u/wallcrawlingspidey

Obviously I’m talking about the World Cup here now since it just started (although I know other events have this issue) but people love to say a MetLife game is in ‘New York’, ‘near New York’, ‘New York area’ or whatever. We are in 2026 man and people still act like it being in NJ is a curse. From constant articles, gov officials, etc everyone says it. And on the same topic, I found it sillier they changed the stadium name to ‘New York New Jersey Stadium’ for this event, like who the hell in both states wanted that? Is it THAT confusing to international folks who travel here??

I get NYers have always shat on Jersey whether friendly or serious jokes and totally understand this state is boring in comparison but it’s gotta come to a point where they grow balls and acknowledge us. What gives?!

“We try not to view it from either of those angles,” Adams said. “We’re not trying to make one camp happy and the other camp miserable. We don’t think of it that way. We’re just like, ‘Hey, this is Lara. This is who she is and this is the icon that we’ve come to know. How do we bring her into the most fully focused version that she’s ever been presented in?’ She’s Lara. She is the icon for a reason. So we just want to do justice to her.”

Beautiful to read. Lara is as gorgeous as ever, I wish everyone thought the same.