[quote]And in the board rooms, team executives are trying to work out the complex issues of a 50-50 partnership of a new $800 million stadium in the Meadowlands after the Jets jumped into the project when their bid to get a West Side stadium failed. There are already major areas of contention in how each team envisions their new home. [/quote]
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[quote]Meanwhile, the Giants want the Jets to share the new stadium with them. It would reduce their financial risk. The Jets have a meeting Tuesday in Queens about the proposed project that would return them to New York near the site of the 1964 World's Fair. Jets president Jay Cross said Friday night the team will go wherever the best deal develops first. The Giants and Jets have differing views of the project. The Jets are embracing the Xanadu project - a retail and entertainment area on the Meadowlands grounds - that has the Giants upset because they don't want the extra traffic it would create on Sundays. And the Jets' blueprint indicates how concerned they are about spending $400 million and still feeling like second-class citizens.
The Jets' vision of the new stadium moves the Giants training and practice facility away from the stadium and way out behind the racetrack. The Jets consider the area next to the stadium prime real estate for either parking or retail, but just as important, Cross admitted it is also an identity issue. By moving the Giants away from the stadium, it would prevent it from being identified only with the Giants. The Giants' plan has their training and practice fields adjacent to the new stadium, the setup they have now.
The answer, of course, is for the Jets to move their operations to the stadium complex as well. There's been talk about the Jets relocating from Hofstra to Monmouth, N.J., which hardly is a suburb of East Rutherford. Will that make them feel any more at home if they are still only at the stadium 10 times per year and the Giants are still based in the Meadowlands? As long as the Giants are there, if the Jets want to feel like equal partners and not visitors, they need to be there year-round, too.
Since the Jets are late getting in on this deal, it seems pretty ambitious for them to dictate where the Giants should be located. But the attitude they brought to practice a few weeks ago was pretty ambitious, too[/quote]
Jake http://www.nydailynews.com/08-21-2005/sports/football/giants/story/339068p-289590c.html
jake · 2005-08-22
[quote]And in the board rooms, team executives are trying to work out the complex issues of a 50-50 partnership of a new $800 million stadium in the Meadowlands after the Jets jumped into the project when their bid to get a West Side stadium failed. There are already major areas of contention in how each team envisions their new home. [/quote] And... [quote]Meanwhile, the Giants want the Jets to share the new stadium with them. It would reduce their financial risk. The Jets have a meeting Tuesday in Queens about the proposed project that would return them to New York near the site of the 1964 World's Fair. Jets president Jay Cross said Friday night the team will go wherever the best deal develops first. The Giants and Jets have differing views of the project. The Jets are embracing the Xanadu project - a retail and entertainment area on the Meadowlands grounds - that has the Giants upset because they don't want the extra traffic it would create on Sundays. And the Jets' blueprint indicates how concerned they are about spending $400 million and still feeling like second-class citizens. The Jets' vision of the new stadium moves the Giants training and practice facility away from the stadium and way out behind the racetrack. The Jets consider the area next to the stadium prime real estate for either parking or retail, but just as important, Cross admitted it is also an identity issue. By moving the Giants away from the stadium, it would prevent it from being identified only with the Giants. The Giants' plan has their training and practice fields adjacent to the new stadium, the setup they have now. The answer, of course, is for the Jets to move their operations to the stadium complex as well. There's been talk about the Jets relocating from Hofstra to Monmouth, N.J., which hardly is a suburb of East Rutherford. Will that make them feel any more at home if they are still only at the stadium 10 times per year and the Giants are still based in the Meadowlands? As long as the Giants are there, if the Jets want to feel like equal partners and not visitors, they need to be there year-round, too. Since the Jets are late getting in on this deal, it seems pretty ambitious for them to dictate where the Giants should be located. But the attitude they brought to practice a few weeks ago was pretty ambitious, too[/quote] JakeHeat Is On (Queens Jets)?
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