Family has had season tickets since 1948.
I have attended virtually all home games since the early 1960s.
Something took place today I don't every recall happening.
With about 5 minutes left on the gameclock, and any chance at a Giants victory gone, the Seattle fans simply took over the entire stadium.
The chant was very loud and came from every corner of the stadium. SEA followed by others shouting HAWKS. On and on it went. Here we are in our home stadium, and the visiting teams fans have taken over the stadium.
Every Giants fan still at the game had to listen to it.
Every Giants player and coach had to listen to it.
Every Giants Front Office staff and owners had to listen to it.
Though it was 5 minutes on the gameclock, the chants went on for about 15-20 minutes of actual time before the game clock reached zero.
It was embarrassing. It was humbling. It was gut wrenching.
It hurt. It really hurt.
I hope when Mara hears things like that he is not sitting up in his box cursing disloyal fans, the GM, the coach or injuries. I hope he is honest enough with himself to realize it is exactly what he has built through his half measures with the stadium, PSLs and retaining everyone but Coughlin.
The Philadelphia Eagle fans will come to that game in the bus loads ( now especially that they are doing good and that the Giants suck) and will fill that stadium with Eagles chants. This was nothing.
The Seahawks fans are supposedly across the country. What is going to happen when the best team in the NFC, especially a division rival, is going to come from less than 100 miles away? A lot live in the same state.
It only gets worse if fans sell their tickets.
BTW, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of opponents fans buying tickets, including Seattle fans, come in from out of town. It can be an attractive weekend or week to visit NYC and catch a game at the same time.
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vs Dallas ...and even worse vs Philly.
The Philadelphia Eagle fans will come to that game in the bus loads ( now especially that they are doing good and that the Giants suck) and will fill that stadium with Eagles chants. This was nothing.
The Seahawks fans are supposedly across the country. What is going to happen when the best team in the NFC, especially a division rival, is going to come from less than 100 miles away? A lot live in the same state.
It only gets worse if fans sell their tickets.
BTW, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of opponents fans buying tickets, including Seattle fans, come in from out of town. It can be an attractive weekend or week to visit NYC and catch a game at the same time.
Especially when they can get the tickets for less then face value.
FML
Please BYOB and do it in the parking lot before the game. Don’t give the organization or the league one more single solitary dollar for this pathetic excuse of team or season.
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I am going to get fucking shit faced at each one. What choice do I have...
Please BYOB and do it in the parking lot before the game. Don’t give the organization or the league one more single solitary dollar for this pathetic excuse of team or season.
Not my first rodeo. I can honestly count on one hand how many beers I have purchases in the new shitty stadium. I load up in the parking lot and sober up (literally and emotionally) during the shitty game. Everything is shitty except the tailgate. The tailgate is great.
BTW, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of opponents fans buying tickets, including Seattle fans, come in from out of town. It can be an attractive weekend or week to visit NYC and catch a game at the same time.
Especially when they can get the tickets for less then face value.
If the tix are available for less than face value then there are not enough Giants' fans willing to pay face value to go to a Giants game ... so what does this really say about our fan base or the team? A lot of people over the years have chimed in on threads like this deamonizing fans who sell their seats but watched from home instead of competing to buy those available seats.
Fact, before the new stadium and the PSLs there was about a 20 year waiting list for season tickets. Today, you can get season seats if you want them. The PSLs are available for sale. I have considered testing the waters on the sale of my PSLs to ticket brokers. For the right price and for all of the reasons mentioned in countless other threads here, I would consider it.
Not my first rodeo. I can honestly count on one hand how many beers I have purchases in the new shitty stadium. I load up in the parking lot and sober up (literally and emotionally) during the shitty game. Everything is shitty except the tailgate. The tailgate is great.
Ha! I do the very same thing. Load up in the parking lot to the point where you are so numb that you don't care who wins. Makes the disappointment of the loss hurt less.
Seattle fans wouldn’t get away with that in Washington, Philly, even New England.
Well, uh, who would want to go to Philly? New England wouldn't happen because well, their own fans are going to the games wanting to see them win with Tom Brady nearly every time they play there.
So their stadium "being taken" over by fans of another team isn't likely to happen in the Brady/ Belichick era.
2) How did it compare to when New England, Miami, Pittsburgh, GB, Was, Baltimore, Dallas, Philly, SF, Oakland are in town?
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And probably don’t consume enough at the game.
Seattle fans wouldn’t get away with that in Washington, Philly, even New England.
Well, uh, who would want to go to Philly? New England wouldn't happen because well, their own fans are going to the games wanting to see them win with Tom Brady nearly every time they play there.
So their stadium "being taken" over by fans of another team isn't likely to happen in the Brady/ Belichick era.
Philly has the same problem when they stink, remember all thge "Cruuuz" chants last season?
2) How did it compare to when New England, Miami, Pittsburgh, GB, Was, Baltimore, Dallas, Philly, SF, Oakland are in town?
Seahawks probably have the biggest turnout for any away team outside of the division opponents. The only other team that I've seen who compares are the Bills (I've been a season ticket holder since MetLife opened).
The % of fans wasn't high, maybe 20%. I think what really made them stand out was that the Giant fans started clearing out at the 10 minute mark of the 4th quarter. Most Giant fans around me (sec. 149) were apathetic to a loss. Emotions ran pretty low and once beer stopped being served and the Giants looked defeated, the stadium emptied out.
I'm sure the rest of the home games will have the same feeling with less fans actually showing up. The group of season ticket holders next to me just didn't show up at all. They didn't sell their tickets, didn't give them away, the seats just went unused. I bet we see that happening even more as the season gets on and the weather gets colder.
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1) % of Seahawk fans?
2) How did it compare to when New England, Miami, Pittsburgh, GB, Was, Baltimore, Dallas, Philly, SF, Oakland are in town?
Seahawks probably have the biggest turnout for any away team outside of the division opponents. The only other team that I've seen who compares are the Bills (I've been a season ticket holder since MetLife opened).
The % of fans wasn't high, maybe 20%. I think what really made them stand out was that the Giant fans started clearing out at the 10 minute mark of the 4th quarter. Most Giant fans around me (sec. 149) were apathetic to a loss. Emotions ran pretty low and once beer stopped being served and the Giants looked defeated, the stadium emptied out.
I'm sure the rest of the home games will have the same feeling with less fans actually showing up. The group of season ticket holders next to me just didn't show up at all. They didn't sell their tickets, didn't give them away, the seats just went unused. I bet we see that happening even more as the season gets on and the weather gets colder.
I'm in section 126...saw a lot of lime green in the stadium, it was very noticeable. And yes, after the flea flicker TD it started to clear out, and of course Seattle fans stuck around.
This is the age of selling tickets online so easily...you don't produce, you're going to have in influx of the opposition crowd.
It's prevalent even when your team is doing well.....
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Not my first rodeo. I can honestly count on one hand how many beers I have purchases in the new shitty stadium. I load up in the parking lot and sober up (literally and emotionally) during the shitty game. Everything is shitty except the tailgate. The tailgate is great.
Ha! I do the very same thing. Load up in the parking lot to the point where you are so numb that you don't care who wins. Makes the disappointment of the loss hurt less.
Thank you, both!
2) How did it compare to when New England, Miami, Pittsburgh, GB, Was, Baltimore, Dallas, Philly, SF, Oakland are in town?
There were a decent amount of Seahawks fans there, but nowhere near the amount of Cowboy fans who show up.