Philadelphia is officially out of contention for the 2016 Summer Olympics. This comes as no surprise to me. A while back each potential city sent a representative to sell their city to the committee. Every city sent their mayor except for one, Philadelphia chose not to send Mr. John 'Fantastic Mayor' Street. (Not a big fan of this guy!)

Our location is quite right, proximity to New York City (whose infrastructure doesn't seem like it can handle an event like this), our hotels, our non-sporting attractions, and transportation. You can take rail through all of the suburbs, to and from the airport, within the city, and all the way to New York or Atlantic City. I'm sure the infrastructure upgrades that we would get would make it even better. I wouldn't really mind living with them afterwards either.

Hopefully the city can get it for 2020, but by then I'll be a ripe old 36. Will I even have the desire to do anything when I become that old?

Update: Houston 2016 Olympic Dream is Dead…Again: here is the scoop from another town to get cut alongside Philly.