Jets proprietor Woody Johnson has balls.
I’m able to drop Jets season tickets I’ve had in my household for greater than 50 years after Gang Inexperienced and the uncontested worst proprietor in skilled sports activities introduced Tuesday ticket costs for many seats subsequent season are going up – once more.
After all, in same-old-Jets vogue, the franchise waited simply two days after rookie head coach Aaron Glenn and the staff lastly received a sport. As if a 1-7 report, fairly than 0-8, was a key promoting level.
The Jets are headed towards a fifteenth consecutive season of lacking the playoffs – the longest drought in North American professional sports activities – and there’s little hope issues will enhance anytime quickly.
Good timing to spice up ticket costs for a 3rd straight 12 months.
What are they smoking in Florham Park?
If the worth hike wasn’t sufficient, Gang Inexperienced’s front-office grinches need followers to begin paying for subsequent season’s seats this season — starting in early December, proper earlier than the vacations.
Certain Woody, let’s put our gift-giving and household feasts on maintain whereas we dump one other billion into the Johnson & Johnson coffers.
No matter occurred to the times of ticket invoices going out in Could?
For the report, the worth of my two decrease end-zone seats in part 101 elevated 45% — from $137.50 per seat, per sport, to $200 — following value bumps in 2024 and this season.
I used to be spared the newest ticket hike – which can common 3.5% and run $5 to $10 additional per sport for greater than half the 82,500 seats at MetLife Stadium.
Nonetheless, that didn’t cease me from calling a Jets account supervisor Thursday and requesting my bank card be faraway from the automated cost plan.
I informed him ticket costs ought to be happening – not up – and the Jets can wait till I resolve within the offseason if this Dumpster fireplace of a staff — which, regrettably, I nonetheless love dearly — is price bleeding my checking account dry for.
The staffer blamed the ticket hikes on the NFL being a revenue-sharing league that recommends groups routinely elevate costs to succeed in a selected median.
I began attending Jets video games as a toddler shortly after my father – a die-hard Giants fan — acquired season tickets in 1974, and it’s a convention I’ve cherished for many years, even after my growing old dad grew to become bodily unable to attend video games.
However I’ve begun to comprehend that there’s little profit to being a season-ticket holder anymore.
There’s now not an enormous ready record to turn out to be one, and tickets can usually be had for half value or decrease on secondary market websites like StubHub – particularly later within the season when the climate is colder and the Jets are inevitably out of the playoff image.
The non-public seat licenses (PSLs) I and different suckers shelled out hundreds of {dollars} for — to assist fund the development of MetLife Stadium — at the moment are nugatory after as soon as being touted as investments. Demand for tickets has plummeted so badly for the reason that mediocre venue opened in 2010 that you just now not want a PSL to purchase season tickets.
I perceive Woody Johnson is operating a enterprise — he cunningly used the arrival of legendary QB Brett Favre in 2008 to spur PSL gross sales, however Favre was lengthy gone by the point the MetLife opened. He pulled the identical bait-and-switch in 2023 with the commerce for Aaron Rodgers, and subsequent hike in ticket costs. The Rodgers dream ended 4 snaps into his first sport, when he ruptured his Achilles.
So after practically 23 years with out a house playoff sport, we discover ourselves firstly of yet one more rebuild. I’ve seen many, and I can endure one other.
What I can’t abdomen is paying Saks Fifth Avenue costs on the 99 Cents retailer.
