I don't think I have anything to get over. I just feel that the team should be called NJ Jets because they are no longer from NY. What I don't understand is that those people from NJ don't want to have a team of their own. I think they would be the ones to want the NJ Jets because of pride for their state. Don't NJ residents get sick of always being thought of a sidekick to NYC. It will not effect my loyalty as a fan of the team. I have been a jets fan all my life and that is not going to change if they are the NJ jets or the NY Jets.
Atlantic City is built on a sand bar, not swampland. But we're not talking about Atlantic City, NJ, we're talking about Florham Park, NJ, correct? No, it's not. The coastline of NJ is mostly sandbars and sand beaches with inlets and estuaries along the flood plains. But even if we're in disagreement about this, we're not talking about the eastern coast of NJ at all. Again, we're talking about Florham Park, NJ, geographically a whole other area. Not quite sure the last part of this sentence has enough continuity to make any sense to me, but in guessing, it looks like you are saying that the area they are proposing is swampland that is yet to be developed? Again, hard to understand your point because the sentence makes very little sense as written, but if you're saying Florham Park is swampland, then you're wrong. And that would mean your above initial statement in this paragraph (you've been here and "know what it is") is also equally as wrong. Floram Park is perhaps 15-21 miles inland from the coastline and therefore does not have any of the characteristics of the coastline. If you've travelled throughout NJ as extensively as you'd have us believe in your statement above, you'd already know that. But I suspect the intent of this post has less to do with the proposed site and much more to do with denegrating NJ in general, a result of your understandable anger over the entire situation. But we've been through this before on this board also... the anger I mean. New Yorkers need to direct their anger toward the politicians they voted for who've come up these cockamamie objections all these years to having the NY Jets in New York... first Shea Stadium and now this. After all, you voted for these guys. That's who you should be angry with. But then again, if you voted for them, you'd have to get angry with yourself, now wouldn't you?
My wife actually likes the sound of "New Jersey Jets." It wouldn't upset her at all if the name were changed. And she's from Mineola, mind you, born and raised there.
Look, if I were a long-time Jets fan from NY (especially Long Island), you bet your boopie I'd be pissed as hell about "losing" the Jets. First, the Jets become a legitimate franchise in the 60's, base their offices and practice fields at Hofstra University (so far, so good) but then are told they have to play their games at Shea Stadium, a baseball field. So they do this for 20 years and rightfully get tired of this because, after all, it's a baseball stadium (wrong shape, dirt infield, problems with scheduling with the Mets, etc., etc.). And what does NY tell them when they finally say they want their own stadium? "No way. We're not building one." So they're basically forced to move to NJ to Giants Stadium, of all places, and become tenants of the Giants, all because they want to play in a real football stadium. Can't blame the Jets or NJ for that one. So then, to add insult to injury, for the next 20 years the Jets commute 2 hours by bus from Hofstra University to the Meadowlands to play their NEW YORK "home games," and they rightfully get tired of this also. New York has an additional 20 years to come up with another plan and shot at getting the Jets back across the Hudson. But what do they do? They squander the second 20 years with the same nonchalant, cavalier attitude with which they uncaringly squandered the first 20 years of the franchise's existence! When the new owner comes up with a plan to move the Jets back to New York, New York again rejects the plan! Simply unbelievable! Other location proposals make absolutely no sense because the logistics are totally unworkable (come on, Queens doesn't have enough room for another Waldbaum's or Duane Reed, much less a football stadium). So, after 40 years the Jets do what they have to do, which is move lock, stock and barrel to NJ and partner with the Giants to co-own their own world-class stadium, complete with a 20+ acre, state-of-the-art practice facility. Again, you can't blame the Jets or NJ on this one either. Like I said, yeah... damned straight I'd be pissed if I was a Jets fan living in New York. But I think I know who I'd be pissed at, and it sure as hell wouldn't be the state of New Jersey or anyone in the Jets organization.
I agree, I am pissed at the NY state gov. I never said that I had a problem with NJ. Heck how can you blame them for working to bring in revenue into their state. By why are we not hearing the NJ fan saying that they should be called the NJ Jets? It makes no sense to me.
Because we don't want to press our luck. You New York guys are angry enough that we now have the Jets. If we started complaining about the name there might be a little bigger arguement.
