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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: SuperMario on January 03, 2024, 10:08:41 AM
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Has anyone ever gone to the championship game? Michigan hasn't really been a part of it and I never wanted to go to the first playoff game so I have never checked prices. Been a pretty tough 18 months for our family so my wife has been telling me we should go because she knows i'd love to see it in person.. BUT.. ticket prices are pretty crazy in my eyes.
Nosebleeds are about $1300 per ticket. Corner endzone, not amazing seats you're looking at 2k. Is this normal? Oddly, flights from Cleveland to Houston also seemed to be overpriced right now. I've made the flight to Houston and Dallas plenty of times and never have flights been remotely close to $1000 per seat for economy. There's a couple that are near $500, but they are 5:45 am flights.. which no thank you. Pretty shocking what people pay to go to these games I guess.
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The regular Joes are not going. Not even the more well-to-do Joes are going.
I'd take that money and go hang out in Tuscany for a while.
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Twenty years ago when LSU made the NC against Oklahoma I looked at tickets, thinking I might scoop some up. I had just been to the Sugar Bowl two years prior to watch the team play against Illinois, I thought it would be about the same price. I was young and dumb. (Now I'm old and dumb.) My memory is fuzzy, but I know I recoiled at the prices and realized I couldn't afford a ticket. I want to say everything I saw was around $1000, and that was for the worst seats. So my guess is those prices are probably the norm for NC games.
I don't know why the price of flights to Houston would be affected by that. That part seems odd. I've often lived close to Houston and thus never flown there, but I'd assume it should be like flying to Atlanta, Denver, etc. No idea what's going on with that. Although it's been four years since I've flown anywhere, maybe prices have skyrocketed since then.
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Jeebis,ya screw them not just the ticket,accommodations and everything else $$$$$$ .I dropped cable and am not ponying up for escalating streaming either, f-them.847 nailed it
I got to believe with all these CFB PO games being on ESPiN advertisers can't be that happy,that is a captive not an all inclusive audience. Many more eye balls would be on the set with ABC or the others
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I'd take that money and go hang out in Tuscany for a while.
I told my wife we are pivoting the plans and taking the family to Florida first week of February instead. Either Naples or the kids back to Orlando area. Id rather watch the game from a good seat on my couch and then spend the money on warm sun and the beach with the family.
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Naples is an hour South from me. The Florida Naples, that is.
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Naples is an hour South from me. The Florida Naples, that is.
It's my favorite area.. before last year we were going down there yearly. We aren't nightlife people so we love the culture in the area. Great beaches, great food and an awesome catamaran company we hit up every time. That and the flight from Cleveland to RSW is quick and easy and that's actually a great airport to rent a car from. Are you in the Bonita area?
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I paid $175 each for nosebleeds in the old Orange Bowl in 94 to watch Charlie Ward steal one from my Huskers with my cousin who lived in Ft. Lauderdale.
Paid $300 each the next year for good seats to see Osborne get his first vs the evil Canes.
money well spent - a couple of my my most cherished memories
I could have purchased tickets outside the stadium for both games for less than I paid a month earlier.
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The regular Joes are not going. Not even the more well-to-do Joes are going.
I'd take that money and go hang out in Tuscany for a while.
Not just the corporate tickets, but all of the tickets that have been made available through promotions. The number of available tickets for the semis vs the title, is vastly different.
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I went in 2001 when Ohio State played Miami.
Purchased a package which included airfare, hotel for 2 nights, seats in the second deck ( were actually good seats), transportation to and from stadium and pregame festivities.
Of course it was expensive-like $3000 at the time.
But it was an event of a lifetime- memories forever. Your team ( unless you are Bama lol) doesn’t get there very often. Just a decision you will make.
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It's my favorite area.. before last year we were going down there yearly. We aren't nightlife people so we love the culture in the area. Great beaches, great food and an awesome catamaran company we hit up every time. That and the flight from Cleveland to RSW is quick and easy and that's actually a great airport to rent a car from. Are you in the Bonita area?
We're in Burnt Store Marina.
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I went in 2001 when Ohio State played Miami.
Of course it was expensive-like $3000 at the time.
But it was an event of a lifetime- memories forever. Your team ( unless you are Bama lol) doesn’t get there very often. Just a decision you will make.
