New York Giants asking for big bucks
June 27, 2008 by James Edwards
Filed under Sports
NFL Football at its best. NFL Football at its craziest.
You will pony up the dough to see Eli Manning in a football helmet live or you can just look at this picture
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Get this. In the greedy world of professional sports the New York Giants and the New York Jets are building a stadium together.
If you want to get seats, you will have to pay a seat license for the Giants games. The New York Jets are still mulling the idea over, but appear to be headed in the same direction.
Now here is the part where you have to get out your wallet. You know, that leather (imitation) thing you carry in your pocket that keeps getting thinner. Used to think if my wallet was thinner it would be way better. Now it is thinner. It is not way better. It is not even better.
This proves that the wallet theory is not like the key theory. What is the key theory? Fewer keys on your key chain and life is more relaxed. More keys mean more responsibility and concerns.
But getting back to the point and what is the point? You want to see Eli Manning chucking the ball to Plax. You want to see your Super Bowl champion New York Giants!
Giants co-owner John Mara said most of the 82,500 seats in the stadium, scheduled to open in 2010, will carry seat license fees of $1,000. Less than 5,000 seats will carry license fees of $20,000.
Mara said it would be “extremely difficult” to build the $1.6 billion stadium, whose cost is being split evenly by the two teams, without the seat licenses. Mara said the license fees will raise $300 million to $400 million.
Man, it is tough to be a super rich football franchise co-owner. Bet he has a lot of keys on his key chain. (To go along with his extra thick and getting thicker wallet)
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