Posted on 09/23/2013 2:39:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
How much would you pay to see a Super Bowl?
Last week, the Journal's Matthew Futterman reported on the National Football League's plan to raise ticket prices for its upcoming New York/New Jersey Super Delicious Possibly Freezing Outdoor Snowfall (or Perhaps Sleet) Bowl. Actually, raise is too generous a word. Spike would work. Laugh uproariously as they hit you over the head with a sock full of $100 bills isn't bad, either. The best tickets at Met Life stadium for SB XLVIII next Feb. 2 may sell for as much as $2,600—more than double the rate of the highest-priced seats at last season's Super Bowl in New Orleans. However, I do believe this comes with free use of most stairwells and rest rooms.
You don't need me to tell you that this is a ridiculous amount for one seat. For $2,600 you could fly yourself and a friend to Paris and stuff your face at Le Chateaubriand. You could charter a sailboat in the Caribbean, stare into the night sky and contemplate the meaning of the Jacksonville Jaguars. You could buy 10,400 25-cent gum balls. You could also not spend the $2,600 on a ticket to a football game, which is the advice my prudent father-in-law would surely give.
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The more I thought about it, the more I wondered why football should be charging anybody to go to this game. The Super Bowl is inarguably a massive global extravaganza—a hundred million domestic television viewers, many million more worldwide, a complimentary halftime sing-along with a contemporary entertainer. In the United States it is essentially a holiday. Everybody watches the game. Sponsors and networks shove each other out of the way to write big checks and get involved. The game is a license to print money. Tickets at the stadium
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In a strange way she was right but for the wrong reason. Katrina wasn't an especially strong storm. The disaster was caused by building most of a city below sea level and not building adequate levees to keep the sea out. Bush and globull warming had nothing to do with it.
His plan didn’t give an opening to scalpers. The tickets won in the lottery would only be fore the name of the person who entered. If that person didn’t show up, no dice, and the tickets would go to the next person picked in the lottery. I don’t know how realistic that is logistically.
She didn’t say any of that, though. She blamed the very existence of Katrina on Bush’s global warming policies.
The only Super Bowls I’ve watched in the last twenty years were the ones the Packers were in. So much for everybody watches the stupid games.
I don’t remember her saying that. Who was the person who said Karl Rove deliberately caused Katrina by detonating nuclear bombs on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico?
What a pathetic whiner.
“I wouldn’t go even if it were free.”
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I would not go if they paid me. I do not even watch it on TV.
Big deal...watching a bunch of big doofuses bash into each other.
How much would they pay me to watch is the question? The NFL is just an extension of the left’s social engineering....has been for a while now.
The “best seat in the house”, is still in front of your TV.
It’s news pages are just as liberal as the rest, its op-ed page can be interesting though
Anyway, the Super Bowl for me is mostly an unpleasant experience. All the wives are suddenly interested because they want to see the commercials (which are almost always horrid anyhow) and then you have to sit there and explain the game to them. "What's a cornerback?" "What does 3rd and goal mean?" "Why do field goals count as three points?" And all the junk food...bowls of chips and pretzels and goopy stuff that you don't know what it is. Everybody sticking their grubby hands in the bowls of food and little pieces of chip falling on the rug and between the cushions on the couch. Gets me nauseous just thinking about it.
I'm taking the dog for a walk. A very long walk. And I don't care how cold it is outside.
What is “conservative” about expecting free stuff?
The Wall Street Journal should be free!/s
Anyway, the Super Bowl for me is mostly an unpleasant experience. All the wives are suddenly interested because they want to see the commercials (which are almost always horrid anyhow) and then you have to sit there and explain the game to them. “What’s a cornerback?” “What does 3rd and goal mean?” “Why do field goals count as three points?” And all the junk food...bowls of chips and pretzels and goopy stuff that you don’t know what it is. Everybody sticking their grubby hands in the bowls of food and little pieces of chip falling on the rug and between the cushions on the couch. Gets me nauseous just thinking about it.
I’m taking the dog for a walk. A very long walk. And I don’t care how cold it is outside.
P.S. Kept the sound turned up for the parade. Chris Collinsworth wasn’t there.
Barry has just appointed a new NFL czar. His first action is to rename all the NFL teams. Redskins is a racist term and will be renamed ‘Muzzies’ for the ROP. Giants will be renamed the ‘Dwarfs’. The Vikings, the Raiders, the Buccaneers the Cowboys, and the Patriots are all violent racist names and will be called the ‘Aborters’, the ‘Libs’, the ‘Feminists’ , the ‘Liars’ and the ‘Occpiers’.
Your disdain for the “flagship newspaper of American capitalism” is noted. The question remains, why is the NFL the precise opposite of a “flagship sports league of American capitalism?”
I used to have season tickets when the Colts were in Baltimore. I’ll never forget at one game my brother said...
“You don’t have to adjust the color.”
Might be the most intellegent thing he ever said.
As I have sworn off watching the NFL, my response is who give’s a rat’s @SS?
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