  Numerous papers have appeared recently showing fits to transverse momentum
($p_T$) spectra measured at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in proton - proton
collisions.This talk focuses on the fits extending to very large values of the
transverse momentum with $p_T$ values up to 200 GeV/c as measured by the ATLAS
and CMS collaborations at $\sqrt{s}$ = 0.9 and 7 TeV. A thermodynamically
consistent form of the Tsallis distribution is used for fitting the transverse
momentum spectra at mid-rapidity. The fits based on the proposed distribution
provide an excellent description over 14 orders of magnitude. Despite this
success, an ambiguity is noted concerning the determination of the parameters
in the Tsallis distribution. This prevents drawing firm conclusions as to the
universality of the parameters appearing in the Tsallis distribution.
