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Posted on 12/11/2017 5:52:03 AM PST by Bon of Babble
"... tickets for Sunday’s matchup between the Buffalo Bills and Indianapolis Colts sold for as little as $2. (Yes, you read that right.) Even the stadium’s best seats — in the lower part of the stadium near the 50-yard-line — were selling for just $29. […]
Tickets for the Carolina Panthers game went for a little as $7, while fans could see the Green Bay Packers for as cheap as $12.
Tickets to see the Dallas Cowboys later this month are going for as little as $10,
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Maybe they should start taking EBT cards to increase attendance
On the other hand, I believe that it is possible that some people paid so much money up front for their tickets, travel and accommodations to attend a game, that just shit-canning all of it is just too hard to do.
That was the dilemma that our family faced in October to attend the Packers & Saints game in Green Bay. The trip was planned and paid for, far in advance and we decided to suck it up and go. After that, the NFL is a non-entity in our home and will remain so for the duration.
I think that the Empty Stadium phenomenon will become even bigger in the coming months when the renewals for the 2018 season begin.
Not that they will admit. Goodell was just on CNBC and actually said, “The concessions are so nice now that people are not in their seats.”
He thinks we are so stupid to believe that the stands aren’t really empty, it’s just that everybody’s getting a beer at the same time. Unreal.
UN believable.
Who is selling these tickets? Is it the clubs/stadium owners themselves, 3rd party purchasers
who bought to resell, individuals who can’t go for some reason or the other, etc?
Granted, sparse stadium attendance is an embarrassing image problem, but it’s secondary to the TV audience. How many are tuning out?
Sure they got the message. Owners: “$100 million isn’t enough to quell the unrest. We need to up our donation to $500 million to the support the causes of the racist, cop-hating, America-hating thugs. That’ll patch things up with the disgruntled fans.”
Then you would need to provide free transport, too. Or force Uber to also take EBT.
I would be looking for another game to play.
They can play baseball or ride bikes in France or even kick a round ball around where you get penalized for touching it with their hands.
OR
they can go get a real job and support their families the way millions of others of us do it daily.
I have to admit.
I actually tuned into the Bills game for a few minutes to laugh at them playing in the lake effect snow.
Not that I should be laughing too hard.
We’re got a winter storm warning for lake effect for tonight through Wed afternoon.
And the majority of these haters don't watch football
Check out the other games and stadiums from yesterday.
Additionally, did you see the Army Navy game on Saturday? It was snowing there, as well. Packed stadium.
No, or maybe not yet. We're heading into colder weather - which tended to weed out all but the die-hard fans anyway. Also, as teams get eliminated from playoff possibilities "fair weather" fans tended to drift away anyway.
Well, they've already stripped down to just the die-hard fans already. So they probably don't expect things to get much worse. In fact, they're probably counting on playoff games to pack in more attendance and better TV audiences -- we'll see about that.
They've thrown a couple of appeasement attempts and a few million dollars at the issue. Yes I know, wrong approach but they are too {expletive} stupid to realize that -- yet. I'll bet you they have their left-leaning ad-men, oh, pardon me, ad-women, no, er... ad-non-gender-specific-nor-assuming-pronoun wankers and PR types working on plans for next season right now.
No-doubt the limp-wristed crowd is telling the owners how wonderful this opportunity is to expand their customer base beyond their historical demographic. They'll be planning all kinds of promotions and tie-ins to re-brand the NFL and make their fans feel good about being fans...
The upshot is, even if the anthem protests and blatant ingratitude and disrespect didn't turn you off from the NFL this year - what they're probably planning on doing to it next year definitely will...if you're part of their traditional fan demographic. They apparently think they don't need us.
Ticket prices are worth mentioning but TV viewership,TV ad revenue and sweat shirt/jersey sales are even more important.
You bet!
You assume the vendors are some how better than the rest.
The vendors are part and parcel of the antiAmerican charade. No tears for the vendors. They should shut up shop and stay home
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Army-Navy is a special event that has attracted national attention for more than 100 years. You’d get a huge crowd at the Kentucky Derby even in the pouring rain.
Eff the nfl forever.
When will there be salary cuts to the thug millionaire players...?
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