Posted on 08/25/2021 9:50:07 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Tickets to the Saints/Jaguars game are outrageously cheap.
The Saints are playing the first game in the NFL to require fans to be vaccinated or provide a negative PCR COVID-19 test. What has that done to ticket prices for Monday night? Driven them straight into the ground.
According to Darren Rovell, some tickets on the secondary market are selling for less than $1 before fees.
https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/1429878891787821062
As of this moment, StubHub has tickets for as cheap as $6. So, while it’s not the lowest on the secondary market, they’re still absurdly cheap.
This is honestly insane. Imagine taking your entire family to an NFL game for less than $20. Preseason games are always cheap, but they’re not this cheap.
They’re not this cheap at all. This is happening because of coronavirus restrictions.
While I don’t want to sit and debate the vaccine, I will say that this is great news for vaccinated people. If you’re vaccinated, some sports games are apparently going to be shockingly cheap.
I seriously can’t believe this is real, but here we are. The Saints are demanding fans provide proof of a negative test or be vaccinated.
In response, the ticket market has utterly collapsed. For the price of a case of Busch Light, they might let you get out there and throw a pass at this point.
What an incredible situation unfolding in New Orleans. It should be fascinating to see if fans continue to stay away or if the market levels off. For the time being, hotdogs cost more than a ticket to the game.
You couldn’t pay me to attend an NFL game.
LSU has done the same thing. And if you look at their fan pages, they aren’t reporting it.
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/sports/lsu/article_9a8ac00e-04ec-11ec-a549-df7e6131e3cb.html
1963.
But when you add in the ticket broker fees, that $1 ticket will end up costing $77.50
Bye bye NFL. I wouldn’t go to a game for a buck
I’m continually amazed at the insane fads that my follow countrymen are capable of creating and following slavishly.
An insane wave is sweeping the country. Followers do not have the ability to think. They can only follow. It was hula hoops, cabbage patch dolls, some stupid rock, furbys, and countless other stupid fads that they went after, like insane fools.
All this over a vax that doesn’t protect against the strain that is the only one going around now.
Well, if you’re asking whether vaccine-hesitant people will change their minds for NFL tickets... probably not!
Requiring fans to be vaxxed is insane. Especially because the vax doesn’t protect against the major strain that’s going around now.
Saints fans can go retro and wear grocery sacks on their heads.
NFL’s “football is gay” ad was the stupidest marketing technique I’ve ever seen. Very few gays watch football.
I seem to recall Football Giants tickets going for fifty cents in the early 60s. (General Admission with a student GO card to the bleachers in Yankee Stadium)
ML/NJ
Fair enough, but my point was against the FReeper making it sound normal because it’s preseason.
I’m against anyone defending the NFL, though it’s certainly their right.
The day is approaching ... kickoff
Kickoff. Approach
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