The Rundown: Sibling Rivalry
You can’t blame the Jets ownership for having a complex when it comes to the vying for the attention of the league when it comes to the teams in New York. The Jets have, for years, been asked to take a backseat to the big boys in blue, so it only seems natural that the Jets might play a little fast and loose to help them secure the opening date in the new stadium.
News broke on the Jets website over the weekend that the Jets and Giants were going to flip for the honor.
Both organizations have been vigorously stating their cases to the league office. The NFL has said the game will be decided by a coin toss and the Jets have presented a plan for the flip at the new stadium in the week ahead to make this decision easy. The details of the 50-50 proposition have yet to be fully worked out with the league, but the Jets are willing to let the verdict be determined the same way that the league’s teams have settled some scores for decades.
The coin toss, so important to certain procedures that the NFL has a set of rules to govern it, has been around football since 1892.
Generally in something like this, both sides would issue a press release, but the Giants were noticeably silent on their site.
For teams jointly entering a new stadium, and for the Jets, a team that has played in a stadium with the other team’s name (and colors) emblazoned all over, it’s understandable why they’d want first dibs. Still, in the end, the Maras and Tisches have put up just as much money to open this new stadium so, you’d understand why they’d want the honor too. Whatever will happen, it’s clear the league wasn’t all that thrilled with the gamesmanship from the Jets.
… there was one problem: The NFL refused to confirm that plan.
In fact, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told the Daily News yesterday that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is the one who “determines the schedule,” and the spokesman added, “other than that, we have no announcements on the schedule now.” Asked if that meant the announcement of a coin flip that was posted on the Jets’ Web site was false, Aiello reiterated his statement.
Jets spokesman Bruce Speight said yesterday that the team stands by the story. He insisted that the NFL has officially informed the Jets that there will be a coin toss to determine who plays host for the opener and he added, “We look forward to the coin toss.”
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However, according to one [Giants] source, the Giants weren’t pleased with the Jets’ surprise announcement. The source said that the Jets have been aggressively pushing the coin-flip idea because they’re worried that the NFL had already decided to give the opening game to the Giants.
And now, according to the Daily News, word is out that the Jets have lost the toss to the Giants, and Woody is “outraged” about the situation since team representatives weren’t there.
There was a coin toss, after all — just like the Jets said there would be. But the Giants won the toss and won the right to host the first regular-season game at the new Meadowlands stadium … [it] was held this morning at the league office with no team representatives present … Jets owner Woody Johnson is “outraged,” not because the Jets lost the toss, but because there was no team representation at the coin flip.
Big brother always gets his way … harrumph!
You had to wonder if Goodell and the League Office would punish the Jets for their little PR stunt to force the league’s hand. It would seem that the NFL has done just that. The team’s worst fear, with or without their meddling has come true, they’re not opening the stadium.
Personally, I care more about who’s playing in the stadium in January than in September. We all know the Jets are going to be hosting the championship game while the Giants sit at home anyway so …
102 Responses to The Rundown: Sibling Rivalry
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Jets = (Less) Misery says:
Good grief.
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TB says:
Woody make them do it again! We should have a rep there to make it fair!!!
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Kevino says:
If there was ever such a thing as a 2-1 cois toss, this was it… lol
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JayM says:
Woody buy the naming rights and call it
JETS STADIUM
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blevntuna says:
so let the Giants open it on a Sunday and then the Jets open on Monday night. The Monday night game will be watched by millions more.
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MookMan says:
Who cares, the J-E-T-S will get the first W in the new stadium anyway!
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jetsfan111 says:
BS
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Bievntuna,
great idea!!!
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Giants lost the last game at Giants Stadium, they’ll lose the first at New Meadowlands, time for the Jets to pick up the pieces and get the W again.
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Big W says:
Bievntuna, and JayM I love both ideas. It really makes no difference to me who plays the first game. I agree with Basset. It is all about who is playing there in January….
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derek says:
Should have went to citi field :-D
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Jake says:
I’m really pissed about this. I’m pretty much posting this to anything I can find.
