Fewer Than 3,000 Season Tickets Remain For Inaugural Season At Cardinals Stadium

[football karma]

From a variety of sources:

1. The team does withhold some tickets -- not a huge number -- but they are reserved for the opposing team (not their fans, but players, front office, etc) For obvious reasons, these dont count against sell outs.

2. The person I talked to about how many season tickets would be sold made a distinction between "available season tickets" and "total capacity". Didnt say, but I came away with the impression that the team is holding back a small number for game to game sales.

3. The Club section is apparently sold out.

4. Everything from the Ring of Honor on down is pretty much sold out. There may be some 2s and (mostly) 3s scattered about in the main sections, but not much. There are a couple small triangle sections (137 and 117 I think) in the lower that have seats, but that is it.

5. I think between some good local buzz for the team (Bickley, Gambo, local TV, etc has all been really positive) and todays announcement, another 2,000 tickets get sold.

My guess is that season tickets will be around 61 k or so

 

[AZ Shocker]

Question if anyone knows:
How many season tickets were sold last year for Sun Devil Stadium?

 

[football karma]

Question if anyone knows:
How many season tickets were sold last year for Sun Devil Stadium?

I think the number was around 33k

 

[seesred]

The first year we had about 50K sold. Some games even sold out. We were 7-4 and LOmax got hurt and we didn't win a game the rest of the year. The next year we went down to the low 40's. The fan base was shrinking because Bidwill got some bad advise coming in and had very high ticket prices. The third year tickets went down to the 30K Mark and the ticket prices came down as well. The buddy ryan years were good for attendance but very bad for the team and when he left so did many new season ticket holders.

1988 some things did change Mr. Biege took over as coach the prior year from Bugle who had built a nice little base for winning football. You could hear the buzz change and we went on to sell out the last game against San Diego and many fans went out to the airport to send them off to Dallas. Then as usal the front office screwed up things letting Jamir, Lomas and Larry Centers our heart to leave the team as we were in cap hell.

Then along comes Green. Big in many ways and an authentic head coach that is a winner and knows players. Through two frustrating seasons he stuck to his plan. Draft, FA, player development. He didn't let thing stand in his way. He fired coiaches mid season if they didn't buy in. He changed 80% of the roster. He pushed the owners to make good decisions and brought in Edge, Fits, Dansby just to name a few.

Denny Green IMO has sold out this new stadium with a little bit of help from his friends. I hope he now starts something he knows a lot about, winning. But when those 63 thousand fans start chanting and pushing our team on , it will have been the Man named Green who put them there.

GBR
40

 

[ARZCardinals]

The first year we had about 50K sold. Some games even sold out. We were 7-4 and LOmax got hurt and we didn't win a game the rest of the year. The next year we went down to the low 40's. The fan base was shrinking because Bidwill got some bad advise coming in and had very high ticket prices. The third year tickets went down to the 30K Mark and the ticket prices came down as well. The buddy ryan years were good for attendance but very bad for the team and when he left so did many new season ticket holders.

1988 some things did change Mr. Biege took over as coach the prior year from Bugle who had built a nice little base for winning football. You could hear the buzz change and we went on to sell out the last game against San Diego and many fans went out to the airport to send them off to Dallas. Then as usal the front office screwed up things letting Jamir, Lomas and Larry Centers our heart to leave the team as we were in cap hell.

Then along comes Green. Big in many ways and an authentic head coach that is a winner and knows players. Through two frustrating seasons he stuck to his plan. Draft, FA, player development. He didn't let thing stand in his way. He fired coiaches mid season if they didn't buy in. He changed 80% of the roster. He pushed the owners to make good decisions and brought in Edge, Fits, Dansby just to name a few.

Denny Green IMO has sold out this new stadium with a little bit of help from his friends. I hope he now starts something he knows a lot about, winning. But when those 63 thousand fans start chanting and pushing our team on , it will have been the Man named Green who put them there.

GBR
40

well said!

 

[Stallion]

Just another number for speculation. At the bottom of this article John Clayton says, "54,000 season tickets have been sold."

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=clayton_john&id=2431150&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab2pos3

 

[justAndy]

I'm Low Class.
Season cheap seats ticket holder for 6 years.
Poor was never an excuse.

 

[AzCards21]

Just talked to a guy who called to get in line for season tickets last week. Said he hasn't heard anything from the Cards and is getting worried he won't get them.

 

[football karma]

Talked to the ticket office-- they expect the last season tickets to be gone by this week

 

[football karma]

Just another number for speculation. At the bottom of this article John Clayton says, "54,000 season tickets have been sold."

That seems low relative to the "less than 3,000 season tickets remain"

 

[Bada0Bing]

I’m not sure about this so I’ll ask. Does anyone know exactly how many “season tickets” are available for sale in total?

 

[ajcardfan]

That seems low relative to the "less than 3,000 season tickets remain"

Seems about right. That would leave around 6,000 for the opposing team and single game sales.

 

[nurnay]

Let me mention a couple of other points here. Even if they don't offer a ton of single game tix through the Cardinals office, there are always a lot of local ticket agencies that sell them. Yes, they cost a little more, but at least you can still go see a game if you really want to.

However, I agree that that they should have a good number of single game seats available. The vast majority of people can't afford a season ticket package. Also, there are fans outside of Arizona (like myself) that will want to visit and see a game.

The argument that people had the chance to purchase single game seats at SDS and chose not to is not a fair one. The fact is, SDS sucked. Extremely hot, uncomfortable seats, lousy amenities, etc. I can't blame the average fan for not wanting to spend hard-earned money for that experience.

 

[MigratingOsprey]

Just talked to a guy who called to get in line for season tickets last week. Said he hasn't heard anything from the Cards and is getting worried he won't get them.

I think they are bucking the line - have them call back - a coworker and myself both bought this week and I think they put a disclaimer on the site saying that doing the registration/list thing doesn't get you much at this point

the ticket office is busy, no use in waiting for them to call you

even with tickets held for single game sales & opposing teams there will still be scattered seats that can create an issue

in 2001 the browns didn't have an open ticket sale - you either had season tickets or you didn't have tickets - to watch the hawks there I bought from a season ticket holder (which was rare because it was opening day)

the downside to all this is that some fans are going to get frozen out - on the up side, at least the game will be on TV

 

[Sandan]

The reality is that if more fans want tickets than there are tickets available, then some won't get them. This is not been 'Frozen Out'.

It's simple supply and demand, and it appears the demand is greater than the supply.

 

[slanidrac16]

There will be some single tickets left but most might be only be single seats. The blackout will be lifted because the few remaining tickets will be bought up by brokers and sponsors.
In Chicago where there is a waiting list to get on to purchase season tickets, single game tickets go on sale sometime in June.
In fact a couple of years ago when the Cards came here I got 2 tickets behind the Cards bench on the 40 yard line, about 25 rows up. That was threw ticket master.
So rest assured at the very least there will be some single game tickets available....but they won't last long.

 

[RedStorm]

The reality is that if more fans want tickets than there are tickets available, then some won't get them. This is not been 'Frozen Out'.

It's simple supply and demand, and it appears the demand is greater than the supply.

Yea. Like, gasoline. Opps...wrong forum