In terms of sports, do you think New Jersey is really part of New York City's metropolitan area that's divided. NY Giants - They are in New Jersey I believe.. NY Knicks - In New York, Downtown NY Jets - I think their arena is in NY Island NY Yankees - Really in New York.. NJ Nets - In New Jersey NY Mets - They are in New York.. NY Rangers - In NY NY Islanders - In NY I'm not completely certain of that info above but it goes something like that.. DO you think that New York really have 8 teams? Or do you think the two NJ based teams are separate? (I didn't include the NJ Devils because they are far off of where NY and NY meet)
Giants and Jets are NYC teams despite playing in NJ but also have a strong NJ fanbase. (Jets HQ is in Long Island though) Devils, Nets are not considered to be NYC proper teams. Only NJ people root for them. North Jersey in general is part of the tri-state area along with Conn. suburbs.
Gotta correct one thing here: The Isles are Long Island's team. In their logo, Long Island is shown minus Brooklyn and Queens. The hockey stick also points to Uniondale, where those fags play.
New Jersey people would consider themselves part of NY but not the other way around. the Meadowlands, in East Rutherford NJ, is home to the Nets, as well as the Giants and the Jets, who play in the same stadium. The Jets are no longer HQ'd in Long Island. They are NJ based year round now. The Giants are based out the Meadowlands year round.
one last thing... the Devils play in Newark, which is still considered Metro NYC area... put it this way- you could get to Newark or East Rutherford from Penn Station faster than you can get to Yankee or Shea Stadium... If the Nets don't make their move to Brooklyn, I see them joining their former neighbors in Newark...
NY teams play in NJ probably because it's cheaper to use the venues in Jersey. They won't change their name from NY to NJ because New York is more marketable. It doesn't help that NJ has the reputation that it has now either. It's weird that all that separates the states is a river
North Jersey is basically the cesspool armpit of NYC. South Jersey is actually kind of nice. So I guess half-yes. But yeah, like somebody said, everyone in the south is basically a Philly fan.
The thing that gets me is how the Giants, Jets, Nets, and Devils (until 2007) play in the same complex but somehow 2 are supposed to be New York teams and 2 are supposed to be New Jersey teams.
Tigereye is right about the Islanders. I used to work in Hempstead/Garden City and they definitely are Long Island's team. No real association with NYC at all
This has always baffled me as well. I don't get how you can call a team from one place when all of its everything is in another place. I don't care how close everything is mashed together up there.
Basically NJ is split between south and north. North Jersey is typically considered the suburbs of NY. People live there and take the train to work in Manhattan. South Jersey is all farmland and is a heavy Philly sports team fan base. But NJ as a whole is still considered the armpit of America. I went to the St. Patty's Day festivities in Hoboken yesterday (yes they celebrate it REAL early) and while I was walking past 4 bars back to back, every single one was playing Bon Jovi with every D-bag known to man pumping their fists.
Even weirder -- all that separates downtown Detroit from downtown Windsor, Ontario (Canada) is a river.
New Jersey has two areas of Influence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_Metropolitan_Area_Counties_Illustration.PNG and then the Philly area http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Delawarevalleymap.png and I dont know who lives in the middle part of NJ
