If you don't work on weekends and have a car you could go for a nice drive into Patriots territory and watch the Jets game in a sports bar. If a Jets game does get blacked out, I'll probably head about a half hour southwest into Eagles country and watch the Jets game there. Yeah, many of us would rather watch at home, but if only one game gets blacked out, I could handle it real easy.
Woody doesn't get the fact that we fans just want to go watch a football game 8 times a year. How hard is that to figure out? Sell your suites, boxes, prime seats for a ton of cash and sell the rest to the actual fans who want to go to the games. The goddamn formula has worked for many years. If it ain't broke than don't fix it. The Jets organizationally screwed this one up.
A blackout will NEVER happen -- the refunds$$$ to CBS/DTV/ESPN would be hundreds of millions of dollars every year. Does anybody know how many PSL's the Jets are selling on average every day/week ?
Actually there has been alot of screaming and hyperventilating about this. I made the mistake of listening to fatcessa today for about 15 minutes and he was all worked up about this and was taking calls etc. Personally I wouldn't pay for the PSL b/c it seems like a poor business deal to me. I've been a Jets fan my whole life, but if they want to charge outrageous prices and blackout games - thats their business decision. If people want to pay those prices then thats up to them. I will go to a game or two and watch the rest on TV. Eventually people will smarten up and refuse to pay for PSLs, or not.
Tjb- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neil Best Reports Jets Won’t Be Blacked Out Posted on May 13th, 2010 by Bassett While it’s recently been reported that the Jets ticket situation might cause a blackout, Neil Best of Newsday reports that it’s not going to happen … that the Jets will eat whatever doesn’t get bought. With thousands of seats still to sell, the Jets could face the prospect of a stadium speckled with empty, gray seats when they open against the Ravens Sept. 13. There is one thing fans need not worry about, though: Whatever the state of personal seat license sales four months from now, they will be able to watch their team on ESPN that Monday night. The Jets have no intention of allowing their home games to be blacked out, even if it means writing a check to make the problem go away. A person familiar with the team’s plans said Wednesday if they have to the Jets will employ a loophole in the blackout rule that allows a team to pay the NFL the visiting team’s share of unsold tickets. That figure is 34 percent of the face value – a potentially expensive bill but one the Jets are prepared to pay. The question, of course, is whether it will come to that. And on that point, the Jets are adamant. They insist it won’t. While it’s good news that games won’t be blacked out, I just don’t see how the Jets are going to sell the remaining tickets in time. That’s a lot of tickets that the team has yet to sell.
yeah, I don't think they'll sell out, but it's also true that they will not let the games be blacked out in the biggest market in the country. As I'm sure has been posted hundreds of times, PSLs are absurd. I would not pay PSLs because it's simply not worth it, and you don't actually get anything real. You don't get the seat or even the rights to the seat. You get the right to buy seats for Jets games, but the stadium is being used for more than Jets games. It's basically extortion and false claims by the Jets.
So the Jets don't have a good fanbase because people don't want to blow $10,000 plus tickets, parking, whatever on PSL's that don't even let you go to every event in that seat? How much are fans supposed to cough up to be 'good fans'? Please, both the Jets and the Giants had decades-long waiting lists that got obliterated by the insane ticket prices. Even the Giants haven't sold every seat yet, they're just a lot closer to it than the Jets. It is pathetic that the Jets can't sell out, but that isn't the fault of the Jet fan - that's the fault of Woody and co who dramatically overpriced tickets in this economy and are now paying for it with a boatload of bad PR and the sales department looks like bullies trying to hype up an empty blackout threat.
The blackout rule was passed by Congress in 1974 -- before then, did you guys know that ALL NFL (NFC) games were blacked out, even if the game sold out !!?? The AFC had waived its rule to promote the league but they were bound by the NFL rule after the 1970 merger.
From Twitter and Facebook: "Local TV blackouts of regular-season NFL games — something not seen in these parts in more than 30 years — are looming ominously for the Jets. Jets owner Woody Johnson acknowledged his team has more than 10,000 personal seat licenses still unsold just three months before its first game at 82,500-seat New Meadowlands Stadium." What he said. In this economy I'm surprised that there are only 10,000 PSL seats left! I expected the number to be more like 40,000. My ass will be firmly planted in the Upper Deck. Woody screwed me out of my Lower Deck seats. F those PSL's. I hope games are blacked out. I don't thing networks or advertisers want to lose the NY market.
Folks.....this would NEVER HAPPEN....Goodell would have Ben Rothelisberger teach "How To Behave In the Presence Of Young Women" to incoming NFL freshmen before he alienated the TV networks and DTV and ESPN......when the blackout rules came into existence, TV revenue was 10-20% of a team's revenue....today it's 50%.....WCBS-TV is owned by CBS....you think CBS is paying billions so that their franchise affiliate can't show the game in the largest market in the country covering 1/10th of the population ??? Woody can ASK for a blackout -- and he STILL wouldn't get it. Goodell could go along with Woody -- and the TV and Congressional lords would STILL KO the blackout. Case Closed.
Well that's what the Jets claim publicly, other independent figures have it anywhere from 17,000 to 22,000 unsold seats and if it was 'only' 10,000 they wouldn't be pestering people day and night to buy seats.
Because they already went through the Season Ticket list and contacted all likely high net-worth buyers, businesses, etc. All the low-hanging fruit has already been picked. My guess is they are at best selling 10-20 PSL's a day....or maybe 200-400 a month, tops. No way they sell them all by the start of the season.
QUESTION ABOUT SEATS... I thought about this with the Yankees last year.. WHY... Can't... Why wouldn't these teams take those seats and donate them - set up a charity where each game, a group come in and uses the seats while the Jets probably get to write it off somehow and everyone wins.... Lets say it comes down to 5000 tickets... You don't have to do it fro all of em - But, say a group of 3,000 from a church group or sick kids or children of Iraq Vets - Or heck, how about Servicemen and women????? Orphans, Kids who lost a parent in War or wherever... Set up an organization that picks the most needy and make it into a little production... The Owner and the team would look like Heroes - They would turn the whole BS event into a PLUS for themselves in 1 swoop.... Where Can I contact Woody?
You fail to recognize that all 82,500 fans are a charity group, that is, previously despondent Jets fans accustomed to years of suffering.
Important: to anybody who has bought a PSL, did the Jets give you a prospectus or offering circular or any 'investment' type disclosure ???
We had a motorized antenna on the roof that we would turn towards Philly to get the signal on Sunday.
They did this last year. My friend works at an alternative sentencing program for youth in the city and went to FIVE games last year free of charge as a chaperon to the kids. 100 and 200 level seats each time. They get Knicks/Mets/Yanks tix all the time and have for years; last year was the first time the Jets gave them out (obviously because they suddenly had availability).
