Sorry about this being posted late. With all the excitement I forgot to hit publish.
Let me start by saying that every bad thing I could say about the 49ers stadium is absolutely reversed for the Jets stadium. Traffic control is great, there are multiple expressways to feed the stadium, signage was outstanding, the staff from the parking attendants to the ticket takers to all the club attendants and the ushers could not have been friendlier or more helpful. We were lucky enough to get tickets to the Met-50 club and it was over the top nice. Not deep pile arm chair mens club nice, but going to a football game in style nice.
We can start with the most unusual feature of this club. It has a section where you can go outside the club and you are standing about 10 feet (or less) from the visiting team bench. Now this is not quite as nice for the Jets fans (there is another club on the Jets sideline with access behind their bench), but for us visiting team fans it was wonderful. You can see all the warmups, the interactions on the bench, the coaching and the action from a totally unique perspective. Well unique unless you happen to be one of the small minority of people who are professional football players or their supporting teams.
The first observation is that from ground level the game is fast - really really fast. Players look like they are all moving at 2x fast forward speed. Punts are really high and the action happens very quickly. Even from our seats on the 100 level 10 rows from the action it takes on a very different perspective. If you think about a video game it is the difference of viewing the racing cars from above the cars or from the drivers seat, but more so.
The United club can take some lessons from the Met-50 club. Little things like having phone charging stations. At the Met-50 club all the food and soft drinks are included with the ticket price and that is great, but maybe the United Club could include just bottles of water for free, or even dispensers with cups. Just something to help justify the outrageous club access fee.
As usual I won't go into the game. You can get plenty of coverage of the game from other sources. But the Jets fans were not that bad in defeat with the exception of a small group of fans who were giving Conte a hard time. Our seats were close enough that shouts could be heard on the bench and they were being beyond acceptable in what they were saying to him.
Oh and the Jets fans, like apparently most east coast fans, cheer when an opposing player gets hurt and do not clap when they get up and walk back to the bench. Instead they are all sure that any opposing player who is hurt is doing it to slow down their team and just took a dive and are not injured. I have now seen this a few times at east coast teams and will be watching to see if the trend continues. I hope it was just an exception because I find the practice to be reprehensible.
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