That'd be Jan '03,hangovers are a bitch - i know. I might pony up if the Browns or the Team formerly called the TRIBE makes it to the mountain top
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I paid $1400 for a single ticket in the lower level endzone section, 20 rows behind the goalposts, for the 2006 National Championship game between Ohio State and Florida in Arizona. No regrets at all.
The game certainly wasn't the breathtaking back and forth as was the previous year's game between Texas and USC, but that wasn't the point.
Had just returned from a stressful deployment to the Middle East and had the cash to burn. And as a kid transformed into a Gators fan living the early 90s in Florida, where after watching Saturday morning cartoons, my grandpa would take over the TV, flipping on Spurrier's Gators teams, it was a more than unique and memorable chance to see my team win a championship. To this day, whenever I'm watching a championship I never have to guess what it's like to watch your team win it all. In person or otherwise.
Sure helps to balance out all the bad Arizona Wildcats football I've suffered through since soon after becoming a student at the University of Arizona.
No regrets it all. Still have the lanyards, game programs, and souvenir cups that came with the ticket. If you're a Michigan fan, $4000 for ticket(s)/flights/hotels would be worth seeing my team in a National Title game. That last Michigan Rose Bowl/Championship was 26 years ago.
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Had just returned from a stressful deployment to the Middle East and had the cash to burn.
I appreciate your feedback in the entire post. It really is helpful. That being said, the quote part is the most important part. Thank you so much for your service. One of my closest friends was deployed to Afghanistan twice. He was a Special Forces Airborne sniper and his first couple years back were really tough. Finally he was out with two of us one night and we had some drinks and he broke down and finally wanted to share a couple things with us. It was tough to hear and put so much of life in perspective, but also started his healing process.
Rarely are any of you guys given enough credit nor supported enough from what you've experienced. Hope life is treated you as well as you deserve. From a guy that grew up with an Army dad, thank you!
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I'm thankful to anyone who served, and especially those who paid the ultimate price.
My son was a sniper in the Marine. Two deployments to Shitstan. He is normal, but knees are a problem, and hearing. No PTSD, thankfully.
As for shelling out for an MNC game, I'll never have to worry about it. Ever.
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a cousin paid $3k in 2010 iirc. why do it at such price points when we all have 50”+ hd tv’s.
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Yeah, do you realize how many nachos you can get for $3K??? A LOT!!!
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I went in 2003 with my brother and dad, but my mom paid for it as a birthday present for him, not sure what it cost. We got a package and stayed in Phoenix. I also went to the Sugar Bowl when OSU played LSU in '08. I don't recall that being very expensive, but I think we had some connection on that one. Haven't been to anything since the playoffs started, have to think two fan bases in their first championship game in forever will drive up the price.
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Yeah, do you realize how many nachos you can get for $3K??? A LOT!!!
I'd go with crab legs.
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I'm thankful to anyone who served, and especially those who paid the ultimate price.
My son was a sniper in the Marine. Two deployments to Shitstan. He is normal, but knees are a problem, and hearing. No PTSD, thankfully.
As for shelling out for an MNC game, I'll never have to worry about it. Ever.
Thanks for your part too, the part of a parent with a deployed kid.
Parents of deployed kids go through a lot of worry and fear that goes unappreciated. My poor mother worried herself sick while I was deployed. Even 10 years later she said she wasn't over it. And that was AFTER two more of her sons had their own deployments. Her second born son did a deployment with the Marines to Middle East. Her fourth born did Afghanistan as an Army infantryman with the Arizona National Guard and saw a lot more action than both of his older brothers.
My Dad, though, didn't worry much at all. Proudly stated "war will make a men out of my boys."
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like everything else in this god damn country- corporate money has ruined basically every big sporting event and has made it nearly impossible for the regular Joe to attend.
Super Bowl tickets in the early 80s used to be like $50 a pop I want to say. Good luck finding a nose bleed now for anything under $2k.
Only way you can go to these things now a days is if you’ve got the extra cheese to just blow or if you’ve got a plug.
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We could afford to go, but why?
As nwms stated above, we've got a 50" on my lanai and a 75" inside. Plus a 37" that I move around. No lines for food or bathrooms.
Tuscany or Sicily over a CFB game, any time.
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We could afford to go, but why?
As nwms stated above, we've got a 50" on my lanai and a 75" inside. Plus a 37" that I move around. No lines for food or bathrooms.