I had intended to send this email a few weeks ago. Although I did not expect to actually be taken seriously, I was hoping that as a fan I could pleed my case just so you could hear both another side of the argument (in case the message had not gotten across before).
Although I will admit that I am far from unbiased in my sentiments, I have to say I think the Jets should be the ones to host the first regular season game at the new meadowlands stadium. Here are my reasons:
1) The last time the Jets opened at home was 2007. This was three years ago, meaning that if the Jets open up on the road again, it will be a minimum of four years between home openers (minimum of five if there is a lockout). A home opener is overdue.
2) Within the last ten years, the Jets have only opened at home four times. This means they’ve only opened at home 40% of the time. Consider that before the year 2000, the Jets only opened up at home four times previously since the move to the Meadowlands in 1984 (1989, 1991, 1993, 1999). When taking that account, the Jets have only opened up at home 30.7% of the time. Again, a home opener (and a true balance of home openers) is overdue.
3) I remember reading in the 90s a person who made the following comment about the old stadium(I’m paraphrasing): “Giants fans call the stadium Giants Stadium, whereas Jets fans call the stadium the Meadowlands. The name on the stadium says Giants Stadium so that is what it should be called.” However the official name on the new stadium is “New Meadowlands Stadium” (temporary I know), but this has not stopped many people from calling the stadium the “New Giants Stadium” even though the Jets (and the fans like myself who are paying PSLs btw) the bill. Some do it with malice (such as Mike Francessca) whereas others do it out of carelessness (such as Howard David on Sirius NFL radio). If the Jets do not open the season at home, it will re-emphasize this even further. Put it this way, do you really think anybody will call it “Jets Stadium” if the Jets opened at home?
Again I know I’m looking at this from a biased stand point but to me there is only one argument the Giants have on their side in terms of why they should open and that is “The Jets closed out the old stadium”. However, it is my contention that when the schedule was made it was assumed that the Giants would host a home playoff game (as they were super bowl contenders this time last year) and therefore the intention was they would host the last game anyway (a playoff game). The Jets should not be penalized because of this assumption.
I have to say that when I look at these arguments, I really can’t see one solid reason the Jets should not open the year at home to christen the new stadium. I’ve always tried not to think about this, but it almost seems like the NFL holds the Giants organization and their fans in much higher regard than the Jets and their fans. The debacle that happened with last year’s schedule (with the week 2 and 3 Giant games both being scheduled around the Jewish holidays, and the Jets not being extended that same courtesy) further adds to this perception.
I’ve now gotten word (I’m hoping is not true) that the NFL conducted the coin toss already without team officials present and the Jets lost. I have to say that considering the rumors the Giants were going to get the home opener anyway, I’m skeptical that there actually was a coin toss. If the Jets are to open 2010 on the road without at least a fair process to determine who opens at home (such as a coin toss that is witnessed by officials from both teams), than to me this will cement my opinion (and frankly the opinions of many others) that the NFL holds the Giants and their fans in higher regard. If this is the case, as a Jet fan:
-Why am I investing thousands of dollars in Personal Seat Licenses?
-Why am I investing thousands of dollars in season tickets?
-Why do I invest hundreds of dollars per year to watch the NFL and listen about the news (NFL Sunday Ticket, Sirius NFL Radio, etc)?
-Why do I invest hundreds of dollars per year on NFL gear (jerseys, shirts, etc)?
-Why do I invest time and effort in other activities involving the NFL (such as fantasy football)?
-Why do I invest time and effort to watch games that don’t involve the Jets or their rivals (such as watching a Bears-Packers game for instance) when there are other programs that I could be watching (or other activities not involving television I could be doing)?Why am I doing all of this if you’re making it clear that you don’t think as highly of me as you do a Giants fan in a similar position? And given this, why should I continue to support a league that takes any of its fans for granted (and not simply cash out the PSLs and move on to another league or sport)?
