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  Giants Stadium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Giants Stadium is the home stadium for the New York Giants and New York Jets NFL football teams, and the MetroStars of Major League Soccer.
The New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League moved to Giants Stadium for the 1977 season and remained until the league folded in 1985.
Other professional football teams that have called Giants Stadium home over the years include the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League; the New York/New Jersey Knights of the World League of American Football; and the New York/New Jersey Hitmen of the XFL.
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 New Jersey Generals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The New Jersey Generals were a franchise of the United States Football League (USFL), established in 1982 to begin play in the spring and summer of 1983.
Home uniforms featured red jerseys with white numbers trimmed in royal blue, with numbers on the sleeves and no striping; pants were white with a single wide red stripe trimmed in blue down the sides from hip to knee.
The Generals responded to their poor 1983 showing with an influx of veteran NFL talent for 1984, including quarterback Brian Sipe, defensive back Gary Barbaro, and linebackers Jim LeClair and Bob Leopold.
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 New Jersey Sports Teams of the Past
Jersey City's minor league baseball team in the Eastern League (1902 - 1911) and the International League (1912 - 1915 and 1918 - 1933).
New Jersey's last entry in baseball's Triple-A International League, the Jerseys began play midseason in 1960 when the Havana Sugar Kings fled Cuba for Jersey City.
New Jersey's team in the Eastern Basketball Association (EBA) from 1977 through 1978, and the Continental Basketball Association from 1978 through 1979.
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 New Jersey Churchscape - book reviews
As usual, New Jersey is under-represented—I think I counted only 2 or 3 churches from our state in the book—but that seems to be the general consensus regarding the merit of our religious architecture.
New Jersey photographer George Tice is best known as an urban romantic, the title of one of his later books and the subject of his current exhibit at the International Center of Photography in New York (it runs only through September 1).
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 New Jersey Generals -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The New Jersey Generals were a franchise of the (Click link for more info and facts about United States Football League) United States Football League (USFL), established in 1982 to begin play in the spring and summer of 1983.
The team was purchased by New York real-estate magnate (Click link for more info and facts about Donald Trump) Donald Trump prior to the 1984 season.
The 1985 Generals finished 11-7 behind Walker's pro football-record 2,411 rushing yards but lost again to the Stars (transplanted to (The largest city in Maryland; a major seaport and industrial center) Baltimore) in the first round of the playoffs, 20-17.
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 This is the USFL 1984 New Jersey Generals
When the smoke cleared and it was all said and done, the Generals took the field against Birmingham on February 26th 1984 and it was easy to tell hat this squad was head and shoulder pads above the team that finished the season in Boston the season before leaving with their tail between their legs.
The 1984 Generals were a team of stars, a complete group that consisted of young players and a sprinkling of veterans still very capable of doing the job on the gridiron.
Two measures of the new unit's effectiveness were in the fact that New Jersey suffered only 20 quarterback sacks and the Generals running backs Walker and Maurice Carthon each rushed for more than 1000 yards each, becoming just the fourth set of RB's in pro football history at that time to have achieved that milestone.
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 The War for Independence in New Jersey - The Revolutionary War in North Jersey
The Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly, Cortlandt Skinner, who cast the deciding vote to petition King George for redress of grievances, served the loyalist forces as a Brigadier General.
New Jersey farmers formed roving bands and began to harass the British forces and Hessian foragers.
General Howe was attacked on his return from a meeting with Cornwallis by five farmers, one of whom were killed.
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 New Jersey Reporter Home
As ringleader of the small states, New Jersey played a crucial role every step of the way, and it was David Brearley who, at a moment of crisis, brought home a Constitution that would be a model for the world.
New Jersey State League of Municipalities: 90th Annual Conference to be held at the Atlantic City Convention Center.
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 Flag of New Jersey
The State Flag of New Jersey includes the emblem from the official State Seal of New Jersey on a buff-colored background.
