People from New Jersey sincerely have a complex.
If you ask them where they are from, no one will ever say “Jersey” or the city the actually live in; it’s either New York or Philly.
Why would anyone want to claim they’re from Jersey? It’s been called America’s armpit, the Daily Show once tried to come up with a slogan for the state, decided the only good thing is how you can quickly drive through to get to New York City or Philadelphia.
They settled on “One day is enough” as the official new slogan for New Jersey.
Even if you search “New Jersey” the first thing that pops up on Youtube.com is the legendary My New Haircut video, the ultimate video that sums up everything you’d ever need to know about what happens in the Garden State.
Back in the dirty Jersey for the first time in two years, I really have forgotten about this phenomenon of wanting to be from elsewhere, but for this specific weekend, the complex has been taken to new heights.
Even where people live within the state was in question. Hanging out before heading out to the bar, one of my brothers’ friends was saying that he hates the bad wrap about being from north Jersey.
The thing is, everyone on the bus was yelling at him that he’s from central Jersey. Maybe I don’t have too much room to talk; I went to the University of South Florida, which is located in Tampa, which is definitely not South Florida, but whatever.
Every possible battle for territory in sports between the two cities is taking place on Halloween and Nov. 1.
And the Star-Ledger, a newspaper that serves central Jersey did a profile about the exact midpoint between Yankee Stadium and Citizens Bank Park. Where they filmed this clip is in the neighborhood where my cousin lives.
The general consensus is Trenton and south is considered south Jersey, meaning most people are Philly fans and New Brunswick and north is north Jersey and most people are New York fans.
Where I’m staying is right in that grey area in between and it truly is 50-50 everywhere you
Obviously, the state of Jersey is torn as are two of our writers Bucky Chini (die hard Philly fan) and Brendan Galella (die hard New York fan) and overall, it looks like Philly has a leg up so far.
For the first time since 1950 the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Yankees are squaring off for the World Series championship.
On Saturday night, New York took a 2-1 series advantage behind Andy Pettite and a two-run home run from the suddenly clutch Alex Rodriguez.
Brad Lidge: As useless as a poopy flavored lollipop.
However, the Phillies, with help from 2009 Blown-Save King, Brad “I only needed one good year” Lidge, have their back’s against the wall after a loss on Sunday night.
The Philadelphia Eagles absolutely dominated the New York Giants at home, even without star running back Brian Westrbook.
Last night, the New York Knicks rallied from a 23-point deficit and dropped 41 points in the fourth quarter to for overtime against Philadelphia. The 76ers then outscore the Knicks 19-5 to ruin New York’s home opener.
Seriously, the final score was 141-127 in overtime. Reading that online hurt my head, how can you get crushed like that in overtime? Oh yeah, the Knicks were involved. Now it makes sense.
Really the only thing missing was the Flyers and Rangers facing off, but since hockey really isn’t that relevant anyway, the weekend isn’t lacking at all.
All you can say is it’s a great weekend to be a sports fan and Jersey is in the middle of it all.
