After winning just one game at home during one of the worst seasons in franchise history, the New York Giants will not be raising ticket prices for next season.
Season ticket plan and parking permit pricing will not change for the 2025 season, according to the letter obtained by NorthJersey.com and The Record that was sent to members with their annual invoices Wednesday.
The Giants finished with a 3-14 record, including a 10-game losing streak, in a disappointing campaign during which they were hoping for a far greater celebration and commemoration of the franchise’s 100th season. They currently hold the No. 3 selection in the 2025 NFL Draft.
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Giants co-owner and team president John Mara said he was dismayed and angered at times with how the season played out, but in announcing head coach Brian Daboll and general manager Joe Schoen would be returning on Jan. 6, he also expressed confidence that the organization was heading in the right direction despite their record.
“Nobody’s more frustrated and upset than I am. I appreciate the fact that they have hung in there with us,” Mara said in response to what his message was for the fans. “I get your frustration, I feel your pain, but I still believe this is the right decision for us going forward.”
The Giants are 18-32-1 in the three years since Schoen and Daboll were hired, and their arrival was widely praised.
The fact that it didn’t start out that way two years ago when Daboll and Schoen got here has been overshadowed greatly by what has transpired since. The last two seasons following a playoff victory in Minnesota – the Giants’ first since Super Bowl XLVI – have not gone as planned for the Giants, Mara acknowledged, yet it’s also far more complicated than those screaming to “clean house” are willing to admit, even if that is not a popular opinion from talking heads, loyal customers who commit hundreds and thousands of dollars for what has been an underwhelming product, or others just trying to get attention.
This became harder and harder for anyone to stomach, of course, with planes pulling banners over MetLife Stadium in two of the final three home games demanding that Mara “fire everyone” involved.
The stunts were organized by a select few, but championed by more, especially on social media and on sports talk radio shows, where yelling and screaming often overtake reasoning and patience, which the Giants have tested yet again.
“Listen, I didn’t need planes flying over me to tell me how upset the fans are,” Mara said. “That really didn’t have much of an effect. I get it, how upset they are. I try to respond, nobody was more upset than I am about how we’ve performed in recent years and I have to stand up here and take the heat for that.”
Schoen is the Giants’ third GM and Daboll their fourth head coach – fifth if you count Steve Spagnuolo’s four-game interim stint in 2017 – since Tom Coughlin’s exit following the 2015 season.
“Believe me, I understand it’s a bottom line business. You’re judged on what your record is, and our record is pretty lousy right now. I get that and I take responsibility for that,” Mara said. “But, again, when you make these changes, and God knows we’ve made them in the past and been impatient in the past. When you do that, you feel like you take one step forward, two steps back and I just didn’t want to fall into that cycle again. I wanted to give people a chance to build this thing the right way and to get us to where we need to be.”
