NFL Week 12 -- Spaghetti Western

Because they absolutely stole the WNBA title and thus put a pox on the entirety of shitty New York sports?

 

It's hilarious you forgot the Nets, b/c they basically don't exist. At least they had a LITTLE identity in New Jersey. Sure, they were playing in a swamp at a dump of an arena and the team was terrible 95% of the time (Jason Kidd years excepted), but they were the first team to call New Jersey home and the one that wasn't spending a title run trying to get to Nashville. They had fans who took civic pride in them. Nobody at all gives a fuck about them in Brooklyn. If Durant's shoe was a half-size smaller and the Islanders don't give up their only shorty of the season in G7 against the Lightning, both teams win titles in the summer of '21 and the Islanders' parade on Long Island would have DWARFED whatever the Nets got. Which would have been hilarious. Alas.

 

Mentally, I lumped the Devils and Nets together.
I grew up in New Jersey. There were plenty of fans of the New York and Philly teams, but I never met a Nets fan. I think I knew one or two Devils fans, although they might have gained some more once they started winning a few Stanley Cups in the mid-to-late 90s. I was out of there for good right around that time.

 

The Nets could have built an identity at The Rock but instead wanted to move to Brooklyn. Those lame duck years permanently killed off any fanbase in NJ and they moved to a place where no one cares about them and attending games is brutally expensive.

 

When the Nets were in their lame-duck years in New Jersey, were terrible and the season was nearly over, a couple of times, just out of curiosity, I looked on StubHub to see how much tickets were for games against some of the lamer opponents (like the Kings and Grizzlies).

Tickets for the mid-upper deck was 50 apiece.

That’s 50 cents apiece. Not counting the $5 StubHub fee.

I still couldn’t motivate myself to go.

 

And Barclays is just the worst place to watch a game. Their attempt to add ambiance made it an anti-sensory experience. So dark and dreary.

 

A number of my son's Brooklyn friends and neighbors attend Liberty games on the regular. None of 'em go to Nets games.

 

Is Barclay's good for any sport? I know the Islanders couldn't flee back to Uniondale fast enough and they've had boxing there.

 

With a full house, it's OK--not great, but OK--for hoops. The lighting is still off but having 12,000 people there instead of 2,000 makes a huge difference. The building was terrible in every way for hockey, but the funny thing is the Islanders had their one great non-Nassau Coliseum moment there when Tavares scored the OT series-winner against Florida in 2016.

 

7-0 Chefs 1:25 in.

 

The crazy thing is Brian Daboll might be the best college or professional football coach in New Jersey.