flgreen Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 Jets owner will buy tickets to avert blackout Jets BlogBy BART HUBBUCH Last Updated: 5:37 AM, September 6, 2010 Posted: 5:23 AM, September 6, 2010 Comments: 3 More Print Neither the Giants nor the Jets will be blacked out on local TV in Week 1, but there sure are going to be a lot of empty seats at New Meadowlands Stadium. The Giants say they have sold all non-premium seating for Sunday’s opener against the Panthers, meaning the game will be broadcast locally. But the club admitted yesterday that around 1,200 club seats requiring a PSL remain unsold. The Jets, meanwhile, are in even worse shape sales-wise for their opener next Monday night against the Ravens, with more than 1,500 non-premium seats still available in the lower sections of their new 82,500-seat home despite a recent 50-percent slash in the price of the required PSL. That normally would put a team in danger of a local TV blackout, which the Jets haven’t endured since 1977, but the team said yesterday that there is “no chance” the Baltimore game will be blacked out. That’s because owner Woody Johnson can spend the money to make sure it doesn’t happen. The Jets can take advantage of a loophole in the NFL’s blackout policy that allows team owners to get their games on local TV by buying up any unsold non-premium seats for 34 cents on the dollar. If the number of unsold non-premium PSL seats remains unchanged, that means owner Woody Johnson would have to write a check of $100,000 or more for each of the eight homes game this season just to avoid the blackout. “We do not have to inform the league until 72 hours prior to kickoff whether or not we are blacked out, but as we have said, we will be sold out, and there is no chance of a blackout,” Jets spokesman Bruce Speight said yesterday in an e-mail. Those tickets the team buys can then be donated to charity or to the military, as the Jaguars have done this season and in previous years. Though both games will be on local TV, the potential for bigger stretches of empty gray seats Sunday and Monday is high when the secondary ticket market is included. As of yesterday, there were a combined 12,100 seats for resale online to the Giants-Panthers game and a combined 12,400 tickets for resale online for the Jets-Ravens contest, according to ticket aggregator Fansnap.com. The Giants and Jets also have several thousand unsold tickets for games later in the season after each team quietly put single-game seats on sale late last month. The Giants angered some of their fans by dropping the longstanding PSL requirement on those seats. bhubbuch@nypost.com Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/jets/jets_owner_will_buy_tickets_to_avert_zXk7YOADHJD4Ze6j7oplLL?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME=#ixzz0ylHaTXYU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE ILK Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 Cheap bastard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vudu Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 Why not just reduce the ticket prices and sell them on an individual basis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flgreen Posted September 6, 2010 Author Share Posted September 6, 2010 Why not just reduce the ticket prices and sell them on an individual basis? They are PSL seats. If he did that who would pay the PSL? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackout Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 He can try to avoid me all he wants Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boozer76 Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 Why not just reduce the ticket prices and sell them on an individual basis? Because they're psl seats and he can write it off as a donation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetkid94 Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 If he just reduced PSL prices even more he'd still make more money in the long run considering now he's losing even more money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BP Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 what a joke! those seats will be empty on national tv during the opener? or is woody gonna scalp them with a groucho marx costume on before the game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larz Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 "Those tickets the team buys can then be donated to charity or to the military, as the Jaguars have done this season and in previous years" that would be a nice move, an inner city school or some service people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE ILK Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 If he just reduced PSL prices even more he'd still make more money in the long run considering now he's losing even more money Kid he could use the write off, trust me. what a joke! those seats will be empty on national tv during the opener? or is woody gonna scalp them with a groucho marx costume on before the game? They'll proably get donated and be full. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StraightCash Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 Because they're psl seats and he can write it off as a donation. "Those tickets the team buys can then be donated to charity or to the military, as the Jaguars have done this season and in previous years" that would be a nice move, an inner city school or some service people Put your hands together. Hes not going to be losing too much off this move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GREENBEAN Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 He can try to avoid me all he wants That actually made me laugh. I heard it in Cleveland's voice. It sounds like something he would say Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L.S. Dylan Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 Cheap bastard! Haha. The whole blackout rule is stupid.. what are they going to put on instead.. golf? And how are you going to black out a Monday night game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visajets Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 Why not just reduce the ticket prices and sell them on an individual basis? To all except those with a GAY UNICORN in their signature. Who the hell else comes up with this sh*t ugly thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
war ensemble Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 I am eagerly awaiting the buy a jersey get two free tickets thing of last year...that was brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kleckineau Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 Sorry but 1500 unsold seats out of >80,000 wont show up on a telecast as there are thousands of people up and about out of the seats during a game anyway. As a vet I would love to see these tix donated to active duty service men and women. Hell, on second thought it should be mandatory! Every team, every game, 1500 seats put aside for military on leave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxman Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 I would live to know where they were at before the 50% off sale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsFanInDenver Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 Its scary. I know that the economy is down in the dumps but Wall Street is still getting paid. I think these tickets will sell out in the secondary market real quick. I would be surprised if there is single empty seat on Monday night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbyjet69 Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 what a joke! those seats will be empty on national tv during the opener? or is woody gonna scalp them with a groucho marx costume on before the game? like you're really going to notice 1500 empty sats among 82000!! there's been more empty seats in the past with the corporate no shows! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodWearsAGrayHoodie Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 like you're really going to notice 1500 empty sats among 82000!! there's been more empty seats in the past with the corporate no shows! I really doubt for the home opener there will any truly unsold tickets. WJ will buy them then resell them on a single ticket basis on stubhub or ticketmaster at, or slightly above or slightly below face value. Comes November/December if the team is out of the playoff hunt then there could be truly unsold tickets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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