GIANTS & JETS ‘JERSEYS’
They’re NJ teams: suit
It’s quite a Hail Mary! A pair of New York football fans have called an audible in their piein-the-sky $6 billion class-action lawsuit against the Jets, Giants and the National Football League.
They’ve amended their suit that initially demanded both teams pack their pads and leave the Garden State for the Big Apple.
Now they’re making a slightly more manageable request: The teams can stay in New Jersey but must dump “New York” from their names.
“New York City is the Big Apple, home of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, Wall Street and the stock market, Broadway musicals ticker-tape parades . . .,” says the amended Manhattan federal court complaint filed last month.
“MetLife Stadium is located in the swamps of East Rutherford, NJ . . . which has a population under 10,000, the 116th largest city in New Jersey. It’s not exactly an exciting and romantic destination[,] and the Giants, Jets and MetLife Stadium have absolutely no connection whatsoever with the city, county or state of New York.”
The Giants fled the Empire State for not-so-greener pastures at the Meadowlands in 1976, and the Jets
followed eight years later. Both teams now share MetLife Stadium (pictured above) after previously playing at the Meadowlands in former Giants Stadium.
Plaintiffs Abdiell Suero and Maggie Wilkins insist they were duped by false advertising and other fraudulent deceptive practices into believing the Giants and Jets still played in New York and shelled out some significant green to see Big Blue and Gang Green play at MetLife Stadium.
Suero, who describes himself as an avid football fan, told The Post he was shocked a few years back when he found out his beloved Giants actually called East Rutherford home. By then it was too late because he had already bought tickets.
The Manhattan-based financial representative quipped the experience was as unbearable as watching Joe Judge coach the Giants the past few years — and the schlep to MetLife made the experience even worse.
“I spent more time traveling to get to the game than the game actually lasted,” said Suero, 32, the lone plaintiff in the original complaint filed in January.
After the league and clubs laughed off the request for the teams to return to New York, the complaint was amended late last month with the new demand.