Jet personal seat licenses on way this week for fans BY GARY MYERS DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER Sunday, August 24th 2008, 1:39 AM The bad but expected news is coming to Jets season-ticket holders this week: Jets owner Woody Johnson told the Daily News Saturday that the pricing plan for the team's personal seat licenses for the new stadium they are sharing with the Giants will be announced in the next few days. "We're still working on the final presentation," Johnson said. "The fans will get the information." Johnson would not reveal the Jets' PSL prices. The Giants earlier this summer announced their one-time PSL charge that ranges from $1,000 to $20,000 per seat. The Jets can only hope the acquisition of Brett Favre softens the PSL sticker shock, although he is likely to be retired when the new stadium opens in 2010.
I, for one, am getting ready to kiss my season tickets goodbye. I got a kid to send to college and my job status is shakey at best. No doubt the hedge fund managers who will buy the PSL's and the tickets will scalp them for big bucks on StubHub. And who the hell wants to pay $20,000 over the ticket price to sit in cold, rain and snow in December and (possibly) January. I understand that Winter will still be Winter. My greatest hope is that the Jets and Giants play to half-filled home games in November and December despite their records. I'm buying me a new HDTV with my PSL money. F Woody. Good-bye Meadowlands. Oh, and what was that announcement last night that beginning in September there will be no more busses from the Port Authority to the Meadowlands? Really convenient w/o a car...sorry, a Lexus or Benz for you PSL fans...
Other teams have done it, and I know the Cowboys are planning. They will probably have the most expensive PSLs in the league.
the whole concept of a psl is insane to begin with? if the team cant afford a stadium then dont build one the mets and yankees are both building high end stadiums and they have no psl's -the only way a psl could possibly work is if u actually owned that seat but u rly dont, because u only have the rights for the jets and no one else.
this should be a very interesting week but what will be even more interesting is when push comes to shove how many people who say they won't pay do.
I smell a lawsuit. Why? Because it's NY and everyone gets sued. Seriously though. How can it be a Personal Seat License and it's not personal but shared? IMO that's grounds for a Lawsuit. Anyone with me..:lol: But here is a list (WIKI) of teams with PSL's.: Baltimore Ravens PSL Permanent Seat Licenses Carolina Panthers PSL Personal Seat Licenses Chicago Bears PSL Permanent Seat Licenses Cincinnati Bengals COA Charter Ownership Agreements Cleveland Browns PSL Permanent Seat Licenses Dallas Cowboys SL Seat Licenses (Effective in the new stadium only. No seat licenses in Texas Stadium) New York Giants PSL Personal Seat Licenses (Effective in the New Meadowlands Stadium only.) New York Jets PSL Personal Seat Licenses (Effective in the New Meadowlands Stadium only.) Houston Texans PSL Personal Seat Licenses Philadelphia Eagles SBL Stadium Builder Licenses Pittsburgh Steelers SL Seat Licenses Seattle Seahawks CSL Charter Seat Licenses St. Louis Rams PSL Personal Seat Licenses Tennessee Titans PSL Personal Seat Licenses
I see no reason why the plan won't replicate the Giants'. Same stadium - same cost for both teams. My biggest problem with the way the PSL's are set up for the new stadium is that it only applies to the jets games. That's not how a PSL is supposed to work. You purchase the PSL and you become the owner of that seat for the venue. Herein lies the problem - two different teams selling a PSL in the same venue. PSL owners in a venue should have the right of first refusal for any other event that occurs for the seat they "bought".
Wait, the Port Authority bus will be discontinued this Sept?? Why??? If the PSLs are not exactly the same as the Giants...if not cheaper....that would be insane...
Why? They already charge more for parking than the Giants do. Why not charge more for PSLs too? If they were going to be exactly the same they would have been announced at exactly the same time. Here's a hint. They are coming after Favre was acquired.
Can't wait to open my mail this week... especially any large envelopes with NY Jets as the return address. The end of an era....
I hear ya. It's just that the Jets are the Mets to the Giants' Yankees (aka - they're the clearly inferior franchise in this area). And I say this as a huge Jets fan (I've been going to all of the games for the past 11/12 years). But the reality is, we haven't won in almost 40 years, and the Giants won a few months ago. Giants have the bigger fan base, longer waiting list, etc, etc. But you're right, that didn't stop us with the parking costs, so I suppose anything is possible. Meanwhile, looks like NJ Transit is stopping the 351 but offering this alternative. I actually really like this but need to see how NJ folks can take advantage of this (the link says you need to buy tickets in NY then use your train ticket as the bus pass. They need to figure out a way for NJ people to use this, too, since some of us may not want to drive to games...). (link with details posted oddly since my post count is too low to post real links) njtransit.com/sa/sa_servlet.srv?hdnPageAction=CustomerNoticeTo&NoticeId=2102
What they said was ,Bus service to the Meadowlands would be discontinued from the P.A. ,because from the date they stated (I believe it was Sept.4th) The Shuttle would now be running from the Seacacus Junction Station .So now people from NYC will take the train from Penn Station to Seacacus then the Shuttle bus from there to the Stadium & peple from NJ will no longer have to leave the state they are in to get to a stadium in that same state ,I can just take the train from Bradley Beach to Seacacus and take a shuttle from there...Now we just need Transportation to Florum Park for next years training Camp.
You can't really compare the baseball and football. The Mets and Yankees play 81+ home games. The Jets play 8. Total attendance for the Jets is under 700k fans a season. The Yankees are over 4 million. Yankees and Mets have their own profitable cable networks. The Jets and Giants don't.
I know it's not a perfect comparison, but the facts are: The Yanks are a more important/popular/whatever franchise than the Mets The Giants are a more important/popular/whatever franchise than the Jets The Knicks are a more important/popular/whatever franchise than the Nets The Rangers are a more important/popular/whatever franchise than the Islanders or Devils That's just the way it is in the NY area. Mind you, I like the Yankees and the Rangers in baseball and hockey but like the Jets and Nets in football and basketball, so that's not my personal bias above. It's just the way things are in this area. How did I get on this tangent again Oh yeah - when I was saying the Jets would be INSANE to charge more than the Giants for their PSLs. I still stand by that original point.
My brother works for a hedge fund and probably has the cash to drop on the PSLs and tickets and even he thinks the whole PSL thing is robbery.
