Ticket prices for Sunday’s Jets-Cardinals game at MetLife Stadium are in the tank, with some seats available for as much as 80% below face value. (CSM /Landov)
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Glowering Gang Green fans would rather take a bath on their pricey tickets than sit through yet another humiliating defeat.
In the wake of the Jets’ epic Thanksgiving Day basting by the Patriots, seats to Sunday’s home game against the Cardinals were selling yesterday on secondary markets such as StubHub for as low as $15.
Chris Matcovich of TiqIQ, which tracks secondary-market ticket prices, said the average resale listing for Sunday’s game is $108.03 — the lowest for a Jets regular-season contest since the club moved into MetLife Stadium in 2010 and drastically bumped up ticket prices across the board.
Upper bowl seats that run $75 at face value were listed on StubHub yesterday for $15 — 80 percent less than face value. There were even bargains to be had in the luxurious Coaches Club, where seats running $700 were listed as low as $380.
Matcovich said fan support is at all-time low since the Jets arrived at their new digs — and even meaningless exhibition games in earlier seasons were more coveted tickets.
“The numbers just don’t lie,” he said. “The demand has even been higher for some preseason games, and that’s saying a lot — even if they were playing the Giants.”
As Jets-Cardinals game day gets closer, prices to the contest between the equally reeling 4-7 teams are expected to plummet further as fans grow more desperate to rid themselves of the tickets.
There were more than 8,100 seats listed for sale yesterday on secondary market sites — about a tenth of the 82,500-seat stadium.
And that doesn’t count seats the tied-for-last-place Jets have yet to sell.
Since the team moved into MetLife Stadium, Jets home games have regularly been plagued with thousands of empty seats. That’s because many longtime season ticket holders dropped their tickets, unwilling to deal with jacked up prices and having to shell out one-time payments of anywhere from $2,500 to $30,000 for personal seat licenses just for the right to buy tickets.
The team regularly buys up the empty seats to avoid home games being blacked out on television.
Fans yesterday said they’ve had enough.
“I want my money back!” griped season-ticket holder Tommy Molnar, 36, an iron worker from East Islip, LI. “You can’t get anything for them. So it’s not even worth selling them.”
“Usually you can sell them easily, but now you can’t give them away,” said Syracuse University student and season-ticket holder Eric H., 21, who was heading back to his Upper East Side home to sell off his family’s pair of tickets for Sunday’s game.
“I’d be happy to get 50 bucks for my [$125 mezzanine level seats]. I’ll probably start at 40 or 50.”
Other fans, however, saw the silver lining in ticket prices falling like a bad day at the stock market.
“I’ll go to a game again if the prices drop like that,” said Bill O’Donnell, 29, a construction worker from Rockaway Beach. “It’s still the NFL. But they stink, so you’re not going to get the same intensity with the crowd.”