Tuscany or Sicily over a CFB game, any time.
Agree 100%. Rather spend that kind of money going to visit another country than going to a football game for 3 hours.
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For the 2005 season (2006 Rose Bowl) I sent my parents to Pasadena using my Rose Bowl tickets. They were face value thought UT's ticket allotment, probably around $150 or something?
For the 2009 season (2010 CFP championship game) I didn't have enough donation clout to swing any tickets and I imagine the secondary market was pretty rough.
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I paid just over $1000 for this seat for UGA v Bama in Indy. Of course that's 14 miles from my home. Bought on stubhub three days after semi finals.
I paid $125 for the Rose Bowl bcs title game 20+ years earlier.
$65 for N v Fla at the Fiesta
About the same for N v FSU in '94 OB
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I'd go with crab legs.
Crab nachos!!
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Crab nachos!!
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like everything else in this god damn country- corporate money has ruined basically everything big sporting event and has made it nearly impossible for the regular Joe to earn a living attend.
Fixed it.
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Not just the corporate tickets, but all of the tickets that have been made available through promotions. The number of available tickets for the semis vs the title, is vastly different.
Imagine what they would have been had Texas made it. The CFP championship has become Super Bowl "light" in terms of how it has been corporatized. Lots of corporate tent parties and weekend events. Each of the schools blow through their allotment very quickly (20,000 +/- each).
I'll be curious to see what each round ticket prices look like next year in the playoffs
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I'm thankful to anyone who served, and especially those who paid the ultimate price.
My son was a sniper in the Marine. Two deployments to Shitstan. He is normal, but knees are a problem, and hearing. No PTSD, thankfully.
Yep. BIL was a SEAL sniper. Can't imagine what he saw (& had to do) over there, but seems to be dealing with it all well. Body is a mess though. He's actually getting significant veterans disability benefits because of all the damage it took on his body. Outwardly he LOOKS normal, but he's far more effed up than a 41 year old should be.
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I paid just over $1000 for this seat for UGA v Bama in Indy. Of course that's 14 miles from my home. Bought on stubhub three days after semi finals.
I paid $125 for the Rose Bowl bcs title game 20+ years earlier.
$65 for N v Fla at the Fiesta
About the same for N v FSU in '94 OB
I wouldn't pay $100 to watch another team than the Huskers today or ever.
Not sure what I paid at the Board meeting in Madison to see the Badgers beat Michigan but it wasn't $100 - maybe $50
I think I paid about $125 for the Rose Bowl Huskers/Canes. Pulled up to park on the golf course and as I got out of the rental a guy offered me better seats for $90.
I think my ex paid about $90 for my ticket to the Fiesta vs Spurrier - with my money
but, I'd rather pay $3k for a national champ game ticket to watch Rhule's Huskers than a trip to Europe.
Everyone has their priorities.
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Thanks for your part too, the part of a parent with a deployed kid.
Parents of deployed kids go through a lot of worry and fear that goes unappreciated. My poor mother worried herself sick while I was deployed. Even 10 years later she said she wasn't over it. And that was AFTER two more of her sons had their own deployments. Her second born son did a deployment with the Marines to Middle East. Her fourth born did Afghanistan as an Army infantryman with the Arizona National Guard and saw a lot more action than both of his older brothers.
My Dad, though, didn't worry much at all. Proudly stated "war will make a men out of my boys."
Agreed! My mom had a rule in our house. Your father served so that you don't have to. She was too scared to see us go serve and would have emotional moments when we talked about it with our dad. To this day i wish I wouldn't have listened. I really wanted to be a pilot in the Navy, went through the process, but my vision wasn't 20/20 and back then they only accepted natural 20/20 or better and no corrective surgery was allowed. In hindsight, I'm thankful. Life had other plans.
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Yep. BIL was a SEAL sniper. Can't imagine what he saw (& had to do) over there, but seems to be dealing with it all well. Body is a mess though. He's actually getting significant veterans disability benefits because of all the damage it took on his body. Outwardly he LOOKS normal, but he's far more effed up than a 41 year old should be.
My son gets a pretty nice chunk for disability too. Not nearly enough for what he went through, but at least it's something.
"We" should be taking much better care of our veterans than, well, never mind. I'm not gonna F this thread up.
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We're in Burnt Store Marina.
