Carpenter: Indy existed before Super Bowl
Dan Carpenter of the Indianapolis Star reminds us that although the city has basked in the glow of an incredibly complimentary media, it's not as if Indianapolis didn't exist before this game:
Since long before this current craziness, we have been an occupied city. The big stores, the utility companies, the factories, the mass media are mostly controlled from elsewhere, and a good many of today's movers and shakers are outsiders as well.
We're not good enough for them. Well, we're not good enough for me, either. I won't pretend we ever were the tolerant, entrepreneurial, educated metropolis we should aspire to be.
But we were not a backwater waiting for pro football and Sunday booze to pull us up by our bib overall straps.
That this stereotype has been embraced, either through ignorance or by design, is itself an indictment of the image- and opinion-makers who claim to know what's best for us when they barely bother to learn what's good about us.
It's quite a read.
Fair enough, but the worst thing Indy can be is a second-tier city that's bitter about its lot in life.
Hoosiers have every right to share Carpenter's sentiments, but I hope we don't. "You know, we've always been here" can be said cheerfully with a smile.
You're right! That stereotype fits right here, with me, down in Flaw-ree-da! Heyuck! It's so hot down here, tarnation! Izzat a funnel cloud headin for me Mobile Home? Geeeshaw!
(it's hard living down here. I am so alone.)
@buymymonkey It is too hot down here! I hate having to use my A/C in the 'winter' months. Really missing Indy this week, I've been reading every little snippet about the Super-week hosting and looking at every picture. Makes me more homesick that usual.
@_Relic_@buymymonkey Ahhh.. home sweet home. This Florida winter really did make me miss a good old Indiana winter... And the Superbowl being there didn't make it any easier! haha
