55,000 Fans?

[100%CardsFan]

Dennis Green said he wanted at least 55,000 fans for the home opener for 2004, Could this be a possibility and not all opposing fans??? I think we had 23,000 for the opener last year against Seattle, It was embarassing

 

[SECTION 11]

Ticket Guy said there were 1,400 new season tickets since Jan. 1.

 

[DieHardCardFan]

That sure would be cool! But damn it is going to be pretty hot out for the average joe! I can tell you that our crew will have 8 with us each and every game!

 

[SECTION 11]

Last year there were 300 at this time, according to this guy at the ticket booth at the chalk talk deal.

 

[100%CardsFan]

Good, it is pathetic for fans not to come out to watch NFL football, even losing teams throughout the country have at least 50,000 fans that go to the games.

 

[CardShark]

It really comes down to what the Cards do in free agency and the draft. Dennis green was a great hire to start things off but it can't stop with that. They need to add players that are going to get more people excited about watching them play and feeling that they are going to be competitive. Emmitt was not the answer to that. The moves in the draft had everyone scratching their head. They did good on getting everyone into camp but they dragged out the free agency thing and really only ended up with 2 players that even helped at all. They may think they don't want to pay alot of money for those sexy free agents but face it, they are the only way more people are going to get interested until the Cards start winning. Even then it'll take at least a couple of winning seasons to win people over. As far as the draft, Eli Manning might draw alot of interest if he was going to be starting, but that is very unlikely even if the Cards do draft him. Maybe adding Williams or Fitz would help a little, but any other player is not going to be a factor. So it does come down to adding a quality free agent or two.

 

[AZCardsWin]

The NFL giving the Cardinals a Sunday Night home opener would benefit this greatly olike it was for all of those years....

Go Cards/ America!
Tim

 

[AntSports Steve]

Yes, a Sunday night game would help, but the NFL stopped giving the Cards Sunday night games as everyone of them was a disappointment for TV.

 

[Chris_Sanders]

Me and my buddy will have our new season tickets shortly. We stopped getting them about two years ago.

 

[vikesfan]

The responses I got on my questions regarding college football in Arizona indicate to me Arizona might not be a big sports state.

Any winning team in the NFL will get 55,000 (even in Arizona? I assume? How was attendance in 98?) that is not the issue. The issue is to get 55,000 when you are trying to build a winner.

I think the Bidwells showed a committment this year with hiring a coach who is a proven winner and gets paid like it and will expect the Bidwells to spend money on players.

As long as the Cards try and sign some quality FAs. And don't sit on their butts - again why hired DG if you aren't going to spend to win -
and do nothing shouldn't the fans support the team.


DG and his approach - some decent FAs (I assume) - a couple good draft picks... shouldn't 55,000 people be there for every game to be the 12th man! As long as the Cards are really trying to win and doing what it takes?

If not maybe Arizona is not a good sports state or football state or NFL football state. And then nothing can be done about that. It would have been just another bad move by Bidwill to move the team there. And with the new stadium
he ain't leaving.

 

[100%CardsFan]

If everyone that goes to the games could bring one of their friends, brother in law, cousin, etc, just for one game they will fall in love with live NFL football. My brother in law never saw a NFL game in person and was a Cowboy fan until I took him to his first NFL game when the Cardinals beat Dallas with a last second field goal, he has lived here now for 5 years and is a diehard Cards fan now because he got to see the Cards in person. Live football does mysterious things.

 

[vikesfan]

It seems like there are hardcore football fans in Arizona but in 20,000 lots. 20,000 Vikes fans. 20,000 Pack fans. 20,000 Cowboys fans. 20,000 Cards fan. The only way to beat that is to get people into the Cards not tied into other teams to become Cards fans. I would never switch teams not matter what. Another possibility a winning Cards team could make some of these fans pick the Cards as their 2nd fave team and this could help attendance and team support.

Come on folks start brainwashing. Huge pro-Card home crowds will help the Cards.

 

[Redmark]

Originally posted by AntSports Steve
Yes, a Sunday night game would help, but the NFL stopped giving the Cards Sunday night games as everyone of them was a disappointment for TV.

Most were but the 2 comeback wins over the Cowboys, one led by Kent Graham with LC scoring the winning TD and the other by Jake against Randall Cunningham were 2 of those most thrilling I've seen on a Sunday or a Monday night!

 

[daytripper]

Originally posted by Redmark
Most were but the 2 comeback wins over the Cowboys, one lead by Kent Graham with LC scoring the winning TD and the other by Jake against Randall Cunningham were 2 of those most thrilling I've seen on a Sunday or a Monday night!

I still have of video of helping tear down the goal post after we beat the felons in (97?).
After a year off for med reasons I am proud to say that Im one of the new 1110 season tix buyers. Im in the North end zone aka "the frying pan". Section 22 row 22 seat 2. I figure no matter how drunk I get I should be able to find my way back to that seat!. It also puts me in the corner where the Oline warms up. Maybe we can help fire Mr Davis up so he loses his 1st quarter tenativeness.
Im going to need to get a huge sombrero or some other portable shade for the unrelenting sun though. A trip to Nogie may be in order to have a custom Cardinal one made.
Later
GBR
DT

 

[JeffGollin]

I still have of video of helping tear down the goal post after we beat the felons in (97?).

I made the trip out to AZ for the Cardinal - Felon game. (Spent a great evening before with Maddjack, NetSport. Bill Price, Rowland Price, Carl P, Zeno, Reino and others and tailgated with Reino and a few others the next day. Even got the opportunity to eat breakfast with AZR beat writer, Lee Shappell).

There was a guerrilla cyber-effort to sell tix to that gameby a bunch of us on the old Arizona Central AOL Cards Corner bulletin board led by a guy named Dave Baker. Objective was to pre-empt Felon fans from overloading SDS.

There was a lot of give and take by the media as to whether there were more Cardinal fans or Felon fans at the game. Tell you one thing - by the end of the game (when Butthead hit the bank shot to win it you saw mostly red & white, because the Felon fans either removed or hid their logo'd apparel.

 

[Duckjake]

The new stadium should really help with increasing the fan base.

Right now the Cardinals disappear from Phoenix within hours of a home game and stay gone until the Sunday morning of the next home game, which can be as much as 4 weeks later. The banners come down at SDS and it returns to it's status as a college football stadium. The entire area around the stadium is ASU oriented. There is nothing in town to remind residents that the Cards are their local team other than a non-descript brick building at the corner of Hardy and Warner.

Lambeau Field, Buccaneer Stadium, the SuperDome, Reliant,
Arrowhead etc. are all constant reminders of the NFL teams that call them home. Every event scheduled at the stadium markets the franchises. They are, in effect, highly visible marketing wonders.

The new stadium, even with it's controversial location, will do the same thing for the RedBirds.

After all how can you be the Home Town Team when you don't even have a "home".