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wow.. great area!! I'm sure it's even more enjoyable this time of year.. This time of year I miss living in Singapore and seeing the sun every day.. Cleveland in the winter months is brutal.
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My son gets a pretty nice chunk for disability too. Not nearly enough for what he went through, but at least it's something.
"We" should be taking much better care of our veterans . period
stands on it's own and doesn't need to be related to anything else.
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My son gets a pretty nice chunk for disability too. Not nearly enough for what he went through, but at least it's something.
"We" should be taking much better care of our veterans than, well, never mind. I'm not gonna F this thread up.
yep.. my buddy is the same way. Can't believe what he's been through.. but guys that become that are a different breed. His workouts are fascinating.. never uses weights, but still built like a brick sh*thouse.. His chest day is doing 1000 pushups and he has shrapnel still in his body in different locations.
Your second sentence, don't even get me started. That's a topic that pisses me off to no end.
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As for shelling out for an MNC game, I'll never have to worry about it. Ever.
Yep. Same for me.
Hell, even living in SoCal I'll never have to worry about Purdue winning the B1G and playing in the Rose Bowl, and feeling obligated to buy a ticket.
TPTB screwing the sport up massively could result in some $$ savings for me down the line!
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like everything else in this god damn country- corporate money has ruined basically every big sporting event and has made it nearly impossible for the regular Joe to attend.
Super Bowl tickets in the early 80s used to be like $50 a pop I want to say. Good luck finding a nose bleed now for anything under $2k.
Only way you can go to these things now a days is if you’ve got the extra cheese to just blow or if you’ve got a plug.
Heck, it's not even just "big" events or corporate money. LSU has slowly priced out the average fan of a regular season gameday for the past 15+ years. Although I think the current AD has tried to alleviate some barriers, but going to a game there and everything involved is not necessarily something everyone can afford who used to be able to.
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this happened at UNL in the mid 90's thanks to some success
expanded the stadium to help with demand, now removing seats
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I went in 2001 when Ohio State played Miami.
Purchased a package which included airfare, hotel for 2 nights, seats in the second deck ( were actually good seats), transportation to and from stadium and pregame festivities.
Of course it was expensive-like $3000 at the time.
But it was an event of a lifetime- memories forever. Your team ( unless you are Bama lol) doesn’t get there very often. Just a decision you will make.
I had a friend on the Fiesta Bowl Committee back then and I was able to get 2 tickets at cost. Ended up giving them to my parents for Christmas so my dad, a life long buckeye, could go to the game. They lived in Phoenix area, so no real other costs. They did attend a lot of the festivities. I was still in Ohio back then. They sent me a picture of themselves in the stadium before the game.
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A post on Facebook https://www.outkick.com/washington-michigan-national-title-game-ticket-prices/?fbclid=IwAR3WEHk25E2QsIpbnmKF3wALt2S6636jGwkQv0_H_GZJcFAiPCOLqzUL7KE (https://www.outkick.com/washington-michigan-national-title-game-ticket-prices/?fbclid=IwAR3WEHk25E2QsIpbnmKF3wALt2S6636jGwkQv0_H_GZJcFAiPCOLqzUL7KE)
Ticket prices are plummeting for the Michigan/Washington national title game, and there's one VERY simple explanation.
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Yes, this exact same thing happened two years ago when nearby neighbors Michigan and Cincinnati were being routed in the semis. Tickets dropped starting at halftime of Orange Bowl.
Get in the door was well below $1k, I just wasn't going to sit in bleeders for a cfp game in my backyard. I didn't need hotel or transportation.
I treated it like going to the Derby down in Louisville. It's not a cheap experience but at least I'm not flying and taking time off for it.
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Imagine what they would have been had Texas made it. The CFP championship has become Super Bowl "light" in terms of how it has been corporatized. Lots of corporate tent parties and weekend events. Each of the schools blow through their allotment very quickly (20,000 +/- each).
I'll be curious to see what each round ticket prices look like next year in the playoffs
It's funny how CBB national championship tickets are always cheaper than the semifinals. It's a Saturday night, you have 4 schools bought in, they have the coaches conference that night. And now they are always set up so that every seat in a football stadium is open
If you are close to the location, you can get title game tickets for pretty cheap. My brother and his now wife drove to Atlanta on Sunday to watch the Michigan-Louisville basketball championship in 2013 for like $150 per ticket for seats where you could actually see, not just to claim you were there.
