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Reply to @scott: Do you think, playing outdoors has anything to do with the price of the tickets, that don't include the peanuts, popcorn and Cracker Jacks. Regards, Ted
Reply to @Ted: No. Ridiculous salaries do have something to do with it, while people have instead decided to watch sports in their man caves on bigger and bigger TVs and go to Costco to get cheaper drinks and snacks.
Minor league games are still the best value. You see people who may be in the big leagues, tickets are cheap, snacks are reasonable and players often walk around after the game. Minor league games are what it's all about.
Baseball remains the best value of the big 4 sports. My family and I have four 20 game ticket packages with seats right behind home plate in the third deck. Costs me around $500 a year each: $24 per seat and the Nationals charge an additional 10% up front which you then get to use towards concessions. They also give us points which each of us can use to get about 4 free tickets a year. Beers and dogs aren't so cheap, but self-control and all.
It can cost $250 just for two to see the Capitals on a weekday in the nosebleeds before crappy Aramark food and progressively smaller beers. Forget the NFL. It costs just as much to park as to go to the game, which is generally unpleasant.
I did love this:
Meanwhile, prices for seats with access to heat — private suites or seats located by a warming concourse — are “holding steady,” said Gregoire, with the average sales price between $6,000 and $7,000.
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Regards,
Ted
And Of Course The Super Bowl:
Minor league games are still the best value. You see people who may be in the big leagues, tickets are cheap, snacks are reasonable and players often walk around after the game. Minor league games are what it's all about.
As for big stadiums, Qualcomm's new technology in stadiums (http://www.miamidolphins.com/news/article-1/Sun-Life-Stadium-Gets-First-Look-At-Qualcomm-Beacon-Technology/dbb500e4-79cf-4aea-8b30-5668d619f701) and other such things aren't going to reverse this trend.
As for attendance:
http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/cubs/post/_/id/20159/attendance-in-2013-lowest-in-last-15-years
http://www.forbes.com/sites/prishe/2013/06/01/reality-check-regarding-downward-trends-for-2013-mlb-attendance/
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/07/08/after-peaking-in-2007-nfl-attendance-steadily-has-declined/
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--keeping-fans-in-the-stands-is-getting-harder-to-do-005355696.html
http://business.time.com/2013/01/14/nba-teams-struggle-to-fill-arenas-even-when-cheap-seats-are-1-or-free/
etc etc.
It can cost $250 just for two to see the Capitals on a weekday in the nosebleeds before crappy Aramark food and progressively smaller beers. Forget the NFL. It costs just as much to park as to go to the game, which is generally unpleasant.
I did love this:
Regards,
Ted