This is not that unbelievable. Bare with me. PSL's are announed and they are for every seat in the place. Goes anywhere from $10,000 to $3500. Problem is its for 5 years with a guarantee of no ticket price increases. After 5 years, its another PSL. 25,000 season ticket holders decide to leave. Only 15,000 on the waiting list take the tickets. The Jets are now 10,00 ticket holders short or at least 20,000 seats. What do they do?. If they sell them to the general public they would have to add a portion of the PSL ($100) to a single game ticket and who's going to pay $175-$225. They are screwed and Jet home games are no longer sold out and its blacked out in this area including NFL TIC. I would bet thye tought of this and that's one reason you watiing list people are getting your $ back. They are setting you up I was using the worst case scenario for PSL's. If all are $5,000 for lifetime I still think thousands and thousands of ticket holders will bail
What he is saying is incoherent with the thread title. He posits if there isn't enough demand for tickets they'd pull television coverage so you have no choice but to go to the games, that or find another team. They do this in Miami, I've heard.
If games are pulled because of the black out rules coming from unsold tickets then what I think you will find is that people will find a new team to root for (Giants) before they pony up the money for those same tickets they refused to pay for to begin with.
I doubt CBS or whomever has the AFC package at that time will live with blacking out their #1 market 8 Sundays a season. Even if CBS has to work with the Jets and the NFL, they will ensure all the seats are sold.
If the Jets are selling individual tickets themselves, they will not be added prorated PSL values into the ticket prices, no way no how.
It's not up to CBS. It's the NFL rule. If games aren't sold out 24 hours (or is it 72?) before game time the game will NOT be televised in the local market.
yeah no way they would let this happen. CBS would buy the tickets if it came to that but i have to think that it wont. With the new stadium even with PSL's people will be lining up to take season tickets from people who dont want to pay anymore.
Yeah, that's the reality of it all and they know it. Unless of course the recession becomes much deeper and longer lasting. Then all bets are off.
They'll just do what Jacksonville does/did they put a huge tarp over a certain amount of seats they are not using so technically they are filling up all the seats they have. Its a loophole of sorts for teams to get their games televised. Now hopefully it never gets bad enough for this sort of thing to happen.
How are they going to sell upper deck seats for $85.00 as a single game ticket and ask the season ticket holder to pay $85.00 plus 5k for the same seats? . Indvidual tickets are going to be priced differently and I stick to my point. The Jets have at least entertained that they will not sell out the place through a season plan. Berate me all you want. With the economy the way it is and the survey's they have done. Hempstead is concerned.
That used to happen back in the day, there were a lot of Jet games blacked out when I was a kid. Until 1978 we rarely saw them on TV at Shea.
NY is to big of a market regardless of what the rule is. How can you black out NY teams? Arizona or Buffalo i can understand, but we have 3 million fans in the area alone. You can't blackout 3 hrs of TV Ratings for CBS.
Maybe people will start understanding why the cheapest bastard in the entire NFL was willing to pony up all those bucks in the offseason and why it has nothing to do with Tannenbaum and Mangini..other than the fact they will be out the door if the Jets don't win this year.
Which is why CBS, with a ton of advertising revenue and millions of viewer eyeballs at stake, will not let it make it to this point. If 10,000 seats are usold a week or two before the game, they will find buyers for those seats.
The Broadcasting rights to games are worth so much to teams that they will find buyers for the games, even if they have to buy the remaining themselves.
No TV network is going to buy 10,000 seats a game. No way. The Jets are going to price themselves out of the NY market with their home games if they are not careful, especially if they go 6-10 this year. And with that, we have the TV rules.
A few points, For the most part, PSLs are permanent. They do not expire in 5 years. The PSL can be transferred (for a fee of course), or, if not renewed, reverts back to the jets who then can sell it again. The Jets cannot add the cost of a PSL to an individual ticket. The PSL is a license to own the seat for a given event. It has a value to it over the long term. Current season ticket holders can sell their ticket for a fee (e.g. ticket rights), and the teams that charge PSLs are capitalizing on the market for those tickets. There will be a market for all tickets in the new stadium, PSL or no PSL. The PSL becomes an asset to the holder of the ticket that can be sold at any time (probably for a profit as well). All seats will be sold and the waiting list will continue for years to come. The Jets are no worried.
