Second only to Cowboys Here is link to the article. https://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Issues/2020/01/03/Research-and-Ratings/NFL-Attendance.aspx
Obviously this tally is based on tickets sold and not number of people attending the games. The figures would be a lot lower if actual bodies in attendance were reported, since half-empty stadiums have been the norm for quite a few seasons now. Four of the top five teams failed to make the playoffs, which supports the theory many owners have little or no financial incentive to improve their teams. Let's face it, the primary reason most teams sign free agents is to meet the CBA mandated salary floor, not to improve the team. Throw in the huge network bucks, which are shared by the teams, and any incentive to build a winner goes straight out the window. This is how teams go decades without improving, or more importantly, not having any need to improve. The NFL is a government controlled monopoly which gives the illusion that teams are in competition against each other, when in fact, they are working together as a collective to optimize profits. Who wins and who loses (or more accurately, who gets rewarded and who doesn't) is only a peripheral part of the equation.
The stadium was built too big. We can seriously puy 77,000 in there and it would still leave 5,500 empties which would look visible.
When the team gets good again and hosts playoff games it'll be fine. Team isn't good that's the #1 problem.
Lol so this is funny. jets weren’t good but it’s thanks to other people’s fan bases that they were the 2nd best attendance? weird.
If the Johnsons gave a shit, they would take measures to get more Jet Fans into MetLife Stadium. As it is, as long as there are asses in the seats, there's money coming in. Nothing else really matters to them. The Suckers keep coming back.
meh I mean 2nd in attendance says what it says. Of course I’m sure they want a winning team, they just don’t get they need to let football people do their thing and to hire the right people. Bottom line fans are coming to the games. *shrug*...7-9 be damned.
I think a lot of owners really want a good team with lots of wins. It's a huge bragging right among owners and their non-football piers. Most owners spend time at the stadium and practice fields, watching the team prepare and play the game. Owners are fans too. If owning a football team was simply an 'investment' with little concern over wins and losses, they would hire a fund manager (ie, VP of football operations) and then spend their days on the beach in Monaco watching shirtless lassies frolic in the waves while checking their fund balance on their smart phones.
We also hosted a lot of teams that have fans that travel well. I assure you jets fans weren’t flooding the stadium driving this number
Greed seems to be the motivating factor , as you alluded to. Watching games on TV these days, it's just so hard to focus on what has transpired after a certain play as the broadcasters find more ways to sneak in commercials/ads in between 30 second time-outs and even between plays. The fans at the games are feeling the frustration as well with long timeouts between kickoffs due to stations tossing in ad after ad. I thinks it's come to a point were team revenue is mostly from advertising and sharing rather than from ticket sales.
Anybody know how these attendance numbers are calculated. The place was extremely crowded this year but not 100% either.
This is why it’s stupid to pretend like not going to games or not buying merchandise or whatever it is the internet plans on doing means something. It doesn’t. It’s New York, when we play a team we are going to sell plenty of tickets to that teams fanbase. Whether it’s individual fans living in the area, people who come to NYC for vacation and want to catch their team or travel packages because it’s NYC... the franchise is going to make money and will probably never be in danger of NOT making money. See: NFL, Nike and the people that swore they weren’t going to watch games or buy Nikes anymore.
Levi's and CenturyLink max out at ~69k. So even if they're packed, a 5-10% empty MetLife or JerryWorld beats it in raw attendance.
A little heavy on the conspiracy theory there aren't we? It's in the NFL owners best interest to have a good team. It means more prime time, more advertising, more money. Teams don't just make money on attendance. They make money on TV deals and merch, which are 2 of the biggest factors. Have a shitty team hurts both those bottom lines They also make money renting out the stadium for events. Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk