Has the NFL reached its end?
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Tickets are beyond many families' reach. Nosebleeds for the Bengals were $170 last year. Chiefs were twice that. I won't be attending any and I'll be damned if I will pay to stream it.
Now this year non-QB positions are commanding $40 million.
At what point does it collapse under its own weight?
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The ticket prices piss me off, but not nearly so much as the streaming trend. It is pretty clearly breaking the spirit of the antitrust protections the league has been given. Hell, even moving MNF to a cable station violated the spirit.
The Brad
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As far as ticket prices, I’m pretty much out of that market, anymore. And not just because of the prices, but the experience as well.
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On exactly the same level (sarcastic), the other day I took my kids to see Paw Patrol Live (a "play" at a local stage). The cheapest tickets were $40 for the very back of the balcony. It's not much money but it's absolutely out of reach for kids in poorer homes, and hurts for me to think there are kids who cannot go to live events (sports or otherwise) because of the price.
We didn't grow up with much money, I remember turning down an Orioles (baseball) hat because I knew my dad probably didn't have the cash for it. On the flip side, some of my favorite memories is going to the occasional baseball game and entering the stadium through the wind tunnel to the grand visual of a pro baseball field stadium.
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TV money. Drives everything.
OTOH ... Minor league baseball, hockey and basketball are pretty affordable and the product is usually pretty good.
For football, college prices are usually not horrible if it's not a Top Thirty program and there is always the USFL.
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The ticket prices piss me off, but not nearly so much as the streaming trend. It is pretty clearly breaking the spirit of the antitrust protections the league has been given. Hell, even moving MNF to a cable station violated the spirit.
@LuFins-Dad said in Has the NFL reached its end?:
The ticket prices piss me off, but not nearly so much as the streaming trend. It is pretty clearly breaking the spirit of the antitrust protections the league has been given. Hell, even moving MNF to a cable station violated the spirit.
I wholly agree.
