If this is posted anywhere else feel free to delete this thread if not I hope you guys enjoy this and laugh as hard as I did read on
This guy Alex hit a walk off grand slam---this letter is priceless !! If it did not have so many F bombs we could start a go fund me page and make a freaking Billboard out of it ,,,In fact thats a great idea !!!!!
So friends of mine sit not far from this guy I told them at the next game they attend ( if any ) to walk over introduce themselves and buy him a beer !
I never wrote them a letter, but I used to reply to the online surveys about my 'Game Day Experience'. You don't want to know some of the responses I gave. For the most part I ragged on The New Dump with a bunch of sarcasm thrown in. "Would you recommend purchasing season tickets at MetLife to a friend?" "No, it's a dump and has as much visual appeal as a hospital waiting room." Stuff like that. They never contacted me over anything I ever said, either, haha. Those emails really are for marketing purposes. As if 1/2 off on hotdogs twice a year is going to compel me to renew my season tix. One of the best ones - it may have been 2007? - was the year when the paper tickets looked like they were designed by LeRoy Nieman. In fact, they may have been. They were HORRIBLE, literally looked like someone threw different colored bird shit on them. Prior to that, they sent out an email for you to vote on the season ticket design. Well, they only allowed you to vote through Facebook, which I don't belong to. So, yeah, we got those monstrosities. Another time you could enter to win a set of Good Year tires - only through Facebook. Needless to say, I didn't win. Idiots. EDIT: The leaky pipe in that letter was the cherry on top.
This is a classic symbiotic relationship between a sadist and a masochist. If I'm the Jets organization I view the letter from Alex as an affirmation of the incredible job I'm doing to satisfy Alex perverse subconscious sexual desire for humiliation.
Oh God, that made me laugh It makes me question my money saving project to visit NYC and MetLife next year though Maybe I just book a vacation to somewhere with palmtrees instead..
I do think being a Jets fan satisfies something deeply Freudian in the human mind. We are so lucky to get our Sado-masochism on so publicly. I wonder what fans of winning teams do to get their fill.
Dang it. I was in Helsinki 2 weeks ago. Why didn't I PM you. Another topic. Let's not derail this one.
There is something sick about bitching and moaning about your team stinking and paying for it. I live in AZ. I bought season tickets when I moved out here. 2 years ago it was clear we needed to rebuild with a new QB. The Cardinals called me to renew. They wanted a price increase and a three year commitment. I told the salesperson I was waiting for the Draft before signing up for 3 years with a price increase. His comment, ticket prices aren't tied to results. I told him prices may not be tied to results but sales to me are. KC jumped us to take Mahomes after Watson was off the board. We drafted an athletic player Hassan Reddick who needed to learn a new position as a pro. I'm not a season ticket holder any longer. As long as you're willing to ante up, don't complain. It's one thing to be a fan who watches games on TV, it's another thing to put your money and time into something you're not enjoying. I do go to the occasional game. It's actually cheaper to buy really good seats to a bad team on a game by game basis than paying for season tickets pro-rated. I actually went to KC last weekend to the Cardinals game at Arrowhead. It was a great experience based on the venue and fans. I also got to see the QB we missed on last year without committing 25K to the Cardinals. When I go I'm not as invested in my team winning or losing. I'm invested in my time for that afternoon.
