SkyDog112046 wrote:My brother has 4 season tickets so he can get Superbowl tickets if he wants them. He and his wife just had a baby so they can't go. I told him to spend the $2k on the tickets, sell them and start a college fund for my nephew.
Huh? I don't think he can just "get tickets" because he's a (what, colts, giants, pats?) season ticket holder.
You enter a lottery and some paltry number of tickets - maybe 1,000 per team - get awarded to season ticket holders. It ain't that easy.
Yeah, it's a lottery. And the lucky SOB's number came up for 2 tickets. He goes gambling down to Foxwoods and wins there all the time too. Kid was born with a horseshoe up his butt.
My luck doesn't work that way. Fuck, if I owned 65k of those 68k seats I still wouldn't have won tickets.
MickeyG wrote:
The real fans that aren't in the corporate seats will go no matter what weather it's in. And the corporates are inside in their boxes anyway.
Have you seen the prices on Super Bowl seats? Sporting events don't get much more corporate than the Super Bowl.
It's crazy. The going rate right now is between $3k-$4k depending on location. Suites are selling for close to $600k. Even face value for tickets averages $500 a seat. For the first 20 years face value was $75. The Superbowl has long since been about real fans.
My brother has 4 season tickets so he can get Superbowl tickets if he wants them. He and his wife just had a baby so they can't go. I told him to spend the $2k on the tickets, sell them and start a college fund for my nephew.
That's a shame that they are pricing out the real fans. It's getting the same with all sports though. FA Cup final tickets last season for the most expensive were about $170 or so. Scandalous really.
MickeyG wrote:Sounds like Licketys brother actually has morals and doesn't want to fuck people over. Still, business is business in America.
Getting market value for something isn't immoral. That's just capitalism. I'd feel bad about selling my tickets to a friend at quadruple face value, but I wouldn't bat an eye at putting them on stubhub or eBay.
Crazy Levi wrote:
It sounds to me he's too chickenshit to make the $2000 investment and is worried he'll have to eat tickets.
Or maybe he just doesn't have 2 grand he can afford to float. I can't imagine being worried about eating the cost. Super Bowl tickets aren't exactly difficult to move.
Crazy Levi wrote:
It sounds to me he's too chickenshit to make the $2000 investment and is worried he'll have to eat tickets.
Or maybe he just doesn't have 2 grand he can afford to float. I can't imagine being worried about eating the cost. Super Bowl tickets aren't exactly difficult to move.
He can afford them. After he found out he could have the tickets but couldn't go he said he was going to buy them and offer them to friends at face value. I told him to buy them and hawk them for market value instead and use the profit to start a college fund for his son.
I dunno, I've never heard of this type of stuff before I moved here. I've never heard soccer or rugby fans from back home ever say "I'm gonna buy some tickets then move 'em on for a profit." I've never heard of anyone buying cup final tickets without the intention of using them themselves. Sure, shit happens after people have bought them, but they can usually find someone to take them for face value, no problem. In fact, you'd be looked down on moving tickets on like that. It would be seen as depriving a real fan of a chance to go. But I guess seeing as "real fans" don't go to the super bowl, it doesn't matter anyway.
MickeyG wrote:I dunno, I've never heard of this type of stuff before I moved here. I've never heard soccer or rugby fans from back home ever say "I'm gonna buy some tickets then move 'em on for a profit." I've never heard of anyone buying cup final tickets without the intention of using them themselves. Sure, shit happens after people have bought them, but they can usually find someone to take them for face value, no problem. In fact, you'd be looked down on moving tickets on like that. It would be seen as depriving a real fan of a chance to go. But I guess seeing as "real fans" don't go to the super bowl, it doesn't matter anyway.
Sometimes you gotta go.
If I had a shot at a Super Bowl ticket for $1000, I'd do it.
I "won" tickets for the AC/DC concert at Roseland ballroom 10 years ago...this is a tiny place compared to where they usually play, and they weren't touring or anything, it was a one off show. I had offers of $1000 for both of them, and decided instead to go to the show with a friend. I didn't have much money back then either.
