Sports teams have really brought back the Class systems used in the Middle Ages. The Yankees have a moat protecting the fans in the first 10 rows or so from the rest of the fans. The Giants and Jets are probably going to divide the parking into Club, PSL, Etc. Not to mention if you can't afford a certain seat your either banished from the new stadium or have to settle for nose bleeds (although for football some might consider those better then the first row LL) At Citi Field if you don't have a certain ticket you can't eat at the Restaraunt or enter the indoor bar area (which is pointless since you can't see the baseball game).
Honest to God, that is totally sleazy. What a bunch of dirtbags. You were probably like, "Hey honey, who's on the phone? The NY Jets? Holy Christ, we're going to Indianapolis!"
Wait so there is a rumor that next year parking for the Giants will be .....Suit holders.............PSL.............and General Admission?
Brand New From Boomberg Ticket Sales The ticket-sales staff has had 100 people working 13 hours a day, seven days a week, Higgins said. The team is offering new suiteholders spots on a chartered flight to the game against the Colts in Indianapolis. The Jets? postseason run combined with an improving corporate hospitality economy in December and January to boost sales of suites and premium seating for the $1.6 billion stadium they will share with the Giants beginning next season. ?We?ve sold more suites in the past month than in many months before that,? Higgins said. He declined to provide sales figures. Prices of the suites haven?t been disclosed. The Jets auctioned some seat licenses in the Coaches Club section behind the team bench for an average of more than $26,000 each in October 2008, Higgins said. The Jets also have sold out the stadium?s corners after cutting prices in October on some tickets to $195 from $400 and on the most expensive ?Prime? seats to $395 from $500. Buy Decision Rob Tilliss, founder of New York-based Inner Circle Sports LLC, said even a Super Bowl title won?t necessarily sway those still deciding about the Jets? remaining seats and suites. Corner seats are harder to sell because of the viewing angle, he said. ?The reason those seats are left is because that?s their least-attractive inventory,? Tilliss, whose firm advises sports franchises on major financial transactions, said in an interview. ?But if you think the team is going to be more competitive next year, it might affect your decision to buy.?
Wall Street is crashing this week and if Jet lose Sunday, sales are at a standstill. But Jets got superlucky from March 2009, a huge 70% run up in stocks combined with a a huge play-off run. The were able to move a ton of seats in just eight weeks.
thanks for posting this, wonder if jets will adopt the same approach (i'd assume so but who knows for sure)
Jets side looks cramped for parking as I suspected it would be. Nothing worse than having to run halfway around the building to get to the other side before you even exit to get into the parking lot. That General Admission parking lot should be rocking with plenty of us undesirables on opening day. I can't wait.
Go Jets Watching the game, 227 in 342 and 17a in 347!!! My BIL has 3 in 342 nd I have 2 in 347. I will be sitting in both sometimes cause if BIL is only takeing 3 am I am taking three we will swap. When Jets win I bet they give you a chance for seats this year a chance for seats next year and some for senority. 227 should do great with that formula.
Carton is now going off on WFAN...he claims to have been told that the Jets still have 30,000 PSL's left to sell. I have no idea where he got this info, just posting what he just said on the air. If this is true, after that Playoff run, and the hope and promise we have for a 2010 season (after we fill our glaring needs), this isn't good news for Woody and the Jets.
I wouldn't be surprised. A Rep called me saturday doing the J-E-T-S thing to try to get me pumped up for the PSLs. This and other sales tactics reported here tell you that they are desperate. I really think they will do a price reduction soon. It's the only way out.
Found the article...well, part of the article. Was posted in Pro Football Talk.com Per Dave Hutchinson of the Newark Star Ledger (via SBD), owner Woody Johnson said Thursday that there's "a little bit of a frenzy right now" for PSLs. They'll need "a lot" of a frenzy in order to sell them all. Per a league source, the team still needs to move 25,000 to 30,000 PSLs. A win this weekend could go a long way toward making it happen.
Well I estimated it was 40,000 seats still available all-in, so I wasn't too far off. Woody Johnson is stuck in a corner, and people who wait it out will be the big winners. Hello September seats with no PSLs and no preseason games
If 30,000 is a correct number, that is one hell of a lot of PSLs to move. I've long held the opinion that the pricing has been incorrect. By that I mean (and I'm not just talking about way too much for the condition the economy is in), I'm talking about row pricing within sections. How do you price a 1st Row seat the same as a 23rd Row seat in a given section and expect to sell the last 8-10 rows? I guarantee most of those 30,000 PSLs are in the last rows of certain sections. Sections should hae been divided into thirds, for example, so that Rows 1-8 are $3,000 let's say, and Rows 9-16 are $2500, and then rows 17-24 are $2000. As it stands now, Woody probably has many expensive PSLs to sell that are still priced like front row areas but are very far back from the field. Not exactly a brilliant pricing strategy, IMO.
You're thinking Upper Deck, which is already pretty much sold. Downstairs where the PSLs are, the higher row up you go the better. And the Mezz doesn't have that many seats for it to matter. It's all about where you are around the horn sidelines/corners/end zone
