On Friday, Bruce Springsteen played in the Baltimore Arena. It became quite an event. Local newscasts all did multiple stories about it. The story generally revolved around how Springsteen hadn’t been to Baltimore since 1973 when he opened for the band Chicago. In his own words about that night in 1973, “some guy said,’we didn’t come here to see you.” After that, and possibly because of that, he never came back. Baltimore is the kind of town that would easily keep a grudge going after being shunned like that. (in spite of the fact that they threw the first punch) However, the town decided instead to welcome him. WNST, the local sports station that hands out these purple banners at Ravens games usually with “Wacko for Flacco,” or some other phrase like that, even printed up Bruce banners and handed them out on the streets.
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1 shelly // Nov 23, 2009 at 12:21 PM
Yay =)
That DOES look suspiciously like the Flacco sign:
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t64/pagefivegirl/flacco.jpg
(Please disregard my tacky cube wall.)
2 Marjy // Nov 23, 2009 at 2:17 PM
OMG, I think I was at that Chicago concert in ’73! Springsteen opened???
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