Posted on 01/06/2014 1:09:19 PM PST by Dave346
Prices on the resale market of some tickets have dipped below the face values of $325 (for end zone seats) and $385 (yard lines), making it one of the cheapest championship games to attend.
As of 8:30 a.m. ET Monday, nearly 1,000 tickets to the game were selling below face value, according to TiqIQ, a ticket-market data provider.
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What is it with you and the track, dude? NO stadiums have tracks anymore…..
I don’t think the rose bowl is gently sloped.
Because half the stadium is below ground level, they could do a lot of things to get the upper level fans close without expensive support structures or using an upper deck.
The lack of luxury boxes also keeps things compact.
I got used to Ohio stadium which had a track until the mid 90’s.
Stanford Stadium used to have a track until the late 90’s.
The slope is gentle, obvious to the eye….and while the luxury box issue is valid, the lack of an upper deck actually means many seats are farther away from the field than many seats in the newer stadiums. The Rose Bowl stadium is a great old classic stadium, but it has been surpassed in many ways by the newer stadiums, and does not compete in the TV era for fan experience for maybe 25 thousand of the 92 thousand seats it holds.
Almost no stadiums today have tracks - like I said, Duke and Kansas are the only two I can think of….and Duke is removing theirs.
I doubt Stanford Stadium too….the way it’s configured, there’s no way.
Ok. Stanford stadium had a track until 2006.
“Stanford Stadium is an outdoor athletic stadium on the Stanford University campus. It is the home of the Stanford Cardinal college football team. It originally opened in 1921 as a football and track stadium, an earthen horseshoe with wooden bleacher seating and flooring upon a steel frame. Its original seating capacity was 60,000, which grew to 89,000 by 1927 as a nearly enclosed bowl. Immediately following the 2005 season, the stadium was demolished and rebuilt as a dual-deck concrete structure, without a track.”
You’re dealing with a stadium geek here….and I’ve done lots of research on the way tracks ruin football atmopheres…in college and high school. The current Stanford Stadium has never had a track…..as I said. As for Ohio Stadium, if it did, it was long ago removed as the seats in that place are extremely close to the bench areas.
The point is, not having a track around the field as a selling point for the Rose Bowl fan experience is an idea long long long past its sell by date.
SEC vs. ACC wow, too much excitement.
Ohio stadium had a track until 2001.
“Beginning in 2000, the stadium was renovated and expanded in several phases, removing the track and adding additional seating, which raised the capacity to 101,568 by 2001. Since 2007, the capacity is listed at 102,329, though crowds above 105,000 are common. It is the largest stadium by capacity in the state of Ohio, the fourth largest football stadium in the United States, and the seventh largest non-racing stadium in the world. Ohio Stadium “
Both teams have a more localized fan base. Who wants to pay to see The Little Sister Bowl.
Both teams had good seasons. I’ll be watching.
Been to 3 Rose Bowl games, 1 Freedom Bowl and the Orange Bowl. I have never had a bad seat in he Rose Bowl. The “old” Orange Bowl stadium might have looked great on TV but it was a rusty relic back then.
My advice to anyone that ever wants to attend a bowl game is show up right before kick off and buy one from a scalper.
Back in 1985 (UW vs. Oklahoma) I attended the Orange Bowl and already had my ticket that I had paid $47 for through the UW. When I got there I bought a 50 yd. line seat for $1. This was the first time a Pac 10 team had been invited to play there and there were only 57,000 in attendance. Made it a true “two-fer” weekend because I was able to scalp a ticket to the Seahawk-Dolphins playoff game while I was there.
I am here to tell you that those Sooner gals were some pretty good sports too after the game and they love a winner!
I did that again in 1993 at the Rose Bowl. UW vs. Michigan
They finally removed the track and the “limited vision” seating at Husky Stadium during the renovation that was completed prior to this season.
I used to run laps in my youth for fitness.
I did it at my old high school track.
I did it at Stanford, Ohio State and Maryland.
While tracks are bad for football fans, they are good for the students who get to run laps there.
Maybe some drunk female Auburn mom will do a flying squirrel act on some FSU frat boys.
F-S-U.....F-S-U....
Where the girls are girls...
And the guys are too.
Or rapists.
Oh, wait.....never mind.
I am joking but my point is that they couldnt get two teams further from their fan base than these two. And its likely that neither has ever played in a stadium this big unless Neyland is bigger.
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