Jets owner Woody Johnson has balls.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m ready to drop Jets season tickets I\u2019ve had in my family for more than 50 years<\/a> after Gang Green and the uncontested worst owner in professional sports <\/a>announced Tuesday ticket prices for most seats next season are going up \u2013 again.<\/p>\n Of course, in same-old-Jets fashion, the franchise waited just two days after rookie head coach Aaron Glenn and the team finally won a game. As if a 1-7 record, rather than 0-8, was a key selling point.<\/p>\n The Jets are headed toward a 15th consecutive season of missing the playoffs \u2013 the longest drought in North American pro sports \u2013 and there\u2019s little hope things will improve anytime soon.<\/p>\n Perfect timing to boost ticket prices for a third straight year.<\/p>\n What are they smoking in Florham Park?<\/p>\n If the price hike wasn\u2019t enough, Gang Green\u2019s front-office grinches want fans to start paying for next season\u2019s seats this season \u2014 beginning in early December, right before the holidays.<\/p>\n Sure Woody, let\u2019s put our gift-giving and family feasts on hold while we dump another billion into the Johnson & Johnson coffers.<\/p>\n Whatever happened to the days of ticket invoices going out in May?<\/p>\n For the record, the price of my two lower end-zone seats in section 101 increased 45% \u2014 from $137.50 per seat, per game, to $200 \u2014 following price bumps in 2024 and this season.<\/p>\n I was spared the latest ticket hike \u2013 which will average 3.5% and run $5 to $10 extra per game for more than half the 82,500 seats at MetLife Stadium.<\/a><\/p>\n However, that didn\u2019t stop me from calling a Jets account manager Thursday and requesting my credit card be removed from the automatic payment plan. <\/p>\n I told him ticket prices should be going down \u2013 not up \u2013 and the Jets can wait until I decide in the offseason if this Dumpster fire of a team \u2014 which, regrettably, I still love dearly \u2014 is worth bleeding my bank account dry for.<\/p>\n The staffer blamed the ticket hikes on the NFL being a revenue-sharing league that recommends teams routinely raise prices to reach a specific median.<\/p>\n I started attending Jets games as a child shortly after my father \u2013 a die-hard Giants fan \u2014 got season tickets in 1974, and it\u2019s a tradition I\u2019ve cherished for decades, even after my aging dad became physically unable to attend games.<\/p>\n But I have begun to realize that there\u2019s little benefit to being a season-ticket holder anymore.<\/p>\n There\u2019s no longer a huge waiting list to become one, and tickets can typically be had for half price or lower on secondary market sites like StubHub \u2013 especially later in the season when the weather is colder and the Jets are inevitably out of the playoff picture.<\/p>\n The personal seat licenses (PSLs) I and other suckers shelled out thousands of dollars for \u2014 to help fund the construction of MetLife Stadium \u2014 are now worthless after once being touted as investments. <\/a>Demand for tickets has plummeted so badly since the mediocre venue opened in 2010 that you no longer need a PSL to buy season tickets.<\/p>\n