BTW, I’m posting a copy of this on all Jets message boards and sending out an email to as many people as I can. If you really want to make it clear that the Jets and their fans are held in the same regard that you hold Giants fans, I strongly urge you to reconsider.
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JetObsessed28 says:
jake, a little emotional over a coin toss, are we?
Anyways, an observation:
last night on JetsShop, they had the Tomlinson jerseys with a 21 on it.
Today, no 21.. i wonder what that’s about..
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originalJetFan says:
Let the Gints work out the 1st game kinks, then it will work right when we win “THE FIRST GAME IN THE NEW PLACE”
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Brendan says:
JetObsessed,
Because they probably realize that it’s Lowery’s number until he gives it to LT.
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That’s what i was thinking too, Brendan..
I was surprised that they were so quick with it yesterday..
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Jake,
Are you seriously crying over this? They haven’t opened the season for four years, well they also have closed the year at home the past four years. I’d rather close a season at home than open it when the teams are rusty and not playing their best ball. I don’t know why you are so upset over this, it’s not the end of the world.
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The Commish just does not like Jets fans! So the team was punished LOL. We should have be awarded the home opener just on simple fact of our record last season. With that being said and opening a new stadium it should have been done in fashion that was fair. I don’t view the commish doing a coin flip behind close doors as fair. There better be some sort of compensation like blevntuna said. We should host the first MNF at The New Meadowlands Stadium!!!
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Guys, no one owes us anything. It’s not “our right” to have the first game. It’s a coin clip, we lost, we play at home a week later than the Giants do. Not the end of the world.
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Marvel says:
Brendan
your wrong on this one. Statistics show that if you open the season at home your 67% more likely to win 2 out of your first 3 games , if you get 57% of offensive production from you rushing attack .. So how bout you go do some research before you talk about things .. Hah
Lol
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C Low says:
In this day and age with video conferencing, etc……you telling me there was no way to have a rep from each team on the coin flip? Yeah, it was definitely NFL’s way of saying FU to the Jets.
Giants have been crying about how they didn’t get to close out their stadium for the past 11 months. So I guess two wrongs make a right….right NFL?
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Ed L says:
Giants don’t deserve the first game… They couldn’t even show up for their last game in their beloved stadium…
Whatever we will be playing an afc championship game there this year something the giants won’t even be close to…
I hope they play the cowboys and jerry takes out the giants in their new SHARED house
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We still have 8 home games…
Non-issue..I hate when people pull the “rodney danderfield” card..
Are we in middle school?
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Dima says:
Just move the Jets to Brooklyn. Don’t need the Nets here, who win fewer games in a basketball season than the Jets do in a football season.
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Marvel,
Are you kidding me? Did you do that research? Where did those stats come from? How many years of data are in the pool of statistics? If you actually expect me to believe that the Jets are at a disadvantage because they play at home Week 2 instead of Week 1, than I’m sorry. But this team is made to win on the road, in crappy weather, in the playoffs. A week 1 game on the road isn’t going to convince me the Jets are doomed from the start.
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You know what….who cares. I’m over it.
WAIT TILL THE PRE-SEASON GAME WHEN REX HAS HIS BOYS BEATS THE SNOT OUT OF THE G MEN!
You know Rex, toether with Woody whispering into his ear, is going to be amped for that pre-season game.
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Brendan I’m not trying to sound like a conspriacy nut, but do you really think there was a coin flip? Look I’m not trying to sound like a conspiracy nut, but when we only open up at home 30% of the time since moving to New Jersey, yes I’m going to have a problem with this.
And I’ll preface this by saying that I know we got blown out the last time we opened up at home, but generally starting off the season at home gives more of a competitive advantage than starting at home. When the same teams open at home every year, and the same teams open on the road every year, yes I have a problem with that.
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Here’s a stat:
2006, 2008, 2009.. Jets have a week 1 road game..
Jets won all 3.. -
Well if the Jets were consistently a good team those season-enders would be more meaningful. I’m not buying into any “the league hates the Jets” woe-is-me nonsense.
