Leave your wedding cards in this depressing Nassau Coliseum-shaped gift box (PHOTO)

Nassau Coliseum is not loved. "There is probably no worse major-league facility right now in North America than the Nassau Coliseum," Gary Bettman said in 2009, though a May Time Magazine article disagreed, naming Nassau only North America's second-worst. Charles Wang has been trying to get his club out of there for years.

But while Nassau gets no love, it has managed to help two people find it. Newlywed couple Sarah and Mike got together while working at Nassau (perhaps out of a deep-seated need for some emotion to override the despair of being in it).

And in honour of their heinously situated meet cute, their friend Bryan made them the gift box above.

I'm not particularly sure why you'd publicize a meeting at Nassau. Isn't that sort of embarrassing, like telling people you met while married to separate people?

The image of this depressing receptacle comes to us via Deadspin, who also have a second image in which you can read the placard at the replica arena's base. "They found love in a hopeless place", it says.

Hopeless indeed. Here's what Katie Baker had to say about Nassau last summer. From Grantland:

Good Lord. Because nothing says "new marriage" like a torturous, crumbling institution in which everyone inside feels like a hostage and desperately wants out.

Anyway. For contrast, here's an aerial view of Nassau Coliseum, so you can see what a good job Bryan did.

Now, if only Bryan wasn't the only one in Long Island working hard on a new stadium, maybe the Islanders wouldn't be stuck where they are.

s/t to Deadspin.