More on an upstate camp
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The Daily Record in New Jersey chatted up the mayor of Florham Park about the team’s possible move upstate, a story I broke here on Thursday:
Florham Park Mayor Scott Eveland said he had not heard from the Jets but said the team’s manager of facilities and the borough police chief have been working on logistics in preparation for training camp happening locally.
“In terms of the rumors about them having a training camp off site, to me, its not about politics, it’s about wins and loses,” Eveland said. “I’m a former football coach, and whatever Coach Ryan, the coaching staff and the organization thinks is in the best interest of the team, I would support.”
In other news, Erik Boland at Newsday dug up SUNY Cortland and Cornell as two sites the Jets scouted. Boland reports:
“They took their time and spent a few hours here,” college spokesman Pete Koryzno added in an interview Friday afternoon. “It was a pretty thorough visit. Hopefully we showed them what we hade to offer and hopefully they were impressed.”
Dan Pietrafesa at The Poughkeepsie Journal writes that the Jets should consider Marist.
“Marist is an ideal location for the Jets,” Pietrafesa writes. “The school’s new football stadium – Tenney Stadium at Leonidoff Field – opened in 2007 and can hold an estimated 5,000 fans. The school also has the space for two football fields at Gartland Athletic Fields, located down by the Hudson River near the Gartland Apartments. The Marist football team uses these fields in its preseason.”
He noted that the Jets have not contacted the school.
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Jane – It’s bad form to toot your own horn. Readers really don’t care who broke a story first, they just want the information.
Man if the Jets hold training camp at Cornell, I think I would have to go and check it out. That would be pretty awesome. The Bills practically hold training camp right in my back yard, but I can’t bring myself to go to one. A Jets training camp in Ithaca would be worth a short trip. It’s beautiful environment, if the Jets choose to go there.
I’d be so close I’d almost be able to walk over, whether it’s at Cornell or SUNY-Cortland. And I know SUNY-Cortland can really use the money, what with all the state budget cuts.
David,
A sorry end for SU. When they can’t miss from outside and you can’t hit from there, there’s no way you can win that game, no matter what your level of inside play is.
They were hot and we were cold-until too late.
Very disappointing.
Hey Alex,
That SU game was really depressing. Su came out flat and Okalhoma came out on fire…they never really had a chance, the way they played. My second pool sheet bit the dust when Pitt got knocked off last night. Oh well, now I can root for Oklahoma to beat NC, without thinking about pool sheets. A 14 year old friend of the family, who happens to be an NC fan, has been enjoying my misery a little too much. It’s time for him to get a little dose of his own…ha ha.
[...] Jane McManus does a little digging and finds that Florham Park is preparing as if the Jets will be home for the Summer. [...]
Jane.. It almost seems like nobody really cares about what the J*E*T*S do. We get so little comment about this team. The NY Rangers (who also only won 1 championship in over 60 years) and lost 2 straight got 839 post in the last 2 days. And they aren’t exactly tearing up the NHL. The J*E*T BLOG got about 110 post for the entire month. And many of the were conversations between Alex & David. Nothing personnel. Just trying to wake a sleeping J*E*T fan
No offense taken, Joe. Your point is valid. Things have been very quiet for a while; David and I don’t talk basketball or music when there’s real Jets’ news in the air. I guess since free agency settled down people have been just waiting for the draft to happen. At least the Rangers have been playing actual games as they slip down the NHL standings.
I’m sure things will pick up once the draft gets nearer.
Alex It is like when you are at the games and the J*E*T*S are leading. Take the Arizona game for example. When the 2nd half started you could hear a pin drop. Fireman Ed couldn’t even get the crowd back into the game. J*E*T fans are spur of the moment fans. What have you done for me lately fans. Hopefully you are right about the draft. But we will also agree and disagree about who they should pick. Looking forward to some more posts.
Cheers guys. I love your hunger, Joe. After this tournament ends, the only sporting news I will obssess on between now and the fall will be all the little developments in Jetsland. J-E-T-S!
The move upstate is depressing for me….Who knows, maybe it will be good for the team to get out of the tri-state region for a couple months…....Can the Jets draft Blake Griffin?
Erik,
Or Paul Harris! Now THERE’S an amazing specimen of humanity!
And Joe, you’re right about Jets’ fans getting quiet—or even heading out to their cars early! I just don’t get it, and it did not used to be that way when the Jets played at Shea. How did the fans get so spoiled? Maybe the average Jets fan is richer and more spoiled these days? As seat prices have climbed are we just gradually getting different fans?
A lot of rich people are super-practical; that’s how they got rich. I’d take windy old Shea and real middle-class fans anyday over what we have now. Even Shea is gone. Sigh!
When the J*E*T*S left Shea many original fans gave up thier tickets. They were from Bklyn, Queens, Manhattan, L.I. and Westchester. Many didn’t have cars to make the drive to N.J. They had short subway rides to the games. They felt with the move to NJ they were sold out. And playing at GIANT STADIUM, well. And now with the PSLs we will lose more of the ORIGINALS. My first game was at the Polo Grounds and my last will be at the Meadowlands. Mark my word “there will be BLACKOUTS. The NFL stand for No Free Loaders.
Lets not forget the Bronx too. They were all the Subway Brigade
Calm down everyone, Jet fans still have a lot of heart. I go to 5-6 games/year and I guarantee you that most of the true fanbase is blue collar. It is very different than the golf claps you hear at Giant games. There is simply nothing interesting to talk about these days….....I repeat, Jet fans are not yuppies (not yet atleast).