The NFL will die of greed
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Gambling won't help either.
But, I digress. My BIL invited us to come to Kansas City in September for the Bengals Chiefs game. Sounded like fun until I looked at ticket prices. Nosebleeds $300. First level seats $1200. Twice the price of a Bengals home game, and that's already ridiculous to the point I won't go anymore. Prices have tripled here in the last 10 years. Not biting. Especially when they play in publicly financed stadiums.
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I was going to go to Steelers/Commanders. The ticket prices are 3-4 times what I was seeing for the Buffalo/Steelers WC game. Against the frigging Commanders…
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How can a normal guy take his kid to a game? Answer? He can't.
I just refuse. if they make it so I have to pay to watch on TV I wlll, cross my heart, give up the NFL until they come back to earth.
Arrowhead Stadium has a capacity of 76,000 and change. At an average $600 a ticket that's $45 million per home game, times 9, $405 million. Plus playoff games which I'm sure will be even more ridiculous. Plus concessions.
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How can a normal guy take his kid to a game? Answer? He can't.
I just refuse. if they make it so I have to pay to watch on TV I wlll, cross my heart, give up the NFL until they come back to earth.
Arrowhead Stadium has a capacity of 76,000 and change. At an average $600 a ticket that's $45 million per home game, times 9, $405 million. Plus playoff games which I'm sure will be even more ridiculous. Plus concessions.
@Mik said in The NFL will die of greed:
How can a normal guy take his kid to a game? Answer? He can't.
I just refuse. if they make it so I have to pay to watch on TV I wlll, cross my heart, give up the NFL until they come back to earth.
Arrowhead Stadium has a capacity of 76,000 and change. At an average $600 a ticket that's $45 million per home game, times 9, $405 million. Plus playoff games which I'm sure will be even more ridiculous. Plus concessions.
Pittsburgh’s Christmas Day game against the Chiefs is on Netflix… I can’t even go out to a bar to watch it on that day…
The Brad
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Ticket prices are just plain stupid.
But they sell, so I guess the price is right.
Not for me, but the market rules.
@Copper said in The NFL will die of greed:
Ticket prices are just plain stupid.
But they sell, so I guess the price is right.
Not for me, but the market rules.
Yeah, I agree. Someone seems to be buying the tickets. Kind of like housing prices in the US.
I cant udnerstand how anybody can afford them, but the prices are high because people are buying them at those prices.
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@Mik said in The NFL will die of greed:
How can a normal guy take his kid to a game? Answer? He can't.
I just refuse. if they make it so I have to pay to watch on TV I wlll, cross my heart, give up the NFL until they come back to earth.
Arrowhead Stadium has a capacity of 76,000 and change. At an average $600 a ticket that's $45 million per home game, times 9, $405 million. Plus playoff games which I'm sure will be even more ridiculous. Plus concessions.
Pittsburgh’s Christmas Day game against the Chiefs is on Netflix… I can’t even go out to a bar to watch it on that day…
@LuFins-Dad said in The NFL will die of greed:
@Mik said in The NFL will die of greed:
How can a normal guy take his kid to a game? Answer? He can't.
I just refuse. if they make it so I have to pay to watch on TV I wlll, cross my heart, give up the NFL until they come back to earth.
Arrowhead Stadium has a capacity of 76,000 and change. At an average $600 a ticket that's $45 million per home game, times 9, $405 million. Plus playoff games which I'm sure will be even more ridiculous. Plus concessions.
Pittsburgh’s Christmas Day game against the Chiefs is on Netflix… I can’t even go out to a bar to watch it on that day…
You can watch it at my house.
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How can a normal guy take his kid to a game? Answer? He can't.
I just refuse. if they make it so I have to pay to watch on TV I wlll, cross my heart, give up the NFL until they come back to earth.
Arrowhead Stadium has a capacity of 76,000 and change. At an average $600 a ticket that's $45 million per home game, times 9, $405 million. Plus playoff games which I'm sure will be even more ridiculous. Plus concessions.
@Mik said in The NFL will die of greed:
How can a normal guy take his kid to a game? Answer? He can't.
That’s my thing. Same with concerts. If I had billions of dollars I’d make sure regular folks had access to take their kids to events. It’s really sad, right now.
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@Mik said in The NFL will die of greed:
How can a normal guy take his kid to a game? Answer? He can't.
That’s my thing. Same with concerts. If I had billions of dollars I’d make sure regular folks had access to take their kids to events. It’s really sad, right now.
@89th said in The NFL will die of greed:
@Mik said in The NFL will die of greed:
How can a normal guy take his kid to a game? Answer? He can't.
That’s my thing. Same with concerts. If I had billions of dollars I’d make sure regular folks had access to take their kids to events. It’s really sad, right now.
I dont know if he still does it, but Garth Brooks (US country singer) was good with this. I have see him a couple of times in concert and the tickets were all "reasonably" priced (~USD$70 ~ 5 years ago). The couple of times I saw him, he would just keep adding concerts in the city he was in until they did not sell out. He wanted to minimize the "second resale" market on his tickets.
He said that he has made enough such that his grandkids grandkids were taken care of, so why price tickets too high.
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They just got hit with $4.7 BILLION in damages for Anti-Trust violations.
Anti-Trust violations may see their damages tripled, meaning they could have to pay $15 B…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/jury-rules-nfl-violated-antitrust-205401291.html
The Brad
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They just got hit with $4.7 BILLION in damages for Anti-Trust violations.
Anti-Trust violations may see their damages tripled, meaning they could have to pay $15 B…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/jury-rules-nfl-violated-antitrust-205401291.html
@LuFins-Dad said in The NFL will die of greed:
They just got hit with $4.7 BILLION in damages for Anti-Trust violations.
Anti-Trust violations may see their damages tripled, meaning they could have to pay $15 B…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/jury-rules-nfl-violated-antitrust-205401291.html
Judge overruled the verdict:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/sports/federal-judge-reverses-4-7-billion-verdict-nfl-sunday-ticket-caseI’m not really sure how that works…