According to the minutes of the New Jersey General Assembly for March 11, 1896, the buff color is due indirectly to George Washington, who had ordered on October 2, 1779, that the uniform coats of the New Jersey Continental Line be dark (Jersey) blue, with buff facings.
Then, on February 28, 1780, the Continental War Officers in Philadelphia directed that all regiments were to have state flags, with the background colors of the state flags the same as their uniform coat facings.
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 Giants Stadium
Giants Stadium is bounded by Route 120, the Continental Airlines Arena and the New Jersey Turnpike on the east, Route 3 on the south, Berry’s Creek and Route 17 on the west and Paterson Plank Road on the north.
The 800 events held annually at the Complex generate some $950 million in economic activity in the region, support tens of thousands of jobs, and provide tens of millions of dollars of direct revenue to the state.
The NJSEA was created by the New Jersey legislature in 1971 and is the governing body which oversees the operations of Continental Airlines Arena, Giants Stadium, Meadowlands Racetrack and Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, N.J. At the state’s bequest, it constructed the State Aquarium at Camden, N.J., and is building the Atlantic City Convention Center.
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 Encyclopedia of New Jersey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Overseen by an editorial board composed of distinguished experts in a variety of fields and edited by two leading specialists in New Jersey history, the Encyclopedia of New Jersey is an indispensable resource for both the scholar and the general reader.
Marc Mappen is the executive director of the New Jersey Historical Commission and author of Jerseyana: The Underside of New Jersey History.
He enjoys exploring the changing landscape of New Jersey, and maintains a website of historical maps.
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 SI.com - SI 50th - New Jersey
New Jersey solidified one of the best runs in NHL history this season by winning its third Stanley Cup in eight years, defeating the Mighty Ducks in seven games.
The Doctor Is In Julius Erving put the New Jersey Nets on the map, leading the team to its first ABA championship in the 1973-74 season.
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 USFL Site- New Jersey Generals
The Generals argued, correctly by the way, that had Walker pursued the matter in court, he would have won anyway.
Unfortunately, New Jersey was completely dismantled by the Philadelphia Stars, 28-7, in the first round of the playoffs.
The Generals had lost Doug Flutie with a shoulder injury the prior week and desperately needed a win to keep pace with the Birmingham Stallions.
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 New Jersey Generals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Generals responded to their poor 1983 showing with an influx of veteran NFL talent for 1984, including QB Brian Sipe, DB Gary Barbaro, and LBs Jim LeClair and Bob Leopold.
The Generals merged with the Houston Gamblers during the extended offseason, adding such stars as QB Jim Kelly, WR Ricky Sanders and head coach Jack Pardee, but the USFL's "Dream Team" never took the field.
The 1986 season was cancelled after the USFL won a minimal verdict in an anti-trust lawsuit against the NFL; the league folded soon afterward.
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 ESPN.com: NFL - Herschel Walker signs on
It rivaled the 1965 signing of Joe Namath by the New York Jets of the American Football League and Julius Erving's 1971 contract with the Virginia Squires of the American Basketball Association -- which is saying something.
The Generals sold 36,000 season tickets, nearly half of them in the 11 days between Walker's signing and the opener.
In three seasons with the Generals, Walker was remarkably consistent, running for 5,562 yards and 61 touchdowns.
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 USFL Site- 1986 United States Football League Preview
Generals owner Donald Trump wants a USFL Championship, something that could happen since the Generals merged with the Houston Gamblers.
The Generals look to have the league title all sewn up from the get go with Kelly sharing the same backfield with Herschel Walker who has dominated the USFL the last three years running the ball.
On paper, New Jersey would give many NFL teams a run for their money on the offensive side of the football.
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 Remember the USFL - 1986 Season and Beyond
Walker's words came 10 days after a jury in New York had awarded the USFL one measly buck, not the $1.69 billion in antitrust damages it had sought from the NFL.
And general manager Jerry Vainisi, after first asserting he had no opening for any USFL player, said Chicago was ''very interested'' in Stars linebacker Sam Mills, who has been called ''the Mike Singletary of the USFL.'' No NFL team has Mills's rights.
