Though the question of on-field New York City supremacy remains to be resolved via annual preseason games, a once-every-four-years regular-season contest, and possibly an eventual Subway (Sort Of) Super Bowl, the Giants have dominated the Jets in one specific area: the sales of Personal Seat Licenses at the new stadium they’ll share.
While the Jets have struggled to sell PSLs covering less than the full stadium, the Giants supposedly sold out every single seat, despite the attachment of a PSL requirement to each one.
Apparently, that’s not the case. Bart Hubbuch of the New York Post reports that the Giants will be selling single-game tickets without PSLs through Ticketmaster.
Though it’s possible that the single-game tickets come from the 1,200 or so remaining premium seats with PSLs that hadn’t sold, the fact that a guy who bought his tickets without a PSL could be sitting next to someone who surely paid plenty of pretty pennies for a premium-seat PSL will create potential P.R. problems for the Giants.
The team has not yet addressed the situation. What the Giants say will go a long way toward shaping the overall reaction to the unexpected move.
Either way, the availability of non-PSL single-game tickets means that the Giants haven’t won the battle of the box office as handily as it previously appeared.
