SkinsFanLarry
Craft Beer Addict!
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Numbers are abstract things. Hard to wrap your head around, fuzzy, vague. You can tell someone the raw stats on Jerry Jones new golden commode of a stadium, throw digits at them all day, and they still might not grasp what $1.15 billion in total costs, 11,520 square feet of video screen on the main board alone, and "expandable up to 100K" means. This, however, is something that can properly convey the grand gluttony of Jones' stadium, and the gargantuan scale the ol' Double-J has built the Cowboys' new palace on:
Tuesday's tour took our group into a suite that can be leased for $800,000 a year - which doesn't include the price of game or event tickets but does offer a large pizza for $90 (no toppings), 12-packs of domestic beer for $66 apiece and a four-pack of Red Bull for $22, among other ridiculously priced items.
You may not gawk at the price tag of the suite, but $90 for a pizza? Pizza is our national soylent green, and at its most affordable may not even be made from actual food ingredients, for all I know. At their most luxurious, a large pizza with tons of prime ingredients costs you 30 dollars--perhaps $35 if you go really crazy with the sun-dried tomatoes and prosciutto. This still leaves a whopping $60 you pay for the privilege of eating it in Jerry Jones' suite, and even more when you start washing it down with seven-dollar domestic beers.
This isn't salesmanship: this is separating fools from their money, a page ripped directly from the PT Barnum playbook. I'm all for it, especially if someone else is buying the pizza.
