Posted on 09/21/2017 7:41:55 AM PDT by C19fan
Thursday night's Rams-49ers game may be the toughest sell in the history of Levi's Stadium. As of Wednesday, resale tickets were being offered on StubHub for as low as $14 to see the team host the Los Angeles Rams at 7 p.m. That price is just cheaper than buying a pair of $7.50 pretzels through the Levi's Stadium app and comparable to the price of a beer and a hot dog at the the three-year-old arena. According to the team's seat licensing map, the cheapest original face value for any seat is $85.
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I used to go to the restaurant that had the bbq concession at Candlestick. They cooked their meat the old-fashioned way, over smokie mesquite. Melt-in-your-mouth meaty goodness.
I hope they have the concession at Levi.
The thieving, rent-seeking bastards don't give a tinker's damn about 'families'.
Hee!
+1
LOL.
There will be many empty seats tonight.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
As Former Niner fans, we will watch a couple of Doc Martin episodes on our no more Comcast cable tv set enjoying the monthly savings of over $100 per month, after cutting our Comcast cable.
We will laugh and enjoy the Doc Martin show even more, because we went to Sling TV Blue which does not include ESPN/Disney channels.
So, these elite left wing liberal Former Niners and LA Ewes owners will not get an automatic monthly cut from our Sling TV bill.
ESPN/Disney were the probable main culprits in our two $25 monthly increases in our Comcast bill driving it over $255/month in 6 months this year.
$crewing ESPN/Disney/Comcast elite left wing owners and $aving over !00 $’s month is very enjoyable.
” I will probably just take a look to see how empty Levi Stadium is.”
Let us know!
With our cut/sliced/cast out cable system, we will not even go there for a few seconds.
Dilbert San Diego wrote:
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Maybe it’s too much, to have expanded to Thursday night football. Is it possible to saturate the market with NFL football?
I don’t know about ratings for a better matchup with marquee teams on a Thursday night. But maybe overall there’s just too much, which can cause erosion of the ratings. How much football can America watch?
So we have Thursday night football, some college games on Friday nights, college games all day Saturday, NFL games all day Sunday, including Sunday night football. Then there’s Monday night football.
Maybe it’s all too much.
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I agree. For decades, the NFL had mastered the art of leaving fans wanting more. When the scheduled games all took place on Sunday, with the exception of the lone Monday night game, it built up tremendous fan anticipation and excitement from week to week.
But then the league, team owners, and TV networks wanted to keep increasing profits and eventually spread out the schedule to cover Thursday nights, Saturday nights (once the college football season is over), and sometimes a double-header on Monday nights. Couple this with increasingly “thuggish” and criminal player conduct on and off the field, constant and annoying rulebook changes and protocols, and the ever increasing infusion of leftist politics and political correctness into the NFL (and even its TV commercial ads) in general, this once wonderfully run organization has “jumped the shark” and fans are finally starting to turn away in droves. As long as the NFL continues to bury its head in the sand and refuses to acknowledge and address its real problems, then I hope this mass exodus of viewership continues.
The difference is that the Pretzels are worth the price.
Gonna watch the new Gotham and Orville tonight...saw 2 games so far and won’t watch any where any player sits/takes a knee during the Anthem...
Dr. Sivana wrote:
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Thursday Night Football was a bad idea. The only Thursday football we should ever see is on Thanksgiving. The ratings are gonna stink for this one.
Yup. First it was Sunday afternoons 1PM starts in each time zone (except for a handful of games on Saturday after college season ended).
Then they added Monday Night Football. Fine. It’s like what Friday Night Fights used to be, and a way to see teams you don’t see in your local market.
Then Sunday Night Football and Thursday Night Football, and expanded playoffs, 12 teams instead of 8. Besides the extra week of playoffs and a net +4 new teams, the BYE week and the expanded schedule made the season 20 weeks long instead of 17.
Then NFL ticket, satellites, NFL Network and the Internet came along so you could see ALL the games, not just a local game or two, and a game of the week. Instead of NFC on CBS, AFC on NBC, and MNF on ABC...FOX, ESPN, NFLN, Amazon, Twitter(!) and more I don’t know about get added to the mix.
Can we say OVEREXPOSURE?
And that is besides the Kapernick-type garbage, that is a catalyst to make the whole thing crumble. They had me at the pink socks, and this year men kissing on NFL PSAs.
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I think you summed this whole thing up even better than I did in my previous post. Overexposure, without a doubt. And a growing number of fans are simply sick and tired of being insulted by all the P.C. garbage constantly being shoved in our faces.
I’m now openly rooting for the league’s decline to continue.
Let’s see.... either stay home and watch a declining sport or go out (for $3 per person) to see our local Jr. College’s soccer team play... a team that averages 21.5 wins per season and JUST got their 600th win in 29 seasons under only ONE head coach, won 7 national championships and has a winnign percentage at 90%... all from a “podunk” town 100 miles from the nearest “big city”.
tough call... which is more fun?
