Potential pitfall for Jets' PSL program
A loyal reader who has been in regular contact with us over the years regarding all things Jets offers an interesting take on the Jets' decision not to institute a personal seat license plan for all upper tier seats. It's a move that was met with general approval from fans, especially because of the Giants' decision to charge $1,000 for PSL's in upper tier seats.
But here's a potential downside, as our reader sees it:
"Giant season ticket holders in the Upper Deck are guaranteed of keeping their seats as long as they pay a $1000 PSL. Seniority of holding tickets is not a factor in their PSL plan. However, the Jets are basing seniority of their PSL plan. Therefore, existing season ticket holders in the Upper Deck are at risk of being displaced by ticket holders sitting downstairs who possess more seniority and wish to move to the Upper Deck in order to avoid paying no PSL at all. So the end result would be that current upper deck season ticket holders lacking seniority could actually be forced to pay for an expensive PSL that is tied to lower or mid level seats.Or their seat location in the upper deck could be significantly downgraded (for the first row in the upper deck to the last row)."
It's a very interesting point, and we'll be interested to see how it all plays out once the ticket/PSL-purchasing process begins. Chances are Best will be paying a bit more attention to this, seeing that the regular season is about to begin and the only concern he has about Brett Favre is any endorsement deals he might be coming across.
And, of course, if you have any information on which corporation might be sponsoring a corner of the new football stadium, please let him know. If you get any leads on the name of the sponsor for the whole she-bang, Best will do back handsprings in Times Square if you tell him.
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I posted this comment for Best as well, but wanted to raise it here too. A quote in a NYT article this morning from a Jets official made it sound like those with higher seniority that do not take their original seats (beacuse they want to move up and avoid PSLs) may lose their seniority to those in the upper deck already. I am interested to find out what the correct answer is as I had the same fear as the person you noted in your post. Here is the quote from the NYT article:
“Our research says that for everyone who moves down, someone will move up,” said Thad Sheely, the Jets’ executive vice president for stadium development. He said season-ticket holders would be asked, based on their tenure with the team, if they wanted to bid on the auctioned seats. If they decline, they can move to other positions in the seating chain.
“If you’re assigned a seat,” he said, “if you don’t pick that, you lose your priority and go to the back of the line. If you want to go upstairs, someone else has priority over you.”