{"id":45608,"date":"2018-01-09T12:59:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T16:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45608"},"modified":"2020-08-05T12:59:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T16:59:33","slug":"oh-atlanta-776","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45608","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Atlanta #776"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Despite the fact that it ended up being an epic game, I\u2019m glad I didn\u2019t go to the National Championship.\u00a0 One, it was simply too fucking expensive<\/a>.\u00a0 Two, with the president coming<\/a> in for it, it would undoubtedly become a bigger shit show than it normally would have been.\u00a0 And three, I simply fucking hate crowds.<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong, I still tried to get tickets from a company give away, but with hopes of winning them, and flipping them for thousands of dollars, to which I could use to spend on some actual home improvements, that\u2019s how much they would\u2019ve commanded.\u00a0 But I had zero intention or interest of going to the National Championship despite the fact that it featured the hometown Georgia Bulldogs and was being played in the heart of College Football Mecca, here in Atlanta.<\/span><\/p>\n

Crowds.\u00a0 Fuck that.\u00a0 I absolutely loathe crowds.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been to two Wrestlemanias and have zero desire to go to another.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been to Falcons games and Braves games, and I have little motivation to go to many more without good reason.\u00a0 It\u2019s a miracle I still bother attending Dragon*Con and it\u2019s nearly 70,000 attendees every year, although afterwards every time I go through a spell of saying I don\u2019t want to do it again.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the National Championship game?\u00a0 Short of Virginia Tech being in it, I can\u2019t say that I\u2019d want to go to one, even if it were literally within walking distance.\u00a0 Articles like this one<\/a> justify all of the reasons why going would have been a terrible idea; from MARTA shitting the bed like expected at the extremely high volumes of attendees, from the presence of the president and the Secret Service adding 50 layers of security to an already abysmal situation, forcing people to wait literally hours outside in the dreary rainy conditions.\u00a0 Without question, I my day would\u2019ve been ruined before even getting to my seat, which for many didn\u2019t happen until the game had already kicked off.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Even those who thought they could outsmart the system and utilize the Atlanta Streetcar to avoid the worst congested parts surrounding the stadium, were rudely awakened, when it turned out that the Streetcar just decided to not run at all<\/a>, on a night where 125,000 people were expected to be in a one square mile radius.\u00a0 This would\u2019ve bit me hard, because I probably would have had the same line of thinking, to park remotely and use an underutilized service like the Streetcar to get to the vicinity.\u00a0 Just another reason why the comfort of my own home, projector and the RealESPNPlayer app was the better idea.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seeing the president get booed out of the building or a college football game that ranks somewhere within the legendary wouldn\u2019t have made it worth the trouble.\u00a0 Despite the fact that I would\u2019ve liked being right about picking Alabama, it wouldn\u2019t have been worth seeing my heart\u2019s choice in Georgia lose in such a gut-wrenching, shocking manner.\u00a0 And then be forced to deal with the mass of humanity all trying to leave the Benz at the exact same time afterwards?\u00a0 Yeah no, fuck that noise, fuck all of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Atlanta might have staged a coup in acquiring the National Championship for 2018, but it\u2019s kind of an appropriate metaphor that they got it, were great at promoting it, but when it came time to actually flex the infrastructure to operate the whole event, they simply fall short.\u00a0 It\u2019s just like UGA and all other teams from Georgia, carrying on such an ironic and unflattering tradition.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite the fact that it ended up being an epic game, I\u2019m glad I didn\u2019t go to the National Championship.\u00a0 One, it was simply too fucking expensive.\u00a0 Two, with the president coming in for it, it would undoubtedly become a bigger shit show than it normally would have been.\u00a0 And three, I simply fucking hate … Continue reading Oh, Atlanta #776<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,120,143,10],"class_list":["post-45608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-fat-people","tag-ohatlanta","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45610,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45608\/revisions\/45610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}