TruColor Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 On the FanHome board, they're discussing the news that the New Jersey Nets are more than likely moving to a new arena that's being proposed in Brooklyn.What do y'all think?Some of you should start coming up with some new logos...maybe I'll come up with some new color combinations (about the only thing I'm good for)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitroseed Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Why bother? They have a great look and a great logo. No offense to anyone who lives there, but New Jersey doesn't deserve something so attractive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoneranger Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Never ever think that color isn't important!"Draftsmen may be made, but colorists are born"-Delacroix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waffles Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 This is incredibly awesome...I live about 20-or-so blocks away from the proposed arena site.Finally, a basketball team I can call my own (Besides, of course, the Orangemen).This is truly great day for Brooklyn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JQK Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 No offense to anyone who lives there, but New Jersey doesn't deserve something so attractive.I should crack your skull open for that remark... as much as i would want to come up with a new identity for a Brooklyn basketball team, i simply can't do it, based on principle. How can i make a new look for a team i don't want to move? Stay Tuned Sports Podcast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Discrim Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 in defense of keeping the Nets in Jersey, they finally get their identity right, they are finally good and now all this talk about moving to brooklyn. Â it'd be nice to have a team in brooklyn, but now ain't the time. A strong mind gets high off success, a weak mind gets high off bull Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waffles Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 in defense of keeping the Nets in Jersey, they finally get their identity right, they are finally good and now all this talk about moving to brooklyn. it'd be nice to have a team in brooklyn, but now ain't the time.They've won the Eastern Conference two years in a row, they have one of the best and most marketable players in the NBA...and they hardly ever sell out their arena. I'd say there's no time like the present...When I was at Stephon Marbury's homecoming game, the guy in the row behind me said the crowd there was buzzing more than he'd ever heard a Nets crowd buzz, even (and especially) during the playoffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JQK Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 And Brooklyn Will be different? You'll still have the supremely overpriced tickets no one will buy, and what will you do when the team sucks-on-ice again? Hmmmm? Leave Jersey alone, we're a better home for the Nets than Brooklyn. THe Nets players will go to Brooklyn for their crack and dank, that should be good enough...(and before anyone asks.. yes.. i'm am in a *shampooed* up mood tonight... so if i wind up starting a fight.. i apologize for kicking you ass in advance...)MOD note! Â Â - Â Watch the swears, honey bear! Â I'm not a fan of tip-toeing around the blocks I've set up... shanks!! Stay Tuned Sports Podcast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bods39 Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 I haven't read anything about this proposed site andwhy they want to do it, but I don't see Brooklyn as beingvery convenient for fans to get to. Especially when thebiggest percentage of your fan base will be in another state.At least MSG is central for commuting. This whole deal reeksof future money loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waffles Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 ...what will you do when the team sucks-on-ice again?Stick with the team we root for.New Yorkers, by and large, are NOT fair-weather fans (not that Jersey fans neccesarily are...)I'm not even gonna touch the "Crack" comment... :angry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JQK Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 You can't steal out team once they have become good. We've waited forever for this moment. We've been Teased, we had the great Drazen Petrovic, who would have definatly madethe Nets an immediate contender, and was well on his way to doing so, before he was killed on the Autobaun, we had Derock Coleman who did Nothing, O'Bannon who did nothing, then we got Kittles, who was doing nothing, the we got Marbury, who did nothing with the Nets, then Kid, and i rember the day it happened, and holly crap, everyone just decided to play. Kidd did something no one else could, he made the Nets watchable. You can't steal them now. We suffered with them, now we should celebrate them, not the Brooklyn Nets. Why don't you try and get the Dodgers... Stay Tuned Sports Podcast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waffles Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 We suffered with them, now we should celebrate them, not the Brooklyn Nets.I assume by "we" you mean you and the other 15,000* Nets fans who regularly attend games in their 20,000 seat arena.*source: http://slam.canoe.ca/StatsBKP/BC-BKP-STAT-NEWJERSEYATTCOMP-R.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JQK Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 and? You think they would sell out every night in Brooklyn? They will have the same, if not worse attendance. Most of the league has average attendance... Stay Tuned Sports Podcast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rheistad Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 guys this is the logo board either desing a logo for the brooklyn team or move this to the apropriate board Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JQK Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 rheistad, although you are right, shut up. Â Â :: Stay Tuned Sports Podcast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rheistad Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 sorry, that was the wanting of being an moderator in me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waffles Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 and? You think they would sell out every night in Brooklyn? They will have the same, if not worse attendance. Most of the league has average attendance...Brooklyn is a larger market than northern New Jersey (It'd be the 4th largest city in the USA if it weren't part of NYC), they'd have access to Long Island fans and it would be at a MAJOR public transportation hub (with access to the Long Island Rail Road and about 10 subway lines within reasonable walking distance, in sharp contrast to the swamps of the Meadowlands).No two-time defending Eastern Conference champion should have trouble getting 3/4ths of their arena filled, especially when they look like the odds-on favorite to win the East again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JQK Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Northern NJ is one of the largest markets in the US. If Brooklynites wanna see the Nets, make the trip. Stay Tuned Sports Podcast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Most of the league has average attendance...Not to be a jerk or anything, but isn't that basically what an average is?Brooklyn SpidersBrooklyn BroncosBrooklyn CitySharkz Brooklyn ThunderBrooklyn Bridges The Swing of the Big Apple I'm not completely familiar with the geographic layout of New York, so I won't start using names of other boroughs, lest they actually be more the Knicks' stomping grounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JQK Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 By average i mean that not every team sells out every game, there are always empty seats, especially in a working-class market like Northern NJ, most people can't afford to go. And even with the high prices, and driving the turnpike to get there, the place still gets 15k, 17k attendances. The average right now is 13,911, and that's not bad, circumstances considered. I'll guarentee you that Brooklyn will not do any better with attendance. May even do worse considering the Knicks have a firmer hold on a fanbase in Brooklyn than in NJ. Stay Tuned Sports Podcast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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