For those of you soccer haters, no need to reply, you’ve been heard already.
Here’s where I think the problem began in earnest. In 1975, NFL football was already the nation’s #1 sport. Like all televised sports, there was no expectation of drawing anything but MEN watching the games. It was understood that the ladies would watch a movie on another channel on Sunday afternoons, chat with friends, indulge in hobbies or whatever. If lucky, a few wives would watch to share the experience with their husbands.
THEN, it became about more than just the game. It became the SPECTACLE. The disease of “professional” cheerleaders spread from Dallas to Chicago to Los Angeles and elsewhere (yes, women like seeing the cheerleaders, too, but not in the same way).
Special interest backstories became more than “Dang, look at Jim Brown run over those tacklers. Look at John Capelleti move the whole defensive line! Look at Unitas thread the needle!”
TV graphics, girl hostesses on the NFL Today (first Phyllis George, then Jayne Kennedy who read scores backwards), moved the NFL away from its natural domain.
At some point, the audience to the Super Bowl expanded dramatically by building up the story line and moving the game to the evening (Cowboys/Broncos), and a little after that the commercials became events in and of themselves. Now everyone including women and kids getting involved was as American as Trick or Treating on Halloween.
And there was more money.
And the players wanted their cut.
It was always a business. But when it became a voracious business relying on unencumbered growth, decay in the game experience became inevitable.
The PC came along the way, as NO ONE can be alienated. Innocent words by Jimmy the Greek and Howard Cosell meant their end. While ideally no groups could be offended, the most easily lost eyeballs (the women) and the organized ones that can create bigger problems (Operation PUSH types), will have to be placated first. The guys who were there all along, the middle-aged guy with a Budweiser or Miller Lite on one side and some Lays Potato Chips on the other, the NFL assumed he would stay put, because he was the before it became a spectacle.
Here’s where I think the problem began in earnest. In 1975, NFL football was already the nation’s #1 sport. Like all televised sports, there was no expectation of drawing anything but MEN watching the games. It was understood that the ladies would watch a movie on another channel on Sunday afternoons, chat with friends, indulge in hobbies or whatever. If lucky, a few wives would watch to share the experience with their husbands.
THEN, it became about more than just the game. It became the SPECTACLE. The disease of “professional” cheerleaders spread from Dallas to Chicago to Los Angeles and elsewhere (yes, women like seeing the cheerleaders, too, but not in the same way).
Special interest backstories became more than “Dang, look at Jim Brown run over those tacklers. Look at John Capelleti move the whole defensive line! Look at Unitas thread the needle!”
TV graphics, girl hostesses on the NFL Today (first Phyllis George, then Jayne Kennedy who read scores backwards), moved the NFL away from its natural domain.
At some point, the audience to the Super Bowl expanded dramatically by building up the story line and moving the game to the evening (Cowboys/Broncos), and a little after that the commercials became events in and of themselves. Now everyone including women and kids getting involved was as American as Trick or Treating on Halloween.
And there was more money.
And the players wanted their cut.
It was always a business. But when it became a voracious business relying on unencumbered growth, decay in the game experience became inevitable.
The PC came along the way, as NO ONE can be alienated. Innocent words by Jimmy the Greek and Howard Cosell meant their end. While ideally no groups could be offended, the most easily lost eyeballs (the women) and the organized ones that can create bigger problems (Operation PUSH types), will have to be placated first. The guys who were there all along, the middle-aged guy with a Budweiser or Miller Lite on one side and some Lays Potato Chips on the other, the NFL assumed he would stay put, because he was the before it became a spectacle.
Many empty seats you MAY (or may not) see are those of
the more conservative fan base. Unlike liberals we
do not like nor tolerate mixing politics with our sports.
And, we don’t consider the Anthem as a political song.
The TV cameras don’t like to show empty seats at games
but if they do and you FReepers tune in take it to
heart that there are more conservative Californians
than the media and some of our Cali hating FRiends
would like to admit. You’ll know the conservatives
by their absence. Don’t buy into the notion that the
seats are empty only because the teams are bad. The
49er faithful attended games in tough times before.
Thank you Colin Kapernick.
Your efforts allow poor people to buy a ticket to see a football game
The SJW pollution of a non-political product wouldn't have been enough on its own, at least not this quickly, but it does look to have compounded the problem. They're making it easier for the customer to say No when faced with the prospect of spending X amount of money for Y entertainment. You never, ever want to make it easy for the customer to say No. Marketing 101.
A brand in decline needs to be rejuvenated, and it won't be by turning the players into political hipsters. I get the impression that certain influential voices (coughcoughESPNcough) felt that promoting social justice on the field would actually improve the product's attractiveness. The customers disagree. Obviously.
LOL!
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