Look, I understand your team went into yesterday's game with a 1-8 record, it was cold out, and the rain was falling early in the day. 
But any self-respecting Jets fan has to be disturbed by what we saw yesterday at G*&@!s Stadium, as Tom Rock (aka Uncle Fester) calls the place on Jets home days.
I've never seen a stadium quite like it. I pulled into the parking lot, and I saw a lot more black-and-gold than I did green-and-white. Granted, there are plenty of Steelers fans in the area, and I'm sure a bunch traveled in from Pittsburgh to support their beloved team.
But you cannot allow your stadium to be invaded by that many fans from the opposing team. Even if it's a Jets-Giants game, and it's a Jets home game, you can't allow that to happen. Even the Eagles fans don't infiltrate in numbers that big. Fireman Ed wasn't there, but at least he has an excuse; he hasn't been there all season because of knee problems.
The fact that the Jets actually pulled off the upset of the week made it even more absurd. By the time Mike Nugent's field goal split the uprights in OT, half the Jets fans who did show up were in their cars headed home.
Bad job by you, Jets fans. Inexcusable.
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As if you'd be there if you weren't getting paid.
How can you blame us for getting a couple of hundred bucks back from some Steelers fan sucker after what we've been forced to endure so far this season?
I agree with Mr MadMan.
Jet fans cannot be blamed for not being enthusiastic about this year's team.
In fact, it can be said that the Jet fans have been among the most patient in the NFL.
I watched the game on Sunday and it sounded as if the Jet fans that showed up were pretty loud.
My guess is that tickets to the Jets vs Cleveland will be a little tougher to sell.
Might have better luck selling the parlking pass
i couldn't make the game so i sold my tix on the jets ticketexchange, on the jets website. i tried to give away the tix, but no one wanted them. what am i supposed to do? eat the tix and the parking pass? hey glauber not all of us are big $$$ like you obviously are.
MadMan, Hammer, J2B:
Just ask yourselves this: Would you have sold your tickets if the Jets were 8-1?
Of course not!
We would be thrilled to spend even a cold, wet, late Sunday afternoon watching a team that plays well balanced, leave it all out on the fied type of football.
But that's not what we've seen from the Jets this year who found a half-dozen ways to give away the game in the fourth quarter.
Look, we are fans who sepnd our hard earned money to watch these guys play a game because we get something out of it.We don't owe these teams our loyalty or our money especially when both the players and even millionaire/billionaire owners(!) jump towns for more money. These guy need to earn it every game every season.
It was a meaningless game for us Jet fans in almost every sense except that at least with the win the team can't totally give up on Mangini and begin to blow next year's season too.
Hate to say it, MadMan, but your admission and explanation only serve to expose you as a frontrunner. The whole thing with being a fan is sticking with the team through thick and thin. I understand the frustration of Jets fans, because the product has been generally crappy since Joe Namath lifted his index finger jogging off the field after Super Bowl III.
But if you're gonna be a fan, you have to stick with your team through the hard times, too.
You're not alone, of course. That's why the stadium was half filled with Steelers fans waving their Terrible Towels.
Bob, I have to take issue with you on behalf of the Jets fans.
Someone who sells his/her tickets for a game isn't front running.
If that person renounced any allegiance to the team, didn't renew their tickets for the next season, or even worse, bounced to being a fan of another team with a better record - That would be "front running".
Look, a sold ticket is a sold ticket. If the players want to play in front of their own fans, maybe they should go 16-0 (a la the Pat's) so they're guaranteed playing at home in January.
It's not like this is St. Louis or anything.
Black N Gold:
You know I respect your opinion, and I have thought very carefully about this. Now I have one question for you: If the Jets came to Heinz Field, and they were 7-2 and the Steelers were 1-8, and the stadium was filled with mostly Jets fans waving green and white towels, what would you think of Steelers fans?
hey bob,
the jets have never been 8-1 in the history of the team.
i've been to every game since '99, and have gone through some horrible starts like 1-6 & 2-5. if i want to sell my tix and get my $$ back, why the heck not? why should i spend more money on gas, tailgating and drinks at the stadium, when the team is terrible?
also do us real jets fans a favor and take the picture ed off the post. no real fan likes him, or the fact that he represents us.
thanks
Bob,
Its time to face the facts that Jets fans and most NY sports fans are frontrunners. We arent as passionate and dedicated as we are made out to be.