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but, I'd rather pay $3k for a national champ game ticket to watch Rhule's Huskers than a trip to Europe.
Everyone has their priorities.
That's a lot of schooners,runzas and green fees
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A post on Facebook https://www.outkick.com/washington-michigan-national-title-game-ticket-prices/?fbclid=IwAR3WEHk25E2QsIpbnmKF3wALt2S6636jGwkQv0_H_GZJcFAiPCOLqzUL7KE (https://www.outkick.com/washington-michigan-national-title-game-ticket-prices/?fbclid=IwAR3WEHk25E2QsIpbnmKF3wALt2S6636jGwkQv0_H_GZJcFAiPCOLqzUL7KE)
Ticket prices are plummeting for the Michigan/Washington national title game, and there's one VERY simple explanation.
👍.Some seats are down to a grand,hmm I might pay that if Cleveland was in the 7th game of the Series
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I really wanted to be a pilot in the Navy, went through the process, but my vision wasn't 20/20 and back then they only accepted natural 20/20 or better and no corrective surgery was allowed.
A friend aced all the exams and the physical except he had acne that evidently was a big problem at higher elevations. The pressure on his skin was a bear to deal with and it almost kept him out of the AF. He saw some skin care specialist that had the therapy/remedy and he got in.
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It's funny how CBB national championship tickets are always cheaper than the semifinals. It's a Saturday night, you have 4 schools bought in, they have the coaches conference that night. And now they are always set up so that every seat in a football stadium is open
If you are close to the location, you can get title game tickets for pretty cheap. My brother and his now wife drove to Atlanta on Sunday to watch the Michigan-Louisville basketball championship in 2013 for like $150 per ticket for seats where you could actually see, not just to claim you were there.
$125 is what it took me to get into the CBB national title game at the Viking Ship.
All this talk about MNC game ticket prices reminded me that the most money I ever spent on a ticket to a sporting event was at the Vancouver Olympics. I spent something like 150 US dollars to see USA vs Switzerland in the very first game of the tournament.
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Myself and 2 friends went to the 2010 Final Four in Indy. One of my friends who went could get two tickets through his Father In Law who was a donor to WVU. He called and gave me first dibs on it. The ticket was $250 and was good for Saturday and Monday night. However, he didn’t know where the seats would be. He told me when his FIL got tickets through the school for the Fiesta Bowl a couple years prior they weren’t very good seats.
I declined and told him to offer the ticket to our other friend and I’d find my own seat. I went through Stub Hub and paid over $700 for a ticket (also good for both nights) in the 4th deck of the 6 deck Lucas Oil. It was a center court ticket, which I wanted.
Looking back, I can’t remember the details of why it was a mystery where his FIL’s tickets would be but they weren’t going to know until they picked them up at will call the day of the game. Anyway, we get to the stadium and they get their tickets. After tearing them open we immediately go find a seating chart and realize they are about 12 rows behind WVU’s bench. They go nuts and I immediately feel sick I paid $450 more to sit in the 4th deck.
Of course, WVU lost to Duke and before the game was even over two Duke fans offered them $500 apiece for their tickets. Meanwhile, I’m trying to sell my Monday night ticket but no one wants it because it’s a single ticket and it isn’t lower level.
I finally beg a scalper to just give me $50 so I can leave and he finally does but seems annoyed to be doing so. As he’s giving me the money he says “I’ll never be able to sell this.” I’m sure he made a nice profit, though.
Not my best night.
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Ouch.
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That's a lot of schooners,runzas and green fees
Ed Zachery!
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👍.Some seats are down to a grand,hmm I might pay that if Cleveland was in the 7th game of the Series
2016 I got game 7 for $550 a seat. Took my wife and my parents, even though the outcome wasn’t ideal, the experience is still unforgettable. I was also at game 1 and 6. Budget was a little different with 1 newborn Vs 3 kids.
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2016 I got game 7 for $550 a seat. Took my wife and my parents, even though the outcome wasn’t ideal, the experience is still unforgettable. I was also at game 1 and 6. Budget was a little different with 1 newborn Vs 3 kids.
My son was there. His only fault (other than being too heavy) is that he's a damn Kubbs fan.
