Rivalries Take to the Rails
November 17th 2007 02:52 pm
Even the NCS gets a plug on the New York Times sports page…
By GEORGE VECSEY
Published: November 18, 2007Newark
The woman was in the heartland of the opponent, wearing a fancy orange and blue jacket commemorating the four Stanley Cups won by the Islanders, albeit a quarter of a century ago.
“New York?” she shouted. “Is this the train to New York?”
It was, indeed. Parallel steel rails now connect the three hockey franchises in the area. The tripartite rivalry can never match the days when the Brooklyn Dodgers, the New York Giants and the Bronx Yankees were all connected by subway lines — ask your grandfather — but it gets people out of the swamps, and that is something.
Bob Scheurle responded on 17 Nov 2007 at 3:31 pm #
Once again, the Times gets it wrong. There is no rail service to the Nassau Coliseum.
E-44 responded on 17 Nov 2007 at 9:10 pm #
Oddly, that is mentioned later in the article. But never let the facts stand in the way of a punchy headline. In most newspapers, the article writer does not author the headline. Not that this absolves the newspaper from getting the facts straight, though.