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Jets Commenter says:
I was against sharing a new facility with the Giants from the get-go. Lots of bad blood and BS to be had. If we want to own this stadium in the hearts and mind of the public, it is a simple two step process.
Step 1: Get Goodell to give NYC the 2014 Super Bowl.
Step 2: Win our 2nd Championship of the Decade in 2014 and become the first team to do so in their home stadium.
That should take care of things.
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Brendan
Lmao … Uhmmmmm I was joking “Lol” … If I went by stats I would be a Thomas Jones fan ….(I don’t like TJ)
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TJBfan (twitter @infresco4) says:
Here is my schedule wish list:
#1) Jets play on thanksgiving
#2) Get at least 1 monday night football home game.
#3) Get a Sunday Night Football home game.
#4) Play last week of the season at homeI bought season tickets but I’ll be limited in what I can attend/watch since I can’t really take many sundays off as a supervisor in retail. Nothing like spending time with my family, eating turkey and watching Jets football before Black Friday!
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Do they even have such stats ? If so why?
Bet we have more PRIME TIME games then the giants ..
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Marvel,
Sorry, it’s always hard for me to pick up sarcasm in text. I thought you were serious with those number for a second.
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frustratedjetfan says:
Won’t lose sleep over this, but just think for the NFL to use a coin flip to determine the Home and Away schedules is asinine. And if you are going to use a coin flip, wouldn’t you invite reps from both teams to witness it as an $850Million courtesy? Duh.
Maybe the NFL competition will look at this as a preference to solve the OT – Coin flip fairness issue. Eliminate the ceremony and just have the refs retire to the bathroom for a few minutes, then come out and announce who gets the ball and who has to kick off. In fact, this is sounding so good that the NFL can do this at the start of games, too.
Nothing like the NFL exhibiting this stupidity in front of the greatest media market in the world. – Way to go Goodell!
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Old Rich says:
Best two out of three? And, why not let one team host the first pre-season game, and the other the first regular season game? That way bragging rights can apply to each team. One opened the stadium, and one the first game that counts.
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Marsh says:
Can’t believe the league office is biased towards the Giants. Goodell started his career as an intern for the Jets.
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This is why rock, paper, scissors is always the game of choice.
I assume Goodell is throwing the Giants a bone since they crapped the bed in their last game in the old stadium.
I could care less who opens the stadium. The Giants are yesterday’s news. We will own this city!!!!
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Brendan
cool .. Anything as ridiculous as those fake stats I threw out shoul always be thought of as a joke .. Because you know there’s people who truly care about such bogus statistics, and as a sports fan that scares me.
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revis rox says:
This is ridiculous!! Did the league really think they can make a coin toss with no team represntetive present?!?!? No wonder they can’t get a freekin labor deal done, those retarded invalids…
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Aka….Drew
I think we already do .. I say atleast 2 prime time games at most 4 ..
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brian311 says:
i like the sunday / monday night idea. that seems to be the best of both worlds
otherwise, i dont really care.
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It’s not that anybody really cares that much who opens the season (I still don’t care). It’s the principle of the matter. The Jets are once again being treated as second class citizens, this time by the league.
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Remember people these are the same guys who want to change the OT rules. So why get upset over a minor coin toss ..
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Harvlis says:
I could care less about who plays the first game in the stadium. I care about who wins the first SuperBowl. Anything else, means squat.
Serves Woody right, for having the New York Jets play in New Jersey.
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should have built your own stadium woody, like you promised us when you purchased the team. to share a stadium with your same town rival is ridiculous. plain and simple.
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JDB,
That name has been brought here quite a bit when talking about naming the new digs. If I had to guess, Giants fans would cry out because the name has the Jets portion coming first. Those over-privileged whiney babies would riot.
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john,
I hate when people refer to the Giants as the Jets’ rival. They’re not. Just like the Mets & Yankees aren’t rivals. If you don’t play each other in meaningful divisional or conference games, you’re not a rival. And Woody did try to get his own stadium, but the city wouldn’t let it happen.