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My son was there. His only fault (other than being too heavy) is that he's a damn Kubbs fan.
ha. My neighbors are big cubs fans from Chicago too. Interestingly, most Cubs fans I come across I really have liked. Are you a Sox fan?
And to this day, I'm sure he remembers clearly what it felt like to be in that stadium. it was electric. I was lucky enough to be at the '95 Series with my dad, a lot of Indians playoff runs in the 90's and 2007 was pretty dynamic, most of the finals during the Cavs runs and nothing comes close to game 7 2016, even being on the losing side. The fans were incredible on both sides of the aisle and that stadium physically shook when Rajai Davis hit the game tying homerun.
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2005 series was my favorite, as a Sox fan.
My interest in baseball has waned.
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2016 I got game 7 for $550 a seat. Took my wife and my parents, even though the outcome wasn’t ideal, the experience is still unforgettable. I was also at game 1 and 6. Budget was a little different with 1 newborn Vs 3 kids.
Damn rain delay :banghead:
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2005 series was my favorite, as a Sox fan.
My interest in baseball has waned.
Mine too. My family was very lower middle class growing up and the only place my parents spent money was taking us to the ballpark.. no vacations, but we saw 7-8 games a year. Baseball has ruined itself. Ticket prices in the 2000's started becoming stupid. Over the last decade, they don't give a damn about true baseball fans, they only care about it being a place people want to hangout. What cleveland has done to their stadium is perfect proof of that. They've removed thousands upon thousands of seats on the second level so they can build open air, bar hang out areas for people to just congregate. And guess who foots the $450 million bill.. you got it.. tax payers in Cuyahoga county. And left behind, is the diehard baseball fan that's on a budget. It's not that i can't afford to go and take my kids, I'm just simply not going to pay $200 in tickets and parking and another $50 on food to sit in the nosebleeds and see a garbage product and outside of a few teams, it his become a garbage product.
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Damn rain delay :banghead:
To this day it makes me sick.. Like the universe said "sorry you got the Cavs title, we aren't giving you both." The reality is this is the one that would have truly mattered to me.. Also makes me sick that Bauer wanted to play with toys rather than focus on winning a title.
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2005 series was my favorite, as a Sox fan.
My interest in baseball has waned.
from college on mlb has been regional for me. if the royals aren't playing idc. i get the impression most fans are like that looking at ratings for national broadcasts.
the ncaa's are great though, i watch every yr now regionals on more or less. softball too.
i do like visiting new parks for games (novelty & all - plus baseball is so much better in person) when i'm working out of town.
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Wisconsin eliminated baseball while I was there. I don't think anyone really noticed.
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College beisbol is a relatively big deal in Louisiana--specifically LSU. There was much more interest than most college programs get even before they started winning titles in the 90's. They are one of the very few, if not the only, baseball teams to run in the black in their own right, not costing the athletic department a dime (read: taking $ from the profit of the football team). They have sold out every game for something like 20 yrs, and the stadium is quite large for a college team. Seats over 10k. Texas' Disch-Faulk, I believe, is the next largest college beisbol stadium, but seats just over half that, iirc.
Also, sitting in right field and listening to the fans give it to the opposing teams' right fielders is something everybody should witness.
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Truth is that most colleges north of the Mason-Dixon line shouldn't bother with baseball, and probably also not with golf. Although at least with golf there's now a LOT of good stuff that can be done indoors via simulators / launch monitors.
Baseball is a sport for the South and West. Just as hockey is a sport for the North / Northeast.
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I went in 2003 with my brother and dad, but my mom paid for it as a birthday present for him, not sure what it cost. We got a package and stayed in Phoenix. I also went to the Sugar Bowl when OSU played LSU in '08. I don't recall that being very expensive, but I think we had some connection on that one. Haven't been to anything since the playoffs started, have to think two fan bases in their first championship game in forever will drive up the price.
I didn't see this until now and it sounds like you already made up your mind and I'm not sure if any of this will be helpful but here goes:
2002 NC Game:
My brother and I went. We bought tickets online and met a guy I knew from tOSU who lived in Phoenix. IIRC tickets were ~$1,000 for decent seats. We flew in and out of Vegas (cheaper and, ya know, it is Vegas). All in with tickets, airfare, lodging, etc we were probably around $2k each.
2006 NC Game:
I bought a single package, I think it was around $3k all inclusive.
