Most fans eat in the parking lot and most fans aren't going to the Stadium to wat. We can stay home and eat much better food for a much lower price. When discussing attending a Jet game and I have yet to hear someone bring up how good the food was. When I start to hear that then I'll believe people really care about the food.
I won a raffle at a company event earlier this year for the Superbowl down in Miami. Ends up, I won 2 tickets on the 50yrd line, 7th row. Needless to say, once the jets lost, I sold them. Made $10k (5k per ticket).
My stadium experience this past monday was nothing short of awesome.....my only beef is that it wasn't built well enough to deal with severe rainstorms. My view of the game was great (sec 346 Row 14)....i didn't try the food because the weather was too shitty to enjoy it...plus, I stuffed myself at the tailgate party. Hearing some of the fans bicker with eachother, and the fisticuffs...was an added entertainment treat. Miamipuck and I enjoyed a good laugh watching some dolt wearing a Jared Allen jersey get his ass beat by security and then escorted out..... Overall...a great experience...I'm hoping to return next year for a game.
It's absolutely absurd to consider food a high priority. 90% of the fans that go regularly to the games go to experience the outdoor tailgating and the game, period. They're pretty much full when they walk through the turnstiles. Right now, the food they serve there is a new thing, so many people (including myself) are trying it out. I predict the quality will taper off (it has already started to) and people will get sick and tired of dropping that kind of money on, what is basically, a notch above the kind of fast food you get at a Stewart's Root Beer stand. If I want a good meal, I go to a restaurant, not a football stadium. Jesus. Absolutely ridiculous.
It was right next to the escalator. Not many people were standing around that area. Could have fit a lot more but I'd estimate 50 were standing there. Upper deck in the old stadium there was no coverage next to the escalators at all. I was also able to watch the first couple of minutes of the 3rd quarter on the tv and stay dry and that was right outside my section.
Actually, no. In the old stadium all the good seats were taken by people that had them forever on the cheap and never got rid of them, and scalped them for huge profits. By building a new stadium all these great seats became available. Behind my section is a refreshments stand and bathroom that never have a line. My lot is right near my seat. I can now go straight when I come in off PP Road instead of being forced to make a left at the track. As far as the food, my kids like to eat at the game so they have always gone light at the tailgate, and as discussed the food is better. Halftime is better because we hang in the plaza instead of a ramp. So for me and a lot of people, everything's better and thats a fact. I almost have to apologize for it here but so be it.
So far the only issue I have is with the weather coverage and don't tell me it's only rain-I've been to plenty of lousy weather games.. I do have to point out that your statement is not factual yet. It very well could be but it is not now.
The food at our tailgate is excellent,,so by the time we go in no one is hungry we eat like champs outside. I usually buy the kids hotdogs or more often pretzels inside but thats it. Our tailgate spread is always great and sometimes we even bring trays of catered stuff----as far as that monsoon we attended last Monday nite --all I can say is wait until November and December , when the weather turns cold and the winds kick up! How much fun are we going to be having sitting in that completely open stadium with the wind going thru us---I only pray the team continues to win because I cannot imagine how I would have felt this past Tuesday had we lost. ONE AND DONE!
Went to the RU Army game today so I was able to experience the lower level for a change. My two comments for today's experience was that the back-up and wait to enter the Pepsi gate was reminiscent of the old stadium - backed-up, took a good ten minutes or more with male/female checkpoints that are asinine (a couple has to separate, which makes no sense) but what really surprised me was the foul smell of the mens room outside of section 146. WOW. What will it smell like after ten more events? Guess the waterless urinals weren't such a great idea after all. Who the f*ck designed this place? It already feels five years old.
Wait a few years and your PSL ticket prices will be killers too. Woody's going to have to make up the difference somewhere after half of the Upper Deck bails. All is Hunky Dory right now because we're on a winning streak. If things go the other way, all hell breaks loose.
No it won't, they will only be eliminating one preseason home game and they'll more than make up for that game by raising the per game price of reg season games.
It's also possible that the Jets are building something special here, the economy will come back, and one day the PSLs we're paying for now can go way up in value. That's the other side of the coin that I'm allowed to mention now that the voices of gloom and doom have checked in.
Hahahahaha.... Reading this, I can't help but think about Meatloaf's line: "Two outta three ain't bad...." The Jets could be building something special and the economy will come back, I'm sure. As far as "way up in value," well... I'm still waiting for that "hope and change" as well. LOL Seriously, it's refreshing to hear positives about the new stadium. It's something I always wanted our fans to have. I too had a dream. I envisioned our own new stadium, ours alone, perhaps with a slider or at least adequate cover for all our loyal people. And built with parking surrounding it, parking that would be convenient for all the levels. And a better system of entrance and egress from bathrooms too, with perhaps even better sightlines than Giants Stadium had. And, God Forbid, something financed in such a way that it was still affordable for everyone who wanted to attend... not just extremely rich people who attend more for the ability to mention it at cocktail parties than for the actual fun of seeing their kids really enjoy it. I am going to be brutally honest in what I'm about to say now. I talk to many, many people about the Jets. Every time I see someone wearing a Jets hat or jersey I walk up to them and tell them I'm a season ticketholder. Been doing it for years. I was just at the Chatsworth Cranberry Festival sunday morning and ran into another 4 guys wearing Jets stuff and had a chat with them, so I'm doing it all the time. And to the man... (I am not kidding)... to the person... I am talking about 100% of the people I have "interviewed" and whose opinions I have sought out... I have not encountered ONE person... not one... who told me they did not like the way Giants Stadium was, how much they miss it, and how outrageously expensive and unnecessary the New Mausoleum Stadium is and how they liked the old setup better. Now, of course, this could be blind luck. It just so happens that everyone I talk to... all 100% of them, are not a random sampling of what the average Jets fan on the street thinks of the new stadium. So again, I could be wrong. But I think not. Which is why you are one unusual guy, Gator. Continue with the optimism on the new stadium. It's probably a good thing. Maybe sooner or later we can all convince ourselves the place is terrific and the construction necessary. What the hell....
The thing i hate the most about the new stadium is leaving the game how much of a clutter exists at the escalators. Not to mention taking the stairs is terrible not like the good ole ramp.
227 may I say how I find your posts very informative and usually very accurate ----this last post was another one of em
