I am someone who is not blind and understand what the Jets and Giants are doing. I already explained to you that when you have same number of seats and bigger and taller Bowl, with more luxury and other "premium" seating, you will be watching the game from higher distance and paying more. This, as someone said, is common sense. And I don't need to wait for stadium to open to know the obvious. If you are expecting to pay the same for what you used to get in Giants Stadium, you are greatly mistaken. It's not NY fan perspective. If you live in NJ, you go to the stadium also. But I am not quite sure why you are talking about Xanadu traffic, when there is no traffic there yet. It is not even open, as you yourself noted. At least Xanadu, when it opens (also in 2010 like stadium) will soon be paying 10 mil for rent plus state will be getting all the tax revenues, unlike the stadium where state will get 6 mil flat and that's it.
Giants did not have to go anywhere. Let's put this in perspective. Between Jets and Giants you are looking at 16-20 days of football occupancy every year (at least a week in between games sans rare exceptions). Stadium is standing there 365 days. Both teams are NJ teams (NY for marketing purpose). Is there really a need to have separate stadium for both? It's just a huge overhead. Having 2 80,000 occupancy stadiums next to each other is just an epitome of inefficiency of the system and also corruption for making this possible. The only thing worse would be to have these 2 nearly identical stadiums as far as football offering goes (with older one actually offering better views due to closer proximity between field and seats) right next to each other and then dismantling one of them, for which you are still paying off 100 million bond.
They had some great shots taken from field level of the new stadium with the Jets alumni who attended the halftime ceremony but it was not included in the rip of the game that I downloaded.
This stadium reminds me of something. Oh yes, of another Bowl that looks similar to that that is right next to it. The one seating same number of people, but closer to the field and for less.
They must have spent a hell of a lot of money to have that empty stadium lit up all night. I also can't believe that they actually built a significantly larger stadium right next to the old one and did not increase seating capacity at all. Wtf? I am not impressed.
