bitter financial squabble between Charter Communications and Walt Disney Co.“So now that the Jets have a hopeful team we’re in danger of not seeing opening night game because of the dispute between Disney and Spectrum?” NYC-based psychotherapist Michael Leiman raged on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Couldn’t they’ve had this fight when the Jets sucked & were never on Monday night?”Chris Santarelli, a Jets fan from the Upper East Side, was planning to watch the game — kickoff is at 8:15 — with his 3-week-old son Jack.“It’s a huge bummer for lifelong fans who’ve been looking forward to this game all summer,” said Santarelli, 34. “I don’t know if I’ve ever been as excited for a season.”The financial feud spurred Disney on Aug.
31 to pull ABC and ESPN — which both televise MNF — and its other channels from Charter-owned Spectrum’s pay-cable TV service, and the blackout has no end in sight.Longtime Jets fan Henry Feldstein, 70, of Forest Hills, said he’s considering sidelining Spectrum and switching to a paid streaming service because he’s fed up with the “greed” driving the blackout.The Jets last made the playoffs in 2010 — the longest drought of any team in any of the major sports.
Their only Super Bowl win was in 1969.“It’s terrible! The Jets [and their fans] are innocent bystanders. Finally, when people are interested in seeing us, they can’t see us!” fumed Feldstein, who plans to watch the game at Tropix Bar & Lounge in Rego Park.
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