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August 12, 2009
The fact that they play in New Jersey is just a coincidence
Like Madonna, Sting and The Artist Formerly (and once again) Known as Prince, this team only needs one name.
SenateNJ.com, O’Toole: Nets Should Keep “New Jersey” on Their Jerseys
We reprint NJ State Senator Kevin O'Toole's press release in full.
Senator Kevin O’Toole, a member of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement regarding the decision by the National Basketball Association’s Nets to remove “New Jersey” from their road game uniforms:
“Enough is enough. New Jersey’s professional sports teams, the Nets, Jets and Giants, have no problem feeding at the taxpayer funded trough, yet seem to forget who their benefactors are when they order the teams’ uniforms.
“The taxpayers of this state have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into infrastructure upgrades in the Meadowlands where all the teams play their home games. Is it too much to ask that professional sports teams that benefit from the support of the New Jersey taxpayer recognize the state on their uniforms?
“These teams make hundreds of millions of dollars a year. They should not receive a single concession from the state until they get an attitude readjustment.
“As for the Nets ‘regionalization efforts,’ the last time I checked, ground hadn’t been broken on a new arena in Brooklyn.”
NoLandGrab: Ouch. In fairness to the Nets, though, under the steady hand of Bruce Ratner, they lose tens of millions of dollars a year.
SLAM ONLINE, Uniforms Bring NJ Nets Political Heat
According to one member of the Senate, the Nets are lacking in state pride by removing the “New Jersey” from their road unis...
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Is it too much to ask that professional sports teams that benefit from the support of the New Jersey taxpayer recognize the state on their uniforms?
I recognize that this move is to help prep people for the eventual move from East Rutherford to Brooklyn, but this seems to be yet another case of Bruce Ratner not giving a rat's ass about the state and fans of New Jersey, and instead trying to get people to see the "Brooklyn Nets" as soon as possible so that he can sell more merchandise in the new stadium.
NETSARESCORCHING, PUT NEW JERSEY ON YOUR JERSEY
When grandstanding politicians take on billionaire sports team owners it’s like the insufferable force vs. the unbearable object.
But that hasn’t stopped NJ Senate Minority Whip Kevin O’Toole (R-Cedar Groves) from calling on all sports teams that play in New Jersey to show their state pride by placing the words “New Jersey” somewhere on their uniforms (this also includes you Jets and Giants).
...Of course, the Nets are the catalyst in all this after the team acknowledged they had stripped “New Jersey” off their new red road jerseys for the upcoming season. That could have something to do with that whole wanting to move to Brooklyn thing.
NLG: "Grandstanding politician?" Kevin O'Toole sounds OK by us.
Posted by eric at August 12, 2009 2:25 PM