Loading ...The Giants and Jets are locked in a battle of…something…for the chance to play the first regular season game in the new Giants Stadium (yeah, that’s right, GIANTS Stadium).
According to the Jets’ website, a coin toss will determine who gets to play a week 1 game in East Rutherford. The league has contradicted the report, but the Jets’ website stands by it (according to the NY Daily News), even intimating that fans and media attendance may make the coin flip a public(ity) spectacle.
The Giants have been professional and refused to comment on the issue or the Jets’ website’s statements. The Daily News reports indicate that the Giants were quietly promised opening day 2010 when it became clear that the Jets would play the last game in the old stadium.
At the end of the day, not really a football story, but interesting nonetheless. The contrast between the way the two organizations are handling the problem (silence from Blue; kicking and screaming from Green) pretty much tells the tale: privately, both teams know the Giants have the upper hand. Will the Jets’ public last minute desperation attempts shame the league into going the coin flip route? We’ll see…
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Why did we do this stadium with those low lifes in the first place. I wish the Giants would just buy the naming rights. I don’t like the new stadium as much as the old one. Giants stadium was still a lot better than some NFL stadiums and we didn’t need this. Let the jets move in alone and let the Giants stay at the old place, the place with all the history. They strated taking it apart already but just put it back together, upgrade it and let us stay there. I like it better when the jets were homeless.
Our opening day vote: Give it to the Jets, who have a home to almost call their very own for the first time in the 50-year history of the franchise. Besides, based on the Jets going to the AFC title game last season and the Giants falling apart down the stretch and then disgracing their great history at Giants Stadium in their final game, the Jets earned the right to open at home when the schedule is announced in the next few weeks.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jets/2010/03/15/2010-03-15_give_gang_its_due_for_green_grass_of_home.html#ixzz0iFexepwj
Nice of them to weigh in. I suggest a boycott of the NY Daily News. Let them be the Jets paper. No more links… no more quotes from them. Don’t visit the site. That’s my plan…
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