Ravenwood - 01/08/03 01:28 PM
Talk about litigious. A New Jersey Lawmaker is considering suing the NFL for the botched call in this weekend's playoff game.
Assemblyman Anthony Impreveduto, D-Hudson, wants the league to allow New Jersey 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.I'm sure that is what Giants fans were concerned about; lost tax revenues.
''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.
At first I thought he was just drumming up publicity to try to get a Super Bowl. But the threat of litigation is downright loony. This pretty much seals the deal for the NFL. You will never see them admit another mistake in officiating. From now on, no matter how bad the call, no matter how blatantly obvious the bad call is, the NFL will stick to their guns and say it was a legitimate call. (All because of New Jersey threatening to sue.)
Yeah, that's where I want to be in late January - New Jersey.
Uh, Tony? There's a reason they put these games in places like San Diego.
Posted by: CGHill at January 8, 2003 3:30 PMActually, Detroit is coming up. But still, the Meadowlands is an open air stadium and Detroit is a dome. The other things they look at are the availability of hotels and local facilities.
I can't claim to have a whole lot of experience with New Jersey hotels - stayed at one for five nights, had dinner once at another, danced at a third - but those three, anyway, seem okay.
Still, the Meadowlands in January? Why not go straight to Green Bay and get the maximum freeze for your buck? Surely Trenton doesn't have the money to build a stadium suitable for a Super Bowl.
Posted by: CGHill at January 8, 2003 9:42 PM(c) Ravenwood and Associates, 1990 - 2014
