Bra fucking vo. You hit the nail on the head. Don't give me shit that people left. I'm not a season ticket holder. I go to every home game though. I buy tickets week in and week out on StubHub because I love the Jets and I love going to games. Today was fucking miserable. Let's ignore the fact that the Jets played like shit. It was 30 degrees. It was pouring raining.. steady rain at that. Some people make long trips out to the game. God knows that people on the Island have a long drive ahead of them that is going to be even longer due to the weather causing traffic. Is it really a fucking problem that they leave after Brandon Stokely catches an uncontested TD? Or after the Jets PUNT down by 20 in the 4th quarter? Even the Jets wanted out of there by the way they were playing. It's real easy to be an armchair quarterback. If you have a problem with the people that attend the games... man the fuck up and go yourself. I fucking hate how just because the Jets lose you manage to blame us the fans who go to the games. Get the fuck over yourself.
Yes, fine. It was cold. A bad game. Whatever... But I see that nobody on this board has answered my questions about how Jets fans often bail out early. Why izzat?
Many of the fans left their seats but hung out under the cover... they were there, but not in the stands. I've been to many games over the past 22 years, but tonight's was the most unpleasant I can recall. Also, everybody there was wearing gloves, which may have muffled the sound of their claps. The biggest thing muffling their claps however was the horrific offensive playcalling and the ridiculous 8 man secondaries that allowed Cutler to do whatever he wanted. I stayed until the bitter end, as I always do, drove through very shitty and dangerous turnpike traffic, and got home home to the Philly area just before midnight. Not a great day at the ballpark. Bottom line...if you weren't there, you could not appreciate how utterly cold and crappy an experience it was. If you had season tickets, I'm sure you would've gone...and right now, you'd be just as annoyed as the rest of us of putting up with people on this board questioning why you were "quiet" or why you left early.
That's not true. Green Bay fans are fanatical. College football fans? Forget it. And most NFL teams are more fanatical than NYC's NFL fan base... I thought I was stating the obvious: New York City fans just aren't as devoted to their sports teams as fans in other markets. Me? If I got a ticket to a Jets game? I'd stay until the end, and cheer for the team throughout the game. But then again, since I don't have the money most NYC fans have for entertainment? I have no idea how the fans who can afford tickets behave as they do... I mean, I can't imagine paying for a PSL. But if you have the money for one, obviously you can afford to leave at half time, no matter what the score is... So maybe that's part of the problem with "New York fans."
I did the same exact thing. If the team isn't going to put forth an effort to win then there's no reason for the fans to keep suffering for them.
I left this game at the half... and it was the first Jets game i have left before the clock showed 0:00 in 12 years. Let's summarize. - I sit in the top row - It was really fuckin cold. - I had been simmering in the cold since 11AM, which is when I pull into the parking lot - 5 hours pre-game - the soonest we are allowed to. - I was wearing high end ski gear, but that freezing water gets in somehow. Unfortunately my scarf, hat, gloves were not waterproof. If feet/hands get cold, there is no saving you, no matter how dry and warm your core is. - The rain never relented. At all. Not in a 7 hour span. - The product on the field sucked. The team sucked, the refs sucked, and i was shaking. As a guy who has missed one home game out of the last 120 or so - I don't wanna hear it. I said it 10 times in the stands tonight - I would rather it have been 10 and snowing than the 35-40 it was an raining.
Well said. Wow! I would have liked to see Brett making snow angels after lighting up the end zone. A few degrees colder it could've happened. Rain was the reaper yesterday. It must have sucked being a Jet, on the road for the last couple of weeks with some impressive wins coming back to a half filled frosty cold water world with fans too cold to do anything.
The game wasn't even over. Heck, the jets had the ball, down by 10, and driving at one point. The game was still winnable. Meh, these games happen. Even teams that have been playing well for a period of time have a lapse. Favre didn't have his best, and the defense just couldn't keep up with the denver WR's most of the game (say what you want about being tired, but they were burnt on a deep ball at least once in every quarter.
There is only one thing worse than watching a football game in freezing rain, that is the people that sit at home and complain about the fans that actually sit in the rain for that game. This kind of thread seems to pop up after every home game and I ask the same question in every one of them but never get an answer. To those sitting at home complaining about the crowd why not go to the game yourself and do your part instead of sitting home and complaining?
You were at the game? I had my three boys (12, 9, 6). We stayed mid way through the 3d. It was as tough a game to sit through as any one I can recall (weather wise). Not as cold as some other games -- but it rained/sleeted the entire time. Very hard -- especially with kids.
got to the parking lot at 1130am had 4 10x10 tents set up with side walls and an rv blocking the other side of the tents.drank and ate like kings.had a mets poncho on that didnt cover my legs and forarms.drank until halftime stayed until we didnt convert on 4th down at the end of the 4th quarter.i dont care that people left early.i dont care that people stayed late.i stayed until i couldnt stand it any more thats all that matters.i was looking at all the empty seats and i wasnt mad.i stood the entire 4th quarter not sitting once.my ponch hood ripped in half after the 3rd quarter water all down my back. i even moved down to the front row of 312 after the punt.i will not question anyone's loyalty or manhood. ALL MEN ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL. But i stayed as long as I WANTED TO STAY.
This is what I was upset about. I couldn't believe how empty the stadium was at the beginning of the game. wtf, man? I left after the broncos scored the last TD. I wanted to stay to the end, but the other 3 I was with weren't having it.
The people tailgating in the spot next to me finished eating, packed up the grill and went home before the game started. 30's and raining is the worst possible weather. You can't make much noise clapping 2 waterlogged gloves together. I had to get out of the rain and watch a couple series on the monitors in each half. People were hanging out in the bathroom to get warm.
Ftr, then you should know that being outside in the freezing rain is probably the worst conditions to sit through. Snow bounces off. Cold, you just add more layers. Freezing rain? Yeah, you can wear your wet weather gear, and fans yesterday who didn't were just plain unprepared. For them I quote Mr. Natural: Get the right tool for the job. But seriously, freezing rain gets into your bones in a way that snow doesn't. The irony is the warmer temperature just makes it impossible - you have to choose between jumping up and down only to get your undies sweaty, or sit there while the raw cold numbs its way into you. I used to go camping alot. I'd rather be outside in zero degree weather than 34 degrees and a driving rain. Having said that, I do think Jet fans tend to leave the game too early. Lots of reasons people come up with for doing so. But I've never left even a lousy game before halfway through the fourth quarter, if it was totally out of reach. Of course my guess is those who left before the third quarter read about the game later, and probably didn't think they missed much. How smart they thought it was to buy tickets to a game they left early for, though, is a hard question to fathom...
very true biggest misconception we feel we are such great fans on the whole. I have season tickets and just dont get there nearly as much as I did- two young young children and a 2.5hr drive in and 3/5 hr make for long days as a father of two. The chant is fun- always was always will be. Our fanbase at games though consists of alot of drunks (not into the game and dont know the game) I can't imagine how many times I would yell because we were loud when we had ball and quiet when the other team had ball.
I was at the game yesterday it was the most miserable game I've ever been too. Once you get soaked in the freezing rain you can't focus on the game and enjoy it. We left during the third quater and watched the end at a bar. I feel like absolute dogshit after sitting in that weather and i definetly think it affected the Jets play.
Bottom line, if the Giants played yesterday they would have had 2000 no shows tops. No excuses for us season tic holders, if you are breathing, you go. Does not matter how they played!!!!!!
