Quote: Originally Posted by Jetsman 80 Hello all PSL holders. Are you aware of the Gary Meyers Article in Fridays NY Daily News: It indicates that the jets are now offering FREE PARKING and NO MONEY DOWN UNTILL 2011 for people who buy unsold PSL's. Per the article: "An e-mail sent May 6 to season-ticket holders from 2006-09 who have not purchased PSLs offered no money down on the purchase until 2011, with free parking and - get this - a free DVD of the 2009 season as they contemplate the offer, which surely will clinch the deal." Is anybody outraged by this ?? My expectation is that all current PSL holders who have already committed MUST GET AN EQUIVOLENT DEAL !! Looking for feed back and potential action ! GET THE WORD OUT TO OTHERS = LET YOUR DISPLEASURE BE KNOWN TO THE ORGANIZATION "PSL holders deserve to be treated like that for being so goddamn stupid in the first place. " Dude, That's a useless opinion.
We are a dedicated, rare breed that is currently being chastized by Woody for not buying his prescious PSL's. Screwing dedicated fans will only lead to some sort of revolt, whether by calls, emails, or worse, we will leave altogether. Woody got his stadium but is dangerously close to losing the common fan.
I have had to park there before, it's actually great for leaving the game but it sucks being so far away. They do provide(they did) buses from those lots.
lots 26,27,28 and 29 are no better.hell lot 29 is straight freakin ghetto. i ddint even know i was at a stadium parking lot. it was so overgrown with weeds along the fences and coming out of the ground it was like an old abandon drive in movie theatre.... pctures to follow tonight
Jets Parking Plan Sucks If anyone is not happy with the new Jets Parking Plan, please send an email to your rep, as well as "STUFF THE EMAIL BOX" at STH@newyorkjets.com with your complaints and criticism. I sent my 2 cents this morning!!!!!!!!! Jetbo 30 years in and ready to flush it all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or forward this article written about another STH: Fury over new parking regulations illuminates growing rift between Jets, fans It’s funny sometimes what will push a loyal fan over the edge. For Ben Gray, a human ATM for the Jets going on 20 years, it was the parking brochure he received in the mail last week. Gray paid $4,000 for his PSL, paid the always-climbing ticket prices that are now $125 a pop, paid for the exhibition games nobody watches and the ridiculous prices at the concession stand. He is even willing to pay for the parking, too. This is what got him: The Jets are now telling him that where he and his friends are allowed to park depends, once again, on how much they plunk down. He gets a spot near the new stadium. Many of his friends, the ones he has tailgated with in lot 13-B for more than two decades, did not buy PSLs and must park in the outer lots. They’re furious. All of them. “We just feel like we’ve been taken to the woodshed again and again,” said Gray, who drives up from his house in Highlands each game day with a “13-B ‘grillin’ and chillin’ ” T-shirt. “Going to a football game should be something you enjoy, but these guys just see dollars.” Maybe this doesn’t sound like a big deal to you. Gray and his friends could park in separate lots and walk to a spot for their tailgate. At a time when fans are asked to subsidize a new stadium many did not want for billionaires, it isn’t near the top of the list of gripes. Still, it is another example of a growing rift between the Jets and their fans, one that prompted several to send angry e-mails to the newspaper. Few teams have done more to upgrade their on-field product recently, but fewer still have aggravated their customers as much, either. Over-aggressive PSL salesmen, always pushing fans to upgrade (and, with thousands left to sell, getting more desperate each day). A draft party that was ripped on Deadspin.com for separating fans who bought PSLs and those who did not. And, perhaps most of all, a growing class system that has separated and alienated some of the team’s most loyal and long-standing fans. “We’ve been parking with the same group of people, with family friends of ours and made new friends over the years that I consider family — my Jets family,” Corey Griffin, another angry fan, wrote on his blog. “But now, because I don’t have thousands of dollars to stuff Woody’s pockets with I’m suddenly different?” The Jets explain it this way: The team is rewarding the fans who purchased the PSLs with the spots closest to the building, which they say is only fair. They are, after all, paying the most — and, unlike the Giants, all fans in the upper deck did not have to buy a seat license. This is not uncommon in other markets. “For those people who committed to the PSLs and the luxury suites, we want to do whatever we can to provide a much better experience ,” said Thad Sheely, the Jets executive vice president for stadium development. Sheely added that having three parking “zones” with dedicated routes would improve traffic flow, and that fans with the permits for the better parking lots would not be restricted from parking in the outer lots to tailgate with friends. “I don’t see it as a restriction,” he said. “I see it as an upgraded experience for people who have paid for an upgraded experience.” But it shows a lack of understanding about this fan base. Jets and Giants fans are creatures of habit. Many have parked in the same spots, around the same people, since the Meadowlands opened. They spend more time standing on that cracked pavement, in rain or in cold, than they do in their actual seats. The Jets once fought to get their fans a stadium in Manhattan, and the outrage from the parking lots was loud and clear. Where will we tailgate? For Gray and his friends, it has been lot 13-B. They build a menu each game based on the opponent — grilled mahi-mahi when the Dolphins are in town, chili over noodles for Cincinnati — unless it is the game after Thanksgiving. “Then I deep fry a turkey in the parking lot,” he said. “We have fun — a lot of fun.” Enough fun that Gray and his group will find a way around this. They might park off-site, load their food and gear into a few cars, and carpool. That will add time and effort, and Gary doesn’t understand why. The Giants, who usually get these things right, are offering permit parking near the stadium for fans with club or premium seats only. “After that, it’s first come, first serve,” Giants spokesman Pat Hanlon said. “We’re not telling somebody in a certain part of the building that they have to park somewhere specific.” The Jets are. In the grand scheme of things, in an era when you have to pay thousands of dollars just for the right to pay thousand of dollars to buy tickets, it might seem like a small thing. For one fan, a human ATM all these years, it was more than that. It was the breaking point. He’ll still go to games — he bought the PSLs, after all — but his feeling about the team has changed. “This was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” Ben Gray said. “I keep wondering, ‘How are they going to get us next?
