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The superbowl thread got me thinking. NJ lost out on a lot of things, because it was more of the NY Superbowl hosted in NJ. When NY had the superbowl not too long ago, we heard nothing of NJ. What do we get from associating ourselves with NY? Anything? If we're not, why don't we stop it? There's a lot of states that border NY that get swallowed up in NY like we do. Don't say it's because we're close to it.
The only state that NYC owns is New Jersey. Philadelphia gets their little piece, but NYC pretty much owns NJ. Connecticut is a timeshare with New England.
What did New Jersey get out of it? Not fame, that's for sure. NJ's rep actually went down over the past few months. Tax money, I guess... and Newark Airport's duty free shops probably made a killing.
I'm in Texas and I thought sure the game was a New York Super Bowl, that is, until I read your post. The only thing I've heard about New Jersey the past couple of weeks is your Governor's bridge scandal, which, btw, is really getting old. Yes, somebody up there missed lots of perfect opportunities to promote New Jersey more than they did. It could have been a lot of good free publicity for y'all.
I'm in Texas and I thought sure the game was a New York Super Bowl, that is, until I read your post. The only thing I've heard about New Jersey the past couple of weeks is your Governor's bridge scandal, which, btw, is really getting old. Yes, somebody up there missed lots of perfect opportunities to promote New Jersey more than they did. It could have been a lot of good free publicity for y'all.
I this is just part of a long list of things NJ has done to lose it's identity. We're basically the "Too poor to live in NY? Live here!!!!" state. It makes me wonder if part of the latching onto NY isn't just wanting to hang out with the "cool kid". Maybe we just know we're a terrible state with NOTHING to offer.
So many times I have flown to Newark, but the flight attendants many times have said upon arrival "Welcome to New York". North NJ is basically NYC's neighborhood, like Long Island is. Living in NYC's metro area, you are bound to get connected to NYC more. Though for me it's always been clear that I live in NJ, even if I'm literally just 5 minutes from NYC.
A big fat slap in the face ! Was probably one of the dumbest and most restricted super bowls, NOTHING was offered to the guests to have a good time in NJ . The location sucks and NJ didnt bother to have some kind of special events, those were all held in NY and made NYC all the big bucks.
The superbowl thread got me thinking. NJ lost out on a lot of things, because it was more of the NY Superbowl hosted in NJ. When NY had the superbowl not too long ago, we heard nothing of NJ. What do we get from associating ourselves with NY? Anything? If we're not, why don't we stop it? There's a lot of states that border NY that get swallowed up in NY like we do. Don't say it's because we're close to it.
I this is just part of a long list of things NJ has done to lose it's identity. We're basically the "Too poor to live in NY? Live here!!!!" state. It makes me wonder if part of the latching onto NY isn't just wanting to hang out with the "cool kid". Maybe we just know we're a terrible state with NOTHING to offer.
It's your choice if you have lost your identity or feel that you're latching onto anything or feel that you have nothing to offer.
Personally, I think's it's better if everyone left that kind of thinking back in high school.
The only state that NYC owns is New Jersey. Philadelphia gets their little piece, but NYC pretty much owns NJ. Connecticut is a timeshare with New England.
What did New Jersey get out of it? Not fame, that's for sure. NJ's rep actually went down over the past few months. Tax money, I guess... and Newark Airport's duty free shops probably made a killing.
NFL bid forces the host city/state to not charge sales tax on the tickets, parking, or luxury suites. so we didn't get tax money. lost out on about $8M due to that nice provision. 700+ state troopers, cops, and security all paid for by the state, since the NFL bid states they are not responsible for security, though security is required.
NYC got most of the "events", most of the hotel guests (Harmon meadows had a touch over 2,000 guests, reportedly, no more than they would have had normally).
What did we get? Even though if everyone drove to the game it would have taken them hours to leave the parking lot, we got the bad rep because it took 3 hours to load 30,000+ people onto NJT trains that carry 1,600 passengers per train. Other than that...not much. I think the players' and staff salaries are taxed in NJ for the week they were here...so there's that.
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When did NY have the Superbowl? I'm so confused.
