two and a half hours before college football’s national-championship game in Atlanta last night, between the University of Georgia Bulldogs and Alabama’s Crimson Tide, a frigid rain fell on a small group that gathered near the stadium. Jack Turner, a thirty-one-year-old organizer in a green raincoat and a beanie, spoke earnestly about the threat posed by President Donald Trump. He was joined by about three dozen protesters, who held signs and called out anti-Trump slogans as some of the seventy-seven thousand people with tickets to the game filed by.
Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium sits in a district represented by John Lewis that Trump, on Twitter last year, described as “in horrible shape and falling apart (not to . . . mention crime infested).” The ticket holders did not look worried. On StubHub, which temporarily crashed last week when fans rushed to buy tickets, the cheapest seats were reportedly going for $2,480 at first offer, while a game suite sold for $94,000. In Alabama and Georgia, they say that football is at least as important as religion and more dignified than politics. In the special election for Jeff Sessions’s former Senate seat, won by the Democrat Doug Jones, last month, Alabama’s football coach, Nick Saban, finished with four hundred and twenty-six write-in votes—just ahead of Sessions.
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