Wow.. you can cherry-pick these bizarre definitions of "New England" all day long, but New England, by official definition is CT, RI,MA, VT,NH, and ME. That's it. New England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. I live in Fairfield County and there are *plenty* of people here who root for the Red Sox, as if that's even a criteria for being included in NE. I lived *in* Boston for 17 years and never once rooted for the Red Sox. I guess I wasn't a real New Englander. :wink:
Also, you don't think the New England superchargers you cite are for people in New England to travel south TO New York, New Jersey, Phila, and DC? And that they're only for NY Metro area people to escape NYC? Unbelievable.
The under-development of New England SC's has been bizarre (until now?). "New England" isn't really served just because trips to NYC are possible. Three satellite SC's, in Hookset (North), Auburn/84/90 (West), and I95 were all they had to start with. Just about three years later...
Up here we have plenty of "Yankees", despite how some New York ball club assumed the term.