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To: 11th_VA
I'd say overpriced tickets and a mediocre (at best) team are a bigger factor, based on my own experience.

The New York Giants used to have a waiting list for season tickets that stretched out for decades (not just years). Fans would put their children's names on the list in the hopes that they might get to the top of the list by the time they were adults.

That's all gone now. Once they built the new stadium in the Meadowlands and forced their fans to pay thousands of dollars for "personal seat licenses" in order to buy tickets, the waiting list disappeared. You can now buy single-game tickets for a Giants game -- something that was unheard-of in the old stadium since it opened in 1976, and prior to that in Yankee Stadium back to the late 1950s.

35 posted on 09/08/2014 4:07:05 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("What in the wide, wide world of sports is goin' on here?")
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To: Alberta's Child

Jerry wants $75 dollar to park if you tailgate.


38 posted on 09/08/2014 4:10:03 PM PDT by mylife
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