My Jets season ticket invoice arrived today and it's another freakin' brutal increase.... over 10% again. This is the 4th year in a row that I've had increases of 10% per year. What the hell gives with this? Last year my 4 Jets tickets cost me $3800. $95 per game X 10 X 4 tickets = $3800. This represented quite an increase from the previous year (and all other years).... but, whatever. Now I get my invoice for 2007 and it's $4200 ($105 X 10 X 4 tickets). I don't know about anybody else, but this is getting pretty f*cking unbearable. Worthless preseason tickets aside, it'll cost me over $525 (plus parking, gas and tolls) to take 4 people to a regular single Jets game this year. Then the FO still has the balls to hit you with the lousy $4 "Handling Fee." Total: $4204.00. What a pair, I swear to God. Yeah.. I know.... I can expect all the non-season ticketholders who've never had to fork this kind of cash over every spring to jump in my sh*t and post, "Nobody's making you go... quit complaining... I'm on a waiting list and I'd gladly pay that kind of money, etc., etc." Fine then, YOU write out the f*cking check! I'm so seriously pissed I'm thinking of selling 2 of my 4, but I probably would have great difficulty finding a f*cking sucker stupid enough to cough up $2101 to go to 10 games, two of which are absolutely worthless. Thank you for the opportunity to vent.
105 dollars for the Mezz section this year!!! That's ridiculous. Did all the sections go up, I didn't get my invoice yet? I'm in section 314. I can't imagine what the new stadium is going to cost us. At this rate it could easily be 200 a ticket. F-ing greed.....
wow.And this is all before the new stadium....my advice would be to sell the other two like you said...who do yo normally take with you?
Think that's bad? Islander tix are $120 each, X's 44! The increases suck, but football tix are still the best deal out there, partly because every game means something, unlike baseball, BB and hockey.
I don't know, I've been to over 200 games and unfortunately many of those didn't mean too much...hmy: But when the good times do come they are without question the best!!!
Yeah, it is. Hockey is a dying sport. The NFL has all that TV revenue, but hockey has only it's ticket and apparell sales to work with. The Islanders draw 6,000 a game if they are lucky. I'll watch from the comfort of my home, TYVM. I simply cannot afford these ticket prices.
This is what keeps me writing out the checks every year, Baamf. I keep telling myself, "Maybe this is the year." Now, if the Jets were to fall into a Rich Kotite Era again, you'd see guys dropping seaon tickets like flies. Mangini should keep it interesting. It's just the percentage of increases that I don't understand. Nothing in the NY area has been able to sustain a 10% per year increase. I guess they do it because they can. But what concerns me the most is, like you say, what the hell is going to happen to the prices when the new stadium opens. These schlubs on the waiting list to the tune of $50 a pop have all been conned... "Your $50 will be applied to the purchase price." Yeah, right... the new tickets will be $250 each... $250 X 4 X 10 = $10,000. Now they deduct the lousy $50 for the past 10 years and you'll still have to pay $9500 for your first round of season tix. What a screw job.
Any word on whether they will or won't hit ticket holders with that seat liscensing fee? I can see that coming when they open the new stadium.
The worst part of having to pay for season tix, yes worse than even having to pay for the meaningless preseason games is you still have to pay 15 freaking dollars each week for parking.
Don't bet on it. A lot of Jets fans come from Manhattan and the greater Manhattan area. And this area just gets richer and richer. Real estate prices are at a level where people, even just 5 years ago, says no one would ever buy at. And they continue to go up. And the prices of everything else will go up accordingly, including groceries or whatever and including Jets tickets.
One of the good things about making the playoffs but not getting a home game is I have a nice chunk of it paid already. It's a good time for 8 games a year, worth the money if you have it.
Yes, of course I understand the cost of living in the NY metro area outpaces the rest of the country. But over a 10% per year add-on? I suppose one could argue that real estate has increased well over 10%/year, but that's all been part of the real estate boom and, like all other spiking booms, will taper off and "correct." I guess what urks me is, we still sit in the same old shitty "Giants Stadium" with the red chairs and blue and red decorations plastered over with green banners on game day, the food still sucks, the beer is horse piss, for which they charge a whopping and unconscionable $7 a pop and we still have to pay the lousy $15 on top of the tolls and gas. Where's the justification for the 10% add-on for the past 4 years? There is none. I think Woody is "grooming" the public for what's to come. The NY Jets franchise will no longer be a mom and pop family affair to which you can bring your kids and enjoy the game. They're going to price it right out of the ionisphere. When they get done, the only people able to "afford" the tickets will be your corporate or LLC entities who don't mind using (and can use) the cost of the tickets as a tax writeoff. We've talked about this before... the change in the people at the stadium. It's started already.... the migration from the mom and pop's to the out-of-towners who come to the games via the 4 tickets they got as perks for being good clients or customers of a large concern. They're here on business from Des Moines for the week and their company give them seats to a freakin' NE-Jets game. They could give a shit for either team, mind you, so they show up 15 minutes late to their seats and leave mid-way thru the 3rd quarter for fear of not making their farewell cocktail reception back at the hotel. The whole thing sucks. In the end, the Jets team will suffer. Nobody rooting for them... nobody in the stands who understand the plays... it's all becoming commercial and it's really sad.
It's true, you should see the food at Heinz field. They have 4 different varieties of Wings....and Gillette has Legal Seafood Chowda. What do we have, the same shitty Harry M. Stevens type food that I've been eating since my dad took me to see the 73 Knicks.
OK. I'll address your points: 1. The real estate has tapered off in most areas of the country. Not New York City. It has been going up, way up, since 2001. 2. You're absolutely right about the moms and pops getting priced out. Soon it will be all friends of corporations (and dedicated fans willing to overpay). But there's just nothing anyone can do about it. Why should Woodey care? He wants to make as much money as possible. They could raise the ticket prices to $200 today and still sell out (in my opinion). But they are raising the ticket prices incrementally so people get used to it. It's a sad reality of modern sports. And it's a casualty of living in the NYC commutable area. Cardinals fans don't have this problem. 3. As for beer, there are a decent number of stands in the stadium now where you can get really good beer like Smithwick's and Guiness on tap for the same $7.25 you pay for a Bud Light. It's not a bad deal. 4. The food is just awful. I'm with you on that. Something needs to be done about the food. I always just bring a bag of beef jerkey or something to the games.
