First they close Gate D..now this

It’s been a week of Favre news and I can finally absorb it.

First of all for anybody who thinks this was a bad move, with the QB’s the Jets had they weren’t going anywhere this year anyway, they don’t have a good young QB on the roster (you can talk to me about a young QB but that would have had to have happened 4 months ago at the draft). The Jets weren’t going to go anywhere this year with the combo of Pennington and The Kid with the Goatee they went 4-12 last year, with Pennington and the KWTG in ’08 you could hope for 6-10 or 7-9 this year. I love Chad but he couldn’t make the throws, he wasn’t making his team better and you better have a Ravens Defense from a few years ago if you want a QB to just manage the game

But more importantly, in this in city you need to win the battle of the back-pages, the Jets don’t just play 2nd fiddle to the Giants, they play 2nd fiddle to the Yankees, to the Mets, to Broadway, to the Hamptons, to everybody. And they were on the verge of pissing their fan base off more than they did with the closing of Gate D (last season the put an stop to the weekly Girls Gone Wild show at Giant Stadium where drunk Long Island slobs scream for Jersey shore chicks to show it all).

(photo by NY Times)

An important part of this is that the Jets are about to announce the PSL’s (Personal Seat Licenses, basically a one time fee for being a loyal customer which can range from $1000 to $20,000 per seat). Last week they were going to go to Jet fans and say “hey we haven’t won anything since 1969, the team hasn’t had a bonafide superstar since Joe Willie, the team you follow get treated like a bunch of 2nd class citizens by having to play at Giants Stadium which you heard about all the time from Giant fans who happily rub your nose in it. Oh yeah the team has had no stability for 30 years and if you live in NJ your tax money is helping build this stadium, don't worry if you live in Queens and Long Island you will had to deal with a 3 hour commute each way and now give us $1000 for that privilege.. oh yeah our team was 4-12 last year and all things point to the fact that we are going to suck again for the foreseeable future”

This is like ramming a wiffle ball bat up your *&% and then asking you to pay you for a new one.

Brett Favre keeps the fan-base from revolting.

Now the Jets have had a lot of press time (mostly positive) and now they have a face to the franchise, they can now sell these PSL’s to their loyal fans BUT more importantly to corporate clients and sponsorship. See Pedro Martinez as a NY Met right before they were trying to get city help for funding to get Citi Field built.