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Strategies & Market Trends : Trading the SPOOs with Patrick Slevin! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SE who wrote (3110)	1/24/2000 7:22:00 PM
From: Patrick Slevin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7434

Jets are catching up to the Giants, but still underpriced. Eighteenth row, 5 yard line is 40 bucks a seat. Up from 30 last year and $25 in 1995. Also the Jets now require you to own the Exhibition Games which was not so a few years back, probably started that in 1998. Giants are higher, but I don't take those tickets anymore. They are either 50 or 60 bucks plus you also have to take the pre-season. Most seats in Giants Stadium are priced about the same for the Jets, I understand one section (not box, obviously) is marginally more. So maybe the top ticket is $50. Now that control is passed I imagine we'll be up with you or with the Giants in terms of cost by next year. You would think the Metro area around here would be more but it's getting steep as it is. I take three kids, pay ten bucks to park, buy them $40 or $50 of food and I'm out a deuce and a quarter before I even sit down. I'm expected to do this 10 times a season (before playoffs) and, counting the food after the game starts, $3,000 is an easy number. I don't know that the future of professional sports is going to have a lot of blue-collar spectators. Not at the field, in any event. A lot of my tickets are given away or sold off. I've paid my dues sitting in the thrall of the Meadow's Hawk. At this point it's time to let other people take a shot at having fun catching pneumonia.