But now, if we want to maintain the privilege (and sometimes burden) of owning those tickets, we must quickly answer several questions. Are we willing to pay the up-front cost for a personal seat license required just for the right to keep buying our seats? How many thousands of dollars will we pay after adding that to the newly increased per-game ticket prices? Couldn't I just stay at home in the city and enjoy one of the many fine restaurants just down the street with better food that will have the game on TV, saving time and money? If we don't answer these questions in the next few weeks, we forfeit our future rights to the Jets season tickets.

My wife's family faces an even tougher choice. My father-in-law Mark has shared two seats to Giants games with his good friend since the early 1960s, when they played at Yankee Stadium. Each year, the two of them split the home games. A small community formed within their section, with other fans also attending games for decades. Two elderly section neighbors who have gone to games longer than Mark have opted to give up their seats because they can't afford them.

Mark's co-subscriber has no appetite for the seat license or the price increases either, so Mark must now shoulder the costs by himself. One of my wife's cousins may step in and pay $5,000 for one seat license and the associated season tickets. But the original seats remain in the name of the family friend, so Mark must also jump through the bureaucratic hoop of transferring the seats into his name.

My wife and I still don't know how we fit into all this. Do we contribute to the Jets and Giants tickets? How many and which games for which team should we attend? I'll root for the Giants out of regional loyalty and support for my wife, but I would prefer to keep the Jets tickets. Either way, will I have better things to do than trek out to the Meadowlands on a Sunday afternoon or Monday night or whatever random day of the week they now play football games? On the other hand, will my desire for these tickets change as my son grows older and can attend games with me?

I have no answers. But I need some soon. Mark, or someone, must pay the Giants' seat license by Friday. And the sale for Jets seats in an area of the new stadium equivalent to our current seats starts soon after that.

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Are Meadowlands seats worth the squeeze?
I'm lucky I get to see as much football as I do. My family owns season tickets for the New York Jets and my father-in-law shares two season tickets to the New York Giants. The only downside to this arrangement until now has been the utter chaos of the Giants Stadium parking lot and the slow ride home from New Jersey after games. The Wall Street Journal