{"id":110553,"date":"2025-12-28T03:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T03:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/110553\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T03:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T03:47:12","slug":"jets-pull-100k-kick-for-cash-spot-after-e-rockaway-fan-qualified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/110553\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets pull $100K \u201cKick for Cash\u201d spot after E. Rockaway fan qualified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <a href=\"https:\/\/greaterlongisland.com\/jets-pull-100k-kick-for-cash-spot-after-e-rockaway-fan-already-qualified\/\" alt=\"Jets pull $100K \u201cKick for Cash\u201d spot after E. Rockaway fan already qualified\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n        <img width=\"1095\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jets-halftime-100000-kick-Long-Island-woman.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid mb-4 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>      <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Update: <a href=\"https:\/\/greaterlongisland.com\/jets-reverse-course-allow-east-rockaway-fan-to-kick-in-kick-for-cash-promotion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jets reverse course, allow East Rockaway fan to kick in \u2018Kick for Cash\u2019 promotion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than a dozen family members had planned to attend Sunday\u2019s game to cheer her on.<\/p>\n<p>If another terrible season on the field wasn\u2019t bad enough, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/teams\/new-york-jets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jets<\/a> have now yanked away what was supposed to be a once-in-a-lifetime holiday moment for a longtime fan from East Rockaway.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley Castanio-Gervasi \u2014 a lifelong Jets fan, season ticket holder and the girls varsity soccer coach at Long Beach High School \u2014 was set to compete in the team\u2019s \u201cKick for Cash\u201d challenge at MetLife Stadium during halftime of this Sunday\u2019s game against New England. The contest, sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/advertisers.mediaradar.com\/hellmanns-advertising-profile#:~:text=Summary,in%20the%20past%20twelve%20months.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hellmann\u2019s<\/a>, carries a top prize of $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Castanio-Gervasi was told she was no longer eligible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just insane,\u201d she told Greater Long Island.<\/p>\n<p>According to Castanio-Gervasi, the issue stems from contest rules that allegedly prohibit participants with recent organized soccer or football coaching experience. The 33-year-old said she disclosed her coaching background early in the process and was never told it would disqualify her \u2014 until right before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>As GLI <a href=\"https:\/\/greaterlongisland.com\/e-rockaway-woman-could-win-100000-on-a-single-jets-halftime-kick\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously reported<\/a>, Castanio-Gervasi earned her spot in the contest by successfully kicking a 20-yard field goal during a Jets fan competition in the Tailgate Zone ahead of the team\u2019s game against the Carolina Panthers. A former Division I soccer goalie at Stony Brook University, she was the only woman to qualify for the final round.<\/p>\n<p>More than a dozen family members had planned to attend Sunday\u2019s game to cheer her on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy students and athletes are ecstatic,\u201d she told GLI earlier this week. \u201cKids in the hallways are always asking me about it. The whole school is excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The moment carried even deeper meaning. Castanio-Gervasi had planned to donate a portion of any winnings to the Esophageal Cancer Education Foundation in memory of her father, Frank.<\/p>\n<p>Castanio-Gervasi said she is now in discussions with the Jets to see if anything can be done, though she does not yet know what that might look like. Regardless of the outcome, she said her family has decided to sell their tickets to this weekend\u2019s game rather than attend. It will be the first Jets home game she\u2019s missed in years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Update: Jets reverse course, allow East Rockaway fan to kick in \u2018Kick for Cash\u2019 promotion More than a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[59259,38742,131,133,132,6434],"class_list":["post-110553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-e-rockaway","tag-east-rockaway","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-new-york-jets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}