3. Heaven forbid a business try and make money! That's insane! Don't you know EVERY NHL team exists solely to bring championships, rainbows, and good cheer to the city it exists in? They're Not For Profits aren't they!?
This, right here. Good god, people, the Jets NEED to make make money, because the universe will look very ugly when the Jets pack up and leave for a locale that will allow them a profit.
My business needs to make a profit, even if it's small, because that's how we invest in the future and upgrade and/or replace worn out equipment. I don't begrudge a business any profits, because that's how free market capitalism works. There's no defining too much profit, and if a person decides a business
is making too much (???) their recourse is to do business elsewhere, and allow the market to impose a correction.
The Jets need to build on the infrastructure and add more assets and profit generating centers; it will allow the team to survive some lean years, and prosper in good times. The more TNSE adds to the portfolio, the longer the Jets look to stay. I willingly pay usurious rates for tickets and beers and merchandise, because that's the cost of the team staying in the smallest market in the league. If a Jets customer (not fan, as that is something entirely different) decides that beer is too expensive, or that the team needs to terminate the coach, it's up to the customer(s) to make all this known to the team through various methods. If you don't like the pricing, stop buying. If you don't like the coach, be vocal at games and in correspondence with the team. Write letters to the editor, call in the radio shows, contact the team - the onus is on the customer to criticize and complain.
Me? I want the team to stay. I've already purchased more merch from Jets2.0 in three years than I bought in the 24 years we had Jets1.0. We will buy season tickets as soon as they're offered, at whatever price. If I feel the team is not doing good by me, I will complain, loudly, repeatedly, to TNSE. That is my right, and obligation, as the customer.
But to complain about the Jets making a profit, or complaining about the organization's ventures into other businesses and teams is very short-sighted, in my view. The Jets need to be the equal or better of other teams, because the margin for error in a city this small is very narrow.
