Albany vs. East Rutherford
Change is it good or bad?
In which “CAMP” do you find yourself?
In the summer of 1996, the New York Football Giants partnered with State University of New York at Albany and began a sixteen-season relationship in which Big Blue called the Central NY campus home for the month of August.
That partnership has changed, and for that matter, so has the facility name of what the Giants now call “CAMP.” Change #1 from Albany, NY to East Rutherford, NJ. Change #2 from the Timex Performance Center to the Quest Diagnostics Training Center.
Formerly known as the Timex Performance Center, the Quest Center is ALSO the NYG’s state-of-the-art headquarters located just across the parking lot from MetLife Stadium, which will host Super Bowl XLVIII on February 2, 2014.
Let me elaborate briefly on what’s meant by the Giants “headquarters”. It’s home to;
- Ownership and corporate offices.
- Team training facility: Practice fields, weight rooms, meeting rooms, etc.
- Gourmet dining facility.
- Broadcast Studio and Control Room. (Ferro’s home base)
- Official Team Video Department and Studio.
All of the above and much, much more can be found within the compounds of the Quest Diagnostics Training Center. ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING THAT IS THE NEW YORK GIANTS, IS FOUND AT THE QUEST DIAGNOSTICS TRAINING CENTER, including the 4 Lombardi Trophies (found in the lobby on the left as soon as you enter the complex) celebrating their Super Bowl wins.
With the pattern being broken and the team going through training camp at home, the natural question for all, centers around this…Change – good or bad?
In this #FerroBTS (Ferro Behind the Scenes ongoing feature blog) there are a plethora of comparisons between Albany and Jersey that everyone is talking about and we at Ferro are personally curious about how said changes will translate into what we do, bringing the NY Giants Broadcast to you.
With that said, we are going to share with you the intimate details from the PRODUCTION perspective of what it entails, bringing NY Giants Camp coverage to the masses.
SPECIFICALLY expect from us, exciting, on the spot coverage of how WE cover those that are “covering” CAMP. (Media and reporters, players and coaches, NYG corporate staff, and the fans.)
All the hype surrounding the switch in location makes for fantastically interesting and somewhat unpredictable events driven by change… and we’ve decided to bring to you, in this EXCLUSIVE MINI-SERIES as much detail as possible, that will take you behind the scenes and deliver a personal production perspective of training camp, to YOUR home which is now being held at OUR home!
STAY TUNED throughout the remainder of training camp as we will be bringing you content available ONLY here, as well as additional features not found ANYWHERE else. Ferro Fans, Big Blue Fans, TV Production Fans….STAY TUNED!!!
