A dismal 0-6 start and sky-high season-ticket license fees don’t mix.
Just ask the New York Giants, a normally unflappable, tradition-steeped franchise that, despite bouncing back with its fourth straight win Sunday, has recently seen the Internet flooded with prime home-game seats going for as much as half their face value, The Post has learned.
The team has always stated that the best locations are available only with the purchase of a personal seat license (PSL) and season tickets. But many prime season locations are easily available now at discount prices — undercutting Big Blue’s most well-heeled fans.
While the Giants have listed all non-strike games as sellouts since 1975 — a streak that reached 333 dates on Sunday — the team actually has plenty of spare ducats, especially in the plush club level.
For example, when a reporter this week inquired about available top-end season tickets, the team offered up a dessert cart of prime locations at $500 a game — which would ordinarily only be available with a $12,500 seat license that fans have to pay for up front for the right to buy the seats.
The team rep listed 100 seats in the $12,500-PSL range. A routine check of StubHub on Friday showed 16 of those exact spots for Sunday’s 27-13 win against Green Bay were available on the ticket reseller site for between $335 and $395.
The same team rep listed 91 seats at the $7,500-PSL level, which carry a $400 per-game face value. Of those locations, 49 were listed on StubHub on Friday for $220 to $390.
“They make you believe that the only way you get into [the 200 club level] is by paying the $12,500 PSL,” said Jay Zeitenberg, a football fan and prospective season subscriber from Berlin, NJ.
“So they’re stuck with this inventory. They should either sell it at an inflated price to offset the cost that everybody else had to pay [with the PSL] or eat it.”
After Zeitenberg found locations Big Blue’s box office had quoted him on StubHub, the potential buyer said he wasn’t about to pony up a PSL fee.
“If I were one of those season-ticket holders, I’d want my PSL money back,” he said.
Team spokesman Pat Hanlon explained that certain prime locations were released into single-game sales for 2013, with plans to recall them into the season-ticket PSL pool next year.
“It is a single-game buyer selling them,” Hanlon insisted.
Ticket-industry sources said it’s an open secret that NFL teams regularly cut deals with local ticket brokers to take distressed inventory — and then those scalpers move the tickets on StubHub or other sites.