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(Message started by: Keyshawn Johnson 76yards on May 28^th, 2003, 10:22pm)

Title: New Jersey Giants & New Jersey Jets
Post by Keyshawn Johnson 76yards on May 28^th, 2003, 10:22pm

http://espn.go.com/nfl/news/2003/0528/1560179.html

Title: Re: Jets claim Giants are being charged less rent
Post by Philly on May 30^th, 2003, 2:55pm

Well, it is Giants Stadium and not Jets Stadium, right?

Title: Re: Jets claim Giants are being charged less rent
Post by BarnabyWilde on May 30^th, 2003, 3:11pm

If the Jets turned down the lease extension for the rent reduction, they should shut the fuck up or move. I prefer both...

Title: Re: New Jersey Giants & New Jersey Jets
Post by StegRock on Mar 31^st, 2006, 3:09pm

With things for the Jets not having worked out on the west-side (http://www.fantasyfootballer.com/cgi-bin/theGridiron/YaBB.cgi?board=58;action=display;num=1080243862), I thought I'd upchuck this oldie to bring up this news item... From "The REAL Feed":

Giants, Jets revise billion-dollar stadium plan (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2391829&campaign=rss&source=NFLHeadlines)
ESPN: NFL (31.03.2006 15:36)
The New York Giants and Jets moved a step
closer to their new home in the Meadowlands.

(Gotta love the way we keep the vintage stuff here on "the Gridiron". I believe that keepin' it real requires keepin' in touch with your roots.) [smiley=wiseman.gif]

Title: Re: New Jersey Giants & New Jersey Jets
Post by StegRock on Apr 1^st, 2006, 6:20am

Related??? I'm not sure,... but it stinks for Giants fans... From a LOCAL source on "The REAL Feed":

Giants up tix prices (http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/story/404867p-342885c.html)
New York Daily News: Sports - Football (01.04.2006 05:36)
The Giants, whose ticket prices were once one of the NFL's biggest bargains, have raised those prices for the fourth straight year.

Title: Re: New Jersey Giants & New Jersey Jets
Post by StegRock on Jun 20^th, 2006, 5:42am

I think this also could have been posted on the "'Bad News' for the NFL" thread... From a LOCAL source on "The REAL Feed":

Pro Football: Giants and Jets Move to Sell Stadium Name (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/20/sports/football/20stadium.html?ex=1308456000&en=362273bb6c6ae150&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss)
New York Times: Sports (19.06.2006 23:30)
The teams took a step toward marketing stadium naming rights Monday by tapping the Wasserman Media Group to sell them.

What does this say about our (capitalist) economy? After (the money runs out from) selling the rights to stadium names, what gets sold (out) next (in our insatiable capitalist America)? I think it won't be long before we start seeing corporate logos on jerseys... We're within a decade or two. And, then, after that...??? Where does it end? Does it end? Can it ever be reversed? Anyway, yeah for free-market America... Can we pump out a few more MBA's and marketing majors, please (not that they are really the main ones to blame; the marketers are just the pawns)? But, hey, (in light of the 20-spots that roll in here all the time ::)) if Nike wants to give me buko denero for an ad here or if the Broncos wouldn't mind my slapping a phat "FantasyFootballer.com" along the front of their jerseys,... I say, "Show me the paperwork!" I'm just a product of the system, after all (like those who turn a blind eye to the times I rattle the tin cup, being forced to beg for help paying the bills). It would eliminate my having to humiliate myself and rattling that tin cup begging for 20-spots. ... And, the "bigger picture" (that mystifies oh so many) gets painted yet again. [smiley=zenmaster.gif]

Title: Re: New Jersey Giants & New Jersey Jets
Post by Philly on Jun 20^th, 2006, 10:09am

As long as the game is still football, they can wear NASCAR jumpsuits out there with patches and logos galore... it's the game that ultimately matters to me.

Title: Re: New Jersey Giants & New Jersey Jets
Post by StegRock on Jun 20^th, 2006, 4:56pm

I hear ya, Phil... I 'spose I don't care about that side of things, either. I guess what I am more so suggesting regards the finances... How much of all this selling (out... in some people's minds) and making people walking billboards on which to tack ads is providing "necessary" revenue? (I digress... I mean... the nature of auto racing kind of lent itself to advertising in this way... The whole plastering everything with ads ultimately came from using the "car" as a billboard, which seems reasonable, especially given the repetitive, "around-and-around" nature of the sport, which makes for effective advertising) And, if it is "necessary", what happens when all the "board space" runs out? ... Just something to think about,... [smiley=thinking.gif] isn't there a "sell your soul" element to it all (that might just creep up on us and bite us (i.e. our children, children's children, and so on) in the ass... in a way that we fervently warn about when it comes to water and energy conservation, but perhaps much worse)???

Title: Re: New Jersey Giants & New Jersey Jets
Post by Callie on Jun 20^th, 2006, 5:19pm

Years ago some business-book-du-jour instructed businesses to avoid using the owner's initials as a business name because a set of initials was very forgettable (unless you make it into something, like IBM, I guess). In that same way, I'm always having trouble remembering just where the heck these billboard stadiums are.

So I have a simple proposition for the NFL. No business is allowed to buy naming rights to any stadium unless they have a name appropriate to the football mindset. For instance, Candlestick is what I always think, but Monster Park works. ;D

(Edit: Insert your favorite 49er joke here.)

Title: Re: New Jersey Giants & New Jersey Jets
Post by StegRock on Sep 5^th, 2007, 3:31pm

Well, the new digs are being dug... according to "The REAL Feed":

Giants, Jets ground-break $1.3B stadium (http://cbs.sportsline.com/nfl/story/10334827/rss)
CBS SportsLine.com NFL News (05.09.2007 11:58)
The New York Giants and New York Jets broke ground Wednesday on the first stadium to be jointly owned by two NFL teams and unveiled how architects plan to make two competing teams feel at home in a $1.3 billion stadium.