Jets at Shea?
I don't know who thought of the idea first. I know I thought of it at a little after noon on Aug. 22, 2007. And I've seen the idea batted around in various blogs and message boards since then.
But with the prospect of a Rangers hockey game being the final event in Yankee Stadium's prolific history, I thought it would be a good time to re-examine the possibilities of the Jets playing one final game at Shea Stadium before they rubble-ize it.
It would have to be following the end of te 2008 baseball season, which Mets and their fans undoubtedly hope will carry long into October. That leaves two months -- November and December -- to figure out a Sunday for the Jets to drop by their old Flushing Meadows haunt.
And in the time-honored tradition of Shea Stadium aura, there's really no need to fix anything up. Don't even worry about extra seating, just stick the field in the middle of the bowl. If tickets are a problem, just have a lottery for season-ticket holders and give the ones who don't make it to Shea some kind of prize pack worth the amount of their ticket. Have them play on the grass that's there. Don't bother covering the infield with sod. Make it a real dirty, muddy, old-time throwback game. Pray for rain. No, frozen rain. Trot out the greats at halftime. Trot out the 1968 Jets, celebrating their 40th anniversary. None of them ever played at Gi@&%$ Stadium.
Will it happen? Who knows. Should it happen? Absolutely.
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Comments (6)
Absolutely AWESOME idea, T-Rock. This NEEDS to happen!
Love it!!! And bring back all the old Jets for a halftime ceremony!
NEVER HAPPEN! There is no way 76,000 fans can fit into crappy Shea and what about the luxury boxes???
PIPE DREAM!
Wonderful idea...but you can be sure that the corporate folks at Shea, The City and the Jets will find a complex way to squash the idea. Jets must embrace their fan base by honoring their history at Shea!
I am a season ticket holder and there is no way I want to go back to Shea for a game. Shea has to be the windiest, dirtiest and coldest stadium ever built. The Mets/City never took care of it. There was water in the parking lots from game one to the end of the season. They had to add mens rooms because they forgot to build enough. And then there is the traffic and tolls.
And there is no way Woody is going to give up $1.6 million to play some nostaglic game. Some dream on. THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN!
Great idea.-- probably could only happen for a preseason game. Heck, there are only usually 30,000 who actually show- except for when we play the Giants.
Would be one of the smartest moves the team has ever done. Shea should be honored- there were some great years there and some lousy years. But, everybody always had a great time at Shea. Something special about Shea, that just never made it over to the M'lands.
Sad, but once they leave Hofstra, the end of a long era comes to an end.