Long before NYPD officers talked about 250s, the act of an officer stopping a civilian on the street and patting him down was known as a “Terry stop.” In 1968, the Supreme Court ruled in Terry v. Ohio that a police officer could stop and frisk someone on the street even if he had no probable cause to arrest him; all cops needed was “reasonable suspicion” of criminal activity. In New York City, controversy over this police tactic erupted in 1999 after four officers trying to stop a man in the Bronx wound up firing at him 41 times. The killing of 23-year-old Amadou Diallo, an unarmed immigrant from Guinea, transformed stop-and-frisk into a political issue.

We were somewhere among the back half of the crowd watching Macklemore when the girl in front of us, who had been screaming something and proudly holding her beer aloft while standing up on the wobbly, thin fabric center of one of those fold-up canvas deck chairs, went down like a brick.

The chair had buckled below her. A guy nearby, wearing a white tee that bore an American flag and the text “Back to back world war champs,” tapped his friend, pointed at the girl on her face in the grass, and said, “Sweet!”

Two days earlier I had been sitting in my office, clean and sober, dignity intact, when a buddy of mine emailed me to say we should go to the Preakness on Saturday. I told him it was pretty late notice to decide, on Thursday, to head to Baltimore on Friday night, and that I had basically promised someone I’d go to a graduation party in New Jersey on Saturday.

“That sounds pretty lame,” he wrote back. “I should remind you, there will be over 125k drunk people in the infield. That’s at least 50k booties in jean shorts. Beers are 2 bucks.”

Here on EOS, we covered the many reasons why New York City F.C. spells the end of the Flushing Meadows Park initiative and also gave reaction from both the New York Cosmos and the Red Bulls.

Here are a few more links to go with your morning coffee:

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The Daily News says

New York is once again ready for professional soccer.
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Dana Rubenstein at Capital New York expands on

why Flushing is now a non-starter

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New York Times –

A team is born, but not all cheer.
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Also in the Times, Jack Bell does a masterful job of

tracking Ferran Soriano, the Manchester City executive who has pursued New York for years.
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Over on Soccer by Ives,

Don Garber reassures that New York City FC will be a good thing

for the Red Bulls as well.

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Filip Bondy gives his two-cents,

saying New York City F.C. needs to truly be “Major League.”