It’s not really a scam though. You can get up to 35% off (if you bring a large enough group). I’ll be honest though - I think some of y’all are crazy for still having season tickets unless money is really no object. You can go to every game at a similar price and get cheaper tickets in down years later on in the season. The internet has really killed the draw of buying season tickets IMO because I’d venture to guess there hasn’t been a Jets game in 10 years you couldn’t find decently priced tickets to. Maybe it makes sense to buy season tickets if you’re a Patriots or Chiefs fan and they’re perpetually competitive and the prices will be high for late season games because of demand. I don’t say this to be mean, I say this to try to save you folks some money. Then you’re also not stuck with tickets or losing 50% of their value when you don’t want to go see them get smoked by a playoff team in late December with the backup QB in.
^I'm telling you, they suck over there. If I saw the actual flyer it might settle some things . . . but they still suck over there.
Why do they suck? You realize the people you call and talk to on the phone at places like that, even with big corporations, are likely coordinator-level entry type jobs that make $37K per year and they have you busting their balls about the language on a flyer someone who makes 5x their salary came up with?
I didn't bust his balls, I asked valid questions with no rudeness involved at all. You have a valid point that crap rolls downhill, but it goes way back from the inception of The New Dump and what went on forward. You have no idea how fakakta it was. When I was told verbally that we can do what we want whenever we want, that was it after 55 years. Granted, almost everything says terms and conditions may change at any time, but PSLs are not worth the toilet paper that they're written on. I still have the letter about payment options right before I bailed and it's like it was written by a 5 year old. I should post it again for shiggles.
I remember when the Jets had the cheapest ticket in the league and you didn't have to buy the preseason games. I want to say the tickets were $15 a pop back in 1986. Ahhh, the good ol' days.
It was a thing until the new stadium was built. And then the list disappeared instantaneously and now it's the reverse of a waiting list. It's a begging people to come to the games list.
The whole "Hey pay us 10G+ per seat, just for the ability to still pay for your seats that will now cost 3x as much" really put a damper on things....
I once went with a friend to the last game of a bad season against the equally bad Bills, at the old place. He found a ticket on the ground near the gate. He waved it over his head yelling, "One ticket - five dollars!" There were no takers. He finally sold it to someone for a dollar.
I never understood the want to buy tickets in the parking lot. Especially from strangers who have an extra one. Then you gotta sit next to the guy all game you just made a weird drunken parking lot transaction with?
Once you're in, you wouldn't really care where the seats were. You would just squat in a place as close to your friends as possible. Back in the day, you'd have a lot of empty seats to choose from. I don't know how it it now, but tailgating used to be a really big thing at the old place. Some people would come to the game without tickets, just to tailgate. They would take their chances on buying tickets on Route 17 on the way in, or people dumping tickets in the parking lot. If they didn't score any tickets, they'd either just leave, or watch the game on TV in the parking lot, so they could also do the post-game tailgate. It used to be impossible to get out of the parking lot. So, the post game tailgate was as big as the pre-game. You'd see a lot of people watching the late game on TVs in the parking lot after the Jets' game.
You may be right, but I think in '86 they might have been closer to $20. I got mine in '79 they were $9 per game for Loge. It quickly "skyrocketed" to $11 per game thanks to the playoff appearances of the early eighties. Yes, those were good old days. Even in the Kotite years I went to every game since the financial "bite" was not really a thing and being at the game was a better experience than being at home. WOW has that changed. Man do I hate that damn siren thing on any third down. It's as if the crowd needs to be jolted to attention that it's an important down. It's a completely different crowd inside the stadium these days. Sometimes for the better, but not to me. Imagine filing in to the stadium amongst a big crowd and there being actual tension because it's a big game that mattered. The muttering and small-talk being about JETS FOOTBALL. Miss that.
This right here drove me nuts for the 11 years I was a season ticket holder. The fans said almost nothing throughout the entire drive for the other team, and then suddenly a siren and a guy screaming "it's third down!!!!" would get them excited. Just proves my point that many of the good Jets fans were shut out many years ago, and the rest of them were pushed out the door when the new stadium came around. Now it's a third empty seats, a third the other team's fans, and a bunch of fans who are apparently there for the experience. It's a damn shame, we have absolutely no home field advantage, and we haven't for a long long time.
The dynamic of that has changed for all teams, probably in all sports. But being Jets fans who have had to move west of their die hard fan base only to share a stadium, we are more sensitive to it. Plus, where we are, so many other opponents are nearby. Buffalo, NE, Wash, Balt, Philly, Giants.... we probably get more of their fans than other teams in other cities. The solution is to win, and win on a consistent basis. Jets fans will want to be in those seats rather than selling them.
