This year, attending the super bowl might be more trouble than it's worth. 2014 marks the first year that the transit system offers mass public transportation to the Meadowlands in New York City for the climax of the NFL's 2013-2014 campaign. The bus route includes 9 locations throughout the metropolitan area in which people will be loaded onto the vehicles and transported to the stadium.
No big deal, right? If people choose to use the public transit they most certainly can: If they want to pay a whopping $51 per person, according to Jay Busbee of Yahoo Sports. That is right, $51 per person for a bus ride that would accumulate to less than an hour of driving one way. If that were not outlandish enough, the NFL has put stranglehold like restrictions on the variety of ways people can commute to the big game.
Yahoo Sports reports that people are not permitted to walk, take a taxi, take a limo or even take a horse to the stadium. The idea is that logistically these forms of commuting are security risks. That's as much as the NFL would speak in regards to the situation. To add fuel to the controversy, if you choose to bring your own car (yes you actually can!) you are not permitted to tailgate: talk about the No Fun League.
Word is circulating through Sports Illustrated and CNN Sports that the direct reason for the abrupt restrictions is so the NFL can make a few extra bucks. Sean Conboy of Sports Illustrated claims that the NFL does not see their fans as people, but rather as a number on a statistical chart.
As the big game draws closer, and more and more people buy their bus tickets and coordinate their transportation schedule, the seat on my couch waiting for me on Sunday never looked better.
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