Jets' PSL plan is more, um, interesting than Giants'
The Jets' open auction for the priciest seats in the new stadium is going to be a fascinating piece of sports business theater this fall.
As for the team's decision to exempt the upper deck from PSLs . . . very interesting, and a mixed blessing for fans.
On one hand, it's nice not to have to lay out $1,000, as Giants fans will for those seats. On the other, some Jets fans are going to be jealous when the Giants' upper deck PSLs skyrocket in value on the secondary market in the coming years.
Thanks, Glauber, for handling this story for me while I'm off. On my beat, relevant stuff happens 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Feb. 29ths usually are quiet.
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Neil - when you get back from vacation could you look into the issue raised by Glauber's post (to which you linked). Specifically, whether us Upper Deck season ticket holders without the greatest of seniority (5 years or so) are at risk of being forced to purchase tickets with PSLs (albeit, in lower bowls) if enough people from below (and higher seniority) want to come up to the no PSL zone. I ask because of a quote in today's NYT article on the PSLs. The following passage from that article makes it sound like a season ticket holder with seniority and tickets in the lower bowl has to take their current seat (and the accompanying PSL) or else lose their seniority to someone like me in the upper deck:
“Our research says that for everyone who moves down, someone will move up,” said Thad Sheely, the Jets’ executive vice president for stadium development. He said season-ticket holders would be asked, based on their tenure with the team, if they wanted to bid on the auctioned seats. If they decline, they can move to other positions in the seating chain.
“If you’re assigned a seat,” he said, “if you don’t pick that, you lose your priority and go to the back of the line. If you want to go upstairs, someone else has priority over you.”
Thanks very much, and keep up the great work.