As a long suffering Philadelphia sports fan, I was
heartened by the recent Super Bowl victory. We had long been pilloried from the outside - insulted by Howard Cosell from the broadcast booth and criticized for throwing snowballs at Santa Claus. So just as we were basking in the sunlight we read in the NY Times of "a man wearing a Phillies cap broke off and stole the thumb of a statue at the Franklin Institute of a terra cotta warrior made in China 2000 years ago". This didn't read well in Beijing and bringing shame throughout the neighborhood enclaves of Philly. So let's extend a collective middle finger to the dumb crumb who stole the thumb.
tjs
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