However, he has a clause that states he must be paid his $800,000 salary if the USFL or the Generals don't play in any contract year and that sum isn't affected, his agents claim, if he signs to play elsewhere.
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 Hangout - New Jersey Football
The NFL finally came to New Jersey in 1976.
Pearson, a member of the rival Dallas Cowboys, was named to the NFL all-decade team of the 1970s.
The New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League, the New York/New Jersey Knights of the World League of American Football, and the NY/NJ Hitmen of the XFL have also called Giants Stadium home.
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 Monmouth County New Jersey Genealogy
Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of the Third Congressional District of New Jersey, Comprising Middlesex, Monmouth and Somerset Counties together with An Historical Sketch of Each County.
Fifty Years Ago: A Brief History of the 29th Regiment New Jersey Volunteers in the Civil War, by T.C. Morford.
General George Washington chose Monmouth to confront the British while they were fleeing from Philadelphia toward New York.
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 john stallworth jersey
His Jersey #88 was retired at Valdosta State, where he was also inducted...
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 the new jersey colony
… Struggles between the colonies continued until 1702, when they were united as New Jersey, a colony governed by New York.
… The Province of New Jersey was an English colony that existed eventually within the boundaries of the current state of New Jersey prior to the American …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New Jersey, Burlington, NJ, 1776 …
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 Nj Lawyers - New Jersey Attorney Generals Office
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 Walker, Herschel Junior on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Wrightsville, Ga. After winning the 1982 Heisman Trophy, as college football's best player, at the Univ. of Georgia, he played (1983-85) for the New Jersey Generals of the short-lived United States Football League.
A versatile running back, pass receiver, and kick returner, Walker is (including his USFL years) professional football's all-time leading yardage gainer.
Goodbye, hello: all though we bid farewell to some of the game's treasures after this season, new stars and powers are on the horizon.
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 steagles jersey
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 Sports Illustrated : Edifice complex. (Donald Trump's New Jersey Generals) (column) @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The master builder and shownman, who owns the USFL's New Jersey Generals, gutted that team, annexed a number of Houston Gamblers and came up with a combined squad whose razzle and dazzle rivals the Trump Tower's.
What was already the USFL's showcase franchise is now even more attractive as a prospective NFL team if the upstart league goes under.
Through he appears to be calling the shots, Trump now co-owns the Generals with Manhattan real-estate Steve Ross, who recently bought the Gamblers.
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 USFL New Jersey Generals sign Heisman winner Herschel Walker (3 years-$5 mil) February 23 in History
USFL New Jersey Generals sign Heisman winner Herschel Walker (3 years-$5 mil) February 23 in History
USFL New Jersey Generals sign Heisman winner Herschel Walker (3 years-$5 mil)
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Topps New Jersey Generals Doug Flutie 1985 Rookie Trading Card 715975 at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
That year, the 1984 Heisman Trophy winner signed with, and started for, the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League.
The picture itself seems to depict Flutie warming up his arm on the sidelines, though he could have posed for the photographer.
He's wearing jersey #22, which he had worn during his days at Boston College (Jersey specifications in the NFL do not allow him to wear that number there).
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 USFL Site- United States Football League Memorabilia Listing
There isn't any price guide, and generally these things are worth exactly what someone else is willing to pay for them.
Anything from the Washington Federals wanted- also looking for jerseys and game pants from all teams- ssaxhaug@sparinc.com.
Wanted: Replica or authentic jerseys from the New Jersey Generals and the Orlando Thunder- Jimmy375@aol.com.
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 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- People -- Aug. 25, 1986
Don't cry for Herschel Walker, 24, star running back for the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League and until now the highest-paid player in pro football at $1.5 million a year.
Nonetheless, "to get to play in a Cowboys uniform and in Texas is a great honor for me," he said at a news conference.
But some of his new teammates were not so happy, notably the veteran running back Tony Dorsett.
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