Comments | mumbly_joe: There, I said it.

mumbly_joe

There, I said it.

Jul 30, 2009 22:27

If the best thing your state has going for it is that it contains stadiums for sports teams with other states' names attached to them, then your state officially sucks. You are officially the storage locker state.

Thank you for your time.

jersey sucks, flamebait

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mumbly_joe July 31 2009, 11:29:13 UTC

I think that's actually the opposite of the situation I'm describing. I personally also grant that the Patriots are all of New England's to be crestfallen over.

However, it's not like Fenway Park is out in Rhode Island, but the Boston Red Sox still the Red Sox, because that's the only place where there was lots of open space that was otherwise going to get used for a chemical plant or a highway or a diner or some shit like that.

Seriously. A state is just sad if the only thing it has to brag about is its proximity to a better state and the fact that it holds some of that other state's stuff for it sometimes. It would be like if I bragged about how I used to room with [insert famous guy's name here] and once he asked to borrow a hundred dollars from me, and I NEVER STOPPED TALKING ABOUT IT EVER.

deanominator August 1 2009, 01:48:53 UTC

haha!

think_too_much August 1 2009, 05:58:09 UTC

I mean the Giants are awesome and all, and really are the only thing NYC-area sports has going for itself right now (though noted Jersey-based and Jersey-named teams Devils and Rutgers come close), seriously various better things mah state has going for it:

*It saved all y'alls asses during the winter of 1776, when the British were running roughshod over NY, and Washington crossed the Delaware to kick the shit out of some Hessians and Redcoats at Trenton and Princeton, and basically saved America from not existing. If it was up to New York, we'd all still be saluting the Queen.

(Yeah, sure, they had Saratoga some time later, but a) that was upstate, b) Benedict Arnold was the hero of that battle, and c) it was later- you don't get the Jerseyans defending their turf, and NY doesn't get that chance to feebly save face which we so generously provided.)

* Your corrupt pols flip the gerrymandered-for-maximum-pain State Senate to the Republicans, fucking over the city's citizens in the process. Our corrupt pols accept Apple Jacks ( ... )