{"id":376577,"date":"2025-12-29T21:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/376577\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T21:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:08:07","slug":"jets-fan-at-center-of-kicking-contest-controversy-missed-30-yard-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/376577\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets fan at center of kicking-contest controversy missed 30-yard try"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least the Jets fans who showed up for Sunday\u2019s 42-10 blowout loss to the Patriots had something to entertain them.<\/p>\n<p>During halftime, the team held a field-goal kicking contest that created headlines last week after the team tried to disqualify one of the finalists on a technicality.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Jets told Ashley Castanio-Gervasi that she could not participate due to the fact that she\u2019s a high-school soccer coach. After the story was reported by the New York Post, the Jets <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/jets-do-about-face-on-100-000-field-goal-contest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">did an about-face<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Castanio-Gervasi and three other fans attempted a 30-yard field goal. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/28\/us-news\/jets-super-fan-kicks-for-100k-challenge-after-invite-controversy-heres-how-she-did\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">She missed<\/a>. Only one of the contestants converted.<\/p>\n<p>The next step in the contest was a 40-yard field goal, for $100,000. The fan who converted from 30 missed the next try.<\/p>\n<p>So, in the end, the Jets saved their money. They lost an undetermined amount of goodwill along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least the Jets fans who showed up for Sunday\u2019s 42-10 blowout loss to the Patriots had something&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-376577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}