MickeyG wrote:I dunno, I've never heard of this type of stuff before I moved here. I've never heard soccer or rugby fans from back home ever say "I'm gonna buy some tickets then move 'em on for a profit." I've never heard of anyone buying cup final tickets without the intention of using them themselves. Sure, shit happens after people have bought them, but they can usually find someone to take them for face value, no problem. In fact, you'd be looked down on moving tickets on like that. It would be seen as depriving a real fan of a chance to go. But I guess seeing as "real fans" don't go to the super bowl, it doesn't matter anyway.
The Super Bowl is a different animal than your typical game. If I won the ticket lottery and my team was playing in it, I'd go, but for two teams I really don't care about, I'd take the profit. The same thing happens for the Olympics and World Cup doesn't it? The same thing happens to a lesser extent during regular season. Texans games for instance, are always sold out, but you get season ticket holders that can't go to a game for whatever reason and they'll sell them on eBay. They're usually not seeing much profit in those instances though. I usually go to 2 or 3 games a year and I almost always get my tix from on online source like stubhub or eBay unless I happen to get a hookup from a friend. I usually end up paying pretty close to face value.
With the SB being in NOLA next year, I'm working every avenue I can to score tickets. If it's the Saints in the game by the grace of god, people are getting murdered.
Well, England fans aren't usually allowed to travel to a World Cup unless you have tickets and the supporters club is pretty strict on what they allow. Too many knobheads travelling to cause trouble.
I know what you're saying about the super bowl being special, that's why I'd compare it to getting to Wembley in either soccer or Rugby. Season ticket holders get priority and last season both competing clubs got 25000 each of the 90000 total of tickets for the FA Cup Final. 23000 get spread across all clubs and 17000 are corporate. I don't know how that compares to the super bowl.
During the season most people give their tickets to a relative or friend if they can't get to a game they've got a season ticket for. You've already paid for it so unless it's a big game you're shit out of luck usually trying to sell them.
HMJ wrote:With the SB being in NOLA next year, I'm working every avenue I can to score tickets. If it's the Saints in the game by the grace of god, people are getting murdered.
If you can seriously "score" tickets by any means other than paying market rate, I'll be awfully impressed. I'm pretty sure you aren't the only native who wants tickets.
I have a feeling I'll be coming to town for the game - if not to actually get inside the Superdome, just to be there. I'm sure it'll be fun.
HMJ wrote:With the SB being in NOLA next year, I'm working every avenue I can to score tickets. If it's the Saints in the game by the grace of god, people are getting murdered.
If you can seriously "score" tickets by any means other than paying market rate, I'll be awfully impressed. I'm pretty sure you aren't the only native who wants tickets.
I have a feeling I'll be coming to town for the game - if not to actually get inside the Superdome, just to be there. I'm sure it'll be fun.
I still work for a bar / restaurant in NOLA that is tight with the Saints organization. We had Mickey Loomis (GM)'s 50th bday party. I'll probably be picking up work there again when I move back in 2 weeks. Several of my friends are also distributors / bar managers with strong connections to the usual sponsors...like Miller Lite, etc. It has not been uncommon for any of my friends to score free Dome tickets. 50yd line. It's a small town.
HMJ wrote:
I still work for a bar / restaurant in NOLA that is tight with the Saints organization. We had Mickey Loomis (GM)'s 50th bday party. I'll probably be picking up work there again when I move back in 2 weeks. Several of my friends are also distributors / bar managers with strong connections to the usual sponsors...like Miller Lite, etc. It has not been uncommon for any of my friends to score free Dome tickets. 50yd line. It's a small town.
Like I said, I'll be awfully impressed.
Those tickets will be worth several thousand bucks...small town or not people in New Orleans LOVE a good scam and hate working. Doing a "solid" for their good buddy HMJ might not be top of the list.
SkyDog112046 wrote:Having the Superbowl in NOLA next year will be a letdown. Coming on the heels of having it in the "greatest SB city in the world" this year.
Seriously, how could anyone ever compare the two cities?
SkyDog112046 wrote:Having the Superbowl in NOLA next year will be a letdown. Coming on the heels of having it in the "greatest SB city in the world" this year.
Seriously, how could anyone ever compare the two cities?
cantstopthemusic wrote:"Gronk" will be a NON-FACTOR in the Super Bowl.
