Mayor Ed Lee and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg have made a bet over which city's team will be heading to the Super Bowl (Lee sends over sourdough or Bloomberg ships bagels), and by now you've probably made plans to watch (or ignore) Sunday's brawl at Candlestick between the San Francisco 49ers and the New York Giants. Now is also when the trash talk starts heating up--like New Yorkers calling us wimps.
"Ten reasons to never fear 49ers fans," an article in the New York Daily News by columnist Filip Bondy, argues that we're push-overs with delicate constitutions, in part due to our mild weather and our seafood-heavy diets. Of course most of the list is positive--positive reasons for why we wouldn't live anywhere else, and especially not New York. Sure, we think too much, so we try to legislate Happy Meals and kids' junk food consumption and naked derrieres sitting in public. Our median income is relatively high (though that's because rent is).
Bondy's analysis even draws upon history. Reason #5 notes that the colonists came to settle in New York "because they hated Europe. They were already angry. When settlers came to San Francisco, they arrived for the gold. They were just trying to make more money so their descendants could afford season tickets."
Peek at the list, and see if your San Francisco pride swells, too. Hey, perhaps we should thank Bondy for recognizing how wonderfully soft we are. But we're not conceding that the 49ers are (not yet, anyway).
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