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Athletic stadiums try to boost attendance by offering up cheaper food prices
openpaper ^ | Sept. 9, 2018 | staff

Posted on 09/09/2018 12:40:15 PM PDT by Eddie01

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To: Eddie01

Yeah, cuz I would go to a football stadium expecting high-quality, low-cost “food.”


41 posted on 09/09/2018 2:12:18 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: Jeff Chandler

Went to a Tacoma Rainiers game this summer, hot dogs were $8 each.


42 posted on 09/09/2018 2:23:04 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Free tickets

I imagine a large percentage of attendees are there solely because of company tickets and parking passes

Sports has priced many of its fans out of the market I wouldn’t dare pay these prices nowadays and haven’t for a long time. It’s much better to watch COLLEGE sports from the comfort and convenience (and COST) at home


43 posted on 09/09/2018 2:41:46 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Moderates/Independents/Non-voters" Are DIMS REALLY who you'd want BACK in POWER?)
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To: Eddie01

Less and less (normal, productive) people are going to go to things like this. Just part and parcel of living in low trust, multicultural societies.


44 posted on 09/09/2018 2:45:24 PM PDT by riri
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To: Getready
Cant be a fan of COLLEGE football and USC if you get my drift. Maybe a FAN of SEMIPRO football. Not singling out USC....almost all big schools are semipro teams...

Well, there's still Occidental College, from which my screen name comes. Although they last beat USC in 1918, the Oxy Tigers still have a winning record over UCLA--that is, if you count the years when UCLA was called California Normal School of Los Angeles. However, in recent years, the Tigers have fallen on hard times. Last year, they cancelled the football season because they couldn't recruit enough players.

45 posted on 09/09/2018 2:45:55 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Eddie01

We always just bring our food and drinks to the game. No problem.


46 posted on 09/09/2018 2:50:18 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I NEVER eat or drink at games,movies,or theater.

If it was free I wouldn’t do it.

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47 posted on 09/09/2018 2:50:31 PM PDT by Mears
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To: A_Former_Democrat

We can watch two games in one day for only ¥1500. We get a great deal here.


48 posted on 09/09/2018 2:53:32 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed

Bingo!


49 posted on 09/09/2018 3:04:02 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Eddie01

$2,500 can get you a great huge TV with surround sound. Another 1500 for theater or reclining seats, and you are set for 5-6years


50 posted on 09/09/2018 3:12:45 PM PDT by WASCWatch
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To: Eddie01

Movie theaters should try this!


51 posted on 09/09/2018 3:14:05 PM PDT by TruthWillWin ([MSM])
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To: WASCWatch

I have a big-screen TV, but I rarely use it. I watch almost everything on my laptop.


52 posted on 09/09/2018 3:14:16 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Eddie01
If they offered edible food at a reasonable price it would be better.
53 posted on 09/09/2018 3:23:13 PM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: Eddie01

It’s easy:

Make “One felony AND one paternity suit” no-hire rule:

The problem will go away and fans will come back, eventually.


54 posted on 09/09/2018 3:47:03 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Eddie01
The Cleveland Indians do this on Friday nights: up until the national anthem is sung, dollar dogs and 2 dollar beer. If you call Miller lite beer.
55 posted on 09/09/2018 3:55:32 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: Eddie01

As long as there is tailgate partying and beer in the stadium, the cucks will continue to show up.


56 posted on 09/09/2018 3:55:42 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Old Yeller
As long as there is tailgate partying and beer in the stadium, the cucks will continue to show up.

Referring to the Neelers Football League, of course.
57 posted on 09/09/2018 3:58:23 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Fiji Hill
and disco and heavy-metal music played over the PA system that drowns out the school bands on the field

And drowns out any ability to think and enjoy the game.

Last baseball game I went to, about three years ago, they were playing different obnoxious clips at volume 11 between every pitch. I understand trying to get the crowd pumped up, but this was just stupid.

58 posted on 09/09/2018 4:02:51 PM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
Older die-hard fans are dying off. Millennials and younger fans don’t like the idea of fighting crowds to get to an arena or stadium, much less waste 4 hours of their time to watch the event and actually focus on it.

I went to a lot of games at Fenway Park in my younger days when I was growing up in Boston. I would say during the 1974-80 period I must have seen 200 games easy. Back then, you could afford a ticket on paper route money, hot dogs were still 75 cents and when they went to $1.25 one year, people howled!

Anyway, people focused on the game. I always bought a program and pencil and scored every pitch. Many others did the same. There was very little getting up once the game began. I remember when my father first started taking me, he told me to get what I needed before the first pitch because we weren't getting up again until the game was over!

I've gone just a few times over the past 10 years and once thing I notice is hardly anybody pays attention to the game and people are getting up constantly to get this or that at the concession and constantly texting on their phones. It seems that people can't go more than an hour without shoving things into their mouths and they can't go more than five minutes without burying themselves in their cell phones.

59 posted on 09/09/2018 4:04:33 PM PDT by SamAdams76 ( If you are offended by what I have to say here then you can blame your parents for raising a wuss)
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To: Eddie01

I’m gone and never coming back, NFL.


60 posted on 09/09/2018 4:40:11 PM PDT by Walrus (homosexuality is WRONG. End of case.)
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