Not a total non factor. With two weeks rest there's a chance he'll be on the field at least. He's still a height mismatch to the extent he doesn't have to significantly out-manouevere people to get a catch, and he'll serve as a decoy to open up Hernandez and Welker still... But yeah, he won't be near the force he was during the season. Brady can't balance that out to a point, but the defense will probably still have a few less points to work with as a result. Real pressure's on them IMO.
Moggio wrote:You see, the problem with you is that you act like I have no credibility or something.
PhoenixFlames wrote:AVATAR made 2.7 billion which (maths) is close to 3 x million millions!!!!!!
cantstopthemusic wrote:"Gronk" will be a NON-FACTOR in the Super Bowl.
Not a total non factor. With two weeks rest there's a chance he'll be on the field at least. He's still a height mismatch to the extent he doesn't have to significantly out-manouevere people to get a catch, and he'll serve as a decoy to open up Hernandez and Welker still... But yeah, he won't be near the force he was during the season. Brady can't balance that out to a point, but the defense will probably still have a few less points to work with as a result. Real pressure's on them IMO.
He will be a non-factor. Dwight Freeney had a similar injury going into the Super Bowl two years ago. He was not anywhere near his normal self, and as the game went on, his effectiveness plummeted. In the end he was a big non-factor and that really hurt us in that game.
Gronkowski may have a catch or two in the beginning of the game. But as the game progresses, the ankle will get worse, limiting his ability to do much of anything.
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cantstopthemusic wrote:"Gronk" will be a NON-FACTOR in the Super Bowl.
Not a total non factor. With two weeks rest there's a chance he'll be on the field at least. He's still a height mismatch to the extent he doesn't have to significantly out-manouevere people to get a catch, and he'll serve as a decoy to open up Hernandez and Welker still... But yeah, he won't be near the force he was during the season. Brady can't balance that out to a point, but the defense will probably still have a few less points to work with as a result. Real pressure's on them IMO.
He will be a non-factor. Dwight Freeney had a similar injury going into the Super Bowl two years ago. He was not anywhere near his normal self, and as the game went on, his effectiveness plummeted. In the end he was a big non-factor and that really hurt us in that game.
Gronkowski may have a catch or two in the beginning of the game. But as the game processes, the ankle will get worse, limiting his ability to do much of anything.
Oh, no doubt. If he's anywhere near his best he's either superman, or the injury wasn't what we were lead to believe. But note I said not a total non factor. Given the season he's had, a couple of catches early will necessitate a defensive response that might open something else up for Brady. If he can get on the field he can still play a role. NE are sharp enough to use him in some way if he can get on the field.
Moggio wrote:You see, the problem with you is that you act like I have no credibility or something.
PhoenixFlames wrote:AVATAR made 2.7 billion which (maths) is close to 3 x million millions!!!!!!
cantstopthemusic wrote:"Gronk" will be a NON-FACTOR in the Super Bowl.
Not a total non factor. With two weeks rest there's a chance he'll be on the field at least. He's still a height mismatch to the extent he doesn't have to significantly out-manouevere people to get a catch, and he'll serve as a decoy to open up Hernandez and Welker still... But yeah, he won't be near the force he was during the season. Brady can't balance that out to a point, but the defense will probably still have a few less points to work with as a result. Real pressure's on them IMO.
He will be a non-factor. Dwight Freeney had a similar injury going into the Super Bowl two years ago. He was not anywhere near his normal self, and as the game went on, his effectiveness plummeted. In the end he was a big non-factor and that really hurt us in that game.
Gronkowski may have a catch or two in the beginning of the game. But as the game processes, the ankle will get worse, limiting his ability to do much of anything.
It didn't stop Andre Johnson last season. It slowed him down some, sure, but he was still effective. I'd say it varies depending on severity and the individual's tolerance. It could be a really big problem, or it could be relatively minor.
Gronkowski finished the game last week. They taped him up and gave him a shot and he was able to get back out there. He'll play next Sunday. It's the Superbowl. If he needs work before the game or at halftime he'll get it and then they'll deal with it after the season. The swelling should be gone so he'll have his mobility back so it's just a matter of dealing with the pain and I'm sure that will be addressed. The guy is a beast. He'll get through it.
