The NJSEA is looking at various companies to replace the naming rights to former Continental Airlines Arena, CAA. AN EARLIER POST of mine back at the end of August details the Devils move from the Meadowlands to the Prudential Center. I also mentioned that the NJSEA should begin to realize that the Meadowlands is going to be left with two football teams and Xanadu very shortly. I feel that CAA should not be allowed to host events and compete with the Prudential Center. New Jersey had 25 years to build better mass transportation to the sports arenas in that area off the NJ Turnpike. Unfortunately, they never completed it in time for team owners to sell the Nets and move the Nets to Brooklyn and and Devils to Newark respectively. I really hope that the Nets do not end up moving to Brooklyn, way too far from my parent's household in Bergen County, N.J. The Prudential Center will be ready soon enough and it would be great for both New Jersey teams to move there. I am really excited about the Devils new arena and do the Nets really want to move to Brooklyn? At least, new owner Bruce Ratner wants to move his team there. From SPORTS ILLUSTRATED George Zoffinger, CEO of the authority, said a tour of the arena by potential bidders earlier this month didn't go as well as expected. "With the uncertainty of the building, it's a very difficult sell," he said. Zoffinger, I hope that you lose your job, and your pension. The state should not have to pay such a moron, whose only focus was on his money and not the people involved. On top of that, the arenas that are currently be built or future projects are earning lucrative naming rights, this according to SI. "Barclays Bank PLC announced in January it would spend as much as $400 million over the next 20 years to put its name on the new pro basketball arena planned as the Nets' future home in Brooklyn. The 18,000-seat facility designed by the architect Frank Gehry will be called The Barclays Center. Prudential Financial Inc. will pay $105.3 million over 20 years, for the right to call the Devils' new arena the Prudential Center." The greatest thing is that the Nets arena is not even built, for at least two or three more years. Zoffinger, where were you when these contracts should have been offered to a new Continental Airlines Arena with mass transportation, including NJ Transit, from New York City? Oh. That's right. Sleeping

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