Sports Tickets: How much is too much?
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by user Ross K.
Tickets for single season Cleveland Browns tickets went on sale today. I thought I'd look into getting a pair since I haven't been to a game since the year they "came back." It costs over a hundred bucks for two tickets in the far corner of the upper deck, row 26 or something like that.
I realize that the Browns always sell out, someone will pay that $120 bucks or whatever to sit there, but still, isn't this a bit of highway robbery? That's one of the things that sucks about short NFL seasons. With only a select number of games to attend, the value of a ticket goes way up. You can still take the whole family to a baseball game for under a hundred bucks because there's 81 home games. But since there is only 8 home games in the NFL, the fans have to pay. Big time.
The NBA is, of course, in between because their season length is in the middle. You can get two decent seats for around $60 or 70.
Do how does this affect fanship? Baseball is (for the time being) still America's pastime. Would this change if ticket prices became more family friendly in other sports? I've only been to one pro football game and two or three pro basketball games but I've been to over a hundred MLB games, easy.
Is this why my devotion lies more to baseball than other professional sports? Watching games on TV is good, but nothing like seeing a live game. It's easy to go to a Major League game on a whim, you only need 20 bucks for two tickets, if that, at most parks. Football and even basketball, on the other hand, requires a few months of financial planning for a lot of people. It's even cheaper to pay for gas and tickets to visit several different baseball parks in a year than go to an NFL game.
The ticket price differences also seems a little contradictory considering a lot of baseball teams pay highers salaries to more players than the NFL does.
Anyway, I'm just kind of ranting here. I don't really have a point I'm trying to get to. I was just dissapointed that the "cheap seats" at a Browns game cost more than the TV I could watch them on at home (if the Columbus stations decide to show them over the Bengals).
I guess I'll just keep giving my money to the Tribe. That way, I might end up spending a couple hundred, but at least it will be over and handful of games and not just one.
Date
Sat 07/15/06, 9:50 am EST