2007 NC Game:
This one is kinda funny. It was LSU vs tOSU in Louisiana. When the match-up was set ticket prices were INSANE because:
- LSU fans were local and
- tOSU always travels well.
My brother and I looked at tickets and IIRC it was around $2,500 for REALLY BAD seats so we decided to pass.
Funny thing happened. As the game got close the ticket price plummeted. I think the scalpers got stuck with inventory and had to bail. My brother and I decided to go at a little under $500/ticket and we just "winged it" for the trip, met up in Tuscaloosa with a friend who lived in Atlanta, ate at Dreamland, had a great time.
So I have to tell you about the seats. I would tell you I sat in the last row of the SuperDome but it was actually worse than that. BEHIND the last row they had a walkway and for that game they set up folding chairs in the walkway so I literally sat behind the last row. When we stood on our chairs we could touch the roof.
2014 CFP Semi-final:
I bought a "GameDay Package" from the tOSU Alumni Association. It was around $1,000 for game tickets plus a pregame event (Steamboat ride) and some other stuff.
I've never been to a CFP Championship. That is a different market because it is all lightning fast since you only have a couple days to get your decision made and pull the trigger. It is more like a FF.
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College beisbol is a relatively big deal in Louisiana--specifically LSU. There was much more interest than most college programs get even before they started winning titles in the 90's. They are one of the very few, if not the only, baseball teams to run in the black in their own right, not costing the athletic department a dime (read: taking $ from the profit of the football team). They have sold out every game for something like 20 yrs, and the stadium is quite large for a college team. Seats over 10k. Texas' Disch-Faulk, I believe, is the next largest college beisbol stadium, but seats just over half that, iirc.
Also, sitting in right field and listening to the fans give it to the opposing teams' right fielders is something everybody should witness.
Arkansas and Ole' Miss are both up around 12K these days.
Disch-Faulk seats 6.7K and UT beisbol runs in the black along with UT mens and womens basketball (barely, on the last one).
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So I have to tell you about the seats. I would tell you I sat in the last row of the SuperDome but it was actually worse than that. BEHIND the last row they had a walkway and for that game they set up folding chairs in the walkway so I literally sat behind the last row. When we stood on our chairs we could touch the roof.
Surprised the fire marshal let them set seats there. Money, man.
My favorite SuperDome memory has nothing to do with sports. It's when I saw Pink Floyd on the Division Bell tour in '94. I was 15 and couldn't even drive myself there. I knew we were in for it when the security guards were smoking joints. There was a cloud about halfway up to the ceiling you couldn't see beyond. It took me longer than you'd think to figure out what was happening to me and that, yes, you can get high from second-hand smoke.
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It's funny how CBB national championship tickets are always cheaper than the semifinals. It's a Saturday night, you have 4 schools bought in, they have the coaches conference that night. And now they are always set up so that every seat in a football stadium is open
If you are close to the location, you can get title game tickets for pretty cheap. My brother and his now wife drove to Atlanta on Sunday to watch the Michigan-Louisville basketball championship in 2013 for like $150 per ticket for seats where you could actually see, not just to claim you were there.
There is one potential flaw in this plan.
It all depends on which teams make the F4 and which teams advance to the CG.
The year I went was the F4 in Atlanta when Matta had Oden, Connally, etc. The semi-finals were:
- Florida vs UCLA
- Ohio State vs Georgetown
On Saturday I would guesstimate the fanbase allocation as something like:
- 50% Florida - Large public school and very nearby
- 30% Ohio State - Large public school and not too far away
- 5% UCLA and Georgetown combined (mostly UCLA)
- 15% just CBB fans who came to see a F4, not following a specific team.
If UCLA and Georgetown had won the semi-finals, you could probably have gotten into the CG for free. Most of the tOSU and UF fans drove anyway so if they had been knocked out on Saturday their fans would have driven home on Sunday.
Instead UF and tOSU advanced and tickets for the CG were expensive from what I saw.
A couple sitting next to us were UCLA fans and they came to the CG on Monday night. They already had the tickets and their flight home wasn't until Tuesday so they decided to go experience a NC even though their team was out. If the situation had been reversed they would have had plenty of room to stretch out on Monday night because my buddy and I would have driven home on Sunday and been at work Monday then watching on TV.
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Arkansas and Ole' Miss are both up around 12K these days.
