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Well I went to a walk through of the new stadium they built for the US Football NY Giants and Jets. Overall it is pretty nice, but I think we found the worst seat in the house. Mind you that you must pay a flat amount of several thousand dollars just to get a license to purchase tickets every year. This seat is in the several hundred dollar per game price range. Anyone interested?
So, you have to have a ticket to buy tickets. Not interested :)
Is that a genuine iron pillar? How were you so lucky to get a front row seat???
Just one of the many, many reasons I am no longer a fan of the NFL. My first pair of season tickets (1984) cost me a grand total of $200 and were in the sixth row of the bleachers in old Cleveland Municipal Stadium - take the seat in the photo and move it to the sixth row under the goal post and that's where we sat. By the end of the original Browns in 1995 I was paying $400/year each for the same two seats. Today that won't even pay for one seat "license"... :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by kleinma
When all but two of the NFL ownership groups decided that Baltimore deserved the Cleveland Browns more than Cleveland did that was it - I was done with the NFL and today my season tickets are in The Horseshoe in Columbus. Gridiron football is now a Saturday sport for me. The NFL can kiss my skinny white behind... :mad:
Matt: There was a similiar situation in the new Ford Field when it opened in Detroit. You should send that picture into the NY Times or some other paper. Someone doing a walkthrough of Ford Field took the same kind of picture and sent it to both the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press....the Lions organization had the seat removed.
This, by the way, is the single best thing the Lions have done in about, oh I'd say, 10 years. :mad:
(Although this year's draft ain't lookin' too shabby for once.)
The Jets are going to be pretty good this year. A few years back, that seat would have been fine, as you really didn't want to see the field.
Still, the best way to watch a football game is sitting on a couch with a bunch of friends some of which are in the food and beverage categories (or vaguely food and vaguely beverage categories). You get a better view than from any seat, and you get replays.
And you're still allowed to pretend that by watching the game you get to share credit for the victory of your team.
I've never been to a pro football game in my life of any kind. That seat and perhaps some others near it should be removed or they should set the price much lower at the very least.
I have never understood the point of watching a game in a stadium, when the television cameras can get much more closer.
I don't go to every home game, but there is a big difference between going to a game and watching it on your TV. Both have some major pros and cons. The TV will never bring you the same experience of being a the game, and you aren't limited to just what the TV camera wants to show you. Not everyone is even always interested in where the ball is, which is the only thing the camera tracks. Some people who are really into football actually enjoy to see the play develop.
In any event, I read in the paper that they have removed that seat and a few others with similar viewing issues. 2 days after I was there to snap some pics, so I am glad I got it when I did. Proof the designers were smoking something.
I'm wondering what the total amount is that you spend in a typical year for the license to purchase tickets plus the tickets. You don't need to share that with us but consider over the course of your life what it will add up to if you continue in that habit. If one has expensive lifelong habits those habits can make it impossible to retire unless you amass a fortune.Quote:
Originally Posted by kleinma
If everyone had that attitude the economy would just stop ! Pensions were invented so that you can save for you retirement as you work and still do stuff.Quote:
If one has expensive lifelong habits those habits can make it impossible to retire unless you amass a fortune.
Also i would prefer to live a happy life doing the things i enjoy rather than staying at home doing nothing. If some of those things i enjoy cost money then so be it !
The ticket and license price varies by seat. They had seat licenses as cheap as 1000, and as expensive as 20,000. Ticket prices vary based on seat location too, but I believe the cheapest are close to 100 dollars per game. (high end being around 700)Quote:
Originally Posted by EntityX
Remeber US football games only have 8 games at home each season, it isn't like baseball where season tickets mean you are buying around 150 tickets a season.
The key thing about the seat license, is that you own it, and you can sell it.
If you buy a license for 1,000 now, it could be worth 10,000 a few years down the road.
I didn't know that. So it can be like an investment of sorts.Quote:
Originally Posted by kleinma
Yes, and they let season ticket holders from the old stadium get first dibs on the licenses in the new one. Being that the new stadium on average is more expensive to be a ticket holder, some of those people bought a license just to turn around and sell it for a small profit. I don't think anyone is making huge money yet, but that will come in time once the licenses are all owned and the only way to get one is to buy it from someone else. When someone dies an immediate family member can retain control of the ticket license, so they start to not become available for sale very often at all.