The Jets Will Not Open the New Stadium
by dvdvil on Mar 15, 2010 12:11 PM EDT
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PrintAccording to Rich Cimini's twitter:
Gary Myers from Daily News: Giants won secret coin toss today. They get first game in new stadium, not Jets.
Secret coin toss, huh? I guess there's no way to verify that it actually occurred, right? The Jets released the story last week regarding this coin toss fearing that the league was leaning towards choosing the Giants. The NFL denied that they agreed to a coin toss and said Commissioner Roger Goodell will decide. However, the Jets were adamant that they were told there would be a coin toss and wanted it done in public.
Jets owner Woody Johnson, without whose money the stadium wouldn't exist, is none too pleased:
A source says Woody Johnson is "outraged" by coin toss -- not because he lost, but because there was no team rep present.
I think it's kind of fishy that after denying it, there apparently was a coin toss after all. But then it was done in secret, and the Giants won anyway.
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I know this might not be the popular opinion but it was quite silly in my mind. They will open it for there fans and then we will open for ours. It’s no big deal, the stadium itself is being christened way before a football is even kicked.
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I have to disagree with you, David. I think it is a big deal. Woody Johnson agreed to this stadium deal with the understanding that everything would be equal. The Giants definitely needed his money in order for this stadium to be there. All he wanted was a coin toss so that each side would get an equal chance.
If Goodell really did want the Giants to open up the stadium, at least own up to it and not say there was a coin toss when there’s no way to verify it.
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It’s just making a good deal out of nothing in my mind, if he scheduled it and the Giants opened it, it doesn’t bother me in the slightest. As long as we are the last ones playing there in 2010, that’s all that matters for me. Bon Jovi will get a crack at it before the Jets and Giants. Nothing major in my opinion.
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by David_Wyatt on Mar 15, 2010 12:50 PM EDT up reply actions
My biggest problem with it really is the whole secret thing. Why not just say we pick the Giants, so tough noogies Jets. They should at least stand up for why they chose one team over another and not pretend it was fair.
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It’s definitely a little bit fishy that the Jets were not invited to this ‘secret coin toss’ and I agree they should just grow a pair and say they scheduled the Giants to open it, but in the end I don’t think it matters all that much.
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by David_Wyatt on Mar 15, 2010 12:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Lets hope the G-men men don’t open the new stadium the same way they closed their last home game in the old one.
by colinyoung on Mar 15, 2010 12:58 PM EDT up reply actions
id like to see them screw it up actually. i HATE the giants.
by Ryan Alfieri on Mar 15, 2010 12:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Ahhh, Woody is mad, maybe he should of thought about these things happening before he reached an “agreement” and should have built his own damn stadium in, oh I dont know, New York. That decision still bothers me, not saying that I knew this would happen, but Im already hearing people say this stadium is also gonna be called Giants stadium because there are no sponsors putting up the money for naming rights. I really do not like the Jets owner, thats all..
Bingo!
+1
Don’t like the Giants fans who always treated us like second class citizens and now that we are equal partners, they have no intent on treating us any differently than they have in the past. Jets should have built their own stadium in NYC.
Bottom line is that as long as the Jets and Giants share a stadium, the fans in NY and NJ will call it Giants Stadium – even if we won 2 super bowls the next two years, it wouldnt change the polarized fanbase in NY.
And I agree that without naming rights sold, the media wont be able to resist calling it Giants Stadium instead of the “New Meadowlands”.
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by NC_Scott on Mar 15, 2010 1:21 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
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Maybe they should name the stadium Giant Woody stadium … Part Jets Part Giants
by Sid F on Mar 15, 2010 2:21 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Giant Fan Here
And I could care less who opens the stadium. By midseason nobody who actually cares about this now is going to care anyway (maybe even sooner). However, I see a lot of posts here about the Giants treating you like second class citizens. Let’s get something straight. You WERE second class citizens. The Mets kicked you out of Shea and you had nowhere else to go. The Giants were kind enough to allow you to play at Giants Stadium. Please excuse us if we were not tolerant of your whining about having to suffer the indignity of playing in GIANTS Stadium. The Jets were like a friend who got evicted from his apartment, and we were nice enough to allow him to sleep on our couch. But then he stayed for 25 years and whined because we didn’t put his name on the deed. Just because you slept on our couch for a quarter century doesn’t mean you were entitled to squatters rights.
Now the Giants have entered into an equal partnership in a stadium with the Jets, and that is the way it should be, equal. Your name is on the deed.
Jets should be opening the new stadium
Jets should be the team opening the new stadium. Since they are the team that did NOT give up unlike the Giants in the final game of the season. They closed out the Meadowlands WITH A BANG playing the final game the way it should have been played.
Giants fans need to relize its no longer Giant stadium where a better team I say let them play in preseason whoever wins gets the first game I hate ignorant Giants fans.
How about...
Open it up on the same weekend but different days?
