Superbowl In New Jersey
You've likely heard by now that the NFL has admitted a huge officiating error on the last play of the 49ers/Giants playoff game last weekend. It was a screw up, but I didn't think it was interesting enough to mention here. But whats happened in the aftermath is downright crazy. Meanwhile, New Jersey Assemblyman Anthony Impreveduto (D) wants the league to allow the state to host a Super Bowl by 2006 and called on the head of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, which runs Giants Stadium, to begin legal action against the NFL.
He wants to sue the NFL over a blown call. That alone is amazing enough, but the fact that as redress he wants to hold the Superbowl - in January - in an outdoor stadium in New Jersey - is freaking insane. Do he know how many Superbowls have been played in outdoor stadiums in cold weather states? Umm, that would be none.
"New Jersey taxpayers may have been cheated of tax revenue the state would have earned from players' income and other Giants-related enterprises had the team advanced in the playoffs," Impreveduto said in his letter to George Zoffinger, the sports authority president.
When hell freezes over buddy.
He wants to sue the NFL over a blown call. That alone is amazing enough, but the fact that as redress he wants to hold the Superbowl - in January - in an outdoor stadium in New Jersey - is freaking insane. Do he know how many Superbowls have been played in outdoor stadiums in cold weather states? Umm, that would be none.
"New Jersey taxpayers may have been cheated of tax revenue the state would have earned from players' income and other Giants-related enterprises had the team advanced in the playoffs," Impreveduto said in his letter to George Zoffinger, the sports authority president.
When hell freezes over buddy.
# | January 08, 2003