New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers will sometime be inducted into the Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame.
He’ll, nonetheless, go in as a Inexperienced Bay Packer, not a New York Jet, as he hasn’t been within the New York space for very lengthy. He is aware of little or no in regards to the historical past of how the 2 New York groups ended up taking part in on the west aspect of the Hudson River.
In his newest of an extended stream of doubtful sound bytes, Rodgers claims the Jets and Giants for New Jersey.
Aaron Rodgers: “We’re the New Jersey Jets. So are the Giants.”
Insanely refreshing to listen to for NJ folks.
And as a Jet fan from NJ that is mainly porn pic.twitter.com/cA3n1qVPUC
— Matt_NJD (@matt_NJD) July 22, 2024
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The Giants moved to Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey in 1976 after taking part in residence video games in New York since 1925 apart from the yr and a half they performed within the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut (1973-74).
They didn’t take the “NY” emblem with them, altering their emblem to “GIANTS” as an alternative, to appease their followers in all three states. They did, subsequently, hold the “New York” of their identify.
“It all the time has been and all the time would be the New York Giants,” late co-owner Wellington Mara stated on the time.
Case closed. Mara additionally talked about the Giants have been nonetheless sustaining their places of work in Manhattan.
Late Jets proprietor Leon Hess had no intention of adjusting his workforce’s identify, both. That mindset has carried over to present proprietor Woody Johnson.
Not so quick. Over time, a number of teams on each side of the Hudson have sued to have the names of the Giants and the Jets (who moved to Giants Stadium in 1984) to New Jersey to no avail. Once more, case closed.
Each groups will not be dumb. Altering the identify to New Jersey might open the door for a 3rd workforce to crop up within the New York Metro market. That’s doable due to the precedent set by the realm’s three native NHL franchises.
By conserving New York of their names, the Jets and Giants declare the New York Tri-State market as their very own.
There’s a factor referred to as territorial TV rights, which retains the lights on in NFL stadiums. Don’t mess with the golden goose.
Rodgers will be taught rapidly how huge each groups’ fan bases are. Followers come from throughout to attend video games — all three of the Tri-States and a number of other extra resembling Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Delaware, and past.
