So with a brand new stadium opening soon in New York Jersey and two teams sharing it and no NFL equivalent of calling shotgun, the Jets and the Giants needed to come up with a way to determine who’ll play the first home game there.
And in this age of high technology, they have resorted to a decidedly low tech device.
Flipping a coin.
Per the Jets’official web site, the league has said that a heads-tails contest will be used to decide who’ll get the right to christen the new venue. The Jets, according to the report, have presented a plan for the flip to be held in the coming week.
They need to do it soon; the league will be unveiling the 2010 schedule in April.
The fact that a decision has yet to be made likely means that neither team will be hosting a prime-time event there in Week One. If history holds, the games played under the lights during the first weekend of action will be announced during the annual league meeting that opens on March 21.
We’ll post on the outcome once the coin toss occurs; hopefully, there won’t be any interference.
Should have put the 2011 schedule in place for the 2010 schedule, and had the Jets play the Giants on Thursday night opening the season.
They should have used “rock, paper, scissors”.
GO JETS!!!!!!!!!!
Revolutionary. How will they determine who gets to call heads or tails?
flipping a coin is 50/50 what do you want them to do hire a team of monkeys and put them in a room full of typewriters for an infinite amount of time?
Oh man I hope the Jets get it. It would be a nice FU to the Giants.
Love the coin toss. We learned in second grade that there’s nothing more fair than a coin flip. Good enough for deciding the first game, good enough for overtime.
This is stupid (or stoopid for you Florio).
Maybe they should just adjust the schedule so the Jets-Giants faceoff in week one. Duh. That’d be a pretty nice way to break in the stadium.
I hope it’s the Giants vs the Cowboys so the Pokes can return the favor.
Why not give the Giants the Sunday night game and the Jets Monday?
Just make sure Phil Luckett isn’t the official overseeing coin flip.
No railing about how something this important shouldn’t be determined by a coin toss?
It belongs to the better team with the most history and the team that moved to NJ
The Jets still need to go out on the Island with all the fair weather fans
This is stupid. They should had just made them play their first preseason game against each other. Problem solved.
@ aec4
What? That would mean someone at NFL headquarters would have to have a imagination and think for themselves.
still a shitty stadium
The heck with the coin toss.Just flip Jimmy Hoffa
Bigbluefan says:
March 13, 2010 8:46 PM
It belongs to the better team with the most history and the team that moved to NJ
The Jets still need to go out on the Island with all the fair weather fans
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Lol nothing more amusing than disgruntled Giants fans hating on the JETS.
Better team my ass. Better team two years ago maybe.
how about the first “game” is Jets vs Giants in the pre-season?
Excellent Seinfeld reference
vikesfan4ever says:
March 13, 2010 8:40 PM
Why not give the Giants the Sunday night game and the Jets Monday?
Or vice versa. Great idea. But in New York they would fight over who gets the Sunday game. And how they decide that…..?
Coin please.
Boofer T Justice says:
March 13, 2010 8:48 PM
This is stupid. They should had just made them play their first preseason game against each other. Problem solved.
Another great idea. But the argument is over opening the REGULAR season. A tacit admission that pre-season games are useless drivel.
Let me just say, based on how the Giants closed out the old stadium, they probably shouldn’t be allowed to open the new one.
Patriots at Jets to christen the new digs!
Well if the Jets had any real draw they would have their own stadium by now. So since they constantly have to rely on the Giants for a home, it should go to the Giants.
Who cares. New York sucks.
Hello, it as already been decieded! The Giants will get it and play Dallas on either Sunday or Monday night in week 2! It will be fixed!
Romeo Crennel will reportedly be flipping said coin.
Here is an easy way to do it what team has won more SB?
What team has more players in the HOF.
What team has won more playoff games.
What team has a history as being one of the founding members of the NFL.
Easy answer the NY Football Giants
The JETS are now and always will be the second rate team the redheaded stepchild.
JETS fans became Jet fans because it was as close as they could get to real football.
Why don’t the Jets just play the Giants in the first week of the preseason so both teams set foot on the field at the same time? That way it won’t matter about the regular season. Or whoever gets the first regular season game, the other team should get the first preseason game.
packers at jets sept 13th mnf… write it down.
Go BLUE BABY!!!
Still seems like they are shafting one side.
Have them play each other week one. Would need beefed up security though.
One team plays Sunday other team plays Monday, both teams had decent seasons last year and would be fine playing Monday night.
After letting the Jets close the old GIANTS Stadium, the Giants should open the new Meadowlands.
