August 11, 2005 J-E-T-S! Queens! Queens! Queens! A New York football team in New York City? That's a good one! But it seems that Queens is trying to woo the NY Jets once more into building a stadium there. Queens Borough President Helen Marshall wrote a letter to the Jets, "A new Jets Stadium would complement the new Shea Stadium and the spectacular U.S. Tennis Center and make the borough a regional sports mecca," and the Jets will be meeting with various Queens officials on August 23. But the Jets are still working with New Jersey to share the new stadium at the Meadowlands with the Giants, plus has some time to reconsider its bid for the West Side! The upside to building a stadium in Queens is that it would be an easier commute for the Jets' Long Island fan base and we imagine the Jets might even get to call it "Jets Stadium," not to mention the legacy of the Namath years in Queens; the downside would be the cost - less than what a Manhattan stadium would cost, but still pricey. Whereas a shared stadium in NJ would be inexpensive, but the Jets would only have its name on an LED or LCD screen. City Councilman Jeffrey Meeks prefers a domed stadium, but Gothamist, though understanding a domed stadium would mean year-round revenue, thinks football in domes is for babies. "I know I'm beating a dead horse here and this article is almost 3 years old, but knowing our team could have had a stadium of it's own on NY ground instead of sharing with the now World Champion Giants in Jersey makes me so ******* sick to my stomach. Woody was going to put up $800 million to build in Manhatten but he couldn't put up half that to build in Queens? Our real home? What an ass, and screw the Giants because there are a few articles I read and if you look them up you'll read how they were going to sue he Jets if they made a move to Queens and left them to build their own dump in Jersey alone, that's the only reason Jersey and the Giants wanted the Jets in on this, to save them money. What a bunch of BS this whole stadium thing turned out to be, like always, us Jets fans end up the loosers, I'm sure a lot of the Jersey fans are happy how it all ended up and I understand why you would, but it would have been amazing to walk into our own stadium built for the Jets and just tell all the haters who bust on our team for being the only franchise in sports to never have it's own stadium, and it's going to stay that way for another 99 years. Anyways, I just thought I'd bitch one last time about this issue, time to move on I guess and hope I live to be 200 so maybe whoever owns the Jets then might actually build this team and it's diehard fans a stadium of their own.
What the F@#$ !? I was unfamiliar with this article and you raised my blood pressure by 10 points. I want nothing more then a stadium of our own and to actually play in New York (for my own selfish reason). I don’t think fans are happy the way it ended up; we just were just accepting what we could get, a new more modern facility! (That’s sounds like a commercial)
Stadium in the city equals no tailgating.... Being that i usually show up to the game four to five hours early just for that reason this is a bad idea!
What really sucks about being a Jets fan is its pretty much always the “off season” so your left with not much else to do but read or create threads like this. See you guys later, I’m going back into the Jets forum to start a new thread chastising the front office about not drafting Sapp back in the day.
While you're at it, could you please start theads on how Pennington is not starting material, how we should go back to the 4-3, how Woody is a cheap asshole, and how season ticket holders suck for selling their tickets, leaving games early, and not cheering enough.
Ok, I'll never get over how Woody is a cheap ass who promised to bring the Jets back home but failed to do so, but this is the last time I'll ever post about the Stadium issue, if I post again about the stadium I'll throw myself off the boards....Unlike Woody, I keep my promises.
I was dumb enough to believe........... Thanks for misleading my gullible heart. The offseason will be loooooong.
I've mentioned this on here before, but I guess it should be repeated. Last year while on business in Italy, I was talking to a cab driver about the local soccer team and their stadium, he was telling me how bad and old the stadiums are over there. Now this is Western Europe, not a third world country, he was telling me that Giants Stadium was much newer and nicer than anything they have over there, "night and day" were his words (actually "notte e giorno"). I didn't have the heart to tell him we're tearing it down because it's too old and building a new one right next to it. For all of the fans who can't deal with sharing a brand new stadium with the Giants, consider this--two of the world's premier soccer teams share the same stadium, AC Milan and Inter Milan. AC Milan are currently the reigning champions of Europe, Inter Milan are the reigning champions of the Italian League. They alternate Sundays just like the Jets and Giants do, neither is a second class citizen. The difference is they are both good teams, that's what we need to be. Nobody was bitching about Giants Stadium in 1985 when we went 7-1 there or in 1998 when we were kicking Jacksonville's ass in the playoffs there. Put a good team on the field and nobody is going to care what it's called or where it is.
The stadium in Queens would've had tailgating. Queens was obviously the best choice and Woody fucked up royally.
