jales22 Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 The NFL said Monday the Giants will play on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 12, and the Jets will host a Monday night game the next day. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4997661 ---------------------------- (edited by Max - here is the press release from the NFL) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 3/15/10 NFL OPENING WEEKEND TO FEATURE HOME GAMES FOR BOTH JETS AND GIANTS Jets to Host First Game at New Stadium in Preseason The New York Jets and New York Giants both will play at home in their new Meadowlands Stadium on the opening weekend of the 2010 regular season, the NFL announced today. The Giants will play on Sunday afternoon, September 12, and the Jets will play in the first nationally televised Monday Night Football game of the season on September 13. The NFL is completing the final stages of the 2010 schedule. The opponents for the Jets and Giants Kickoff Weekend home openers will be announced soon. In addition, the NFL announced that the Jets will host the first NFL game at the new stadium during the preseason in August. Under the NFL Constitution and By-Laws, the commissioner is responsible for determining the playing schedule. "After extensive discussions with both teams, we have come up with what we believe is a unique approach for celebrating the opening of the new Meadowlands Stadium," said Commissioner Roger Goodell. Commissioner Goodell noted that both the Giants and Jets ownership felt passionately for their fans about being the first to play at home on the opening weekend of the regular season and could not agree on how to resolve the issue, including whether to conduct a coin flip. The commissioner said that, since both teams presented good reasons for playing first, he concluded that the fairest resolution would be to play both teams at home on the opening weekend and to make his decision on which team plays on Sunday by flipping a coin. The commissioner flipped the coin last Friday with his staff at the NFL office. He then notified both teams on Friday of his decision and that he flipped a coin to determine the team playing on Sunday. The only time the Giants and Jets both opened a regular-season on the same weekend at Giants Stadium was in 1991 when the Jets opened against Tampa Bay on Sunday, September 1, and the Giants hosted the 49ers on Monday night, September 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetscanes331 Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 In before the move! Also - yeah. I'm excited to open up on MNF. Thinking about going but I'd imagine tickets will be expensive. Hopefully we get the fish so we can stomp them to start the season off right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vudu Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 OH HELL YEAH! I knew we were going to get a bunch of Prime Time games this year. Let's wait and see what NBC does. We're like the Cleveland team of 3 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace21Black Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 In before the move! Also - yeah. I'm excited to open up on MNF. Thinking about going but I'd imagine tickets will be expensive. Hopefully we get the fish so we can stomp them to start the season off right. Fins would be great... BUT Pats better... Imagine us spanking the Pats on MNF, National TV?? It would send a clear message that the Pats era has come to an end...The headline would/could read... "Brady/Belichick Get wREXed by Sanchez & Company" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aec4 Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 nfl sh*t the bed. Should have just made this season be the year that the Jets play the Giants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penguini 15 Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 YEAH BABY! I'd rather this then the sunday afternoon game. It'll be a warm September night and I won't have to worry about wearing 200000 layers like the Cinci game this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joebabyny Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 nfl sh*t the bed. Should have just made this season be the year that the Jets play the Giants. That is maybe the worst idea I have read on this board in 2010, maybe even 2009. I am a jets psl holder. After spending all that money for 4 seats, if the jets opened up the season as visitors on opening weekend with me not getting Tix I may have gone to the training facility and burned it to the ground. And think how much it would cost to scalp those Tix as u are competing with every ny/nj football fan. Also, how would it look for the jets if they were the visitor? The name "new giants stAdium" would stick forever. We have been visitors since forever, I don't want that for one minute in our new house. Worst idea ever once you think about it for 10 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PS17 Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Patriots please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetsfan80 Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Patriots please. Hell no! Give me Miami. 1) I don't want to lose, and while I don't think we WOULD lose to NE, there's no WAY we'd lose to Miami 2) one of the biggest stories of the offseason has been Rex flipping off Miami fans....bigtime storyline there 3) MNF can show clips of the Monday Night Miracle out of nostalgia all night long if they want to It's going to come down to New England, Miami, and Minnesota (if Favre is back). I'd rank Miami my first choice, Minny my second, and NE last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vudu Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Minnesota would be great to get on MNF! