Not since George Costanza has someone had a summer schedule like this.
The Summer of Greg [Olsen] continued this weekend after the Carolina Panthers' tight end scored seats to what Michelle Obama recently called "the hardest ticket to get on the planet."
Olsen's past few months have included a cameo on Comedy Central and once-in-a-lifetime experiences on the golf course and at the race track. But three days after seeing Hamilton, he was still gushing about the hit Broadway musical.
"Everything you've heard about it - and you go in with unbelievably high expectations - it was as good, if not better," Olsen said Tuesday after the Panthers' wrapped up their first OTA session of the week.
"I had seen clips of it on shows and kind of knew what to expect, but it just blows you away. Those people are unbelievably talented. I’ve seen a lot of Broadway shows and I like them, but this was amazing."
Along with their wives, Olsen and center Ryan Kalil saw the show Saturday night during a quick, two-day trip to New York. The Panther pair then wound up in a post-performance photo tweeted by Hamilton's creator and star, Lin-Manuel Miranda:
3 out of 4 of these guys play sportsball. 1 plays Zelda. pic.twitter.com/Dihkehwd3i
— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) May 29, 2016
Yes, the fourth "sportsballer" is L.A. Clippers forward Blake Griffin.
Because Hamilton is such a tough ticket, there are really only two ways to get in. You either know someone who knows someone who knows someone. Or you splurge.
"You aren’t getting tickets to that. You’re buying them and you're earning them. We went on TicketMaster and got our tickets," said Olsen, without revealing just how much he had to shell out.
"Worth every penny. It was one of the greatest experiences I’ve ever had."
And in the Summer of Greg, it was a nice step up from this last year:
Enjoying @taylorswift13 with my guy @ryankalil... and our families! Haha pic.twitter.com/xDKK4Sm5w4
— Greg Olsen (@gregolsen88) June 9, 2015
People shouldn’t get their history knowledge from a musical. Alexander Hamilton was a greater trator to this nation than Benedict Arnold, only exceeded by Vice President Aaron Burr (who conspired to steal the Louisiana Purchase, the US states and terrorities west of the Appalachian Mountains, and Texas from Mexico, forming his own kingdom), and his co-conspiriator Gen. Wilkerson (who wasn’t caught). Aaron Burr performed one of the greatest survices to the USA in history, when he killed Hamilton in a duel, ridding the still infant nation of venimus viper at it’s very heart.
(1) During the Revolutionary War, Hamilton (as a young Captain) was one of Gen. Washington’s aids, invagaling his way into Washington’s total trust to such an extent, that upon Washington’s 1st election to the Presidency, he was appointed Sec. of the Treasury. He used Washington’s trust to become the “power behind the President”, virtually running the government by suggestion by the end of Washington’s 2nd tern, and he skeemed to maintain that power.
(2) Hamilton was a totally corrupt 21st Century style politician. He was given great credit for putting the USA on a firm financial footing as the Sec. of the Treasury, until the truth behind it was discovered. He did it by assuming the states debts, honoring all debts of the Contentinal Congress, land grants owed to the veterans of the Revolutionary War, and the worthless Contentintal currency, but only after he and his businness parterners had purchassed all this worthless paper at next to nothing, only to redeam it at full face value, thus robbing the war veterans and the nation.
(3) Hamilton (though the musical presents him as being anti-slavery) conspired to uverthrow the duely elected US President, during the Electorial College’s voting, after President Washington left office, He conspired to substitute Gen. Pinkney (a slave owner) of South Carolina (the chief slave owning state at the time), for the duely elected President, but fortunately he failed.
(4) Valuable insight into Hamilton’s true character was revealed one evening, at a dinner with John Adams (2nd President) and Thomas Jefferson (3rd President), when they were discussing the best form of government. Adams and Jefferson said that it was our (USA) own systerm of government, but Hamiltom said that, “No, it’s the British Monarchy and Parlament”. Jefferson and Adams were shocked, but Adams extemded an olive branch, that “Yes, that might be true, if it were purged of it’s corruption”. Where upon Hamiltion said, “No, no, no, corruption is the very thing that makes their system of government work”. From that moment on, Jefferson was the eternal enemy of Hamilton.
(5) Many may now think it a small thing, but Hamilton also cheated on his wife, the daughter of Gen. Schuyler (a very prominate New York statesman, and large land owner). The object of his affair was also married, and her husband offered to sale Hamilton the use of his wife, and it eventually erupted into a public scandle.
You need to learn how to spell “aides” and “inveigling.” I stopped reading after that. Your ignorance disqualifies whatever you wrote.