i dont wanna beat on a dead horse, but while driving home from work yesturday i couldnt help but to think about the west side stadium, the question i asked myself was, if it were the giants that was trying to get the west side stadium would it have fallen through? i'll make this as short as possible, as i hope gg members from my prior posts and post responses know i have absoloutly no problem w/the new meadowlands project, i just have been reading latley about the RESPECT factor, and couldnt help but to wonder if the giants would have or wouldnt have gotten the west side stadium
also, i hear a lot of people cursing out woody for officialy not being connected w/ny [after we move our head quarters to florham park] the man did everthing in his power to bring us back to ny, and those sons of bitches didnt want us
There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that Sheldon Silver was going to sign off on the WSS under any circumstances. Jets fans need to get over their inferiority complexes with respect to the Giants already.
I doubt any stadium like that is going to be build in Manhattan anytime soon... not in a long long time. One, because something that cost that much will get many naysayers and that negative tone will always over power the positives. Two, Dolans and MSG. To this day I have yet to step foot in MSG and switch to the MSG channel since the West Side Stadium thing.
i agree with this whole heartedly. that son of a b... dolan really needs to get away from the garden and new york in general as everything he touches turns to a flaming pile of dogshit.
ugg i dont even want to think about something like that... on a semi related situation remember a couple years ago when the talk on the board was the jets could end up leaving new york and the east coast all together. i work with some guys who used to work at cablevision and they always said the old man was a stand up guy and smart and innovative. the kid was a douchebag who couldnt get his nose out of the coke for long enough to take the silver spoon out of his mouth and learn anything about anything. needless to say i havent heard too many good things about him from people who knew him. now i am not coming on here claiming that he is a coke head simply passing along a comment i heard from someone quite a bit closer to him than i.
It fell through because of Dolan and Cablevision. Didn't matter if it was the Giants or not. He has solid political connections that squashed it. There wasn't a solid reason not to construct. The stadium would have brought ALOT of money into NYC and NY state and not to mention jobs for blue collar workers.
Sunday gameday traffic would've been SUBSTANTIALLY less than what that area handles on a daily basis during the workweek.
