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It\u2019s that time of the year when a big inanimate sign with the Wrestlemania logo on it ends up being a bigger star on WWE programming than guys like Kofi Kingston, Santino Marella and the Great Khali.\u00a0 From January until the start of April, the John Cenas, CM Punks, Big Shows and Dolph Zigglers will stare dreamily at, or point at the sign which hangs high above the arenas in which these shows take place in.\u00a0 But the point of this post is not wrestling at all; it\u2019s about the Wrestlemania logo, or more specifically what is on the Wrestlemania logo.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cNY|NJ\u201d\u00a0 As in \u201cNew York | New Jersey.\u201d\u00a0 Which will be taking place at MetLife Stadium, which is located approximately in East Rutherford, wait for it, New Jersey.\u00a0 Not New York.\u00a0 No part of Wrestlemania will be taking place in the state of New York.\u00a0 100% of Wrestlemania will be taking place in the state of New Jersey.\u00a0 Yet the actual Wrestlemania logo goes as far as to integrate the Empire State Building into it as well, further adding to the absurdity that Wrestlemania is going to take place right in the heart of Times Square or something.<\/span><\/p>\n The bottom line is that I don\u2019t really understand why New Jersey so often needs or is unnecessarily given the crutch of New York to give it appeal.\u00a0 The irony is that I don\u2019t even really like New Jersey, but I still feel bad for the state for constantly being in this strange identity limbo that requires New York to be handcuffed to them in order to give them any notoriety.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wrestlemania is taking place in New Jersey, not New York.\u00a0 The New York Giants and New York Jets both play their home games at the aforementioned MetLife Stadium, which is puzzling why New York teams have to play in New Jersey instead of well, New York.\u00a0 Howard Stern managed to get\u00a0America\u2019s Got Talent<\/em>\u00a0moved to New York, only for it to actually film all of its finale episodes in Newark, New Jersey, and nowhere in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n This is like my vendetta against Korean restaurants that label themselves as \u201cKorean | Japanese.\u201d\u00a0 Because anyone with a quarter of a brain knows that the entire menu is going to be 99% Korean, with Asahi beer as the lone Japanese item in order to maintain true advertising.\u00a0 If you were to look at the other ends of the spectrums, there\u2019s no fucking way a Japanese restaurant is going to claim they have any Korean dishes at all, and any event actually taking place in New York isn\u2019t going to give a second thought to possibly giving the state of New Jersey a single iota of a mention.<\/span><\/p>\n I just don\u2019t get why anyone does this.\u00a0 I know it\u2019s all for marketing reasons, and to try and leech onto neighboring entities, but to me, such sentiment comes with the price of diluting the native territory.\u00a0 I have an objection to any Korean restaurant that feels the necessity to claim they have Japanese options, because they want to rope in weeaboos, because it\u2019s an insult to Korean cuisine.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s the dumbest thing that the Angels call themselves the \u201cLos Angeles Angels of Anaheim,\u201d despite the fact that they\u2019re based in Anaheim, and that their most successful season ever was one of the few years they were just the \u201cAnaheim Angels.\u201d\u00a0 If I\u2019m a hypothetical proud resident of New Jersey, then I cringe, whine and bitch anytime something in New Jersey has to be followed by the condemning \u201c\/New York\u201d at the end of it, because every time that happens, it\u2019s a slight to the state of New Jersey.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s weird to me too, because I\u2019d have to hypothesize that New Jersey should have turned into a place capable of holding itself up on its own two feet by at least now.\u00a0 Especially with as much pop culture to have emerged from the state, be it the Kevin Smith universe,\u00a0Harold and Kumar<\/em>, to even\u00a0Jersey Shore<\/em>, it\u2019s not like smart people aren\u2019t aware that New Jersey exists on its own.\u00a0 Why so many corporate entities feel the need to dilute the identity of New Jersey by handcuffing it to New York is clearly beyond me.<\/span><\/p>\n Speaking of New York, on a different topic, New York is a funny place in a regard that makes them a lot like Virginia.\u00a0 Much like Virginia, to those who live in Northern Virginia, the state ends once you leave say, Prince William County.\u00a0 Despite the fact that there are still hundreds of miles separating the start of ROVA until you get to Tennessee or North Carolina, it\u2019s really not Virginia anymore.\u00a0 It\u2019s the same way with New York, in that once you hit White Plains, pretty much anything further north is considered \u201cupstate.\u201d\u00a0 Never mind the fact that from White Plains, there\u2019s still about 300 miles due north until you hit Canada, but who cares, it\u2019s not really as New York as say, New York City is.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t really count.<\/span><\/p>\n But anyway, as I said before, the ironic thing is that I don\u2019t even like New Jersey.\u00a0 But even I still feel bad for them that this keeps happening to them.\u00a0 Whenever someone unnecessarily attaches \/New York to anything regarding New Jersey, it\u2019s almost like when non-black people go all white knight, and fervently take offense to racism against black folks; decent attempt, but terrible, unnecessary execution.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s that time of the year when a big inanimate sign with the Wrestlemania logo on it ends up being a bigger star on WWE programming than guys like Kofi Kingston, Santino Marella and the Great Khali.\u00a0 From January until the start of April, the John Cenas, CM Punks, Big Shows and Dolph Zigglers will … Continue reading It must suck to be New 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