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Jack says:
I am outrageously outraged over this outrage!
But I’ll get over it.
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LOL at the Jet Blue post.
And that reminds me Jet Blue frequent flier miles are part of their “True Blue Program”. Can you imagine suites at the new stadium being named Jet Blue this and True Blue that. lol.
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brendan, ever since joe willy and mike battle whipped their ass in that pre season game 40 years ago, the giants and jets have been rivals. they may not be rivals like the sox-yankees or jets- dolphins, but they have been rivals just the same. giant fans have a superiority complex and dismiss the jets as being second rate. sharing that damn stadium for all those years just compounded the problem. sure woody ATTEMPTED to build a stadium in manhattan, but he should have looked at more than one location( QUEENS?). even though we’re not in the same division or conference i still consider them the enemy and always will.
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mole57 says:
They flipped the coin, videotaped the flip, then destroyed the videotape. NFL S.O.P.
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ramble914 says:
Serves Woody right for not building the stadium in Queens. If he had, he would’ve won the coin toss!
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Jake—I hope that this is the most unfornate event that you ever have to deal with.
Guys…let’s move on.
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I like the Giants .. Why hate on a local team I never understood that .. Besides We own the Back Page .. Let’s prove our worth on the field not threw random coin flips .
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Shane L. says:
My 1st Jetsblog post!!! Happy to join you guys. I’ve made my peace with this obvious screwjob. Honestly, we all knew in the back of our minds that the Giants would get the nod because it’s the story of our lives. Look at it this way, I’d rather register the first WIN at the new stadium then the first GAME. The Gmen are gonna get beat on by Dallas in that game most likely. Then we can beat Miami or NE in our home opener. 50 years from now the 1st win will be a more meaningful stat than 1st game played.
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bernie says:
Actually, yeah, we can blame the Jets ownership. They had a chance to finally separate themselves from the hated she-men and find a place of our own in NY. It didn’t have to be an all-or-nothing play on the West Side. But it was, and here we are. No excuses, we deserve all the garbage treatment we get from the Giants, NFL and New Jersey. Woody brought it on himself by sacrificing long-term vision for short-term money.
Marvel, are you a Jets fan? That’s your answer to the question “Why”?
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bernie,
Yeah, because spending $850 million of your own money is such a short-term vision. The Jets could be playing in a $1.6 billion masterpiece, or an $850 million run-of-the-mill stadium. Woody tried his West-Side experiment which was met with tons of hurdles, and this was a way to get a better stadium more quickly.
We don’t go to Giants Stadium anymore. The Giants are on the decline. This stadium is open to whoever claims it.
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david i says:
You know how you can tell this was a little cow towing for the Mara’s? Anything Goodell’s office does is always based around how the NFL could make money and this wasn’t.
If this wasn’t set up for the Mara’s by Goodell, the NFL would have marketed it as one of the other handful of coin flips the NFL did for the tie-breakers for the NFL draft. The NFL marketing department had made custom commemorative coins for each of these teams and it was a big to do.
Every time Goodell wants something to go away, he makes it go away. (ie: Spygate, Tom Gable incident and now kissing the Mara’s asses and saying F-you to Woody). He’s playing up to either a deal he made with Mara a while back about preference to either have the last game in the old stadium or the first game in the new stadium or making it up to him because the NFL schedulers flubbed it last year. If they had any real brains, they would have both teams play the home opener against one another and flips coin at the draft to see who gets home field.
Don’t be fooled for one second. This was absolutely Goodell taking care of the good old boys!
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Sean says:
Give both teams home openers by giving the Jets the first Monday night game!!!
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Revis Christ says:
Lol to the jet blue thing that would actually be pretty clever if that actually happened. Also im not suprised in the slightest about the Giants getting the first game, the Jets are to “controversial.” Honestly thats one of the reasons I love the Jets. the Giants are boring and a NFL “class act” . It dosent matter who gets the first game cause each team is gonna have a ceremony and waht not when they play there first.. The Jets are gonna have the better team this year the Giants are on the downslope and the Jets are on the upswing
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JetMetVet says:
Jet Blue Stadium.., not bad…. Btw, Jet Blue is the official airline of the NY Jets..
