Bread and Circus

Texas is a football mad state where thousands of people pay on a Friday night to watch a high school football game. The Houston Oilers were well-supported there until they alienated a sports loving city and the fan base that backed them for decades. They came to Tennessee where it appears they will ultimately do the same thing. The Titans organization demands and has been granted a huge windfall in public funding while not really even making an effort to retain the beloved stars of the team, the ones likely to have produced a more competitive team had they been re-signed. The now Titans just let one of the best running backs in NFL history Derrick Henry go, and he will be replaced with a player who is a good but not exceptional professional player. I have come to the conclusion that the team will gladly take our bread (money), but it will be their circus.