Lawmakers: NFL Has Completely Ignored N.J. During Super Bowl Ramp-Up
Say East Rutherford, Towns Near MetLife Not Allowed To Use Words ‘Super Bowl’ In Ads January 27, 2014 6:05 PM
Lawmakers: NFL Has Completely Ignored N.J. During Super Bowl Ramp-Up
Say East Rutherford, Towns Near MetLife Not Allowed To Use Words ‘Super Bowl’ In Ads January 27, 2014 6:05 PM
New Jersey officials feel snubbed by a lack of official Super Bowl events being held in the towns surrounding Metlife Stadium. (Credit CBS 2)
SECAUCUS, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — With the Super Bowl XLVIII just days away, you’d never know it from the New Jersey side of this two-part equation.
Some lawmakers say the NFL hasn’t endorsed any of its events, leaving New Jersey out of the spotlight and in the cold, CBS 2’s Emily Smith reported Monday.
While the big game is being held at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., some Jersey leaders said they are worried that the league hasn’t gotten the memo that this is not New York City’s Super Bowl.
“It’s just not a feeling of … it’s almost like not wanting to be here,” Secaucus Mayor Michael Gonnelli said of the NFL.
With the Super Bowl just days away, New York City is clearly ready, turning Times Square into an official NFL-sanctioned Super Bowl zone.
Meanwhile in New Jersey you can’t find a banner or sign with the words “Super Bowl” on it. New Jersey lawmakers say it’s because the NFL hasn’t recognized their events, and therefore they can’t use the official name “Super Bowl.”
The No Fun League is so busy ignoring its own reports on head injuries and willfully murdering its own players that it has no sense of its own reality. The NFL’s behavior in NJ has been nothing short of disgraceful. Broadway is a mess in the city but the NJ towns just get stiffed. Just wait for the stomach turning garbage you will see during pregame about the good they have done in the community.
I am more sure now than ever that in 20 years football will be as marginalized as boxing is now. Enjoy life on the top NFL, it is going to be a short trip down from the top.
I’d like to make sure the NJ income tax folks nail the players for their day’s pay.
After all of the taxpayer’s expenditures for security, with police overtime etc, this inconvenience for the region will end up costing us money.