Land of the Giants: Tickets, anyone?

by Ed Valentine on Jul 21, 2009 12:00 PM EDT in New York Giants News

Haven't run a notebook in a few days, and there is some stuff to catch up on. So, here goes.

The New York Post reported the other day that the Giants are slashing prices on many of the unsold tickets in the new stadium.

"Those seats are outside the field of play, which means they are more of an end zone seat than a sideline seat," the letter reads. "After having an opportunity to sit in those seats, we feel strongly that we should create a different price point."

Here is a little more from the Post.

The Giants, co-owned by Mara and Steve Tisch, have sold out every game in their 33-year history at Giants Stadium, thanks to a legendary 140,000-person waiting list. The team has already made one pass through the massive list and will make a second pass this summer with news of the price cut.

If that doesn't sell the remaining seats -- scattered throughout the lower and middle levels -- the team has not ruled out mounting a public marketing campaign. If it comes to that, it will mark the first time in a generation -- about 33 years -- that Giants season tickets would become widely available.

Mara can spin it any way he wants. Truth is, like the New York Yankees before them, the Giants over-estimated the depth of their fans' pockets. It is only 4,000 seats, but it's pretty amazing that any are available considering how long some people have waited.

Great news from Uni Watch! The awful, disturbing red alternate jersey has been retired by the Giants. Hooray!
This came from the Chicago Sun-Times via the Dallas Morning News, and it wasn't written with the Giants in mind. It's a breakdown of Super Bowl winners showing that it is not necessary to have an elite Pro Bowl wide receiver to win a championship. I don't have to explain why that applies to our Giants.
Rookie offensive tackle William Beatty says there are a lot of similarities between Tom Coughlin and Beatty's college coach at Connecticut, Randy Edsall. So, we should not expect Beatty to be late for any meetings.
A Boston writer wants us to entertain the idea that the Giants are the new Cincinnati Bengals of the NFL. I think writers from Boston should be worrying about the Yankees breathing down the necks of the Red Sox these days instead of how Jerry Reese does his job.
On a brighter note, Scout.com's Ed Thompson thinks Eli Manning is headed for a huge season. I hope he's right.

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Wow

That NESN article about the Giants being “the new Bengals” was awful journalism and awful writing. It smacks of some dope having nothing else to write about and reaching down to find some dusty, old bitterness about SB 42. Lame.

"We're only going to score 17 points?" ~ Tom Brady

by mwilli on Jul 21, 2009 12:58 PM EDT reply actions

That Boston writer...

Is nuts…He could qualify as the next Bengals coach…and yes the Yanks are breathing down the Sox’s necks…Yea!!

by Bobbiblue on Jul 21, 2009 1:09 PM EDT reply actions

Giants = Bengals?

Say what?!

That guy is not paying attention. The Giants get rid of their headaches, last time I checked the Bengals still have all of their bad boys on their roster.

Can that guy name one single team out of the 32 currently in existence that has absolutely no legal problems? That doesn’t have at least one player or coach for that matter that hasn’t had a run in with the law?

Heck can he name me one professional team in ANY sport that is completely devoid of any legal problems of some sort?

by John W on Jul 21, 2009 1:42 PM EDT reply actions

Needing a big time receiver

Clearly you don’t need a pro bowl receiver to win it all. You do need good receivers to keep a defense honest but that’s it so long as you’re not giving up 28 points a game. Does anyone honestly believe that the Giants offense will need to score alot of points to win games. Defense wins championships and I doubt the Giants Defense will allow more than 17 ppg this season. When you combine a killer defense with a clock killing running game good things happen and average receivers is all you will need to put points on the board.

by chris_NYG on Jul 21, 2009 1:50 PM EDT reply actions

agree

look at the Giants teams of ‘86 and ’91, they didn’t have superstar WRs.

They won by grinding it out on offense and containing teams with their defense.

by John W on Jul 21, 2009 2:40 PM EDT reply actions

Wow the Giants are the Bengals now

when one player who used to wear #17 is already off the team, while the other, Boley, has all that issue supposedly absolved and he’s simply paying the penalty?

THat’s only one player anyway. And don’t give him Bradshaw either cuz that was just a college kid getting caught.

And didn’t the Patriots employ a lineman who went to Canada to get Oxycontin, 200+ pills worth, and also have a CB who was caught with pounds of Mary Jane post Super Bowl?

Yea, Id worry about your local team before accusing the Gints of anything.

by FreeBradshaw on Jul 21, 2009 3:06 PM EDT reply actions

so all i need is 10 boxes of ziti for 1 season ticket?

pssh! no problem bro, where do i sign?

i also think rovell is overestimating the other markets with legendary waiting lists, particularly the redskins. its been an open secret that snyder has been playing tricks with the market to prop of the waiting list. just look on craigslist and youll see 10 posts a day of people unloading a season of tickets. my room mate got tickets last year for below face value. i’m sure this year will be worse, especially if the skins suck like most expect. but theyll still have a “legendary” waiting list, even though no one wants to go awful PG county and sit in awful traffic to sit in a cavernous stadium and watch a crap team.

stupid stupid redskins.

Lets hope that when gut check time comes again the Mets will pass it with flying colors.

by kendynamo on Jul 21, 2009 3:48 PM EDT reply actions

He did not research it real well

He did not really bring up Bradshaw or Bernard really. Rather shoddy when his prime example was a guy the G-Men suspended right after the incident for behaviour that was in violation of team rules.

by brisulph on Jul 21, 2009 4:12 PM EDT reply actions

wha????

No one is as pumped up as I am by the death of the red jerseys? I HATE those things. I know one regular admitted to having one, and should still be embarrassed by it :)

That article also mentions: “The Giants will not be wearing any alternates or throwbacks in 2009 or 2010, but they have a doozy of a throwback slated for 2011 — which I can’t describe.”

What could that possibly be? Do we have something hideously ugly in our past (like Philly’s Team Sweden). We’re basically in throwbacks now, and I know the red’s were technically throwbacks too. I can’t imagine he’s describing the 80’s uni as indescribable

I was a huge fan of the solid blues but I kinda feel like seeing the 80’s design again.

I also thought it was interesting that we’re going to wear away pants with the Blue Jerseys when we play in Dallas

by queler on Jul 21, 2009 4:33 PM EDT reply actions