For season ticket holders: Happy, or sad that you didn't know whether or not you would have had the right to purchase SB tickets had the Jets acted responsibly as all other final four franchises did by notifying account holders whether or not they were selected to purchase tickets BEFORE the Championship game began? I'll answer "sad" because I like the additional pain of knowing I had winning lottery options in '83 and '99. Makes those AFC Championship losses that much more bitter. Is SB ticket-ignorance bliss?
I think they should do this because if you did get selected then you wouldnt have to worry about getting on stub hub after the game and seeing the ticket prices go up or having to look for tickets. I also think that super bowl tickets should be weighted differently from Upper Deck to people who paid PSL. I said it wasnt worth taking the risk of buy a SB ticket and then have to worry about selling it if the jets lost and would have just rather have waited to see the results. If the Jets did make the superbowl the Price would have gone up so it is a risk risk situation.
I personally would have liked to know. While tailgating at the Pittsburgh game I was next to a group of steeler fans and a fan in that group won the pitt super bowl lottery. What a feeling that must of been.
I also had won SB tix in 83 & 99 lotteries but this time around if we had made it since I had UD tix & did not pay for a PSL I did not expect that I would be entered into the 2011 lottery even though I was a STHer since 65 :jets:
The true SB ticket lottery is gone now that we have the new stadium and the caste system that comes with it. Do you really think that anybody in the UD will be getting SB tickets over PSL holders. In fact, do you think anyone besides the high value club seat PSL owners will ever get SB tickets at face value as a Jets STH? All STHs other than the high rollers will only be getting SB tix in the future from a ticket broker. Let's stop the charade now.
It's unconscionable that the Jets didn't (or wouldn't) let their season ticketholders know EXACTLY where they stand with SB tickets, had we made it. I did receive a lame, obligatory, form-letter email stating that the Jets were unable to inform me going into the Championship game and were "working on" determining how SB tickets would be made available and under what circumstances. "As soon as we clarify this with the NFL, we will be sure to let you know," or something to that effect (I'm paraphrasing) was mentioned in the email. Bullshit. After two years of almost making it to the big party and all the blustering about "We're going to the Superbowl," the Jets are the only one of the final 4 who don't know the process by which they're going to dole out SB tickets to their ticketholders? Nonsense. Just another shining, glaringly stunning example of how little the Jets regard their fan base and more specifically, the loyal season ticketholding fans who shell out the big bucks for their cockamamie PSLs and overpriced season tickets. They didn't inform their STHers becasue they had to check with the NFL (becasue other teams obviously could and DID) it's obvious they didn't WANT any of us to know because it will probably impede the future sale of the remaining, cockamamie PSLs and still unsold UD seats. "Keep em in the dark for now, until I can get the rest of these fucking expensive, worthless seats sold, then we'll lower the boom in the event we have to and tell them that we only have 12,000 total seats left after giving them away to every Tom, Dick and Harry that sucks up to Woody Johnson."
I have had SB tickets 2 out of the last 3 paid face value from the NFL its easier than you think Sent from my HERO200 using Tapatalk
I just don't think the Jets thought it out fully regarding giving the club people there allocation and what's left. That said, as an UD person, I was not holding my breath. I won't ever be able to afford SB tickets unless I get face value. College is making me broke.
In the new stadium thread someone said they called the Jets and were told upper deckers were going to be included in the lottery, but since the Jets didn't release any details about it, it may very well have been ten pairs of tickets drawn from amongst 23,000 of us. I hadn't thought of that, but it explains the delay. Why seriously PO half the fan base (upper deckers) until you absolutely have to do it? If they did screw us as we expect they would, that would encourage non-renewals for '11 (it would for sure) so yes, it was a ploy not unlike last year when the parking was invoiced separately from the tickets for the first time ever, so the shitty parking plan could not cause upper deckers to cancel THIS past season. Watch, we'll see if the parking invoice is now included with the tickets now that the orange lot shock has worn off. You also bring up a good point about PSL holders not getting tickets while non-PSL payers do. How can they hold a lottery and have expensive PSL holders not get tickets when non-PSL people get SB tickets? They'd have a lot of very pissed-off PSL holders. Who could blame them? Perhaps they could could weight it differently to increase their chance, but still.... Then again, in a few years they won't give a toss about the PSL holders anyway once they are sold out of PSL's.
