"Fearing" 49er fans, Blocking ticket sales?

[lukerguy]

To me this seems like a non-story. Even Seahawks fans can't get tickets. They probably release less than 500 tickets.

 

[-The Glove-]

Can't believe this non story is getting this much hype. The Broncos are doing the EXACT SAME THING. Limiting it to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, Montana, South Dakota or Western Kansas. That's according to bigfootball. Great reporting CSN Bay Area and ESPN. Gimme a break!

Is this true?

 

[Throwdown]

I have no problem with it honestly, shouldn't be no ugly ass red and gold in our beautiful stadium.

 

[AF_Hawk]

Personally, I love it.

Niners, if you want to have tickets to the NFC Championship, how about starting by winning the West?

This x1000

 

[Hasselbeck]

Can't believe this non story is getting this much hype. The Broncos are doing the EXACT SAME THING. Limiting it to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, Montana, South Dakota or Western Kansas. That's according to bigfootball. Great reporting CSN Bay Area and ESPN. Gimme a break!

Is this true?

Yep.

http://www.9news.com/news/article/37306 ... ale-Monday

 

[-The Glove-]

Can't believe this non story is getting this much hype. The Broncos are doing the EXACT SAME THING. Limiting it to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, Montana, South Dakota or Western Kansas. That's according to bigfootball. Great reporting CSN Bay Area and ESPN. Gimme a break!

Is this true?

Yep.

http://www.9news.com/news/article/37306 ... ale-Monday

Just found this

 

[Hasselbeck]

Clearly the Broncos don't want 49er fans at their game either.

 

[-The Glove-]

Clearly the Broncos don't want 49er fans at their game either.

Lmao

 

[loafoftatupu]

I have no problem with it honestly, shouldn't be no ugly ass red and gold in our beautiful stadium.

Hell yes. Those stands should be filled with blue and green and only blue and green. I don't mind either.

 

[scutterhawk]

Really?

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/0 ... ifornians/

Well they do have to have something for an excuse when their team loses at he CLINK again. :stirthepot: :49ersmall:

 

[RussellMania]

I agree, don't know why this is even a story. If the 49ers were blocking people from Washington it really wouldn't be a big deal to me. It's called a home game for a reason. I'm also pretty sure they stop people from outside their territory from buying season tickets so that you don't have people around the country just buying them as investments to sell on them on StubHub. It's probably not even local team rules but NFL rules.

 

[-The Glove-]

Haven't seen or heard any Patriot's fans bitching about this policy yet. Only Whiners making a huge deal out of this. Arizona did this is 2009. Where was this outrage then?

 

[HawkMeat]

I agree, don't know why this is even a story. If the 49ers were blocking people from Washington it really wouldn't be a big deal to me. It's called a home game for a reason. I'm also pretty sure they stop people from outside their territory from buying season tickets so that you don't have people around the country just buying them as investments to sell on them on StubHub. It's probably not even local team rules but NFL rules.

You are right. It is not a story. It is to provide 49er fans something to whine about and an excuse to add to their list.

The thing is this happens all the time. It helps minimize ticket scalpers who are only going to resell the tickets. There is stub hub and honestly unless you already paid for the tickets as a season holder you have to go that route anyway. Local Hawk fans will have to do the same thing to get tickets.

When I go the game all I want to see are Hawk fans, and curse anyone who sells their tickets to a 49ers fan.

 

[StorytellerMatt]

My college at K-State had to start doing this for the NU game. NU was given its required allotment, but if you wanted to purchase outside that allotment, you needed a Kansas zip code (of course, there are a lot of Huskers fans in Kansas). All teams do this.

This is a classic example of non-news that we call "fark" in this internet age. It's when news media take something common and try to sensationalize it. A geologist can notice a shift in the tectonic plates beneath the USA of one inch inland-ward, report it, and a news outlet will scream "LAND MASS OF UNITED STATES ACTUALLY GETTING SMALLER!!!!!" During that whole debacle during the 2000 election and whether or not Bush won Florida, there was news of a Florida retirement community that was about 60% Jewish where the majority of them did not make it to the polls. One media outlet ran a story about "HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS IN FLORIDA MAY HAVE NOT BEEN ALLOWED TO VOTE!!!!!!!"

Fark, my friends.

In Baltimore, if you want tickets to the home game against the Steelers, you are required to purchase tickets to two more home games; otherwise, the Stealers fans would gobble up the tickets. Something similar is done in Philly with New York and DC home games (and I'm sure the Vagiants and the Foreskins do the same thing).

 

[ImTheScientist]

Really?

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/0 ... ifornians/

Denver is doing the same.

 

[Uffda]

Denver is doing the same type of thing , none are making a big deal out of that.

http://blogs.denverpost.com/broncos/201 ... ver/25020/


edit . didn't see the post above.

 

[Seahawks1983]

As many niner fans as always will show up (like 5%-10% of the crowd, sounds about normal) .

This gesture, in no way whatsoever, keeps California residents from buying tickets secondhand. Almost all, virtually 100%, of opposing fans will buy their tickets from a third-party distributor (stubhub, etc) and there's nothing the Seahawks organization can do about it.

Sure there is, they can deny entry into the stadium to anyone in visiting team colors. :twisted:

 

[253hawk]

So how will the cops get in then?

 

[drdiags]

The ticket issue just helps talking heads and butt-hurt fans hype the flames. To cut down the homicide rates, it probably isn't a bad idea to exclude visiting fans. Though I am sure our traveling fans wouldn't buy that line of thinking.

Teams should be able to sell 100% of their seats to team fans but for some TBD reason the NFL likes having a small block set aside for visiting fans and misc folks.

Would a more restrictive ticketing policy really change the appeal of the NFL? I wonder.

 

[Seahawks1983]

The ticket issue just helps talking heads and butt-hurt fans hype the flames. To cut down the homicide rates, it probably isn't a bad idea to exclude visiting fans. Though I am sure our traveling fans wouldn't buy that line of thinking.

Teams should be able to sell 100% of their seats to team fans but for some TBD reason the NFL likes having a small block set aside for visiting fans and misc folks.

Would a more restrictive ticketing policy really change the appeal of the NFL? I wonder.

That small block you describe is typically reserved to fulfill player and team employee requests. On the rare occasion that they aren't all used the tickets are then released back into the general pool.

Personally, I would love to see the NFL institute some sort of visitors section/allotment similar to what college football does, but I'm guessing that probably wouldn't fly with many fans.