Giants win secret coin toss to play 1st game in New Stadium

and Jet fans.

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Sources said Jets owner Woody Johnson was "outraged" - not because the Jets lost but because no team representatives were present.

Goodell was probably like, "we've already got the Giants scheduled, just tell Woody and Co. that we flipped the coin already"....

Calm down Woody:

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Sources said Jets owner Woody Johnson was "outraged" - not because the Jets lost but because no team reprsentatives were present.

to Craig Carton.

whoops! Beat me to it Britt. Ha

balls and host either Dallas or Philly in the opener.

a gun to Rex Ryan's head, and John Mara assured him that either his signature or his brains would be on the contract for first game right...

I always thought it was Lou Gabrazzi...

Terps, wasn't there rumors we are hosting the Bears for the home opener?

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It has to be Philly!

Anyway, who cares as long as the Giants get to open it.

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Pick either the Cowboys or Eagles or make it the Colts or Saints.

The Giants would have to open on the road for them to play the Saints or Colts b/c those two will be playing each other to open up the season, right?

Obviously the NFL never tossed a coin and wanted the Giants to open up at home in their new stadium.

It looks like the Jets will be second fiddle in this stadium as well.

Even better to hear that Woody was upset.

If we opened on the road, then the Jets would almost certainly open the stadium...

there was no truth to the rumor..i dont like how the jets are getting all pushy all of a sudden..one afc championship in however long and all of a sudden they are trying to steal our shine..

You had a fair chance: Heads the Giants win, Tails the Jets lose.

The Jets push for this idea, and they wind up on the short end of the stick.

Priceless.

You're right. Ok, Cowboys or Eagles it is. Or the Browns.

if its the Jets, they dont allow their fans to drink on home night games anyway, so i doubt their fans even want this.

And I dont believe in this showing balls stuff - I am fine playing the Lions on opening day and getting the season started right.

But the Bears would be a fun opening game too.

do you guys really cared who opened the stadium first? i certainly didnt.

Those fans are animals.

we made a deal with them to open their new park, them open ours

DOH!!! ;)

renewing the old Giants-Bears rivalry

The Jets got to close GIANTS STADIUM. It had our name on it and they got to close it. A stadium they didn't move into until 8 years after it opened because they couldn't strike a deal with Shea Stadium. I repeat, they couldn't make a deal to stay in Shea. Mind you, they're playing in the new stadium because they couldn't strike a deal to open a stadium of their own. And they got the fuckin' nerve--still--to feel like they have the right to open this one? Fuck the Jets!! And besides, it's not like they still couldn't play their first game at home by opening MNF.

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would have been a game between the 2, Giants and Jets at home for season bragging rights.. course then there would have been a problem for fans, see how much these PSLs are worth with 2 fans to each seat!

not from The Onion?
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....when he tells Tom Hagen "Let me worry about Luca. You just concentrate on getting Sonny to make the deal."

on this, the day of your teams stadium opening.

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Bring on the Saints

as SB champs..the Saints are not opening on the road...

if the Jets were even invited? (I can't imagine they weren't)
I would have preferred it to read:

"No Jets representatives were present after being notified last week of the coin toss"... & owner Woody Johnson was "outraged"

Giants stadium what more do they want?

....I'm just as happy that they didn't close the place.

If the decision were made merely on historical grounds, the Giant would go first for all the reasons that have previously been mentioned. However, since the debut of the new stadium will be a financial windfall to the team that opens the stadium, and since the Giants and the Jets are equal partners, it had to be a coin toss.

Of course my preference would be to give it to the winner of a 40 yard sprint between the Coughlin and Rex Ryan.

No Jets reps were there. But, if true, well... glad to see they have there shit together. Hahaha. Book it gents, Dallass will be 1st.

the fan meltdown over this on Jets Insider...

http://jetsinsider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=210446

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Thanks for the link Josh. I needed some Mon. comic relief. Too bad they couldn't their sorry asses back to Queens & fking stay there.

We don't play the Saints this year

Had the last game in the old stadium, so the Giants should get the first game, they do not want to be second fiddle. Then stop acting like you are. Talk about a fuckin baby.

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like a bowl of Scott Tennermans parents chili.

