There was an interesting story a couple of weeks ago about a 12-year boy, Cade Pope, who wrote the owner of each NFL team asking them one simple question:
“Why should I root for your team?”
Took a lot of initiative on his part, but very little initiative was made by the league’s 32 owners as only one, Jerry Richardson of the Carolina Panthers replied, and with it sent an autographed helmet of Luke Kuechly.
Richardson wrote he would be “honored if the Carolina Panthers became your team.’’ And his letter was handwritten, by the way.
Of course, this got me thinking, what if Fred Wilpon were to get such a letter? How about Jeff Wilpon? What would their reply be?
What would they say to some 12-year old kid without a team to root for? What would be their magic words to make him a Met fans for life?
