{"id":3126,"date":"2008-02-05T09:46:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T14:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/decline_and_fall_of_the_empire_state.html"},"modified":"2008-02-05T09:46:32","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T14:46:32","slug":"decline_and_fall_of_the_empire_state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/decline_and_fall_of_the_empire_state.html","title":{"rendered":"Decline And Fall Of The Empire State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The end is near <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/05\/nyregion\/05champ.html?ex=1359954000&#038;en=2409bd670aee2993&#038;ei=5124&#038;partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\">when New Yorkers start embracing the underdog role<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In this town, a sports championship usually consists of the Yankees winning in October. Which is to say, another year to hang on the stadium walls, another ticker-tape parade.<\/p>\n<p>Yet no matter how good such victories may feel &#8212; and it&#8217;s getting somewhat harder to remember &#8212; Yankee championships have always felt a bit more like the divine right of a king than the conquest of a warrior; a bit more about the payrolls than the putouts; and, when you really get down to it, a bit more of the same.<\/p>\n<p>Not so the Giants&#8217; stunning win in the Super Bowl on Sunday night, a victory that actually felt victorious. In the unfamiliar role of the underdog, New Yorkers finally had a chance to savor the sweet taste of a triumph that wasn&#8217;t only unexpected but was utterly deserved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The wine tastes better when you think the cup is full of coffee,&#8221; said Paul Majors, a superintendent from the Bronx who stepped onto a downtown No. 2 train Monday morning in an Eli Manning jersey and a dark blue Giants cap. By Mr. Majors&#8217;s lights, the great enjoyment of the game revolved around a single word: &#8220;surprise.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end is near when New Yorkers start embracing the underdog role: In this town, a sports championship usually consists of the Yankees winning in October. Which is to say, another year to hang on the stadium walls, another ticker-tape parade. Yet no matter how good such victories may feel &#8212; and it&#8217;s getting somewhat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simply_the_best_better_than_all_the_rest","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}