i know, i can live with that. your HIWI thread was cool, i just thought it was funny that before i read this i knew there would be some sort of post about the market in ny
Doesn't NYC have like 20 million people or something? Good for them if they can make if fun and profitable. Too bad the Nets and Knicks suck hard.
New York has slightly less citizens than Texas, and the team breakdown is pretty even--Texas actually still has one more pro team: NY: Jets, Giants, Yankees, Mets, Knicks, and now Nets TX: Rockets, Spurs, Mavericks, Texans, Cowboys, Astros, Rangers Makes okay sense to me.
Doesn't seem the same because it isn't the Texas Rockets, Texas Spurs, Texas Mavericks, Texas Texans, Texas Cowboys and the Texas Astros.
I know I know I know..... The Giants and Jets are technically New Jersey's teams Btw, when you say NY....do you mean NY state? Because The Bills play in NY state.
my problem with teams in the same cities is the unfairness in terms of travel. the lakers and clippers each play 2 "away" games a year in their own arena. It's an unfair advantage. the Rockets at least have to take a plane to play the Mavs or Spurs.
Not sure, but i think he meant NYC. Houston has about 2 mill in the city limits and maybe 5 mill in the greater Htown area. NYC has 8 mill in the city limits and about 18 mill in the greater NYC area. It may not be fair, but that's a lot of people to fill seats and divide fans and stuff.
Exactly. So its not like putting a team in Katy, or the Woodlands or where ever. Brooklyn by itself would be one of the largest cities in the country.
ESPN/AP: Yes, groundbreaking! Finally, a team in Brooklyn. Almost as cool as the doomed Jets stadium would have been in Manhattan. "The opponents say they will appeal." Nuts.
Myrtle St. in the House! Brooklyn alone could be (and was at one point) it's own city. New Yorkers are very passionate about basketball and they will probably fill the arena more so than NJ.
The court challenge isn't why the project is in trouble, it's the billions of dollars of financing needed to complete it that Ratner doesn't have.
The majority owner is a NY real estate developer. The Brooklyn stadium is almost an afterthought compared to: As previously stated, Brooklyn by itself rivals Seattle in terms of population. If you add in the surrounding mass of people who will also take an easy subway ride to watch the Nets play, it's a no-brainer to build a Brooklyn Stadium. I'd like to see this finally be built. D'oh. I've only been sorta keeping up with this. Didn't realize Ratner may still be bluffing the project's financing. Now that you mention it, this does seem a decent stumbling block:
^ The whole project was basically dead and buried due to lack of financing earlier this year, but now they hope to get a piece of the Stimulus pie to revive it. who knows.
