The official game book for Saturday’s night preseason game between the Redskins and Jets at Giants Stadium shows a paid attendance of 76,132.  The venue has a maximum seating capacity of 80,243.  (It’s 80,243 if you count Hoffa.)

But the actual number of folks in attendance apparently was far lower than that.  And Peter King of SI.com lets ‘em have it in his MMQB column.

“I don’t want to hear what great fans the Jets have,” King writes.  “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.”

We agree with everything he says.  Except that we would have used a term other than “horsefeathers” to express our dismay. 

Just offering some perspective to some folks, especially the FTU.