but I think New Orleans is one pretty well documented exception. Katrina, etc.
Atlanta has a jail and sometimes they use it.
Really? I thought it was self-evidently sarcasm. I thought maybe times had changed enough, but you’re probably right.
Or “Employment Office.”
Katrina was a joke. Everybody stayed there so they could loot.
Amtrack offered free rides out and the didn’t accept.
The Landrieu family refused federal assistance.
Katrina is not a football team.
Give me your next ridiculous analogy.
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