Plus you should be congratulating the Jets fans who did show up sunday, like myself who drives 4hrs each way for every game (including preseason).
Most fans who sold their tickets dont really care what people think anyway.. they will just have excuses for everything.
I've really tried to stop caring what other fans do. I am at the games for my entertainment. I dont need other Jets fans there to make it better. And when this team hosts the AFC Championship game in 2009 season my group will enjoy it that much more since we attended games like these.
With respect Bob, I think you're confusing certain terms.
I hope you don't mind that I continue the discussion but your post and follow up comments touch on some basic assumptions.
If you think this conversation is worthwhile I'm happy to add longer posts because I think its definitely worth exploring what it means to be a fan of today's sports and teams.
As a resident of LI and someone who has a share of season tickets to the Mets, Jets, and Islanders I never thought I would be called a "frontrunner."
Ha! I do "support" these teams through thick and thin but just because I support a team doesn't mean I have to pay ridiculous prices to see them play live or deal with an increasingly frustrating gameday experience. (Try getting to a game without your convenient "press" parking pass or sitting in the enclosed press box). Cliche complaints? maybe, but you're right I don't devote my LIFE to the Jets, so... they need to compete with every other part of my life, family, work, and the other ways I can have a good time. If that makes me a frontrunner in your book, ok, but then I don't think that book's for me.
I'm not a fan of a team just because they're going to win or even because they have a good chance to win, I'm a fan because I enjoy the game and support my local teams.
Its bad enough we schlep to Jersey to watch our "local" team. Now these Jets are palnning to totally ditch where I live here in Hempstead.
When is enough enough?
(P.S.
I don't mind the pic of Ed but then again, maybe I'm not a real Jets fan)
MadMan:
I completely understand that there are a lot better things to do than pay a lot of money to see a 1-8 team. That said, Jets fans can't have it both ways. And by that, I envision this scenario: If and when the team does turn it around, and if and when the team ever does get back to a Super Bowl, there will not be a lot of fans who can legitimately say that they stuck with the team through thick and thin.
I think Jay put it perfectly. He is one of many thousands of fans who is weathering the storm and is willing to stick it out in the lean years. But he realizes he cannot change the mindset of a disturbingly large number of fans that is willing to give up on the team when times are tough.
Imagine that! New Yorkers have this disturbing mindset of not wanting to spend their hard earned money to show up in person and root on a 1-8 team. I did get to see them lose to Buffalo and of course Washington the week before... is that enough misery to help me really enjoy it when we finally win the big one?
I didn't fly to cincinatti this year either to watch this team choke... but props to Jay and his 4 hour drive each way who probably did.
Sports have changed Bob and fans are changing too, football may be the last place to see it because with a ten game purchase requirement, its still the most affordable season tix package a fan can buy.
You saw that study a couple of years ago in bizjournal about the most loyal fans. Number 1 was Browns fans and look what it got them... a millionaire owner jumping town to go somewhere where they'd build him a stadium and not only can he charge for season tickets, he charges them for a license that gives fans the privelege of buying those season tickets. (But at least that owner gave his new fans a superbowl win! do you think those long suffering Browns fans enjoyed it?)
The Jets have guaranteed income with a season tix waiting list for 10+ years, a new stadium coming with new luxury box revenue and what do they do with it? We've won how many playoff games in the last 30 years with that kind of guarantee cash cow?
I'm glad the players and organization finally saw how unhappy we are by letting that stadium fill with black and gold. There was no other way to send a message, certainly not one that would effect their pocket. You're just enabling them when you say "its a weakness among Jet fans," instead of saying "hey, maybe this is something that should make this organization take a good long hard look in the mirror and see why they've benn a failure for so long."
We've been weathering the storm for a while now, but sometimes, when it gets really bad you leave the deck and batten down the hatches for a little while.
You never did address how we're to respond to the team moving from our local area.
I can't believe your main issue with the Jets this week is how many empty seats there were in the stadium rather than their Gate D antics.
MadMan:
As for the issue of the team pulling up stakes entirely from Long Island/New York, I think it will catch up in some form or another. It's one reason the United Football League, which is hoping to have a team play at Hofstra when the new professional league starts up in August, figures to cut into the Jets' fan base. Or at least lure some would-be Jets fans into attending a cheaper, closer game than schlepping to the Meadowlands.
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