There’s a time-honored custom that when a metropolis’s sports activities groups are within the playoffs, the mayor reaches out to their counterpart within the opposing area, and the 2 place a pleasant wager on the end result.
With the Knicks and Rangers each gearing up for postseason runs in opposition to the 76ers and Capitals, respectively, NYC Mayor Eric Adams was requested throughout an look Thursday on “Evan and Tiki” on WFAN if he had made any bets with the mayors of Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
Adams, who was on the WFAN radio present to advertise NYCFC’s new soccer-specific stadium in Queens that was accepted by the town council final week, mentioned he hadn’t set something in stone but concerning the wager.
However he mentioned that since co-host Tiki Barber had introduced it up, he’d attain out to Philadelphia’s Cherelle Parker and D.C.’s Muriel Bowser.
“I like that. You recognize what we didn’t do a wager but,” Hizzoner responded to Barber’s query. “However, I’m going to succeed in out to them at present and say, ‘Hear, Tikki advised me to make a wager.’
“I’m going to make a wager, perhaps I give them a vegan cheesecake or one thing like that.”
The mayor’s suggestion didn’t sit properly with co-host Evan Roberts, who appeared to groan on the considered placing a vegan cheesecake on the road.
“A vegan cheesecake, oh my goodness,” Roberts responded whereas Adams and Barber have been laughing. “What are we, punishing them?”
A vegan cheesecake was on the road final 12 months as properly when the Giants confronted the Eagles within the playoffs.
Amongst a number of the earlier sports-related wagers made by New York mayors, Invoice de Blasio wager then-Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in 2014 that the loser needed to sing the opposite metropolis’s tune on “Jimmy Kimmel Reside” when the Rangers and Kings performed within the Stanley Cup Last.
In 2001, Rudy Giuliani needed to ship Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley a bevy of New York delicacies, together with a case of Brooklyn Lager and two dozen blended knishes, after the Giants have been defeated within the Tremendous Bowl by the Ravens.
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