New York isn't tough, it's entitled

This city supposedly doesn't sleep. Its fans, however, are getting dangerously close to weeping over its suddenly fallow sports fortunes.

Good morning and greetings from the city that can’t get over itself.

It has been a bit since the Seahawks have played here, six years to be precise so I thought — as a current resident of Gotham — I might give you a lay of the land so to speak. Don’t worry, things have dried out after last Friday’s flooding. In fact, it’s downright balmy today and should be an incredibly lovely evening for football.

People here feel a bit down about their sports teams, though. If I didn’t know better, I might think they were whining, but I’ve been told repeatedly what a demanding and tough city this is when it comes to sports so there’s no way that could happen, right?

And yet there it was in the pages of that most august of publications, the New York Times:

That sounded like at least a sniffle to me.

Things have not improved in the three weeks since Aaron Rodgers suffered a torn Achilles tendon. In fact, this city that prides itself on its high standards was dangerously close to celebrating a moral victory after Sunday night’s loss to the Chiefs because Zach Wilson played well.

All of this feeds into my working theory about this city’s sports consciousness, which is that New York isn’t tough so much as it is spoiled.