OT: NJ's pathetic attendance

[barfo]

What does it mean that the arena's in a swamp? Is it sinking like quicksand? Does a moat surround it? Is it on a little island? Is it Louisiana marsh with Florida alligators? Or is it a drained, former English bog that is now a mudflat, with no plants? Give me a picture in words so I'll understand.

Seems like no matter how bare the ground is, someone driving on a road to the giant parking lot will see only pavement. Why does everyone complain the arena's in a swamp?

I think it is mostly metaphorical nowadays, the swamp has been drained/paved over for the most part. And yet the greater Secaucus area (where I've had the dubious pleasure of spending a few weeks over the years) still has the swampland feel. Not the Louisiana fertile swamp, more a vast tidal flat with sucking mud and very little vegetation above the waterline, and the smell of rotting things. That's metaphorically. If you had a scratch-n-sniff picture, it would look and smell like Beaverton.

barfo

 

[THE HCP]

When you drive around out there it is nothing but train yards, factories, dumps and swampland. Basically a wasteland. I'll take pics next month.

 

[barfo]

When you drive around out there it is nothing but train yards, factories, dumps and swampland. Basically a wasteland. I'll take pics next month.

Like I said, Beaverton.

barfo

 

[jlprk]

So the place is a drained swamp, a smelly mudflat. Before they construct on it, they probably need to wait a century to let it air out. Thanks, Barfo and The!

Nice picture, Boob. Ah yes, it was the Brendan Byrne Arena, then the Continental Airlines Arena, now Izod. I probably wore one of the first shirts with that little alligator sewn onto it, 30 years ago. It looked like a blue Star Trek shirt with brown trim stripes on the round collar and cuffs. I don't know what happened to it, because the only clothes in my closet are from the 70s, including all my other shirts from then. My undershirts are too, more holes than cloth. My underwear is the only thing that didn't survive in my wardrobe. Just too many rips. They're tied to the lawn mower handle, caked in green mud now. Still useful to wipe my brow while mowing.

 

[jlprk]

Why did thinking about a swamp remind me that soon I'll have to be mowing my lawn?

 

[Wheels]

I watched the blazers play there on a sunday afternoon and about half of the seats were empty. Most people I know in Tulsa hate the NBA.

interesting.. must have just been saving face to get a team there then I wonder.

 

[jlprk]

I watched the blazers play there on a sunday afternoon and about half of the seats were empty. Most people I know in Tulsa hate the NBA.

I wish I'd had your testimony when I argued with Okies on the ESPN Sonics board a year or two ago. I'd compare populations of metropolitan Seattle to OKC, so they'd include Tulsa, so I'd look up on Streets & Trips that the driving distance is too long for a work night, so the argument went on and on for years...There was this one religious guy who just hated it when I kept saying they all rode burros and the arena parking lot smelled like dung from all the parked burros, and during the game they left their sombreros outside in the arena parking lot as orange traffic cones, and the lonely prospectors brought their burros into town to find a preacher so their Little Eeeyore would be brought up in a proper family, and this went on for years and years of the struggle to keep the Sonics....I once found links to prove that the Dust Bowl during the Depression was caused by the stupidity of Oklahomans, and another time I proved via Wikipedia that Oklahoma had caused the US Government to cancel the Boeing SST contract, after the SuperSonics had just been named after the SST....there were a couple hundred other threads...one of the many unselfish causes that I have devoted my life to writing about...

 

[jlprk]

Here ya go. My original research found this in my years of arguments with Okies. Oklahoma caused the US not to make the SuperSonic Transport, soon after the NBA SuperSonics had been named, ruining the idea behind the team name. So what did Oklahoma do? Steal the team 35 years later. Was it planned? I accused those thieving Okie trolls on the ESPN Sonics board and the arguments went on and on...Some of them liked me...Some couldn't figure me out...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_sonic_boom_tests
It's in the last paragraph.