Mark Chipman says he's seen the buzz about the team's less-than-impressive attendance at recent home games, but wants fans to know Jets ownership are in it for the long haul.
, who says he’s seen the buzz about the team’s less-than-impressive attendance at recent home games, but wants fans to know“We had 10 years of sellouts, and we had two tough years on the back of a global pandemic,” Chipman told 680 CJOB’s“That doesn’t equate to, ‘Oh, we’re not sure if this works anymore’. What it means is we’ve got work to do to get people back — and we’ve spent a lot of time doing that.
“This team is not going to move. That ad was not intended to suggest that the team is going to move. If we were to do it over again, I guess we could’ve not used those images, and I apologize if it offended anybody,” Chipman said.“I got into this because of the team leaving. I spent a couple of years of my life working with a lot of people to keep the team here in the first place, and it was that basis upon which we set out to bring a team back.
“The other thing we really learned was how few businesses hold season ticket accounts relative to our counterparts across the country. We’re at about 15 per cent, the next lowest is about 45 per cent — that’s not pointing the finger at the business community, that’s more a function of how we went on sale.
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