Atlantic-City: Downs

A sports-card hype-adventure in Boardwalk-town yields a rather sobering 'expression' of fortune's jolly.

A sports-matrix metaphysics yarn. 

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AMLAN: Our Boardwalk town sports-hype for tourists is great salesmanship.

MARCUS: The fact we're casting ourselves as football card salesmen is IQ!
RAKI: Maybe somehow or someday we'll actually become sports-salesmen?

AMLAN: Hey, we're only doing this to make good humor to test our ad-skills.

MARCUS: Some Martian or angel might view this exercise as vanity!

RAKI: Well, we certainly won't hype our football card as a vanity of Earth.

Amlan and Marcus and Raki cast themselves as social-media and sports-commentary and fanfare culture 'diplomats' while posing as salesmen, pretending to walk up to travelers in Atlantic City seeking to represent themselves as a special football-card hype-trio for messages; they'd go far into the details of what made their sports-card great and then reveal that perhaps they didn't want to sell the card at all (Facebook-like!).

Well, the trio was about to get a real stern challenge of contracts and customs when they were approached themselves on a 21-table by a very wealthy baron (of diamonds or something) who claimed he was financing a mission to Mars someday. He invited the three into his private chat-room and revealed his 'agenda' to buy their special football-card trophy and didn't accept any refusal of sale (wow). This was Facebook-like, maybe.

ENDYMION: I'm Baron Endymion.

AMLAN/MARCUS/RAKI: We can't accept $1M for this 20th-Century sports-card!

ENDYMION: I want it, gents.

AMLAN/MARCUS/RAKI: Baron, we intended to have fun with salesmanship.

ENDYMION: Aha, so you pretended to be salesman to hone your sports-ad IQ.

AMLAN/MARCUS/RAKI: Well, we considered the chance to actually become it.

ENDYMION: Regardless, I like this card; this athlete was respected QB/coach.

AMLAN/MARCUS/RAKI: Dual-fanfare; double-career; education for fitness!

ENDYMION: I want the card, gents.

AMLAN/MARCUS/RAKI: Why don't you get an autographed copy with money?

ENDYMION: I find your vanity...intriguing (Boardwalk-town jam).

AMLAN/MARCUS/RAKI: Sovereignty in cartoons requires cinema-distances!

ENDYMION: Damn (Selfie-like).

The trio decided to refuse to sell the card but learned of the humilities of sports-marketing interests in Atlantic City (ha). Amlan/Marcus/Raki resolved to consider sport-hype and media/TV 'culture' with much more sobriety and wanted to feel closer to salesmanship-jam now (damn). Perhaps the baron's cold-juxtaposition insistences reflected some light of Earthling cheers of the bound-Romanticism of fortune's jeers for cleats (sure).

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about" (Ralph Waldo Emerson). 

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)