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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:39 am
by Soup4Rush
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..

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:50 am
by Middle Kingdom
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.

Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:04 am
by YYZ30
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.

Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:51 am
by Soup4Rush
you said that well, I could not agree with you more..

Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:30 am
by YYZ30
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?

Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:02 am
by Middle Kingdom
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!

Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:01 am
by Soup4Rush
well at least they will be cheering for the Colts in this year's SuperBowl. :razz:

Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:12 am
by Middle Kingdom
yeah on Madden 08.

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

Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:40 am
by Soup4Rush
Blue silver and red,

sounds like a Colt fan drinking a Coors light at the Superbowl :-D

Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:39 pm
by CygnusX1
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.... :roll:

Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:21 am
by CygnusX1
Soup4Rush wrote:Blue silver and red,

sounds like a Colt fan drinking a Coors light at the Superbowl :-D
I'd kick a guy hard in the abdomen if he drank Coors Light. :twisted:

It's watered down girls beer. :roll:

Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:34 am
by zepboy
GO BILLS!!!

Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:44 am
by CygnusX1
^^^

LOL GO ZEP! :headbang:


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


They should run up the score too. :twisted:

Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:26 am
by YYZ30
A'ight Skins fans...explain this fan of yours to me:

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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:36 am
by CygnusX1
YYZ30 wrote:A'ight Skins fans...explain this fan of yours to me:

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