http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=1661233 The Jets are supposed to announce a new stadium in January that will open in 2009 on the west side of Manhattan. So, the Jets get a new stadium in Manhattan, and the Metros can't get a freaking new stadium in Harrison, NJ? What in the sam hell is going on here? Jets get their new stadium in 6 years. Nick Sack O'Shitz has been trying since 2000. Nick, you've been saying "2006". Now you better back up those words.
What, no "60-90 days" joke? Here's the only way that this is Metro-related: If Harrison stiffs us, in six years we have the ability to negotiate with Woody Johnson for a better rent deal.
Great! New York will get it's stadium for an expansion MLS club and America will get a REAL "cathedral" for soccer to be showcased in. Not a band-box in someplace called "Carson," which we all know is known the world over, far and wide. We are the ONLY international city in the United States. We deserve this!
The Jets would be returning to their birthplace. They played their first two seasons as the NY Titans in the old Polo Grounds in upper Manhattan.
I rather doubt it. I spoke with the VP for Development of the Jets last year and asked about the possibility of soccer in this proposed Jets stadium on the westside. He said that perhaps it'd be possible for the World Cup, but that they had no interest in an MLS club playing there. Anyway, anyone who knows about development in Manhattan knows that there are about a billion things that could go wrong with the plans. Maybe it'll happen, maybe it won't. edit: just to make it clear about my conversation with the Jets' guy, I asked about dimensions, etc. He said they would have a football sized field, not a soccer sized field.
IIRC Carson is pretty squarely in the sprawling area collectively reffered to as LA. You may not have heard of it, but the only reason youve ever heard of Pasadena is because of the Rose Bowl, well that and that song about a little old lady. But then again, their is a song about Lodi so a song with the name of place aint saying much.
Re: Re: Re: Jets get new stadium Yeah, but seeing as it's closer to where I live, work, etc., I'd prefer the Westside of Manhattan to the Meadowlands. But I'd prefer the Metros own stadium in Harrison to being a lowly tenant in the Jets stadium (where they wouldn't control the schedule, field conditions, etc.) 8 years from now.
With a retractable dome, we could have friendlies played during the winter! We wouldn't lose all those kinds of matches to California or Texas.
Re: Re: Jets get new stadium How is this possible if they plan on using it for the Olympics in 2012? Wouldn't space for a running track mean space for a soccer field too? Or are they going to do the Turner Field thing and make it adaptable for track only to get rid of the track completely post-2012?
Re: Re: Re: Jets get new stadium Can't say that I really know based on our conversation. I imagine they could take out some lower tier seating and add a track for a 2-week summer event and then replace the seating and remove the track for NFL season.
So when are the Mets getting their new stadium? The one with retractable roof and field... Until groundbreaking takes place I won't believe it.
As a die hard Jets fan, I'm hoping the new stadium happens for the Jets but I'm a pessimist when it comes to anything Jets related. As a Metro fan, it boggles my mind why our owner who has just as much or more money than Woody Johnson won't just pay 100% of cost for the stadium and get the project started. For what the Jets are willing to pay, Anschultz can build several SSS's. Cheap bastard.
I don't even like that damn stadium. Sure it looks like the old Ebbets Field which is nice. But that retractable roof is stupid. I hate retractable roofs and I hate how all the new ballparks look exactly alike. Well with the exception of Pac-Bell and PNC. I'll take watching games at crusty old Shea then sitting under a retractable roof any day.
eeww you're one of those people... Now if the new West Side Stadium is supposed paid for by the tax payers, how can the tax payer request that the stadium be used for soccer as well?
Damn straight and proud of it. Not necessarily. Miller Park in Milwaukee uses grass as does the BOB in Arizona.
This is messed up. We going to have a stadium in the middle of the city and we not going to have any MLS soccer in it. Metros aren't going to move there because of the harrison project. And any expansion team in there will make MLS look like a minor league once again with football lines on the field every week and rents going through the roof. That place would have been perfect for a SSS stadium!
Since the stadium will double as a convention center, there's either going to be artifical turf, or a real grass field that can rolled/floated outside when not in use. The real, real reason for the roof is so they can hold the Superbowl in NYC.
There is also Broadway history of the Jets on the West Side. Anyone ever see "West Side Story"? S-H-A-R-K-S, SHARKS, SHARKS, SHARKS!!! J-E-T-S, JETS, JETS, JETS!!!