2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey teased that one of his dreams is to declare the New York Giants the New Jersey Giants if they were to win a Super Bowl during his hypothetical presidency.
“But should I become president of the United States, and the stars in the universe line up, and my team is the Super Bowl champions that year, I’m telling you right now, when they’re in the White House, I will turn to the world and say — it won’t be a slip of the tongue — I will say, ‘I am proud to be here with the New Jersey Giants. At that point, I figure I will have swagger, Secret Service, the nuclear codes. Are they really going to step to me and correct me?” Booker said on an episode of “Fired Up with Brad Jenkins.”
Jenkins, a former aide to President Barack Obama, agreed with Booker, saying no one would question it and saying that New York’s “got enough,” including claiming the Brooklyn Nets in 2012. The Nets were previously the New Jersey Nets from 1977 to 2012.
“New York takes everything, even the mayors. Ed Koch was born in Jersey,” Booker said. “Listen, 700,000 of my people from Jersey commute to New York. We are driving that city. I don’t beg for anything. It’s not a beg, it’s a demand.”
Booker is a Giants fan and claims he has talked to the Giants’ ownership, but nothing came of it. Booker emphasizes that the only actual New York team to play in the state is the Buffalo Bills, which plays in Buffalo. The Jets and the Giants both share MetLife Stadium, originally known as New Meadowlands Stadium, which was constructed in 2010 and sold the naming rights to MetLife insurance in 2011. It is the only NFL stadium shared by two teams and is located in East Rutherford, New Jersey, where both teams have played since the mid-1980s.
“The Bills are the only true New York team,” Booker said.