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Johnny Hector says:
I heard that Rex was on the phone with the commissioner when the coin was fipped and that the Jets actually won but Rex elected to defer to the Giants.
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Dylan says:
BobGlauber Breaking: Giants and Jets to play at home on opening weekend. Giants on Sunday, Jets on Monday. Makes sense.
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Please make it Monday Night vs. either the Vikings or Patriots! That would be awesome.
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Shamik says:
Apparently Giants got the weekend opener and Jets have MNF opener two days after. Eh, I really don’t care. Which ever team makes the better run the next few years will really get to own the place anyway. As always, the results on the field will be whats important.
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Brendan, you missed the point. I said, “It didn’t have to be an all-or-nothing play on the West Side.” If Woody really wanted NY (i.e., long-term vision) there is no doubt in my mind he could have made something happen. Sign a new short-term lease at the Meadowlands while you work things out. No reason to be rushed into anything. Unless you have no vision or no spine.
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bernie,
I didn’t miss your point. It’s not as easy as “we want a new stadium, let’s make it happen”. Woody tried his West-side project. It didn’t happen. Would you rather he went the Bruce Ratner route and kick people from their homes to build in Brooklyn or Queens? He tried to go solo, it was too difficult and ran into too many obstacles, so the easiest for Woody, his family, the fans, and everyone else, was to just build a new Mega Stadium to share with the Giants.
So he has no vision or spine? He shelled out $850 MILLION for a project. That sure seems spineless to me. Typical Jets fans never happy or satisfied. I’ve been to the new digs, and when you set foot inside of it for the first time you will be singing a different tune. It’s not blue & red anymore. And when it’s lit up green & white it will be a beautiful home for this team.
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Fobi says:
blevntuna,
looks like your were on to something there…
The NFL just issued a press release on the controversy. Here it is:
The New York Jets and New York Giants both will play at home in their new Meadowlands Stadium on the opening weekend of the 2010 regular season, the NFL announced today.
The Giants will play on Sunday afternoon, September 12, and the Jets will play in the first nationally televised Monday Night Football game of the season on September 13. The NFL is completing the final stages of the 2010 schedule. The opponents for the Jets and Giants Kickoff Weekend home openers will be announced soon.
In addition, the NFL announced that the Jets will host the first NFL game at the new stadium during the preseason in August.
Under the NFL Constitution and By-Laws, the commissioner is responsible for determining the playing schedule.
“After extensive discussions with both teams, we have come up with what we believe is a unique approach for celebrating the opening of the new Meadowlands Stadium,” said Commissioner Roger Goodell.
Commissioner Goodell noted that both the Giants and Jets ownership felt passionately for their fans about being the first to play at home on the opening weekend of the regular season and could not agree on how to resolve the issue, including whether to conduct a coin flip.
The commissioner said that, since both teams presented good reasons for playing first, he concluded that the fairest resolution would be to play both teams at home on the opening weekend and to make his decision on which team plays on Sunday by flipping a coin. The commissioner flipped the coin last Friday with his staff at the NFL office. He then notified both teams on Friday of his decision and that he flipped a coin to determine the team playing on Sunday.
The only time the Giants and Jets both opened a regular-season on the same weekend at Giants Stadium was in 1991 when the Jets opened against Tampa Bay on Sunday, September 1, and the Giants hosted the 49ers on Monday night, September 2.
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nyjets90 says:
this is from ESPN: The NFL says the Giants will play on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 12, while the Jets will host a Monday night game the next day.”
they also said that we will host the first home game in the preseason opener.
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beat me to it Fobi
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Still think they shoulda done it in Queens at Willets Point. New Stadiums for the Mets and Jets could have really spiffied up the place. And best of all, I’d be able to walk there from my parents’ home!