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How bout
One team opens the pre-season so they are the team opening the stadium then the other gets the first regular season home game so they are opening the season?
To me that seems like a fair compromise
I voted no, BUT
I DO care that it was a “secret coin toss” that didn’t have any team reps present. That’s the most obvious pile of bullshit I’ve ever seen in my entire life, and it’s a disgrace and should be treated like a black eye to the league. The NFL really doesn’t give half of a shit about alienating a nice fucking portion of its fanbase for silly reasons, clearly.
i was gonna keep out of this,but....
giant fans do have a sense of entitlement . the giants are 2 ny football what the yankees are 2 ny baseball.so ya, there is that sense. that said i do think it should have been an open event. dont really get the big secret. for the record.because it was a 50/50 venture i was ok with the jets opening.. but im deff. ok with the giants opening. after bon j. of course.
oh god
I actually don’t care about which team opens the stadium, but you just reminded me that Bon Jovi is actually opening it… I think THAT is the biggest tragedy in all of this :P
I don’t get the big secret either. But I think you’re wrong about that sense of entitlement. The Giants are nowhere as steeped in tradition and wins as the Yankees.
the giants are one of the original teams. and i think it may be a little difficult for the giants to have as many wins as the yankees
the giants have 7 NFL titles,only the packers and bears have more. if not for the maras the NFL would be a very different landscape. they created revenue sharing even though they were on top of the NFL$ wise. not to mention the 20 year waiting list to get tickets(.before the new digs)not bad for a team from NY were there is a whole lot 2do. and another football team in the same state. not counting buffalo.
If their so steeped in tradition and all that bullshit,
let them pay for their own fucking stadium. They have no special rights to the stadium anymore, they share it.
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if you read all my comments u will see your statement is out of line..
but thats ok ive learned 2 expect not much more.
the Giants are not going to have as many wins as the Yankees obviously, but they never had anything resembling a dynasty like the 49ers, Cowboys, Packers, Steelers or Patriots. They won 3 SuperBowls out of 7 NFL Titles. Fans don’t care and aren’t going to remember revenue sharing and waiting lists for tickets. Really, there relevancy and prominence have only come up in the last two decades beginning with the Parcells era…not too far away from the Jets.
And you won’t find a bigger name in New York football history than Joe Namath (not a Giant but a Jet)…so I don’t think the sense of entitlement is valid unlike the Yankees…who have fielded various dynasties and various central historical figures.
ummmmm.....what???
Lawrence Taylor? The guy was only the greatest defensive player in the history of the league, but I guess you’re right, he’s not as big a name as a guy who threw 50 more interceptions than touchdowns in his career and had a career QB rating of 65.
I wasn’t coming on here to troll, but that’s just ridiculous.
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ummmmm...yes
“greatest defensive player in the history of the league”…that is quite debatable even though I certainly think he’s one of them.
And yes, I don’t care about his stats, you ask around and people will know Joe Namath’s name more than LTs…just cuz you’re biased as a Giant fan and I’m biased as Jet fan doesn’t change that fact. It’s like Derek Jeter or Cal Ripken. They don’t have the greatest stats, but their name is etched in history.
And believe me, I like and rever LT…alot.
WOW.....
im really finding it hard to respond to the pile nonsense that just came off your finger tips..let me start slowly . i never said that they are the zenith of the NFL. i compared NEW YORK football and NEW YORK baseball .ie ,jets/mets——yanks/giants….and lets be honest namath is famous for a prediction/play in 1 game and a finger wave, more then what he did on the field. .. ……LT changed the way the game was played…And if you think the giants are not 1 of the most historic franchises in the NFL ,well then i would have to ? your history “sense”…and just look back and see how the whole NFL paid respects, when Mara passed.. …..parcells was 3 decades ago.
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your original argument was what they meant to ny football. So if its going to be that literal and you’re going to marginalize it like that then fine. But the Yankees ARE the zenith of MLB like the Lakers are the “zenith” of the NBA. Their history and tradition far far exceed the Mets. You can’t say the same between the Giants and the Jets.
And like the poster above, I’m not talking about stats…your argument was what they meant to ny. And I’m pretty sure people recognize Joe Namath more than they recognize LT.
I’m not saying the Giants don’t have a great history. I rooted for them in the Parcells era. I’m just saying they’re nowhere near the history/tradition of the Yankees.
im only sayin what is true.
im telling you giant fans" feel" entitled"..not sayin its ok… jet fans have every rite to be upset and feel slighted like there owner…. make know mistake, this was shenanigans. the NFL thought it be better for the senior franchise 2 open it up.,,,but monday night aint to bad……really !!! i wish jets had the opener,,because giant fans hate night games,and those tickets would have found there way down to me…
Monday night
If the Giants get to open the stadium We should get to play Monday night with LT coming out with all the fans cheering………… perfect way to start off the season
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Who, effing, cares. I’m with Dave on this one. We both play 8 at home and 8 on the road. I don’t care when.
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