Senator Kevin O’Toole, a member of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement regarding the decision by the National Basketball Association’s Nets to remove “New Jersey” from their road game uniforms:
“Enough is enough. New Jersey’s professional sports teams, the Nets, Jets and Giants, have no problem feeding at the taxpayer funded trough, yet seem to forget who their benefactors are when they order the teams’ uniforms.
“The taxpayers of this state have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into infrastructure upgrades in the Meadowlands where all the teams play their home games. Is it too much to ask that professional sports teams that benefit from the support of the New Jersey taxpayer recognize the state on their uniforms?
“These teams make hundreds of millions of dollars a year. They should not receive a single concession from the state until they get an attitude readjustment.
“As for the Nets ‘regionalization efforts,’ the last time I checked, ground hadn’t been broken on a new arena in Brooklyn.”
Link to Post:
http://www.senatenj.com/index.php/otoole/otoole-nets-should-keep-new-jersey-on-their-jerseys/3818
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