Your version of history is quite unique! "After the 1983 season, the Jets lease with the City of New York for the use of Shea Stadium had expired, and the Jets would need to cut a new deal. However, the renewal deal offered by the City of New York was highly unfavorable to the Jets, including terms such as that the Jets could not play a home game at Shea Stadium until the Mets' season was over, which would have forced the Jets to play at least the first month of the regular season on the road. Essentially evicted from Shea, in 1983 the Jets reached an agreement with the New Jersey Sports and Exhibition Authority to play their home games at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey beginning in 1984."
The Shea deal was modified substantially before Hess finally rejected it. My source is the Howard Cosell book "I Never Played The Game," chapter 4, where Cosell notes that in an interview with Mets co-owner Nelson Doubleday on May 14, 1983, Doubleday revealed the city made an offer to add 12,000 aditional seats at Shea, 98 new loges, and other concessions for the Jets to the tune of $43 million. There was even talk of building the Jets their own domed stadium. One key concern you mention is the fact the Jets weren't allowed to play home games early in the season while the Mets were still using the park. But that situation had been altered, and by 1983, the Jets were playing home games in September. All this was for naught, because Hess was following his own drummer. After only two meetings with city officials, including one with Mayor Ed Koch two days before where Hess for the first time said he wanted his own stadium, Hess's decision to move the team went public on Sept. 28, 1983, with Koch claiming bad faith on Hess's part. Hess did have issues with Shea, including the state of the bathrooms and the fact that playing at Shea made him feel like "a second-class citizen" to the Mets (of course, now the Jets are that to the Giants.) Say what you will of Cosell and his biases, but the Jets' abrupt departure in the midst of early negotiations for a new stadium was all about money, and in a way that blights the Jets' legacy to this day.
The Jets will not build in New York.The WTC is still a hole.Real Estate is way too high for Mr.Woody Johnson.Keep dreaming not gonna happen.N.J will soon be home for the entire operations of the Jets.
Oh, posts you mean. Well, it seems I'm the only guy here who thinks the New York Jets should be in New York. I'd settle for Staten Island, or a big barge on the East River. But I'm just one guy.
Ladies and gentlemen, the owner of the famed Jets Insider showing his class under his now revealed alias. Well done Soothsayer, you had us all fooled!
Your petition and a billion dollars may get the job done. You have the first part, it's the second that could get sticky.
Then they should reflect that in their name. I and many Giants fans I work with disagree. One team already had a sight picked out while the other was digging around Manhattan. Once things didn't work out the homeless team came knocking on the door of the team with a home.........again. Well the savings aren't going to passed down to Jets or Giants fans, so I am not concerned with how much a billionaire has to shell out. Those teams will never play each other, it's not the same. hmy: ..............:lol: I would rather live in North Dakota then New Jersey, and I hate the cold. The only good thing the state of New Jersey has going for it is it's proximity to NYC and Philly, without that it's nothing......
I personally feel Woody should move the team to Warner Robins, GA. If he does I swear to get season tickets!
they are in the process of BUILDING their facilities in Florham Park. They are not going back to NY any time in our lifetimes.