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Bob Glauber of Newsday reports via Twitter the Giants and Jets will both play at home on opening weekend. Giants on Sunday, Jets on Monday.
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Randy says:
I Like the way this has shaped up….
Sure the Giants will be the first team to open up the stadium, but what if they get blown out or at best lose the game.
We would host the 1st Monday Night Football game with outsiders watching who will see first hand how our team really is.Than if we win, we might actually get some respect around the league because that first memory sticks in a lot of peoples minds.They will gype us up all Monday night and if we win we are off to a 1-0 start and would actually steal some attention from the Giants the first week of the season.Than hopefully we carry the momentum from there. -
SackDance99 says:
Shamik,
The problem with the Willets Point stadium was that NYC has to use eminent domain to acquire all those chop shops. NYC is doing that for their big Flushing metroplex project, but the lawsuits haven’t been resolved and they haven’t broken ground on that project, yet (look how long it’s taken the Nets to resolve all the lawsuits on the Atlantic Yards project). Also, tailgating is generally forbidden on NYC property. Personally, I would’ve loved a new stadium in Flushing, but realistically, the Jets and NYC would still be fighting lawsuits if they decided to try to build a stadium there.
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I hope we play the Vikings or Bengals because those 2 teams make most since.It would be either the Jets vs Bengals Rematch, or it would be Favre possibly returning to face the Jets..
My gut feeling says it will be the Jets vs Vikings.This is based on all the headlines they would get leading up to the game..
1-Favre returns to face the Jets
2-Both teams made the Conference Championship last year.
3-LT will face the Vikings who he turned down for the Jets.
4-Both teams have unique Defensive Schemes which would match up good.*But in general the headlines would be Favre facing the Jets and a little bit of Tomlinson proving he made the right decision to come here instead of Minnesota
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Jim says:
What about the Pats? We’ve had our home opener against them the past few years. That’d be a nice rivalry game to kick of the season on MNF. I can see it now… Brady gets crushed by the Jets D and Sanchez throws for 3 TD’s. Final scored: Jets 28 Pats 10. The torch on the Pats dynasty is extinguished once and for all.
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Organized Chaos says:
Does anybody know when LT will be introduced with a presser?
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Tomorrow on a conference call according to Glauber.
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Mike Francessa is such an ass…
He points out that Jets will NEVER be as loved in this city as the Giants, and the Giants will ALWAYS be this citys Team. That right there is sickening.Giants will always be the Yankees of football as far as fan base, I agree…but to say the Jets will never be loved in this city as much as the Giants is silly.Giants are a bad team coming off last season.If they start having a bad season after bad season and we continue to do well….who is to say we cant be the Football team of the city even for a couple of years?
he than goes on to say that the Giants will officially open the new stadium so the Jets dont count as opening the season up…WHAT???He says Jets get the first Nationaly Televised game in a sarcastic voice….
IDC what he trys to convince people,…..he is obviously a Jets hater.For whatever reason he is annoyed with the Jets fan base and it makes no since to me at all.You can tell he hated to talk about the Jets when we were in the playoffs and the Giants were sitting at home.
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rusty sanchez says:
woody def has more money than the maras it would be funny if he bought the naming rights and called it jets stadium…he would be the man if he did that
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MEL31602 says:
Randy- Peter King thinks it will be Packers, Vikes, Ravens or Pats for the Monday night game
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SportsCenter just reported that the Jets will be hosting the season’s first Monday Night game on 9/13. So maybe both teams will get home games the first week?
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i think we got the best of this deal. i would much rather have a MNF game opening weekend than the sunday game. the atmosphere / hype of the MNF game will be off the charts
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Dirty#6 says:
It’s not a huge deal, but with that said, the Giants did get to play with their name on the old stadium for years, even though it was both our stadiums. That should be reason enough to get the first game. Still, imo football stadiums aren’t nearl as sentimental as baseball stadiums (and that is becoming less sentimental as teams move into new stadiums.) I never really felt any love for the meadowlands, as I did for Shea. Lets just christen the new diggs with a Super Bowl title.
