My father in law and brother in law are Rangers fans. It gets weird sometimes.
GDT: Flyers @ Devils - Stadium Series Game! - 8:00 PM - ABC, ESPN+
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My father in law and brother in law are Rangers fans. It gets weird sometimes.
ZachaFlockaFlame
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Doesn't help I was born in NYC and went to college at Hofstra which was right near Nassau Coliseum, lol.
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ZachaFlockaFlame
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I love my Rags buddies since I grew up and played hockey with them but boy was the series in 2012/last year some of the most toxic group chats I've been in
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The Devils have ruined my mood this season enough to not even consider going tonight (plus I was already at the 2014 fiasco, and this is a night game on top of it). I didn't even realize the odd 'homecoming' aspect of it until I think it was Eddy that pointed out it was our first game back at the Meadowlands since the move, which is less of a selling point since it's even harder to get to that dump now lolAnyone going to the game tonight, have fun. I was contemplating going but the Jets have ruined my mood going to that stadium enough so I passed on it.
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Yeah, the Yankee stadium game also ruined my mood to going to it. And it's way harder to get back from MetLife that it is Yankee stadium for me so I passed. Definitely thinking about saving for their Prague games since that's legitimately once in a lifetime imo
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May that thief end up getting diarrhea.
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At least it can't possibly be WORSE than that game was...6-3 after two periods against the Rangers with intense snow flurries kicking in, I peaced out in the second intermission - at least in part out of paranoia my car would be buried under snow at the train station.
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All I remember is the garlic fries, hot cocoa, frostbite and Eric Gelinas giving up like 6 2 on 1's that game.
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Bratt would go to the bench and be like :Knowing Ruff and how the season has gone, the boys will still be in the locker room when the puck drops.
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I'll be there in 338 or 202, not exactly sure yet. We'll be tailgating up close too.
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Am I remembering correctly that the Meadowlands is next to that monstrosity of a mall that took 25 years to build?
We are going to be in 224 now that our tickets were “unexpectedly reassigned”.
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I wasn't even sure if they ever finished it or not lol...part of me does want to go once just to see it though it's at least 40 minutes away from where I live but there probably isn't parking there either.
Last time I was even at MetLife was for a Jets-Phins game before the pandemic, can't say I've been dying to go to games at the giant air conditioner in general (I call it that cause that's quite frankly what it looks like from the outside), that's one of the worst new-ish stadiums you could possibly concoct.
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Last Jets game I went to was the Eagles Jets when Minshew and Goedert burned us, lol. That place is just so damn dreary to be at. I'm sure Devils fans will have a great time today but the football aspect ruins it for me lol
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The Meadowlands was a good looking complex for most of my earlier life. I thought Giants Stadium was a fine looking building. The arena looked much like those late 70s/early 80s built arena. Not many of those are still around, since almost every currentl NBA and NHL building were built in the 90s and later. Other than MSG and the Saddledome, which are both unique looking in their own ways. MSG is ugly, but I love the way the Saddledome looks and the slope that is the roof.
The new stadium is super ugly on the outside. Looks like it wasn't finished and it's just the steel frame. It almost looks like some of speedways in NASCAR/stock car racing.
I think it looks cool on the interior. The stands look pretty cool or at least okay, relative to the outside of the building.
I think I've only been there once and it was for supercross in 2014 when I was visiting.
The new stadium is super ugly on the outside. Looks like it wasn't finished and it's just the steel frame. It almost looks like some of speedways in NASCAR/stock car racing.
I think it looks cool on the interior. The stands look pretty cool or at least okay, relative to the outside of the building.
I think I've only been there once and it was for supercross in 2014 when I was visiting.
Yes it’s there. My cousin even pointed out how ugly it is from the highway as we drove by.
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It still boggles my mind that AT&T in Dallas opened a year before MetLife.....
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I know they even put up a new grandstand at the racetrack. I can't remember what it looks like though and if it's ugly or not.
That mall was butt of a lot of New Jersey jokes for years before it was completed. I remember that ski slope launch thing (I guess that's what it is?) was constructed fairly early on. Maybe even before the new stadium went up? Or at least most of it was, it wasn't really finished. The Devils had already moved out of the complex by the time it really started to look like an eyesore. Construction was just getting started at the end of our time there.
Actually, I remember a bunch of stuff going up at some point between the lockout because there were fewer parking spaces in 2005 than there were when we had last been able to see games there in the Spring of 2004.
That mall was butt of a lot of New Jersey jokes for years before it was completed. I remember that ski slope launch thing (I guess that's what it is?) was constructed fairly early on. Maybe even before the new stadium went up? Or at least most of it was, it wasn't really finished. The Devils had already moved out of the complex by the time it really started to look like an eyesore. Construction was just getting started at the end of our time there.
Actually, I remember a bunch of stuff going up at some point between the lockout because there were fewer parking spaces in 2005 than there were when we had last been able to see games there in the Spring of 2004.
I like the cold but I really don't care about tailgating and having to get here so early. I like leaving late and rolling right in before the anthems start. Bless Prudential, this makes me appreciate it so much more.
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It's definitely a unique stadium, but probably for the wrong reasons.
There's a lot of stadiums and arenas from certain eras that look the same.
I think literally all 3 of the Florida NFL stadiums looked identical at one point or at least the shapes of the building were.
I know they've since totally revamped Joe Robbie/Pro Player/Dolphin/Land Shark/Whatever stadium from it's original structure. They may have even put a dome on it or maybe it's one of those domes that isn't an actual dome like the old Texas stadium, where it was kind of enclosed, but didn't cover the field.
Raymond James in Tampa and the Jaguars stadium in Jacksonville looked a lot alike. I think they're doing a similar reconstruction project in Jacksonville from what I've heard?
A lot of the old college football stadiums also looked very similar.
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That mall rules. I went last year, because I love the hypercapitalistic experience of a mega mall. It's like something Baudrillard had nightmares about.
It's got a full themepark, waterpark, indoor ski mountain, etc. I played outer space themed glow in the dark mini golf there. Half of the retail locations within weren't even rented out yet. You'd walk two hundred feet and only see an H&M or something.
It is absolutely a hellscape both indoors and out but I can't wait to go back. Calling it American Dream is so on the nose but so appropriate. Intense philosophical college courses could be taught about that place.
It's got a full themepark, waterpark, indoor ski mountain, etc. I played outer space themed glow in the dark mini golf there. Half of the retail locations within weren't even rented out yet. You'd walk two hundred feet and only see an H&M or something.
It is absolutely a hellscape both indoors and out but I can't wait to go back. Calling it American Dream is so on the nose but so appropriate. Intense philosophical college courses could be taught about that place.
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Yeah MetLife is famous for all the wrong reasons, it's a shame that West Side Stadium was never built but got rejected due to "traffic".....which boggles my mind also, lol. The amount of revenue that stadium would've created would've been next level and you wouldn't even have to drive to the game with the train stations leading right there
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I’ll be watching from the warm comfort of my home.
It would really suck to lose this game…
It would really suck to lose this game…
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