Hot Dog Hail Mary (Classic)

Planet Money

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4.6 • 30.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The Falcons are trying something radical: Making their food cheaper. It could break stadium economics.

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0:00.0	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:03.4	Hey, it's Nick Fountain.
0:07.9	Normally on Thanksgiving morning, I wake up, fill up a thermos of coffee, get in a cold
0:12.7	car, and drive to football game.
0:15.7	I watch my high school football team go off pack, play arrivals, boo!
0:20.5	No just kidding, I don't really care about who wins the game.
0:23.1	I usually just go and sit with the football band and catch up with my friends.
0:27.8	And if I'm lucky, Mr. Pits lets me hop on snare drum for Louis Louis, or maybe even my
0:33.0	favorite, wipe out.
0:35.2	This year, obviously I did not go to see a football game.
0:39.2	I haven't been to a live sporting event in months, and I miss it, as I'm sure do a bunch
0:44.2	of you.
0:45.2	So today on Planet Money, we're going for a pure nostalgia play.
0:48.6	We're going to play an episode I worked on with reporter T.K.Root back in 2018, all about
0:54.9	live sporting events.
0:56.9	The episode started at Madison Square Garden at a New York Knicks game.
1:00.7	We're there for a little research.
1:03.9	How much is Bud Light?
1:07.5	One Bud Light?
1:09.6	One Bud Light.
1:10.6	One Bud Light.
1:11.6	14 hours.
	...

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