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Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 925
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 11:03 am: |     |
...or whatever their new name may be...
Any MOLers have ideas for a new name for Nets?
And if the trend continues...the Nets will reside for some time in Brooklyn, then eventually relocate to Maplewood.  |
wharfrat
Citizen
Username: Wharfrat
Post Number: 929
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 12:03 pm: | |
Brooklyn Ferries |
Hank Zona
Citizen
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 927
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 12:21 pm: | |
Brooklyn Waterfront
Brooklyn Bridge (Johnny Maestro can sing the Star Spangled Banner on opening night)
Brooklyn Drag-Nets
Brooklyn Hair-Nets
Brooklyn Metrotechs
Brooklyn Kings (although the nickname is already in use in the NBA)
Brooklyn Heights
Whatever the nickname, maybe we can give them Spike Lee for their front row. |
ML1
Citizen
Username: Ml1
Post Number: 1488
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 1:01 pm: | |
ah, the final insult to New Jerseyans from this sorry franchise. After a quarter century of complete ineptitude, from the ownership down to the last player on the bench, they finally become contenders, only to leave.
good riddance -- I hope they play to empty seats untill the door hits them on the way out.
Go Seton Hall! |
ML1
Citizen
Username: Ml1
Post Number: 1489
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 1:09 pm: | |
and I guess I should have added, that I don't care what they call themselves when they get to Brooklyn.
But with the amount of public $$ they're likely to get, maybe NYC taxpayers should call them the Albatrosses. or the Municipal Bonds. or how about the Cost Overruns? |
Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 928
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 1:18 pm: | |
So then, ML, hows about the Brooklyn Pariah or the Brooklyn Carpetbaggers?
One thing about this sale, which isnt finalized yet, but of course, money talks...its not as if the owners are moving the team themselves. They sold the team to someone who wants to move them. Not that that means the owners did all they could to find a preferred new owner who would keep the team in NJ. And not to worry about fans not showing up..they already dont.
But since a big part of the purchase is to have them play near the LIRR station in Brooklyn and many subway lines, maybe they can be renamed the Brooklyn Big Train. |
moose
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Username: Moose
Post Number: 156
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 1:20 pm: | |
The Brooklyn Fuhgeddaboudits...
or I like Hank Zona's idea... the Brooklyn Big Trains... niiiiice... |
Hank Zona
Citizen
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 929
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 1:22 pm: | |
then you guys can do the National Anthem on opening night instead of Johnny Maestro. |
ML1
Citizen
Username: Ml1
Post Number: 1490
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 1:29 pm: | |
Hank,
I'm not naive when it comes to $$ in sports, so whatever the owners can get, fine.
It's just that you don't need to be Kreskin to see what a debacle this is going to be for NY taxpayers. The current Nets ownership gets a fat profit, the new owner gets the development rights for the land around the new arena, and New Yorkers get stuck holding the bag. I thought Bloomberg was too smart to fall for this nonsense. |
Hank Zona
Citizen
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 930
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 1:45 pm: | |
I know youre not naive...and I suppose we should look at ourselves as fortunate because it could have been on our backs, the taxpayers of Essex County. If I am not mistaken, building an arena was rolled out in a press conference a week or so before the last mayoral election in Newark. |
ML1
Citizen
Username: Ml1
Post Number: 1491
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 1:50 pm: | |
yes,
what a scam that would have been. only a small proportion of the arena was reportedly funded by taxpayers. but when you looked at the fine print, any cost overruns were to be paid by Essex County. our great-grandchildren would have been lucky to pay that off. no incentive to bring the project in on budget, and make someone else responsible for overages. what genius came up with that? |
howardf
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Username: Howardf
Post Number: 206
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 3:45 pm: | |
I don't see what the big deal is. Not only is the team originally from NY, it's not as if NJ residents actually attended the games, so why complain? For me, it will be easier to see a game after work in Brooklyn than shlep to the Meadowlands. Sports teams should be located in urban centers. Right now, the Meadowlands adds nothing, and I would rather have the Nets (or whatever they get renamed) where they can help anchor a neighborhood and create value. And while I wouldn't have minded the Newark Nets, I don't want my tax dollars to pay for it, so I end up better off! I still think that, when they are clicking, watching KMart, Kidd and Jefferson running down the court is a beautiful thing, whether or not they play in NJ or NY. |
Hank Zona
Citizen
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 932
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 3:57 pm: | |
Howard,
If all three are running up and down the court together in Brooklyn is probably not likely. But when they are clicking, youre right, they are one of the more entertaining teams in basketball. Also, something I learned today in reading an article about the team, the Nets started in the ABA as the New Jersey Americans, playing in Teaneck for one season before moving to LI. |
parkbench87
Citizen
Username: Parkbench87
Post Number: 366
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 4:32 pm: | |
My first intro to basketball was to the NY Nets when they played in the ABA at Nassau Coliseum in the early-mid 70's with Dr J, Super John Williamson and Kevin Lougherry as coach. That was the team. Since then I was always a Net fan among Knick fans. |
Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 2376
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 4:47 pm: | |
I think moving a potentially major attraction such as a major league ball team to the area near Atlantic Avenue and Flatbush Avenue Extension will be a step in the right direction towards helping to vitalize the section of downtown Brooklyn close to the Academy of Music.
The neighborhood can definely use the boost and the proximity to so many subway lines and the LIRR will provide a good means of getting fans to the arena without overly clogging a very clogged Flatbush Avenue Extension with even more traffic.
I heard on the radio this morning that the Brooklyn Eagles was being proposed as the name of the new team. This is a fine name, evoking Brooklyn's early history. The team could do worse than being named after Brooklyn's foremost newspaper.
With a major league ball team to their credit, can Brooklyn's re-emergence as an independent city be far behind? |
ashear
Citizen
Username: Ashear
Post Number: 926
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 5:10 pm: | |
Does anyone really think this stadium will actually get built? |
ML1
Citizen
Username: Ml1
Post Number: 1492
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 5:24 pm: | |
if it does, it will cost double the projection. |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 1841
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 12:07 pm: | |
How about the Dodgers?
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
There is nothing
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Hank Zona
Citizen
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 933
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 12:15 pm: | |
Today's Ledger headline is that Newark wants a hockey/college hoops arena now to attract the Devils and Seton Hall and Big East and NCAA torunament basketball. Maybe we're not out of the woods yet.
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Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 2379
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 4:27 pm: | |
With the trolleys gone from Brooklyn streets, the name Trolley Dodgers no longer seems appropriate. Besides, there are many who would consider re-use of that name a sacrilege. |
viva
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Username: Viva
Post Number: 343
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 8:31 am: | |
Brooklyn Knights |
Chalmers
Citizen
Username: Chalmers
Post Number: 37
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 26, 2004 - 1:29 pm: | |
The Eminent Dominators |
sbenois
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Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 10657
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 10:39 pm: | |
Oh how I long to see Rick Barry take some of those glorious underhanded free throws. The NETS of the ABA days were an incredible team that could have played with the best of the NBA
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parkbench87
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Username: Parkbench87
Post Number: 367
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 2:47 pm: | |
Has anybody here seen my old friend Wendell? (Ladner)
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