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BubbyBrister/shovelpass says:
harrumph!
harrumph!
harrumph!..hey, I didn’t hear a “harrumph” out of you !?
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Brendan, again you missed the point. I’ll try one more time. When you have played for 25 years in the home stadium of the team who is your chief rival for local fan support, and you get a once in a lifetime opportunity to change the landscape by leaving them in Jersey and establishing yourself as the only NY team in the NFL, you make it happen. Don’t tell me Woody called together the Mayor, Governor and Roger Gooddell, sat them down and said look, I want the Jets in NY – be it Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, Westchester, Nassau, yadda yadda. What do I have to do to make it happen? Build a multi-use facility with the Islanders (who we don’t compete with for fans)? Sure. Talk to Wilpon about leaving Shea Stadium standing and renovate it into a first-class football facility? Sure. So many possibilities. You can’t tell me something wouldn’t have gotten done with the right owner in place. You’ll never convince me that. Never. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity to forever elevate your brand to the top of the league, and it was squandered.
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@ Randy
Fatcesca opened up his show after the huge win over the Pats talking Giants for 20 minutes. He’s an obvious Yanks/G-men fan that is incredibly bias, and imo impossible to listen to. His show is terrible.
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@ Bernie
I live in NJ and I’m all fo the Jets moving to NY. Of course, that is not happening for a long long time, if at all.
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Scouse Jet says:
So if , as per Cimini, we get the first preseason game, does that mean we play Preseason games 1 and 3 or 1 and 4 at home? I’m in NYC from 30th August til 3rd September and am really hoping for the 4th game on Thursday 2nd. I know they’ll all be scrubs, but they’ll still be better players than the game against KC I saw 2 seasons ago the last time I saw a live game.
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James in TN says:
Face it since moving to the meadowlands, we have always been a road team……. Someday, we will not be the only NFL team without a home of our own. I bet there wasn’t a coin flip, and our landlord just decided they would open the Slinky.
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Davo says:
Can’t we just have the Giants play the Jets on Monday night? Winner gets naming rights for 10 years!
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reality jet fan says:
Jake that was a great post on why we should open the new stadium.
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I know this may sound stupid but i think all jet fans should refer to the stadium as jets stadium.
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JL says:
It will be Vikes and Jets on MNF, if Farvebag comes back. It makes sense, it’s the SB 44 that could have been…
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BC says:
“We look forward to playing the first regular-season game ever in the new stadium,” Giants spokesman Pat Hanlon said. What a tool, rubbing it in. I agree, we should all call it Jets stadium.
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kennydajet says:
Hmmmm…How shall I begin???? Remember Dallas last year opened Jerry”s new world on Nationl TV against the little giants? Lets just say Eli left a little reminder on the visitors locker room walls…oh and by the way the little giants got blown out of their final two home games at……little giants stadium and HOW ABOUT DEM COWBOYS made the playoffs as the J E T S Jets Jets Jets went on a real playoff run which will carry over into the 2010 season and the opening of the New Jets Stadium!!!!
Be careful what you wish for.With that being said I would have liked for the Jets to get the 1st game, but come the season that Monday Night Game is going to look a hellava lot better with all the hype and National exposure So go on little giants have your day and we will open the New Jets Stadium as only the JETS FANS CAN!!!!
Hey Rex Lead the charge baby because we are behind you all the way brother.
Lets make this a Jets Town
J E T S JETS JETS JETS!!!!!!!
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Last year I was watching a giant preseason game and at halftime Bob Papa says we are now going to show you the new giants stadium. I was pissed.
I hope someone who goes to the Monday night game brings a banner saying
“WELCOME TO JETS STADIUM”
Guarantee you get a standing O
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its good to see the NFL gets ideas from thejetsblog.com :) They can thank me by sending me tickets to the Jets opener…Thanks for the kudos guys
Jets lost the coin toss!!!!!