ATLANTA -- Greetings from the world's busiest airport, which this evening is very much living up to the name. Hartsfield-Jackson International, as it's officially known, is swarming with people, and my flight to Philadelphia is already delayed. So I have some time to check in with the Drexel fans on here before heading home, and more on that in a moment.
I was lucky enough to snag a chair at a sit-down place a few minutes ago and had some time to collect my thoughts over dinner. The amateur sociologist in me caught snippets of nearby conversations between bites of food, and the discussions seemed to be evenly split between this evening's Iowa Caucuses and the Fiesta Bowl highlights showing on the TV above the bar.
(The sociologist also found it of consequence that all the TVs on the concourse are tuned to CNN, while all the TVs in the bars and restaurants are tuned to ESPN. Not necessarily surprising, but still interesting.)
I'd like to think that what I heard over dinner is a random sampling of what people in general are talking about at the moment, although the pollsters would probably disagree. If nothing else, it was a bunch of people who knew nothing about each other but happened to be sitting in the same place at the same time.
Hey, isn't that how the caucuses work? Maybe we should have this thing take place simultaneously in all the nation's big airports instead of in Iowa. We might even get more participation that way... and that's more than enough politics for this blog.
Oh dear, they're starting to board my flight. Anyway, the main point I was going to make is that I was surprised that the crowd at the DAC was so small. The Drexel crowd on New Year's Eve at the Palestra wasn't that big either.
I had assumed, perhaps incorrectly at this point, that most of the Dragons' fan base was local and would thus be able to make it to those games. But maybe things have changed now.
Alright, time to get out of here.
