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Jewish fans jolt Jets, NFL
Jewish fans may miss 25% of home games due to the scheduling snafu. The Jets called the NFL office Wednesday to complain about their first two home games of the 2009 season being scheduled for Rosh Hashanah and then hours before the start of Yom Kippur, the two holiest holidays in the Jewish calendar. The Giants requested the NFL put them on the road Sept. 20 and Sept. 27, the second and third weeks of the season. Apparently, the Jets also requested not to play at home on those days, but the message did not get through, Katz said. As a result, unless the league does some juggling, Jets ticket holders who observe the holidays will not be able to attend 25% of the team's home games. New York has the largest Jewish community in the country.
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is observed this year from sundown on Friday, Sept. 18 until sundown on Sunday, Sept. 20. The Jets are scheduled to play the Patriots at 1 p.m. on Sept. 20 in their home opener. Because of construction of the new stadium at the Meadowlands and the lack of parking, the league is precluded from scheduling any Monday or Thursday night games. An exception was made last year for the Giants' Thursday opener against the Redskins. Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, officially begins at sundown on Sunday, Sept. 27. The Giants are playing in Tampa at 1p.m. and the Jets are home against the Titans at 4:15 p.m. The logical solution would have been to put the Jets in the early game and the Giants in the late afternoon game, giving Jets fans time to get home before the start of Yom Kippur.

The NFL screwed up big time on this one. :frown1:


 

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If it were different then the Jewish Giants fans would miss a game or two. It just comes down to deciding which is more important: football or God? :biggrin1:
 

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You can't expect them to plan around religious stuff...
Why not? They have in the past. Why do you think games don't start at 11:00 AM on Sunday? Because church going Christians wouldn't be able to attend.

That's life in the big city...it's impossible to plan anything to fit everyone's needs.
See above, apparently this issue has not arisen in the past.


If it were different then the Jewish Giants fans would miss a game or two. It just comes down to deciding which is more important: football or God? :biggrin1:
Spoken like a true heathen heretic. :tongue:
 

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Why not? They have in the past. Why do you think games don't start at 11:00 AM on Sunday? Because church going Christians wouldn't be able to attend.

See above, apparently this issue has not arisen in the past.

Spoken like a true heathen heretic. :tongue:
Sorry...you do it for one then you have to do it for everyone!
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When the Wiccans, Buddhists, Hindis, and Muslims start buying season tickets en masse I'm sure the NFL will kowtow to them too.:cool:

I see your point, but I have been a Lawyer for too long...once you make a concession for one everyone else crawls out from under their rock and even if they have never even thought of attending a game and have no intention of ever attending they are going to take the system to task out of principle. (It's the same reason we have political and religious unrest) It starts with a ball game and escalates into "You did it for them...If you don't do it for me...then...Bottom line for me is..."It's a game, when it works for you to attend we welcome you." I am as sure as the day is long this decision was made with my points in mind.