Local Football Fans Protest Season Ticket Charge

Right now at Giants Stadium, there is a rally to protest a seat-license policy which will charge Jets and Giants season ticket holders thousands of dollars in a one-time fee for their seats. Both teams are implementing the fee to finance half the construction costs of their new stadium. Jets fan Steve Kern organized the rally and thinks that the fees should be limited to the most expensive seats or season ticket prices should be frozen for five years. The rally kicked off at 4 p.m. in the East Grandstand Apron Parking lot between the racetrack and Giants stadium. The two local teams face off tonight in a preseason game, the first time Brett Favre is getting a look at the Giants since they squashed his Super Bowl dreams last season with the Packers.

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By Billy Parker on August 23, 2008 4:41 PM

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Steven

Sports is a business. They care could less about the average Joe. As long as the middle to upper class and corporations buy seats Giants and Jets execs are happy.

It's better to watch the game with your hi-def tv anyway. No traffic, no idiot fans, don't have to freeze yourself etc.

schadenfreudian mensch

awwww booohoooo cry me a river. The poor sports fan can no longer afford their precious football game. You know how you guys can protest? STOP SPENDING MONEY ON THEM!

John Knee

Nothing to see here. New stadium = seat licenses. This all started with the Panthers I think.

jenspellnogood

you should have to pay double as long as they keep calling themselves "NY" - until they embrace the swamp in which they play, and pay taxes to, all their fans should be penalized.

Snoopy

I'm going to go back to watching high school football. They have hotdogs at the stadium sometimes and although they don't serve beer, I'll smuggle a six pack in disguised as Diet Pepsi. This way I will save thousands a year so I can buy a VERY LARGE HD TV and watch the same idiots at home in the warm comfort of my house.

aspiringrapper

I'm going to rally in front of McDonalds because I've been to over a dozen of them & can't find a Chewbacca Happy Meal toy. It's enough to fire bomb the place!

Peter

I'm going to rally in front of McDonalds for raising burger prices.

Imagine if McDonald's had no competition - no Burger King, no Wendy's, and so on - and if for each burger sold there were 100 would-be customers trying to buy it. That's what it's like for an NFL team. Short of a total Weimar-style economic collapse there's no set of circumstances that could cause demand for NFL tickets to fall. Even if it were proven, for example, that all the games were fixed by gamblers, there'd still be decades-long waiting lists for tickets and TV ratings would be monumental. If there is a more guaranteed, sure-thing business in the entire world, I can't imagine what it could be.

GOP

I'm going to rally in front of McDonalds for raising burger prices.

Peter

NFL teams enjoy the sort of pricing power that virtually all other businesses can only dream of. Demand for tickets is so vastly in excess of supply that there are essentially no limits on what teams can charge.