I'm living in the Netherlands and I'm a Jets fan now for 14 years and I would love to go every game, I watched the game yesterday on a stream on the internet and seeing the stadium that empty hurt a little bit. I agree with a lot of people that you always stay behind your team. As a former Amsterdam Admirals fan (they ceased operations June 2007) I used to see a lot of dissapointing seasons so I know what it's like, and I followed the team to every away game (that's a average of 4000 miles a season) so I've seen a lot of bad games, but still I'm cheering for the Jets every game and hoping that they will pull a upset!! Let's focus on our next goal and that's getting the Cheatriots a defeat in foxboro :gpc: :smile: ats_suck:
Okay, here I go chiming in. For once this season, I have to take the other side in this argument. I don't blame the season tix holders one bit for yesterday. This team is terrible. Not bad, terrible. The weather was terrible. We got beat by a team with the league's worst defense. The league's WORST DEFENSE. We tried to win by kicking onsides multiple times in the fourth quarter. Seriously? I'll say this much, I admire any Jets fan that made the effort yesterday. It sure as hell wasn't worth it. For anyone who didn't bother to show though, I can't blame them one bit. If we weren't putting a Pee Wee team out there every Sunday, maybe people would show. But to sit in that cold rainy wreck of a stadium, to watch an offensive showing that was nothing but offensive, takes an extra special kind of fan. I don't expect anyone to be that dedicated.
It is not a bad thing for the fans to stay away. Let Johnson get the message that if he thinks he can continue to put garbage on the field and still make the same money, he can't. The Giants fans did a similar thing in the 70s when they burned their tickets and that was followed by Parcells. The fans SHOULD be making a statement.
Actually it was in the 60's and Sherman was fired and replaced by Webster for 5 years followed by Arnsparger for 3 years followed by McVay for 2 years and than Perkins for 4 years.
lol...yeah, maybe you're right except I thought it all started after "the fumble". While McVay was there. I forgot about the others. It WAS after "the fumble" in 1978...good for Google Giant fan reaction Fans turned on management and ownership as previously grumbled complaints about the team's ineptitude turned into an incessant roar. Their team was now the laughingstock of the league. The Fumble (a term in use within the week) epitomized all the mismanagement and all the talent the team had let get away. At a demonstration outside the stadium prior to the next home game against the Los Angeles Rams, many threw tickets into a bonfire. A Newark furniture dealer named Morris Spielberg organized a Giants' Fans Committee after running an ad in the Newark Star-Ledger that drew hundreds of responses. They met at a hotel near the stadium prior to the team's final home game on December 10 against the St. Louis Cardinals and distributed flyers to pass out to fellow fans during the game. Spielberg had arranged for a plane to fly over the stadium with a banner reading "15 Years of Lousy Football — We've Had Enough." When it came, fans were to chant, "We've had enough" as a peaceful protest against the team's poor management. http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&q="the+fumble"&btnG=Search It doesn't really matter. The point is that the message got through loud and clear and the Giants started trying to put a quality product on the field and have ever since. Jets fans are too complacent.
I remember that. We need some of those old-time creative ways to make our feelings known. My father was a JET fan back in the Shea Stadium days w/Richard Todd, etc. He was so disgusted after 1 game w/Chuck Ramsey shanking 3 or 4 punts in a row that he put a Monday ad in Newsday's help wanted section for a new punter.
you nailed it 100%.. Every week there is someone with the same post. Dude we suck, its was a 4pm game, we were playing the browns, the weather was cold and about to rain any minute as it did in the late 3rd quarter. I am a season ticket holder and I did go but I dont blame anyone for not going. End this annoying posts already.
Like many of the other no-shows, I couldn't get anybody to go to the game. And to be honest, I wasn't all that excited about the prospect of spending my Sunday afternoon/evening in traffic and the rain. When the team sucks, it all spirals downward, the folks who do go are usually there to get drunk or root for the opponent.
I was there yesterday, and to me, it did not matter how many people decided to stay home. I have been to games when there have been far less people in the stands. I showed up in the Lot at 11:30 and tailgated with my friends in 5H as usual. My seats are covered, but it was real miserable walking to the car and driving home. Driving back, I kept thinking to myself if it was worth going I guarantee that there will be only about 10,000 people at the last game of the year, if it remains an 8:15 game.
The team stinks and the weather was terrible. I can't blame them. If the Jets were 9-3 and that was the crowd, I'd be agitated. But they're not.
As many times as I have dissagreed with you, I must say that this time I 100% AGREE. The best way to send a message is with empty seats. That is a big embarrassment to management when that shows up on tv and espn starts to comment on it. I even agree about the fans that did attend. Most were probably people that don't get to go often or are that loyal that they will sit through this mess. I salute them as well. I honestly think we should be urging on season ticket holders to eat the KC game to show management how upset we are. We need to show that this crap is unacceptable.
He hasnt returned because chances are hes not a season ticket holder. Most people who start threads about jet fans not showing up arent season ticket holders but they feel the need to come here start bullshit threads that bash us ticket holders for not showing up.
I don't get it. Why should one Jets fan care what another Jets fan does? When you purchase a ticket it gives you the right to attend the game, but attendance is not compulsary. The team this year is playing like absolute shit- surprise. Maybe for those season ticket holders who would normally travel from a great distance, there is less motivation to do so. When you add up sloppy gameplay with a poor record and terrible weather, there's more factors to convince you to stay at home than to hop in the car and make your way to NJ. What I do think is that if you can't find a way to get there, that you as a fan should at least make an attempt to find someone who can use the ticket. The problem- when the team is as bad as this year's team, people don't even want freebies. That's right- they'd rather sit home than deal with watching a losing team in person. Fans are busy. They work full-time jobs, they have families and other obligations. Save me from your preaching from the pulpit, as to who should have been there and how they should have acted. I'm not going to the last game of the season- 8PM on a weekend night to watch this team which will be lucky enough to land another win- should I expect an email or phone call from you the next morning, bitching me out because I wasn't there? I'm sending Basil Cervone in my place.
The place was about 2/3 full yesterday until the freezing rain started. I've seen worse, a lot worse. I was there for the Oilers in the rain in 1996 at 1-10 or whatever, that was nearly empty. Yesterday we stayed until Lewis' late TD, even the Cleveland fans who were yucking it up were nowhere to be found after the Jets TD and onsides kick, and they were winning the game.
I was there. When everyone left, we put on our rain gear and stuck it out. Couldda moved under the overhang, but we didn't. We stayed bone dry with the raingear anyway. I guess I just love football. Went to 7 games this year. 6 home and @ Baltimore. Had a great time at all of them, even yesterday.
It seems pretty simple to me... when you have a VERY bad product, you get very bad attendance. It's a pretty simple explanation.