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetscanes331 Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Bring on the colts! knock them around in the first game and take control of the AFC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penguini 15 Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Why do a lot of people think that playing Minnesota is a strong possibility...wouldn't we most likely just play a divisional opponent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetsfan80 Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Why do a lot of people think that playing Minnesota is a strong possibility...wouldn't we most likely just play a divisional opponent? 660 AM was saying those are the only 3 possibilities. Miami, NE, Minnesota. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redman81 Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Man I was really hoping we'd open up against the Browns! lol Na I would love for it to be Miami. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharrow Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 That is maybe the worst idea I have read on this board in 2010, maybe even 2009. I am a jets psl holder. After spending all that money for 4 seats, if the jets opened up the season as visitors on opening weekend with me not getting Tix I may have gone to the training facility and burned it to the ground. And think how much it would cost to scalp those Tix as u are competing with every ny/nj football fan. Also, how would it look for the jets if they were the visitor? The name "new giants stAdium" would stick forever. We have been visitors since forever, I don't want that for one minute in our new house. Worst idea ever once you think about it for 10 seconds. Especially if we lost the game, which I know would be next to impossible, but still... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BwanaZulia Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Dolphins or Pats would be great. Vikings? Meh. BZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetfan13 Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 In before the move! Also - yeah. I'm excited to open up on MNF. Thinking about going but I'd imagine tickets will be expensive. Hopefully we get the fish so we can stomp them to start the season off right. same here, but a Monday night pretty much puts that idea to sleep for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slats Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Miami sucks and doesn't deserve to open the season on MNF. We seem to open every season against the Pats. I'd like to see Baltimore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxman Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 That is maybe the worst idea I have read on this board in 2010, maybe even 2009. I am a jets psl holder. After spending all that money for 4 seats, if the jets opened up the season as visitors on opening weekend with me not getting Tix I may have gone to the training facility and burned it to the ground. And think how much it would cost to scalp those Tix as u are competing with every ny/nj football fan. Also, how would it look for the jets if they were the visitor? The name "new giants stAdium" would stick forever. We have been visitors since forever, I don't want that for one minute in our new house. Worst idea ever once you think about it for 10 seconds. The Jets won't cater to the PSL holders since there are only about 4,000 of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxman Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 http://www.jetnation.com/?p=4023 Giants Get Home Opener; Woody Johnson Cries March 16, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxman Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 From The Jets Blog: http://www.thejetsblog.com/2010/03/15/woody-messes-with-bull-gets-horns/ Woody Messes With Bull, Gets Horns Posted on March 15th, 2010 by Bassett Here’s a treat in my inbox tonight about the whole coin toss thing … are we still talking about this? Please kill me now. Statement from Jets Chairman and CEO Woody Johnson An NFL coin toss has a few fundamental elements that are missing here, most notably the presence of the teams involved. That’s how it’s always done in the League, whether it’s determining the order of the draft or deciding who’s going to kick off the game. When the issue of which team would be hosting the first regular season game could not be resolved on the merits, I suggested a coin toss as the fairest way to resolve this issue. The League rejected that idea. Then, I was told on Friday that a coin toss had taken place at the League office and that the Jets had lost. We rejected a process in which neither team was present. The League departed from our time-honored tradition and declined the opportunity to set the matter straight with a transparent process. Of course, the Giants couldn’t help but gloat. “We look forward to playing the first regular-season game ever in the new stadium,” Giants spokesman Pat Hanlon said. “We have a great new home, and it’s right next door to Giants Stadium, a building that housed our three Super Bowl championship teams. We look forward to building the same legacy for our new stadium, and it starts on Sept. 12.” Ugh .. can you hear the implied message to the Jets ownership in that statement? I sure can. I’ll get to the issue of what the league did in a minute, but let’s make a timeline of this as we now know it and how exactly that matches up with the “transparency” that Woody is so keen for which to call out the league. Friday – According to Woody’s statement he learned about the actual coin-toss result. Saturday – The Jets website subtly publishes a story about an upcoming coin-toss for the game and that fans might be invited to attend!! Goody! Sunday – The Giants don’t say anything about the matter, referring it to the league. Monday – Word leaks that the coin flip was done and that Woody is “outraged” at the matter. Woody late in the day releases a statement about transparency. So Woody, must have OK’ed the weekend story about the coin toss right? Yet he already knew the outcome of it, regardless of his acceptance of it’s validity. Then he forced a story about something that already happened, along with the potential for an event around it, and is chiding the league for their transparency issues? