Reporter's Notebook: Field Of Greed

October, 1995

Sad but typical. No sooner did the New Jersey Devils win the Stanley Cup than they threatened to break their lease with Meadowlands Arena and go to Nashville, Tennessee. Just the thing to make a community feel good about its victors. "We were looking at a celebration, not a termination," remarked a spokesman for New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman.I know the feeling. I was a season-ticket holder in 1981 when the Raiders left for Los Angeles. Thanks to a new job with the Los Ange...