New Jets Stadium? Sorry, No It's Not
by Ed Valentine on Jun 14, 2010 8:45 AM EDT
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PrintI have never hated the New York Jets. For the most part, it has been easy to simply ignore them since the Giants have clearly been the more successful franchise.
Well, we know the Jets are tougher to ignore these days. With the blustery Rex Ryan as coach, reaching the AFC Championship Game last season and the fact that the two teams now share a stadium and will co-host the 2014 Super Bowl.
Ahh, yes, that stadium. The New Meadowlands Stadium. It's that new building that has me ticked off at the Jets this morning. Or, more precisely, what the Jets are calling the new building.
New Jets Stadium. Pardon me, but since when?
I found that little reference this morning on the Jets' website in a piece about their free-to-attend mini-camp practice on Wednesday morning.
That is nothing if it isn't arrogant. I know it really isn't a big deal, but the Giants don't do that. They don't call it New Giants Stadium. Nor should they. Neither team should claim it that way.
This is sort of like the wide receiver who starts stupidly, and childishly, making the annoying "first down" gesticulation when his team is behind by three touchdowns in the fourth quarter.
It probably should not annoy me the way it does. It's really just the rantings of a team that has always been No. 2 in the city that finally thinks it has something to brag about. And one that has never had a place of its own. Obviously, though, it has gotten under my skin.
Maybe the difference is this Giants' organization has already been where the Jets still want to go. They don't have to talk about it.
[UPDATE: So, I have been informed that there is a place where the Giants refer to the stadium as 'New Giants Stadium'. To be correct, I want to clarify that. The link is to a marketing website I did not know existed. I still believe, though, there is a difference between using that term in a marketing pitch and using it on your official team news and information page.]
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I can see where that kind of nonsense..
can piss us Giants fans off..they have become very irritating, astounding considering their track record..I don’t really hate the Jets…However I really cannot stand Rex Ryan and I blame him for the phony unproven swagger they now appear to have…He really is running the risk of teams making them their prime target this year for a spanking.
"When I was a boy and had no sense I got my pecker stuck in an electric fence..Well it curled my hair and tickled my balls, and made me shit in my overalls"
Thats why I hate the Jets
LOL…. Ed you might have been ignoring the Jets but every year, they and or the media are proclaiming that this year is going to be diffrent. Now the Fat Man is talking Super Bowl and this is Jet’s stadium and all this nonsense to anybody who will listen.
It’s because they know deep in their hearts that this is a NY Giants town, their is a reason the NFL network put the Jets in the top ten snake bitten franchises! Once the regular season starts this little thing callled reallity will set in. I highly doubt they are making the playoffs this year and it will be fun watching the Fat man make excuses once again about why the Jets season went up and smoke.
by Late for Dinner on Jun 14, 2010 9:26 AM EDT reply actions
This is sort of like the wide receiver who starts stupidly, and childishly, making the annoying “first down” gesticulation when his team is behind by three touchdowns in the fourth quarter.
The NY Jets, aka the Roy Williams of NY
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit
An attempt to sell
Half price seat licenses for sale! This week only, step right up! LOL
My guess is that they are attempting to make their fans feel better by ignoring the reality of the dual ownership. It’s tough enough selling seat licenses when your team historically spits the bit in crunch time. So they resort to delusion. Kinda sad, but it doesn’t really irritate me.
Living in upstate NY all my life..
the Jets fans today remind of Buffalo Bills fans back in the early 90s. They were always obnoxious and really ignorant of football. With the Jets it’s all about hooplah and gimmicks, and less about tradition and real football. They’re like children. I argue with my wife, who sadly is a Jets fan, that it’s a team for children and women. When children grow they put away childish things and become men, and become fans of teams like the Giants and Yankees (she was a Mets fan too, but I converted her). I tell her to leave the Mets/Jet/Nets for people who don’t really understand their sport, hehe.
Well, you "helped her" regarding football...
but you may have led her astray in the relms of baseball ;-D.
Its the Jets
No accident that Jets is an anagram for Jest.
If they had accomplishments to take pride in, perhaps they wouldn’t need to pull these kind of stunts.
Every time the Jets play in a conference championship it takes at least 10 years to get back to fail again. I don’t see last year as any different.
The longer this goes on I think this marriage of the teams in the stadium was ill conceived and the Jets should have looked to build there own building in Flushing, Islandia or where ever else.