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! I know this is meta, and might not be all that relevant, but for those who follow this closely, Woody has made the team reporter, Randy Lange (FULL DISCLOSURE who I respect beyond measure) look like a heel. If Randy Lange knew the real story, then he looks irresponsible for propagating a known falsehood, if he didn’t know the real story (which I imagine he didn’t) then he looks like nothing more than a mouthpiece. Ah … nothing quite like willfully throwing your employees under the bus to stroke the ego of a billionaire. What, that’s never happened to you? Oh. As far as who should host the first game? If the league had any inclination to make things “fair” then they would have let the Jets have first crack, for various reasons that we won’t bother detailing. But far more important than any other, for the sole reason that the Jets have looked like the league’s redheaded stepchild in New York, and the league has in this move shown no desire to end that perception. So rather than just complain about how the Jets and the league handled it, I’d like to suggest an alternative method for how the Jets could have gone about this. Roger Goodell has an Achilles heel, and it’s public perception. Whereas his predecessor didn’t seem to care enough, I get the sense that Goodell can care too much about it at times. This could have been one of those times to work it to his disadvantage. With all the social media outlets available at their disposal, Facebook, Twitter, their own website message boards, whatever … the Jets could have gotten their fans involved, much earlier in the process (had they been … wait for it … umm … TRANSPARENT) and from a positive “please petition the league for the first game!” perspective. If the Jets were so afraid the team wouldn’t get the game but wanted it, then they could have asked the fans to “do the dirty work” and get the message back to the league. The office would have been slammed, and they would have had to accede to at least a fair coin flip. I mean, we the fans ARE basically the shareholders of this league right? Last I checked we should hold some sway with what the league does or doesn’t do … since ultimately we help pay the bills. The Jets wouldn’t have been the bad guy. I know this is a viral campaign waiting to happen on Twitter … and with guys like PR Head Greg Aiello, and Commish Roger Goodell, easily available … it would have taken no time at all to get their attention. But, the Jets didn’t think about it that way, and we were left with a pissing match between the Jets and Giants. We’ve always dreaded knowing, but now know beyond a shadow of a doubt who will win that in the league’s eyes. I think that can change in time, but it’s going to come down to a few things for the Jets: stable ownership, a winning tradition, and an even more devoted fanbase. If the Jets right now are about changing the “SOJ” culture of the team, then the way the front office handles this stuff needs to change too. As a clear concession, the Jets will host the first Monday night game. I imagined that both teams would get a home game that weekend. Still, it’s clear that the Giants are crowing over hosting a game one day earlier than the Jets. Honestly, this only proves to me that the Giants are as an ungracious organization as I have always imagined them to be. Thanks to the many of you who sent this in tonight, my thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dolphann4life Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Hell no! Give me Miami. 1) I don't want to lose, and while I don't think we WOULD lose to NE, there's no WAY we'd lose to Miami 2) one of the biggest stories of the offseason has been Rex flipping off Miami fans....bigtime storyline there 3) MNF can show clips of the Monday Night Miracle out of nostalgia all night long if they want to It's going to come down to New England, Miami, and Minnesota (if Favre is back). I'd rank Miami my first choice, Minny my second, and NE last. I'm just gonna hold on to this quote right here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Bit Special Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Monday night to open the season? Thanksgiving night? Good thing Im not a season ticket holder anymore. That would be 2 games I would miss. And I wonder how empty the New Meadowlands will be after halftime... will Jets fans continue their tradition of leaving monday night games early? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joebabyny Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Monday night to open the season? Thanksgiving night? Good thing Im not a season ticket holder anymore. That would be 2 games I would miss. And I wonder how empty the New Meadowlands will be after halftime... will Jets fans continue their tradition of leaving monday night games early? At least week 1 MNF starts at 7pm, so it isn't as bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LWC611 Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 At least week 1 MNF starts at 7pm, so it isn't as bad. 7:00 or 8:00PM either way there is no reason why games involving two east coast teams can not start at 7:30 or 8:00 PM. I understand the desire to get a west coas audeince but they would not have a rootingh interest in NY NE to the point where the east coaes residents should have to wait an extra hour in a half for the game. I hate the fact that MNF starts so late particularly when both of the teams are east coast teams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 I don't care who the Jets are playing. I'm going to be at this game for a fact. Can't wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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