Interview Transcriptions

Antonio Iadevaia - General Manager - Coliseum Caterers

Me: How do you feel that the Jets' moving their training camp will affect your business?

Iadevaia: A sports franchise leaving the community is a huge deal. An organization like they Jets, they bring a lot of people. They bring fans, they bring the press. Alot of people are curious about who the draft picks are, who the new players are. So an organization like the Jets leaving, it's a tough thing, it's a tough situation. It's good because they're going to a new facility, they're getting a better deal. But as far as the community that they're leaving, it leaves some local businsses holding their back so to speak. They're dependent on the fans and the curiosity that they create, because it brings in people. And people, spend money. And that's really the biggest problem for the mom and pop shops. They're the ones that get hurt the most when a company like the Jets were to leave.

Nick Koutoufors - employee - Coliseum Motor Inn

Me: How do you feel that the Jets' moving their training camp will affect your business?

Koutoufors: Basically the Jets moving out of the Hofstra and Long Island area, it's going to take a little bit of business from Long Island because the Jets usually have their training camps in August and that's when a lot of people are taking vacations. They come out to Long Island and the Hamptons and all of that. They'll build their mini vacation and their long weekends around watching the Jets at training camps, and they'll spend some money logging, resturants. And whatever business they have now is going to shift to Jersey. So we're gonna lose some money.