Hey, Peter King, lighten up. It’s a fucking pre-season game, dude: From this week’s MMQB:
4. I think I don’t want to hear what great fans the Jets have. Not for a long time. That crowd Saturday night was a disgrace. At least half the stadium was empty for Favre’s debut in a Jets’ uniform. I expressed my amazement to a few fellow scribes Saturday night — emphasizing that N.Y. traded for an all-time-great quarterback, not a broken-down one — and they gave varying reasons for the poor turnout. Like it’s the middle of vacation month for New Yorkers, and it’s a preseason game. Horsefeathers. If you really love your team, and you have season tickets, you should have been at that game unless you were in Tibet. Ridiculous.
So let me get this straight: if you are a Jets season ticket holder, you should have dropped what you were doing, braved the god-awful traffic or trains in the Tri-State area just to get there in time to see Brett Favre play two series — not a full quarter, just TWO SERIES — because you’re not really serious fans otherwise?
Considering the Jets are going the Personal Seat Licenses route for its new shared stadium with the Giants (and it’s still in Jersey), plus the fact that there[‘s no guarantee a 39-year old quarterback (despite being a living legend) will get them to the playoffs (I don’t have ’em winning a Wild Card, do you?), I’d say a half full stadium for an ultimately meaningless game is what most NFL teams should be content with until the season kicks off.
King’s just surprised that the ticket-buying public isn’t going to go down on Favre as vigorously as he does in print just because he got traded to their team.
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Signal to Noise 
A) When have you ever heard from anybody “Wow those Jets have the absolute best fans”? I’m a massive Jet fan and most of the time I think my collective fanbase is pathetic at best.
B) He played two damn series in a meaningless game. I forced the restaurant I was at to put it on, and when he was out I tuned off the game. It’s preseason football, sure I wanted to see Favre but after that I completely don’t care and there’s no F’n way you’re getting me to drive all an hour and a half from CT down to Jersey to watch two series when I can watch it on television just fine.