Giants announce to fans--

[bigredjane]

that they will be asked to buy PSL'S (seat licenses) in the new stadium to open in 2010. All seats in the stadium will have seat licenses about, 5,000 will be asked to pay $20,000 and most of them club seats and the other 90% would be sold for $1,000. each. These are one time fees. And could be sold on the secondary market. So in order to buy season tickets you have to buy the PSL. The Jets who will share the space have yet to announce what they will do. At the present 12 teams require their fans to buy PSL'S.

 

[vinnymac]

I think I will stick to the Sunday tickett.

 

[black]

I think I will stick to the Sunday tickett.

Yes since the Edward J. dome has gone to PSL's you may has well, plus, I wouldn't pay that much to watch minor league football.

 

[Scott MS]

that they will be asked to buy PSL'S (seat licenses) in the new stadium to open in 2010. All seats in the stadium will have seat licenses about, 5,000 will be asked to pay $20,000 and most of them club seats and the other 90% would be sold for $1,000. each. These are one time fees. And could be sold on the secondary market. So in order to buy season tickets you have to buy the PSL. The Jets who will share the space have yet to announce what they will do. At the present 12 teams require their fans to buy PSL'S.

Sure, paying $1,000 per seat stinks, but it is an asset that will likely appreciate over time. Since the licenses can be sold on the secondary market, you could get great seats and then sell your seat license for 5-10 times what you paid for them. Most teams, like the Cardinals, do not allow your season tickets to be transferred, except to immediate family members.

 

[Skkorpion]

Whatever the market will bear is good. The greater New York metropolitan area has what, about a 28 million population pool to draw from to fill 80,000 seats?

This is a no brainer of a way to help pay for a new stadium. The amazing thing is most seats only carry a $1,000 psl fee. Even in bad economic times that's an easy sell.

The same with places like Chicago with a 22 million plus population pool.

Jackass Jones is pushing the envelope in Dallas by setting his psl fees so high but he might get away with it.

It's the smaller market teams that can't pull that off. Oakland's attempt failed miserably. Thankfully for the NFL, most places that needed new stadiums already got them.

San Francisco tried and failed and will fail again. In today's economic climate, asking for stadium public funding or psl funding would fail in many places. We would never have won our stadium battle if it had occurred under 2008 conditions. Not with a 3.5 million population base.

 

[Pariah]

Whatever the market will bear is good.

Amen and hallelujah.