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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 26479, member: 716"]
This, I think, is where you're wrong. Neither paying for parking nor paying for concessions is necessarily a cost associated with attending a game. There is ample free parking within a 15-minute walk of the Dome, and one doesn't need to buy a $6 beer or $3.50 Dome Dog from the concession stands to attend the game.

These things are superfluities - luxuries, for those who are really struggling to get by - not tied to the cost of getting into the Dome to see a football game. If someone insists upon paying $12 to park at Skytop or dropping $20 on a bite and a beer in the Dome, fine, but inability or unwillingness to do so hasn't got a thing to do with someone's ability to get into the building and watch a football game.

And I think the earlier point still stands - the economy in Central New York is doing fine, especially compared to some areas. The average Central New Yorker is not worse off than the average resident of, say, Gainesville or Tuscaloosa.
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