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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo suddenly had something better to do than attend last Saturday’s Buffalo Bills-Indianapolis Colts National Football League playoff game.
The governor had said he planned to attend, but it was announced that he had to, um, rewrite his State of the State speech because of, um, the, um, shift in power in Washington, D.C.
So the governor, who marked a blindingly high number of nursing homes deaths from COVID-19 earlier this year by writing a book about his success battling the virus, said he would give his ticket to Ryan Field, a nurse at Erie County Medical Center.
The likely reason he chose not to attend the game is because of a petition that circulated to try to keep him away after he said attendance at the contest had to be less than 10% of the capacity of Bills Stadium.