just an FYI, they are moving their facilities to Jersey but President Rabinowitz of Hofstra is attempting to negotiate to keep the Jets at Hofstra for training camp, just as the Giants facilities are in New Jersey but they have training camp at Albany's campus.
Of course they do..who wants to drive from Long Island to NJ on the weekend ? I had a friend who had an apartment in Secaucus. From his bathroom window, you could literally see down into the Meadowlands. It took us an hour and a half to get back to his place after a game. If they put the stadium in Flushing Meadows where it belongs, where do you think the ticket base would come from ?
I've resisted entering this thread because it looks like it has the potential of making us rehash The Great NY-NJ Debate. But the above statement both surprises and puzzles me. Why would the Jets build a state-of-the-art training facility in Florham Park (complete with ultra-modern weight facilities, training rooms, two outdoor practice fields and one indoor field) and then want to schlepp their players over to Hofstra every summer? It wouldn't make sense. So, no disrespect meant to President Rabinowitz, but I fail to see him convincing the Jets that this is a good idea. Besides, his timing seems a bit little late too. By your Join Date of September 2007, you probably missed one of the longest recorded cyber threads in U.S. history, that being The Great West Side Stadium Debate and all related NY-NJ peripheral threads. Believe me, any argument you can think of has already been proposed thousands of times and in well-thought-out variations of the same argument ad nauseum, however emotionally charged they may have been. The bottom line is New York killed their own relationship with the Jets, period. And they accomplished this 23 years ago by shitting on the Jets' request to play somewhere other than Shea Stadium, forcing them to play in NJ. New York lost tens of thousands of LI ticketholders with that move a quarter of a century ago, and that imbecilic decision became the start of the total exodus to NJ that you see today. In fact, that's how I acquired my tickets, so I owe a great deal to New York for doing this for me. Who wants to drive from Long island to NJ? I do, when I make my return trip from the current practice facility at Hofstra to my home in central NJ. A pain in the ass? You bet, bunky. But I do it because I like to watch them practice. So come on over to Jersey in '09 and we'll watch together at the new practice facility. Now, as far as putting the stadium in Flushing Meadow "where it belongs" because of the fan base, I've been a Jets fan living in Jersey since the mid-sixties. I made the agonizing journey to Shea many a time. I was even in the stands the day OJ Simpson cleared the 2,000-yard mark. It was a miserable place to be and a miserable place for the Jets to play in, so who could blame the Jets for making the move? Long Island fans need to blame their own politicians in NY for doing this to the Jets' fan base (people they actually voted for), not NJ fans or NJ posters who welcome them here and want to see them play here.