NFL should move the Jets to LA, they would hardley be missed and NFL has presence in LA
by Late for Dinner on Jun 14, 2010 11:47 AM EDT up reply actions
No thanks.
It’s bad enough we have the Chargers in southern CA. We don’t need the Jets, too. The Giants, on the other hand, are more than welcome.
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by The_Power_and_the_Glory_of_Robert_Horry on Jun 14, 2010 4:07 PM EDT up reply actions
This doesn't even make sense
Honestly, if they wanted to call it “Jets Stadium” on their website, that’s fine. We can just call it “New Giants Stadium” (which, lets be honest, most of us have been doing anyway). To each his own – I don’t mind a stadium being called different things by the different fan bases, especially when it doesn’t really have a name right now.
But, “New Jets Stadium”? Where the hell was the “Old” Jets Stadium? They played in GIANTS Stadium. It wasn’t just called that by us Giants fans, that was its actual name. It adorned the top of the stadium. Before that, they played at Shea Stadium. There has never been a Jets Stadium. Revisionist history at its finest here.
2009 Did Not Happen
+1
All I’ve been calling it is “New Giants Stadium” and if you think I’ll stop when it is appropriately named, wrong.
Let them just keep talking (and talking and talking) so Big Blue can keep going under the radar and quietly assemble this championship caliber unit.
- Mohamed Sanu: A Giant in Two Years-
maybe they meant Shea Stadium
heres a question of a different but related nature: what if they ended up building the west side stadium in manhattan, which location would you rather have, given the choice?
HELLO HELLO MR WILPON... BUY THAT MANSION. WE DONT NEED A CONDO.
The biggest indication to Jets fans that NY is still the Giants town
IS the fact that they are still trying to sell their season tickets. It’s tough being the other New York team.
"stupidity + alcohol = getting your ass beat" AKA the Philadelphia town motto - hotspur
To be honest...
…the article only references it as ‘their new stadium’. It’s only the link that states it, as far as I see. That may be just the html guy who did that.
And I may be a die hard Giants fan, but I still long for the day for a NJ on their helmet
The jets egos are huge right now.
They forget that if the Colts hadnt decided to rest their players, they most likely would not have even made the playoffs and would have ended up with the same record as us. When they did play the Colts in the AFC Cahmpionship, what happened? oh yeah they lost. If the Jets had acctually been a dominant team, i might be willing to give them a bit of credit, but they werent. Also both Giants and jets fans should just call it The New Medowlands and be done with it.
I hate the Jets. I always have, I always will. They are a mosquito in your ear on a hot summer night that just buzzes in your ear constantly no matter how much you swat at it.
I’ve never heard so much bluster and chest thumping from a team and their fans for an organization that hasn’t won a championship in 41 years.
It bothers me to no end that we share a stadium with them.
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by Jim Schmiedeberg on Jun 14, 2010 3:21 PM EDT reply actions
Wow Ed......
you sound a little annoyed, but I share your feelings. I know it’s gonna be hard with that loud mouth Ryan guy but gotta find a way to ignore the noise. Sooner or later they will be back to being the same old Jets.
Perhaps they are expecting a bunch of blackouts due to PSL issues
So they want to make sure people know they are playing in a new stadium
LMAO!! Woody already cut the PSL's in half,
If they are the biggest thing in the NY NJ market how come they can’t sell their tickets?
by Late for Dinner on Jun 14, 2010 10:50 PM EDT up reply actions
I've said it before, I'll say it again:
They won one more game than us in the regular season.
Ryan Miller was the true MVP.
Freaking Jets
What cracks me up about all of their bluster is its not just pissing off NY Giant fans anymore it’s getting to the point where its pissing off the other teams in the league and the other AFC teams will be gunning for them just to shut them up. I mean they’re good and they had a great win vs SD in the playoffs last year but are they really much better than, NE, MIA, PITT, BALT, INDY, TENN, & SD? I don’t think so and the only thing Sanchez proved in last years playoffs is he deserves to start in 2010, his regular season was rotten. He’s still a work in progress to act like this is just comical at this point. They’ll be 8-8 and their season will be a lot like last years.
by Landeta on Jun 15, 2010 11:02 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
It can’t be new jets stadium when there was never an old jets stadium
by mclaren_is_the_best on Jun 15, 2010 8:08 PM EDT reply actions
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