The seats are all sold - there is an 8 year waiting list for Bears Season Tickets - 10 years for the Luxury Boxes. Good to see a half empty Soldier Field, but the NFL still gets the money.
Don’t bet on that right year waiting list staying there for long. A Freeper posting on another thread a few days ago said he’d been on the Washington Redskins waiting list for years, and he got a call from a team sales rep last week offering him a DISCOUNT if he signed up for next season.
but the big thing is it LOOKS horrible on tv and that is bad for the advertisers....and when things go bad for them, the money spent on advertising goes down and so do the profits and so do the salaries of these Neanderthals on the field..
I think we will see a gap in season ticket dropoff rates between the teams with long wait lists and the teams with no wait lists. Teams that are already begging fans to buy tickets will get hit hardest as their season ticket offering doesn’t have the whiff of exclusivity fans crave.
They may get the ticket sales in advance but if people don’t show up to buy beer, dogs, and sodas; there’s a huge loss there plus next year they may not get those sales in advance.
Wouldn’t it be great if all the players had to renegotiate their pay and they could only get $200k max unless they were a Quarterback, end, or running back? Someone who actually moves the ball downfield. Then again; would the line protect a Qback that wasn’t getting paid what they think they should?