Woody's invitation got lost in the mail.

We put hats on people.

they're always the highest rated games

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

I love it. lol. if the Jets don't like it, they can revoke their funding and play in the Nassau Coliseum parking lot

when Goodell showed up, nobody had any change so everybody just got drunk instead.

"This is just absolutely BS! I can't express the emotion right now... but I'm EXTREMELY annoyed that neither the Giants nor the NFL have the decency to let the Jets open up the stadium. Man, I really wish the WSS wasn't so doomed and the Gints were still playing in the old raggedy POS stadium. This really is a travesty and a supreme smack in the face. "

What did Craig Carton say? I am interested to hear. He is a noted Giants hater.

I would love to open up against the Cowboys or Eagles, but I would also like to open up the new place with a "W".

Perhaps the Bears would be a good opponent: renew an old rivalry who just had a free agency spending spree.

Where's that from.... a Jets board?

Come on... someone had to have reported how this all played out... When were the teams notified?

If neither team was, & the league just "decided" heads & tails here... I refuse to believe that.
I mean just come out & announce they are giving the game to the Giants. Don't make it a farce open to embarrassing criticism.

I just want to hear both teams were notified or invited!

Jets Insider -- linked by Josh above.

If the Jets don't like it they could always play at Hofstra they don't have a football team anymore!! Let's hope the coin toss is the begining of more winning for the 10 season!

is priceless.

The jets have only opened the season at "home" 6 times in the last 20 years. That does seem a bit skewed.

Wanna make it 2 out of 3??

would not be surprised if NFL said to hell with the Jets after the Jets posted the thing about the Coin toss and decided that the Giants were going to open it at that point.

to be fair, they were tennants of GIANTS stadium

So were the giants.

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This is just absolutely BS! I can't express the emotion right now... but I'm EXTREMELY annoyed that neither the Giants nor the NFL have the decency to let the Jets open up the stadium. Man, I really wish the WSS wasn't so doomed and the Gints were still playing in the old raggedy POS stadium. This really is a travesty and a supreme smack in the face.

Did the Jets have a nice run in the playoffs, absolutely, but my question is, what have they done that they "deserve" the right to have the first game?

Hey- look at that...the Giants were actually able to win something!

They get to an AFC championship and they think they are god's gift to football .

It's going to be a beautiful thing when these "new" Jets come unraveled like the old Jets. Beautiful.

Always have been, always will be. They are like the Mets fans of the NFL. Screw em.

On Sunday night, then the Meadowlands staff has their work cut out for them if the Jets are going to be playing there the next night.

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if the Giants have a Sunday afternoon game with the Jets having the Monday nighter? They get to have the first national audience game?

both of them playing at home opening week.
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one fan made the point that fox has the doubleheader for the first week, so it is likely that the game is the late game and be the game of the week so that it will have a national audience. By having it the late game they will have some ability at the end to show how the stadium lights up in blue.

first preseason game. That's expected.

were invited to the coin toss, I don't blame Woody for being furious. That's just not right. Now, if they were invited and none showed, then maybe he's furious at them.

actually believes there was a coin toss, right? If you think the NFL actually considered the Jets for the opener, ive got a bridge to sell you

"" Originally Posted by TheFranchise View Post
Hey- look at that...the Giants were actually able to win something!""

I doubting their needed to be a coin toss if they had the Sunday afternoon-Monday night game planned already. Giants given the choice would prefer Sunday Afternoon, while Jets prefer the Monday Night game. ( I prefer the day game).

Comment from Woody:

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via @NYPost_NFL Nice smackdown of the #NFL from #Jets owner Woody Johnson over Coin-Flip Gate: "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 Friday that a coin toss took place at the League office and the Jets 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." Wow.

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If having an opening day of his own is so important to him, maybe he should've given more thought to opening his own stadium somewhere else?

propaganda and that in fact there was no coin toss?

And it seems that fans (of all teams, not just the jets) forget that the NFL is not about being fair. The NFL is a privately owned business with the intent of making shit tons of money.

I have no idea where people get the idea that the NFL has to be fair about stuff like this. They don't. They can do what they want, and if you don't like it...you are welcome to watch something else and spend your money elsewhere.