The non-profit foundation that sponsored the North Carolina A & T “Aggie” vs. North Carolina Central University “Eagle” football classic has fallen on hard times. Attendance at Carter-Finley stadium fell in 2005 when the game was moved to Monday, to avoid a conflict with NC State’s first home game and the foundation ended up in the ditch. It owes the two schools roughly $150,000. No chicanery here, just bad luck.

But what hardly anyone knew, until the News & Observer reported on the foundation’s travails, is that the City has been subsidizing it with $80,000. The Aggie-Eagle game was a classic that lasted more than eighty years and the foundation’s goals were worthwhile. But, isn’t this one more example of the City Council’s free-spending ways under Mayor Meeker? Wouldn’t the money have been wiser used to pay for schools? Or roads?

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