At least there being fair and not calling it Giants Stadium and having the G-Men hosting the first game
This shouldn’t even be an issue. It was Giants stadium, and it will always be Giants stadium. The Jets finally do something after 40 years and they’re all of a sudden relevant?! Pay the rent on time and maybe…..just maybe….you might rise above the handle of tenants.
The Jets shouldn’t even be brought into the convo! Obviously the Giants are a more respected team than the lucky Jets. It takes the Jets ALOT of luck just to make the playoffs…
Can’t wait to see how many empty seats there’ll be with their overpriced tickets.
You guys who say they should play each other have looked over a major obstacle that the NFL already knew. It’s the ticket holders. They both have season ticket holders with the same seats. Of course they could flip a coin to see who stands and who sits.
Shouldn’t they be worried who will host 1st PLAYOFF GAME! Oh wait, neither team will make the playoffs so it does not matter! Or what coach will weigh less gets 1st REGULAR SEASON GAME!
Of course the stuck up, snobby, multi generational, obnoxious Giants fans who look down their nose at the Jets are saying it should be them. Well newsflash, the Jets are the show in town now. I dont dislike the Gmen and I respect what they’ve done. However, this is NOT Giants Stadium anymore. You guys closed out the old place with a joke of a performance and we closed it out with a 38-0 win. The Jets are in better shape moving forward with a younger, more exciting, hungrier team and their rise continues at home in week 1 against either the Pats or Fins.
You are all morons anyway. The Jets don’t play the Giants this season. Only in the preseason. They should play preseason week 1 and the winner will host the first game of the season…
dh, you are calling others morons, but your response is let a game in pre-season determine who gets a home game the first week? How is that at all possible, when the schedule is released in a few months?
Who cares?!?!?
Does it really matter who gets the first regular season game? It might mean something if it were actually the first event in the new stadium or even the first game but it’s neither, so what difference does it make.
And for all the Giants fans bashing the Jets and vice versa, YOU BOTH PLAY IN NEW JERSEY! Neither of you even plays in New York State, let alone New York City yet you are fighting over who is New York’s team for the right to play the first game in your new stadium in New Jersey.
“Well newsflash, the Jets are the show in town now”
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They are merely the opening act, Shane. The headliners will be back on the main stage before you can blink an eye. One winning season doesn’t make the Jets any more relevant than they were at this time last year, just like one losing season doesn’t make the Giants as irrelevant as you want them to be.
jets?? who are the jets?
Really, this many comments on this?
Sadly I read these because I wondered what people could possibly comment.
I opted to add my own waste of key strokes
Bigbluefan says Jets are now and always be the second rate team and red headed stepchild.
AMEN been saying that for years.
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Are we going to celebrate 42 years?
Bigbluefan says:
What team has a history as being one of the founding members of the NFL.
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I see you’ve been getting your history from Mike Greenberg. The New York Giants AREN’T one of the founding members of the NFL but ironically, the Jets, as the Titans, was one of the founding members of the AFL.
Jay,
A typical response from a typical Giants fan. I’ll make an educated guess here and say you’re prob a Yankee fan as well, displaying the same arrogance towards the Mets. The past is the past, and although the Jets have had more down years, they’ve certainly had their moments (as in arguably the most famous moment in football history). The reason for this is fear. No one disputes that you have the history and have been top dog. But now that the Jets are threatening you all get defensive cuz god forbid the Giants lose the spotlight for 3 seconds, “gotta put those damn Jets back in their place.” Let us have our fun the next couple years and you enjoy your upcoming 8-8 season.
“I see you’ve been getting your history from Mike Greenberg. The New York Giants AREN’T one of the founding members of the NFL but ironically, the Jets, as the Titans, was one of the founding members of the AFL.”
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NFL – 1922 (name was changed to the NFL in this year)
Giants – 1925
Jets – 1960
You’ve been getting your history from beer bottle labels
Jaydub says:
You’ve been getting your history from beer bottle labels
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I’m guessing that you must not understand the word FOUNDING because there’s NOTHING in that word that applies to the Giants.:
Found – To establish or set up, especially with provision for continuing existence
Synonyms: create, establish, institute, organize.
Any of that apply to the Giants? The answer is not only no but HELL NO.
The Jets were part of the AFL in 1960, the same year that the league started playing – hence FOUNDING.
AFL? Oh yeah, I remember that. It was still active the last time the Jets won a Championship. Nixon was in office, right? You must be proud
Get that rent check ready
# Jaydub says:
You must be proud
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Except I’m NOT a fan of either “New York” team, butt head. I was pointing out the fact that the Giants weren’t a founding member of the NFL, which is something that Mike Greenberg keeps saying (and he’s wrong, as well).