My overall impression is that it is a nice stadium. Don't feel all that much closer or on top of the field as advertised. The tailgate is so huge to the experience and glad that will remain and we are not in Manhattan. Long lines for the bathroom but the lined moved pretty quickly. Beyond that.....not all that much different from Giants Stadium. Do like that you don't see any blue or red....more of a home field for sure. I live in Pa and a buddy of mine has season tix and I go with him when his girl can't go. Honestly....our crowd is so much less passionate about football and I don't say that just on sundays meaningless game. I think it is because real fans can't afford tickets anymore.....which sucks.
mehl if you dont mind i am going to copy/paste this post to http://forums.theganggreen.com/showthread.php?t=42290
Whatever. It was a meaningless game. Go to a divisional game that actually matters next year. We are still passionate. Where did you sit?
He is right for sure. The Jets home fans are terrible. Have you gone to other stadiums? Can't pat ourselves on the back for cheering when the Patriots are in town.
I have two rants about the Jets/Bills game. #1 ... did anyone stay for the epic failure of a "post game celebration"? They had a bunch of confetti guns set up around the stadium. Either they didn't know how to use them, or it just wasn't windy enough b/c they were just spewing out green and white confetti on the ground around the guns. The staff had to pick the shit up and throw it into the air. #2... the free rally towels (while supplies last!). Shouldn't they give the towels out BEFORE the game??? If they give them out at the end of the game, do you know who gets them? All the shitheads that leave at the beginning of the 4th quarter. Do you know who doesn't get them? All the fans that actually stay to celebrate and.... wait for it... rally behind the team. Assholes.
100% win. On both points. Was thinking and talking about both of these points on my way out of the stadium, and I forgot about them, but you're absolutely right on everything. Pathetic.
i wanted that god damn towel. i got one last year and i wanted one again this year. they should have made enough for everyone. fuck toyota.
The new stadium is a disappointment to me. Even taking into account the additional costs of doing business in the Northeast, I cannot fathom how Dallas got a far nicer, larger, stadium, with a roof, than what we ended up with, for way less money.
depends on where you sit if you are in the LL the view and everything about the place is great. Same with the Mezz. And you could have found your way into really nice seats in either level for a PSL cost equal to roughly two packs of cigarettes a month if you financed the minimal 2500 PSL cost over 15 years as offered If you refused to take advantage of the opportunity to improve your seats and decided to sit in the ionosphere (as apparently the OP did) you pretty much got what you deserved and really haven't got that much to complain about since our inferior also ran co-owner fans had to pay 1-4K for the chance to sit in those same crappy seats as for roofs -- totally unnecessary and ruins the football experience in my opinion... There is a reason that the vast majority of new stadia in the Northern half of the country are open air buildings. Philly, Baltimore, Washington, New England, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and the Meadowlands --- all NO roofs. Roofs are only necessary in places like Dallas, Atlanta, Phoenix etc where the temperature a million degrees in the early part of the season making the game of football unplayable and unwatchable not in the northern USA where fall conditions are those that football was made to be played in
I received my towel. They're smaller than the towels from the Bengals game last year and the Phags game this year. In my section, we get up and get loud on every third down. We are loud and passionate. See I'm in the $95 seats where a lot of us old timers ended up. We are still a great group. I can't speak for other sections and I don't think others can do the same.
Depends on the game and the weather. Also, consider that the new ticket prices have forced a lot of die-hards (who make noise) to watch the game from home.
I'm not going into a long spiel.....my biggest problem are the acoustics suck at the new stadium. It never sounds as loud as the old Meadowlands did. And I was at the Pats game. As far as the opinion Jets fans suck....Fuck you. I've been to almost 50 games in the last 8 years, and we sit through scorching hot weather, horribly cold weather, soaking to the bone weather, snowing so much you can barely see the field weather; we show up EARLIER than the 5 hours allotted to us every damn game no matter the weather; spend hundreds of dollars on your seats, your food, your beverages, your gasoline, your tailgating materials (i.e. grill, coolers, chairs, tables, etc.); when it takes you, sometimes, 3 hours to get home because of the traffic; come home with no voice, a sore throat, and a pounding headache (when I forget the Advil), sit through some excruciating losses and.... we still come back for more. AND YOU FUCKING LOVE IT. Even the meaningless Bills game had a good turnout. When you can tell me you do all these thing for 4, 5, or 6 games a year then you have the right to say Jets home fans suck.
I disagree w/ you there, I think the building sounds really loud- louder than the old building. The difference is int he old building it was full while the new one is about 80% full(w/ people inside in suites and clubs). if we had everyone outside and being loud I think it would be even louder than the old place.
Maybe, but I sit in section 310 now as opposed to 114, so maybe it's where I sit now. That 28-14 Pats game was the loudest game I was at all season, and it really doesn't compare. Thank you PSL. My seats have also gone up from $55 to $105 in the time span of those 8 years, so as another poster pointed out, a lot of the die-hards are going to get priced out. Hell, I'm pretty close to getting priced out. Frankly, the amount of money I have to ask my buddies to pool in before the game is getting embarrassing.
he does have a bit of a point there....I know you agree with everything I wrote in my first post though. Hell, you're there every game, I only make like 5 of the 8 every year.
I'm very serious, i first noticed at preseason games when the Stadiumw as half full and it was still pretty loud. obviously there have been some games where the crowd just wasn't into it but if the crowd is up the building is very loud. When we had the long play to Braylond and the Td to santonio against Houston the building was more than half empty and it was incredibly loud. The atmosphere may not be as good w/o as many real fans as in the old building but the building itself is loud.
The problem isn't the building itslef, it's the lack of passionate fans and even in the old place we had a wait and see crowd. It wasn't a crowd loud on 1st and 2nd down, it only got up on 3rd downs(outside of that NE game last year). I hate the new Stadium overall but it has more to do w/ lack of real fans than how it holds sound, I think the building would be deafening if we had the same amount of real fans in their seats in the new building.
I agree with you to a certain extent, but (and I wasn't at the Texans game), I've been to enough games in the newer stadium, and it just doesn't seem the same to me. Again, I'm in the upper regions now as opposed to the lower bowl, so that may have something to do wit it, but your suites and indoor area theory I think holds water. It's also what PH and a couple of others have said...real fans sitting at home as opposed to in the stadium. Which is sad.
