Oh for the love of football

Soup4Rush · Post by **Soup4Rush** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:39 am

I saw something on countdown this morning. with the NFL having the Dolphins/Giants playing in London and than the game last year in Mexico, they said something about playing the Super Bowl overseas. I don't know about you guys but if they do that, I am done with football. regular season games played overseas pisses me off anyway. Football is an American game.. Football is so big here why they hell do they need to market it somewhere else? I don't get it..

Middle Kingdom · Post by **Middle Kingdom** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:50 am

Pre season, and 1 regular season don't bother me.

But to rob us of the Super Bowl would be outrageous!

I wouldn't be done with football.
But to have the championship game be attended by folks
that don't even know the rules would be ridiculous.

YYZ30 · Post by **YYZ30** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:04 am

Middle Kingdom wrote:But to have the championship game be attended by folks
that don't even know the rules would be ridiculous.

What so different about that scenario than now? Most of the good seats and skyboxes are sold to corporates who could give two tosses about the game, probably don't know the rules and people who do go - they go to say "I was there for Super Bowl (insert number here)".

The ticketing system for that one game is horribly broken and will never be fixed.

Soup4Rush · Post by **Soup4Rush** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:51 am

you said that well, I could not agree with you more..

YYZ30 · Post by **YYZ30** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:30 am

My SB ticketing system:

Any ads bought by companies would entitle said company to 100 tickets per $1M worth of advertising sold. You want your company in? Buy ad time.

Skyboxes? The corporates will always get those, splitting those up to 1-2 per team and having an auction will always mean a big entity with $$$ to spend will always win. That won't ever be fixed.

So you lose at the most 10K tickets to the ad firms. That leaves roughly 50K tickets- season ticket holders for the two competitors in the game get first crack at prime seating. After that, fans with mailing addresses in the area of the two teams get next crack. Then the remainder go on sale to the general public, first come, first serve.

The way the NFL has it split up right now is ridiculous, and caters to big $$$. Its a league for the fan but the fans can't see the biggest game of the year?

Middle Kingdom · Post by **Middle Kingdom** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:02 am

Yeah you are right, most people at the SB are there to be seen.

At least they know when to cheer though.
A key sack on third down brings a big roar
from the crowd. Overseas though it would bring
a big mumble -'did they do something good?'

Your ticketing plan sounds great to me!

Soup4Rush · Post by **Soup4Rush** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:01 am

well at least they will be cheering for the Colts in this year's SuperBowl.

Middle Kingdom · Post by **Middle Kingdom** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:12 am

yeah on Madden 08.

At the real game the be rooting for the Blue, Silver and Red.

Soup4Rush · Post by **Soup4Rush** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:40 am

Blue silver and red,

sounds like a Colt fan drinking a Coors light at the Superbowl

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:39 pm

Middle Kingdom wrote:At least they know when to
cheer though. A key sack on third down brings a big
roar from the crowd. Overseas though it would bring
a big mumble -'did they do something good?'

right on brudda. The only ones I saw cheering looked like
the groundskeepers....

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:21 am

Soup4Rush wrote:Blue silver and red,

sounds like a Colt fan drinking a Coors light at the Superbowl

I'd kick a guy hard in the abdomen if he drank Coors Light.

It's watered down girls beer.

zepboy · Post by **zepboy** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:34 am

GO BILLS!!!

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:44 am

^^^

LOL GO ZEP!

I feel sorry for whoever the Redskins are playing this weekend.

They should run up the score too.

YYZ30 · Post by **YYZ30** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:26 am

A'ight Skins fans...explain this fan of yours to me:

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:36 am

YYZ30 wrote:A'ight Skins fans...explain this fan of yours to me:

Can't see the pic Z.... I get a x