And when they lose, the pain and disgust in putting all the effort and coin into it make me want to throw up. Like when I see Sarah Palin on TV
This, honestly, is the straw that broke my back. My father and I, who went from having 12 seats in row 22 on the 35 yard line visitors side.... down to 2 seats in the upper deck before this parking bullshit. Now I doubt we'll be renewing our seats next year. Its just not worth it. Tailgating is going to suck with only 2 of us instead of 12, and sitting upstairs is going to suck. This whole "Jets Experience" thing just sucks for the fans. I can't justify paying $250 and have to walk 2 miles to get to the stadium. The whole idea of prepaid parking is ridiculous. They lied to us when they said it was only for years when the new stadium was under construction, and then they jacked up the price.
Jets Face Financial Challenges May 17, 2010 · Print This Article By Tyson Rauch Lost amongst the excitement of the New York Jets treating the off-season like a fantasy football team is the fact that the organization is set to face a variety of financial challenges. The challenges vary in nature and can be broken down into two groups: Player contracts and Personal Seat Licensing sales. Lets take a quick look at both. 1) Player contracts- Gang Green has done an excellent job acquiring talent, now the goal is to try and keep the players around for a while. This will be no easy task as several of the Jets young stars (Revis,Mangold,Harris,Ferguson) have outperformed their current contracts, and are looking to break the bank on a new one. The Jets will try to get a hometown discount, but the NFL is a business, which was reiterated by the way Gang Green handled the releasing of Thomas Jones and Alan Faneca, and the trading of Leon Washington. It will be very interesting to see how the Jets handle these contract negotiations as there are already rumors regarding training camp holdouts for players like Nick Mangold and Darrelle Revis. Could you imagine the media circus surrounding the Jets if a star player like Revis, who Rex Ryan praised repeatedly last year as the best defensive player in the NFL, holds out of training camp? While it would be good ratings for HBO’s “Hard Knocks”, not so sure it would go over well in the locker room. 2) PSL Sales – It is no secret that the Jets are having a hard time selling their Personal Seat Licenses in the new Meadowlands. Gang Green has tried every marketing scheme possible and the fact of the matter is that the organization made two major mistakes. The first mistake is that the Jets overestimated the size of their fan base. Yes the Jets reside in heavily populated area, but the reality states that the Giants are the team of choice in the region. Gang Green has a very loyal, passionate fan base, but does not have the history or following of the Giants. This was evidenced by the length of season ticket holder waiting lists prior to the 2009 season (Giants was light years longer). The second mistake the Jets made was that the team out-priced their fan base. The reality is that not all of the Jets home games were sold out last year, as many tickets were available on Ticketmaster.com on the day of the game. Now Gang Green is looking to double or triple the tickets prices in addition to adding on a pricey PSL fee. It is not going to happen regardless of how many autographed Mark Sanchez footballs the team offers with each PSL sale. The only thing the New York Jets have been successful doing is annoying and frustrating their very loyal fans who have not seen a championship in over 40 years. As a long time season ticket holder I could not be any more disgusted with how the transition to the new Meadowlands went down. From losing the seats that I have sat in for over ten years, to now having to park what seems like a mile from the stadium, the Jets will have a real challenge keeping this season ticket holder. It is apparent money talks when it comes to Gang Green and the Jets will have a challenge getting their fans to spend it in their new stadium.
P is where I've always parked, it's a long walk but you get out of there faster--if you're going north or west, at least. If you're going south or east it's probably a waste of time.
I think we'll be in "D". Our tailgate is significantly changing. We have groups in all locations and the Upper Deckers are pissed. They are just going to catch a ride in with one of us and chip in on the parking the day of.
The new parking set up won't actually effect me, since I come in from the North off of Route 120. So I can easily roll into Lot B. But the fact that the parking lots are now opening a good 5 hours before kickoff AND Lot B isn't a big parking lot to begin with, means I will have to park somewhere near the iZod Center. The last few years, my tailgate crew and I used to meet in 5a (now known as Lot L). If you look at the parking map, we used to be in the corner pointing directly at Lot P. Very easy to go in from Rt 120. Now, since my tailgate opted to pay for PSL's, I'm sure they will continue to park there. I now have to consider walking all the way from Lot B or further across the entire fucking stadium with bags of food, clothing, coolers, etc. just to meet up with them. That's just awful.
Directv is looking a lot better year after year. Besides, the bathroom is only about 10 feet away and never a line.
Anyone have a good link to send a nasty email to the Jets where our complaints will be listened to? (Yeah right)!
I found some images of the parking area, and the appropriate shuttle that apparently takes you right to your seat.
