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Sports & Fun

Games, fans, and fun, with more heart than a Jersey tailgate.

A cartoon mustang in a chef's hat parachutes over a dark football field, its lantern beaming light as a sleepy cow squints up.

Sussex Tech Football in Sparta Has No Lights, So Its Friday Night Games Happen on Saturday Afternoon

The Sussex Tech Mustangs in Sparta have no field lights, so their Friday night football happens Saturday afternoon. Now they're the last New Jersey school in a national field-makeover vote, open through Sunday, Oct. 25.

Two huge mobs in 1869 street clothes collide in a dust cloud chasing one ball as onlookers gasp.

Did You Know? The First College Football Game Was Rutgers vs. Princeton in New Brunswick, 1869

Rutgers 6, Princeton 4, New Brunswick, Nov. 6, 1869: widely recognized as college football's very first game. Two Jersey schools invented a sport by arguing. Of course they did.

A costumed family races across a board-game map of New Jersey past a hayride, a pumpkin-costumed bear and a candy bucket.

NJ Things to Do This Week, Oct. 19–25: Feltville Haunted Hayrides, Turtle Back Zoo Capybaras, Haunted Red Mill and More

Five Halloween-season picks across New Jersey this week, from a nighttime hayride in Feltville's deserted village to free costume fun at Cape May County's zoo. I didn't know one state could hold this much hay.

Two cartoon skeletons slam a glowing jack-o'-lantern through a driveway hoop as costumed kids cheer on a Halloween lawn.

Tenafly Halloween Display Turns the Knicks' Game 4 Tip-In Into a Skeleton Lawn

A Tenafly homeowner rebuilt OG Anunoby's Game 4 tip-in out of skeletons, with a 12-foot Wemby on hand and a pumpkin playing the ball. Every other Halloween lawn just got demoted.

A haunt host in a top hat points a flashlight at a red mill full of friendly ghosts as a family rides by on a hay wagon.

Haunted Red Mill in Clinton: NJ's Prettiest Postcard Spends October Trying to Scare You

The Red Mill in Clinton might be the most photographed spot in New Jersey. Every October, an all-volunteer crew turns it into the Haunted Red Mill, and they've been at it since Labor Day.

A stadium crowd in purple velour tracksuits and gold chains cheers as a tray of baked ziti flies toward a tumbling camera operator.

Giants' Sopranos Look-Alike Cam at MetLife Stadium Found Tony, Junior and Dr. Melfi in the Stands

The MetLife jumbotron went looking for Sopranos look-alikes during the Giants-Cardinals game. Nobody had to dress up. That's the part I can't get over.