Tuesday, June 20, 2006
The Hot Dog
Great places to watch sporting events not only have great teams playing in them, but also cater to the fans and make the experience of game day more exciting. Minute Maid Park in Houston has a big glorious train ride around part of the stadium when a home run gets hit. In St. Louis, a town so rich in baseball history, they built their stadium next to the St. Louis arc so the fans can see it at the ball game. At Miller Park in Milwaukee, we get four random people to dress up like sausages and run around the field in the 7th inning.
It’s true that on the list of the 100 exciting things to watch in life, the sausage race has to be towards the top. The bottom of the list is: 98- Olympic curling 99- NASCAR “pre game” shows 100 – any NASCAR race. For one and a half minutes every home game, we truly believe these sausages are real and are racing for our heritage. There’s nothing like a big drunk guy with his shirt off holding two fingers up for his sausage of choice, the Polish. The other sausages are 1- Bratwurst, 3 – Italian 4-Hot Dog. Brett Favre isn’t the only number 4 causing controversy as of late.
There is much debate in the sports world about if the hot dog is really a sausage and if it belongs in the race. So in this article, Brian’s Sports Report wants to focus on “The Hot Dog”.
According to http://www.worldwideworlds.com/, the hot dog was first sold by Harry Stevens at New York’s Polo grounds outside of Giants stadium. It was named by a cartoonist by the name of T.A Dorgan, who nick named it a hot dog because he couldn’t spell frankfurter (and I thought I had a hard enough time spelling tomarrow).
The hot dog is under speculation as of late as many fans ask the question: Does the hot dog belong in the sausage race? The answer my friends is yes. Yes the hot dog is an expansion sausage and was added recently within the past 10 years, but at one point the Brewers were an expansion team in the mid 1900’s. Us polish, Italian and German kids are lucky in that we have a sausage to cheer for at Miller Park every time they walk out of the gate. But let me ask you a question, how would you feel if you were African American or Latino? That’s right, you’d feel great because you’d have more natural dancing abilities than any white person, but you’d feel really bad because you don’t have a sausage to cheer for.
Regardless of whether the hot dog is actually a “sausage” or not does not concern me. What does though is the lack of respect for a hot dog that people have. African American’s, Chinese people and aliens from other planets now have a sausage they can cheer for. The hot dog not only symbolizes what’s great about the ballpark but what is great about America. Picture a small Chinese man cheering for the polish sausage. It’s just one of those things that don’t work, kind of like the endless sequels to Friday the 13th.
I say give the foreigners someone to cheer for! Give these people a sausage that they can call their own. A sausage that represents what our ancestors had to go through to make this country great. A sausage that shows we care about more people than just Polish, Italian and German folks. America is a beautiful….and so is Jessica Alba.
It’s true that on the list of the 100 exciting things to watch in life, the sausage race has to be towards the top. The bottom of the list is: 98- Olympic curling 99- NASCAR “pre game” shows 100 – any NASCAR race. For one and a half minutes every home game, we truly believe these sausages are real and are racing for our heritage. There’s nothing like a big drunk guy with his shirt off holding two fingers up for his sausage of choice, the Polish. The other sausages are 1- Bratwurst, 3 – Italian 4-Hot Dog. Brett Favre isn’t the only number 4 causing controversy as of late.
There is much debate in the sports world about if the hot dog is really a sausage and if it belongs in the race. So in this article, Brian’s Sports Report wants to focus on “The Hot Dog”.
According to http://www.worldwideworlds.com/, the hot dog was first sold by Harry Stevens at New York’s Polo grounds outside of Giants stadium. It was named by a cartoonist by the name of T.A Dorgan, who nick named it a hot dog because he couldn’t spell frankfurter (and I thought I had a hard enough time spelling tomarrow).
The hot dog is under speculation as of late as many fans ask the question: Does the hot dog belong in the sausage race? The answer my friends is yes. Yes the hot dog is an expansion sausage and was added recently within the past 10 years, but at one point the Brewers were an expansion team in the mid 1900’s. Us polish, Italian and German kids are lucky in that we have a sausage to cheer for at Miller Park every time they walk out of the gate. But let me ask you a question, how would you feel if you were African American or Latino? That’s right, you’d feel great because you’d have more natural dancing abilities than any white person, but you’d feel really bad because you don’t have a sausage to cheer for.
Regardless of whether the hot dog is actually a “sausage” or not does not concern me. What does though is the lack of respect for a hot dog that people have. African American’s, Chinese people and aliens from other planets now have a sausage they can cheer for. The hot dog not only symbolizes what’s great about the ballpark but what is great about America. Picture a small Chinese man cheering for the polish sausage. It’s just one of those things that don’t work, kind of like the endless sequels to Friday the 13th.
I say give the foreigners someone to cheer for! Give these people a sausage that they can call their own. A sausage that represents what our ancestors had to go through to make this country great. A sausage that shows we care about more people than just Polish, Italian and German folks. America is a beautiful….and so is Jessica Alba.
