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The New York Jets have filed a lawsuit complaining that the agency that runs the Meadowlands sports complex is improperly charging the Jets millions of dollars more for rent than it charges the New York Giants.
Since 1999, the Jets say in court papers, the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority has overcharged the team over $7.5 million to use Giants Stadium in East Rutherford as its home field.
The Jets say a clause in their lease bars the sports authority from charging the Giants less rent.
The Jets say their lease requires them to pay the authority 15 percent of stadium ticket sales as rent, but the agency is charging the Giants 10 percent of sales.
The suit also says the sports authority charged Arena Footbal League team, the Gladiators, less than 15 percent of ticket sales to play in the Continental Airlines Arena before the team moved to Las Vegas last year.
George Zoffinger, chief executive of the sports authority, said the Giants got a rent reduction in 1999 in exchange for a lease extension through the year 2026. He says the same offer was made to the Jets, but they turned it down.
Since 1999, the Jets say in court papers, the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority has overcharged the team over $7.5 million to use Giants Stadium in East Rutherford as its home field.
The Jets say a clause in their lease bars the sports authority from charging the Giants less rent.
The Jets say their lease requires them to pay the authority 15 percent of stadium ticket sales as rent, but the agency is charging the Giants 10 percent of sales.
The suit also says the sports authority charged Arena Footbal League team, the Gladiators, less than 15 percent of ticket sales to play in the Continental Airlines Arena before the team moved to Las Vegas last year.
George Zoffinger, chief executive of the sports authority, said the Giants got a rent reduction in 1999 in exchange for a lease extension through the year 2026. He says the same offer was made to the Jets, but they turned it down.