Don’t get me wrong, I do agree with you
@onanygivensunday. I think prices are exorbitant as well. However there is a part of me that thinks if you can’t afford the tickets, then don’t be a STH. If you can somehow afford them only when the team is making playoff runs (when you actually shell out more $ for playoff games), then…….well….I don’t know.
I accomplished a life long goal of becoming a big four STH this past year (NHL). Well, I have half season which is plenty for me (and more affordable) at 21 games. I have decent seats, but the slightly better ones next to me have different opposing fans in them every single game. Whoever bought them obviously bought them with the exclusive intent to resell. It shouldn’t, but it just irks me a little knowing that fans are on the wait list that would love to support the team and enjoy the games.
Like most over 40 (I’m 52) on .net, we take pride in having been fans during the lean years, so as a life long Seahawks fan, it’s just weird seeing huge waves of opposing fans. But hell, it would have probably looked that way in my day as well had we had e tickets and internet. In my day you had to either: 1. List your paper tickets in the Times for sale for local pickup or leave in will call. 2. Sell them (or gift them) to a co worker or neighbor when you couldn’t make the game. Both options kept the stadiums full of blue and green.
