Would you wear the word New Jersey proudly across your chest? The New Jersey Devils do, and they’re sticking it to that other home-state team, the New Jersey Nets, which has removed the words New Jersey from its, uh, away jerseys. The Devils have proclaimed their state pride with a billboard over I-78 — a not-so-subtle knock at the Nets.
The Star Ledger yesterday chimed in with its own disdain, in an editorial titled “The Nowhere Nets.”

Basically, they’re saying: “When we’re in New Jersey, we’d rather be in Brooklyn, and when we’re on the road, we don’t want anyone to know we’re still from New Jersey.”
So, while New Jersey pours millions of tax dollars into Izod Center to prop it up for the Nets, the NBA team repays the state with disrespect.

It’s enough to make you want to send Tony Soprano over to teach someone a lesson.
But the New Jersey Devils are kind of stuck with New Jersey, aren’t they? After all, they picked a piece of NJ folklore as their name. Nets, they wash up on the beach anywhere.
Photo courtesy NJ Devils.

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