Presidential Candidate Cory Booker Pledges to Rename NFL Team 'New Jersey Giants'

Though his ambitions are presidential, Cory Booker is, at heart, a Senator from the state of New Jersey. If elected, it seems he'll look to do big things with his power, including, for some reason, changing the name of the New York Giants to the New Jersey Giants, reflecting their rightful home.

“Can I tell you a dream?” Booker said on a podcast. "And I’m running for president for every reason, but this. But should I become president of the United States, and the stars in the universe line up, and my team is the Super Bowl champions that year, I’m telling you right now, when they’re in the White House, I will turn to the world and say — it won’t be a slip of the tongue — I will say, ‘I am proud to be here with the New Jersey Giants. At that point, I figure I will have swagger, Secret Service, the nuclear codes. Are they really going to step to me and correct me?”

“No, they’re going to be fine with it," said the podcast host, Brad Jenkins, a former aide to President Barack Obama. "I think you’ll get – here’s the thing. New York, you’ve got enough. You took our Nets from us.”

So, what he's saying is they'll never be called the New Jersey Giants? I mean, we could be looking at a long time before they are celebrating a Super Bowl victory at the White House, and when they do, Booker won't be in the Oval Office (for one reason or another).

“I don’t beg for anything," Booker said. "It’s not a beg, it’s a demand.”

I hope Booker was having a laugh here, and we'll leave it at that.