Do not know but they do it. As a example the games being shown on the netwoork stations here in Austin TX cannpot be accessed on Direct TV
They can do whatever they want. They black out a game that is being shown locally from the package, so you have to go to the local channel to see it. It's like when you order a fight, they can send it to you or not send it to you.
lol. Imagine if you can't afford tickets, and NOW you can't watch the Jets on TV...BECAUSE no one can afford tickets? Somehow, that makes perfect sense for this franchise. Meanwhile, the Giants would figure it out somehow. Like, they would re-work the PSL somehow if it's only 50% capacity sold...but Woody would be in St Maarten and not be taking calls. Then the season starts and the Jets games aren't on TV. Everyone would have to drive two states over and get a hotel room to watch the Jets. Doesn't that sound like us?
But the above points about "not being sold out" and then the game becoming blacked out are moot, because the games will, of course, be "sold out." By selling their cockamamie PSLs and then ram-rodding the sale of 10 games down the throats of all the PSL holders, those seats will all be "sold out." Same thing with the Upper Deck where there are no PSLs. Those seats will be legitimately sold out because the guys up there haven't paid PSLs and are in it relatively cheaply, not to mention the ticket prices up there will be cheaper than downstairs. So, no Jets game in the future will unsold, and therefore, no games will ever be blacked out because they cannot do that. Every game will technically be "sold out" even though you may be looking at 45,000 empty seats. Ridiculous, yes, but they don't care about that. To them, all the games will be sold out.
When I was a kid people would drive out of the area to see the home games on TV. I never understood why they didn't just stay in the area and drive to the game.
Before they started mandating that the season ticketholders buy the preseason games, those games were sold individually and separately and were almost never sold out. So you'd have to wait until midnight to watch an 8PM Friday night preseason game. That wasn't very long ago.
only valid reason to move and charge PSL's is if they came back to NYC in their OWN stadium. then i'd have no problem at all with it. However, city of NY has shown they only care about the baseball teams.
Good question, I'd like to know that. I'm cool with the idea of the Jets having a new stadium, then again I'm not a season ticket holder(wish I was though). The one thing that eats me up inside, is that we still have to share a stadium with the Giants. That just tells me that the owner is more interested in dollar bills, and has no kind of love or pride in his team. I hope something changes in the near future.
I went on newyorkjets.com and the artists rendition of the stadium has the new seats as a two tone gray. Also noticed 3X the number of restrooms. That's good!! Lrger concourses and more concessions as well.
SI Ranking all of the NFL teams' stadiums: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/nfl/10/29/fvi.jets/ I think its painfully obvious we need a new stadium, it would have been nice to have our own though, but at least we wont be second class citizens anymore.
Our status vs the other NY team will be based solely on the way our team plays vs the other team. If you read the article we scored the worst on traffic, food and area none of which is changing. I like going to the US open for a couple of days but it costs me 400 to 500 per day for tickets lunch a snack and the couple of t Shirts we usually take home. Basically I'm paying for a lot of amenities which are nice when we were rich. Now that we aren't rich give me a good site line and a good game and I'm more than happy to bring a brown bag and be ripped off on a beer or two. If you love the game and we put out a good product, people would watch the team in Central Park on a lawn chair. All the BS is just BS and frankly with the country in dire economic straits, people struggeling to put food on the table, all this talk about amenities should make us a little ashamed. Football is a tough sport it's a game for the people not the corporations. They are on the cusp of pricing this game out of the reach of normal fans. In a couple of years the Dog pound in Cleveland will be made up of suits, Fireman Ed can be replaced with Banker Bob that's if Barney Frank approves TARP money being used for PSL's, Raider Nation will go from Harley freaks to an S Class Mercedes club. Instead of beer and boner commercials we will be watching 4 hours of boner and face lift commercials. Instead of commercials for Chevy trucks we will have commercials for personal electric wheel chairs with build in porta potty's. It's about the game not the Bison burger and Cabernet.
The xhibition game charge began with the hiring of BP. I suspect it was the way Hess used to pay him all that money he demanded to be our coach
The wider concourses I'm looking forward to. Right now it's a total cluster fuck trying to get in and out or anywhere through the concourse.
