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Because the stadium is in New Jersey. To answer your next question, it is built on what used to be swamp, so the land and construction costs were less than trying to build in NYC.

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It's for the same reason the Dallas Cowboys aren't called the Arlington Cowboys.

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Because nobody wants to play in new York and the commute to the stadium would be horrendous. We want the jets to become the NJ jets...but it shall never happen

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Because then no one would be able to take them seriously

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That is where the stadium is.

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