I have a good friend that lives in New Jersey and he’s a big Jets fan, which is something I try not to hold against him. He’s also a Yankees fan, so there are some times that I’d like to slap him in the back of the head when he’s not looking, but let’s put that aside for now.
Forget me slapping him, because the New York Jets are doing a nice job of doing that for me. Talk about being violated.
Jeff is going to buy season tickets for the new NYJ stadium in Queens. And the Jets are going to make him pay dearly for that right.
Game tickets, and the seats are pretty decent, are $130 a pop. He’ll have two seats per game, so when you include the preseason, which all NFL teams pretty much make you buy, just to add to the robbery, will cost him $2,600 per year. Don’t forget that the weather in New York is pretty much the same as it is here, so that’s about half of the season where it very well could snow, or be rainy, or just downright unpleasant. Heck, it snowed at an October Pats game this year, so you just never know.
The ticket price isn’t the worst part, though. Nope, it’s the personal seat license. Yes, the money that the team makes you pay for the right to give them more money.
The PSL prices vary, from $5,000 to $25,000 depending on where in the stadium you are. Jeff’s PSL is $15,000 per seat. They will allow him to finance those, over 10 years, which breaks down to $3,000 per year for the PSL.
So, for the next 10 years, he’ll be financing his right to attend games and paying more for that than the actual game tickets. If we factor in ticket price inflation, at say a modest increase of five bucks per ticket per year makes the grand total for tickets ten years at $30,500. Add in the PSL and that’s $60,500 to attend 100 New York Jets football games.
And that $60K doesn’t include playoff tickets, which go for a bigger price tag than the regular season does. Let’s say that the Jets make the playoffs four times during that run, which would seem about right, if not a little low, he’s easily going to spend about $62,000, if not more, for football games.
I love sports, but I can’t believe that it could possibly be worth it.
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