In today's Ft. Worth Star-Telegram I read that it will cost $40 to park at the new Dallas Cowboy stadium in Arlington. I checked on the internet, and it appears that the cheapest seats for regular season Cowboy games cost about $100. And, at the game a coke costs $7. There haven't been any games played in the new stadium yet, but apparently it is expected that 80,000 people will show up for the games. It appears that for a family of four it will cost over $500 to attend a Dallas Cowboy game (and much more if they sit in the better seats). A game that can be watched and seen better on free TV at home. I hear political commentators on TV say that the nation is now in a depression that is as bad as during the 1930's. That talk causes me to have a cognitive disconnect since I remember the depression of the 1930's and people couldn't have spent $5 to take their family to a ballgame. And, there was no TV on which to watch for free. If the country is in such terrible shape now, with people unable to pay their bills, how can families be spending so much money to go to a ball game?