Sure, but with two prominent teams combining on one stadium, we at least were not wrong for expecting something remotely similar to what Jerry built in Texas. Especially the way this place was touted as PSL rates were being established.
Yes but U have to understand in Texas Jerry had all those illegal aliens to build his palace. OTH Woody & Mara had to contend with the UNIONs & while I am not a construction maven I will guess to build a Jerry palace in NJ would have probably cost another billion since there is no access to illegal aliens in NJ like there is in Texas :jets:
Your kidding, right? :rofl: Ever seen a landscaping, roofing, flooring, or any home construction job in NJ NOT done with shall we say, ahem, non-union labor? I just had flood repair work here, and I have to say Guatemalans are great workers. I'm sure Texas has more of them though. That's why the Cowboy fans have the superior stadium.
Everybody who sits in upper level seats misses them. I cry for them 10 days a year. I was hoping this year it'd be 11 or 12 times but we need to win the division first.
1. The NYC metro area has at least as many illegals as Dallas. 2. Illegal Aliens weren't hired to design MetLife Stadium or Cowboys Stadium. While Jerry sprang for a visionary architect and a good design, the Giants/Jets hired the staff architect at the MTA who modeled the stadium on a residential A/C unit.
Dallas has a stadium that would have cost 3 million bucks to build in the NY Metro area They also have a team playing in it that is vastly INFERIOR to the one that plays its home games at JET LIFE STADIUM I'll take Rex, the Jets and Jet Life you can have Jerry, his Kubla Khan and Tony Romo any day of the week
Agree 1000%. Add to that that the majority of the amenities are on the lowest (most expensive) level. To me, the upper deck concourses are no different than the old Meadowlands. Again the average fan gets screwed.
I agree that the upper deck is very similar to the old place. But I don't agree that the average fan got screwed. I think we all had a chance to sit where we wanted.....we just had to pay up if we wanted the better sightlines/seats. For years, I wanted to change my seats in the old place. I was down too low in the lower deck...once the play went past the 50 on the other side, I had to watch those substandard screens to see what was happening on the field. I tried to move a few rows back, but there were never any open seats, or people that wanted to move lower....so I was stuck. With the new place, I was able to pick and choose where I sat. The funny thing is that I was not given the opportunity to move to the PSL free upper deck when my turn to choose came around....all the people with higher seniority had taken all the decent seats in the upper deck. Not that I would have wanted to move that high, but I had a choice. Far different than the way things had been since the 80's. You got what they gave you and you paid them, whether you liked your seats or not....because you were a Jets fan and you wanted to go to the games.
The new stadium looks better on TV and from the seats it's more impressive, but on the whole--can't believe I'm saying this--I like the old stadium better--even with the ugly blue sign. You can't walk around the entire stadium which I think is messed up because of the club seats, in fact, the whole flow of the place feels very restricted. I also can't believe the Jets still have to dress their stadium for every game like it's a kids birthday party--nothing is permanent. The photos of players, the colors, the Ring of Honor--it's a joke. Still not our stadium. A complete waste of money and a money grab by the owners. Just wait until the downturn comes...when both teams suck again--hopefully not for a long time--but it will come. And then the TV cameras will be broadcasting caverns of grey seats. I live in Philly but I'd rather they put a stadium up in Queens than this bullshit.
It gets worse than having empty seats. How about dealing with seats in the Upper Deck populated with roving bands of drunken disruptive Raiders, Patriots, Ravens, Cowboys and Dolphin fans, roaming the corridors like bands of road warriors armed with tasers and looking for a war? The Upper Deck is turning into Joe Robbie Stadium with as many opposing fans as home team fans. Row 12 and up is a worthless, desolate, uninhabitable wasteland of raging opponents and bird droppings. Not a single seat up there has sold on StubHub for anywhere close to Face Value since the stadium opened. Upper Deckers are defecting in droves despite this so-called winning team we are and have been fielding. One can only imagine what happens if we begin to slide into a .500 or worse series of seasons. The field looks like a postage stamp from way up there and you could fire up an air raid siren and still have no effect at field level becasue the noise dissipates into the ionisphere and disturbs no one other than astronauts. No wonder the only people making noise up there are the road warriors. The excersize on 3rd down is futile. Metlife is extremely overpriced and poorly designed. I like the UD Prime seats but consider the rest worthless PsOS, as do bidders on StubHub. UD Season Ticketholders will be bailing by the thousands this offseason because they can't take the views, the mandatory Preseasons, the castaway parking and the overpriced seats. As far as Giants Stadium, any really honest Jets fan who has gone to as many games as I've been to in the last 30 years knows that the name "Giants" on the building and the blue in the stadium mattered not one fucking iota to any of us at kickoff. Way too much is made of this. Instead we have a grey stadium with "Metlife" on the side. It doesn't matter. What matters is that the new stadium should have provided better football views for attending Jets fans at an affordable price, and at this they failed miserably. And the attendance shows it. Only 10% of the Upper Deck will be inhabited by Jets fans after this year, IMO. And if the Jets don't continue on a playoff-bound winning streak each and every season from now on, expect future defections in droves from the spoon-fed sons of Wall Streeters in the PSL sections as well. The next step will be the selling off of many PSLs at below original prices just to bail. Current seat prices are unsustainable even in this "winning" era, imagine what will happen if the bottom drops out.
Badger, if you are in Row 22 of the UD, you most certainly WILL move up if you call them after this season. But when you call, put your foot down and tell them you are walking unless they can get you significantly better seats. They'll do it, believe me. I moved from Row 16 to UD Prime in January. One phone call.
The old Stadium itself was perfect for football, some seats were better than others but there wasn't really a bad seat in that Stadium, you could walk all the way around, easy access in and out,... BUT I love that we don't play in "Giants Stadium" anymore and we don't play in a building w/ those ugly red and blue seats.