Disch-Faulk seats 6.7K and UT beisbol runs in the black along with UT mens and womens basketball (barely, on the last one).
@!*% Pigs and Rebears! We still lead them in attendance though, I think. Or tickets sold, anyway.
There was a time when LSU basketball ran in the black, but that was long ago, before Catastrophic Incompetence took over the program.
I'd have to check, but it's possible the gym team pays for itself. Since the girls started doing well a few years back, gym meets have become something of a family entertainment option. Draws good crowds for a gym team, from what I hear. Tickets are just $5 and it's a fun time, so they say. $5 tickets probably makes it hard to break even, although I don't know what it costs to operate the gym team.
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Surprised the fire marshal let them set seats there. Money, man.
We thought the same thing when we saw where our seats were.
My favorite SuperDome memory has nothing to do with sports. It's when I saw Pink Floyd on the Division Bell tour in '94. I was 15 and couldn't even drive myself there. I knew we were in for it when the security guards were smoking joints. There was a cloud about halfway up to the ceiling you couldn't see beyond. It took me longer than you'd think to figure out what was happening to me and that, yes, you can get high from second-hand smoke.
I saw that show twice, once in Cleveland and a few days later in Columbus.
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I saw that show twice, once in Cleveland and a few days later in Columbus.
They didn't come to Austin for Division Bell tour but I saw Momentary Lapse of Reason show in Austin in November of '87. I went with a very cute "older girl" who had a car (actually a full-sized Chevy Blazer with LOTS of room, and it was a very memorable date...)
I turned 16 two weeks later and had my own car, and had a lot more very memorable dates.
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Surprised the fire marshal let them set seats there. Money, man.
My favorite SuperDome memory has nothing to do with sports. It's when I saw Pink Floyd on the Division Bell tour in '94. I was 15 and couldn't even drive myself there. I knew we were in for it when the security guards were smoking joints. There was a cloud about halfway up to the ceiling you couldn't see beyond. It took me longer than you'd think to figure out what was happening to me and that, yes, you can get high from second-hand smoke.
Hell, we must be pretty much the same age. I was 15 for the first half of '94 and 16 for the second half. I would have LOVED to have gotten to see that tour... I was huge into Pink Floyd back in those days. Sadly, I never got to see them live.
Right about that time while I was still 15 I do recall seeing Nine Inch Nails at the Rosemont Horizon. It was one of those where I was buddies with a guy who was a year older so he had a car. They had assigned seats and all I could get was floor. I ended up about 12" from the security barrier right in front of the stage for the entire show. It was epic.
Once I inherited a car at 16 (1985 1/2 Ford Escort) I ended up putting a big sound system into it. I recall driving past a cop late at night (doing the speed limit b/c it was a known speed trap) absolutely BLASTING some Floyd. Predictably I get pulled over. I was a good kid so I wasn't drunk or high, and as mentioned wasn't speeding, so they couldn't get me on anything moving-violation wise... But I got a fix-it ticket because my tail light illumination light wasn't working. In fact, it had gotten painted over when my parents had the car repainted when they bought it for my older sister. So I had to replace a light bulb and take it to the local police station to get signed off...
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Baseball is a sport for the South and West. Just as hockey is a sport for the North / Northeast.
For years Wisconsin high schools had two separate seasons, some tried to play in spring, others said F it, well do it in summer. My school was in the summer league. I stopped playing cuz of that. I was going fishing up north in summer not hanging around to play a HS baseball summer leaguem. WI finally killed that recently. Our school won the final state summer title. Woo hoo. Trout was off radar for similar reasons, lousy weather in Jersey.
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Heck, it's not even just "big" events or corporate money. LSU has slowly priced out the average fan of a regular season gameday for the past 15+ years…going to a game there and everything involved is not necessarily something everyone can afford who used to be able to.
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This. Even the lower demand events are quickly overpricing themselves. Case in point, in this same 15 year timeframe that I’ve rounded up a few friends to attend an ASU football game about every other year, the ticket prices rise unjustifiably higher each time. I remember four of us spending a combined total of $88 for lower level 25 yard line seats in 2010. Fast forward to this past season and those same seats for the four of us rose to $125 each w/ fees. $500 I’m paying upfront for buddies who believe their seats should still be worth $22 each:
Our $125 seats last September – ASU Vs Oklahoma State:
(https://i.imgur.com/Ihg9Rc9.jpg)