Let’s keep this in perspective –the NYC riots after the Knicks clinched the NBA title probably cost less than $5 million.

Photo above - Smells like Team Spirit ! Clean cut Brazil world cup fans refuse to riot after their tie to lowly Morocco on Saturday. Inset - NYC Mayor Mamdani - apparently wearing Morocco soccer fan gear - attends the match with Governor Hochul.

Let’s keep this in perspective –the NYC riots after the Knicks clinched the NBA title probably cost less than $5 million. And Thursdays “Canyon of Heros” parade will probably be under $10 million. The city dodged a bullet. Maybe several?

Attendance at the upcoming Knicks ticker tape parade is expected to rival - if not surpass - similar celebrations involving the Apollo 11 astronauts, the end of World War II, and the annual Puerto Rican day parade. (see links below)

I love New York.

Let’s agree that Saturday’s irrational Knicks' exuberance could have been predicted. The team hadn’t won a title in over 50 years. And city buses – both transit buses and school buses – DO make attractive targets for rioters. Those things aren’t as expensive you might expect though. School buses only cost $90-$130,000 each. MTA diesel hybrid buses are closer to $800,000. And there’s cost of police overtime, arresting dozens of rioters, arraignment, bail hearings, and subsequent trials. Those are only a rounding error in NYC's budget. Stop looking for the downside. We won!!

A few hours earlier NYC Mayor Mamdani and Governor Hochul attended the Brazil/Morocco World Cup match. At the Met Life Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. Mamdani and Hochul were photographed alone/together, sans spouses. No inference of hank-panky however. This was simply a photo op in case anyone wants to run for higher office. (I’m not making this up, I swear).

Brazil tied Morocco 1-1. No riots broke out, despite tens of thousands of Brazilians in attendance, and their disappointment at failing to prevail over a demonstrably inferior team from a nation one tenth their size.

No riots. There’s probably a message here, if we stop to think about it.

I’m just sayin’ . . .




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List of ticker-tape parades in New York City - Wikipedia