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Spin Control

Condon on MSNBC, talks Super Bowl and Cougar Gold cheese

Spokane Mayor David Condon appeared on the MSNBC show Sports Matters to discuss the Seahawks, the Super Bowl and Spokane's pride in the team from the other side of the state. Condon appears about four minutes in:

Condon was on the show with Mayor Rodney Elliott from Lowell, Massachusetts, who desperately tried to not talk about "deflate-gate" by bringing up the massive storm his part of the country is suffering through. 

"It's all a bunch of nonsense," Elliott said about the pigskin-pressure controversy.

Rob Simmelkjaer, the show's host, then got the mayors to place a friendly wager for the Super Bowl. Condon said we had plenty to wager from the Evergreen state, but settled on Cougar Gold cheese. 

"I've got a whole wagon full of items to wager," Condon boasted.

And if the 'Hawks lose, apparently we'll get a bunch of clam chowder, because Lowell's in Massachusetts and that's all they eat. Yet another reason why Seattle should win.



Nicholas Deshais
Joined The Spokesman-Review in 2013. He is the urban issues reporter, covering transportation, housing, development and other issues affecting the city. He also writes the Getting There transportation column and The Dirt, a roundup of construction projects, new businesses and expansions. He previously covered Spokane City Hall.

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