I have mentioned before that in a past life I subscribed to many (iirc, it was almost all) NFL team season ticket waiting lists. Some season tickets I was able to purchase right away, some I waited a few years for and some I will never get. I actually did purchase some of the season tickets, but the majority I ended up passing on - but an interesting experiment nonetheless. The real entertaining part of all of this is that I still get lots of junk mail from the respective teams. I think the most entertaining one had to be the recent Reskins piece claiming a season ticket waiting list that has something like a quarter of a million names on it, to sit in what is universally known as one of the worst places in all of the USA to watch a pro football game, FedEx Stadium.
Look at this flashy one I just got from the Giants. "An historic opportunity", eh? Lets look inside.
Club seats for the new Giants Stadium. I can't remember if they are sharing this new stadium with the Jets or not, like they are doing currently at the Meadowlands.*upon doing a little research, they are indeed sharing the stadium with the Jets, enabling the company to double dip on PSL's. Nice gig if you can get it.
Club seats get you admission to the bar area in the concourse behind the seats. You also get a "private" entrance so you don't have to bump shoulders with the peasants, as well as admission to the 50,000 square foot, climate controlled Mezzanine Club with upscale food and beverage options. And extra wide cushioned seats and extra leg room for your fat ass after you have stuffed your piehole with that upscale chow. The Bears have something similar on the lake side of Soldier Field.
Oh but you know you are going to pay for this, don't you? So just exactly how much?
These seats are in the mezzanine, indicated by the purple, yellow, blue and red coloring. Pricing:- Purple - $250 ticket per game per seat, $7500 PSL per seat
- Yellow - $400 ticket per game per seat, $7500 PSL per seat
- Blue - $500 ticket per game per seat, $12,500 PSL per seat
- Red - $700 ticket per game per seat, $20,000 PSL per seat
Holy schmolies I like football and everything but DAMN that is big bucks! Of course I will never pay any PSL for any game ever, so the amount of the PSL is somewhat of a moot point for me.
This document was pretty funny to read. I couldn't understand some parts of it and literally had to read through it four or five times to understand what the heck they were trying to say.
This section is the money:
As of this date, all Terrace and Mezzanine seats, as well as approximately 60 percent of the field level seats, have been installed. We now have the opportunity to review our pricing based on real seat locations/views. After literally sitting in many of the seats, we have decided to reduce the ticket price of the outer two sections in all four Mezzanine Club B corner areas from $400 to $250 per game. The PSL price for these seats will remain $7,500 and they will have access to the club areas. A total of 1,570 seats, which is roughly 40 percent of the remaining available seats in the new building (but only 1.9% of the total stadium's seating capacity) are impacted by this decision and will form the new Mezzanine Club C.
The English translation of this poorly written paragraph is that they created the purple section C out of the ends of the yellow section B because THOSE SEATS SUCK. You will note that ALL of those seats in the new section C are completely out of the end zone. Boy would I be pissed if I was in the yellow, across the aisle from the blue and knew I was paying $150 per game more than that drunkard.
Oh well, nobody ever said this stuff had to make sense, and I continue to be entertained by the stuff I get from these NFL teams.
3 comments:
You do get some interesting letters.
Obviously you'd never get Packers tickets in your lifetime but what other ones would you never get? Would it be the Steelers? I would have thought that you'd never get the Redskins 'til they built that terrible stadium.
I can't believe how much $ people pay to sit at those games. It is just crazy.
Back to our non PSL seats way up in the bleachers...
Steelers is a never. I have been on the Packer waiting list and have moved up a total of 10 (ten) places. So never getting those either. I really wish I would have been on the list before they socked all (every seat) of their fans with a $2k PSL. I would have liked to see how far I would have moved up the list. Probably not far, people would rather live in a smaller house or drive a crappier than be without their Packer tickets.
I couldn't believe it when I made it to the top of the 'skins list. They have great fans, but I think they have collectively said enough is enough with that lousy game day experience. Makes a day at Soldier Field look like we are staying at the penthouse at Caesar's Palace.
I don't think I will ever make it to the top of the list for the Broncos, Chiefs, Eagles, Pats, and maybe one or two others. Then again for some teams you can call them today and get season tix, as many as you want.
I find it hard to believe that people pay those exhorbitant PSL prices as well, even large corporations are going to start having a hard time explaining these away, especially in todays economy.
Agreed, back to the non PSL seats with the rest of the peasants in the West Upper Deck. I don't think the Bears have an insane enough fan base to risk putting PSL's on the West Upper Deck. The place might just empty out, especially if they fall flat on their face for a few years, like what we had in the decade before we went to the Super Bowl.
D'oh just got back from a long bike ride and not so sharp. Meant to say I have been on the Pack list for 13 years, and drive a crappier car.
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