SeattleCard said:
This year, I decided I was going to wait to buy tickets. I didn't want to believe all the pre-season hype. I've had some important things to pay for the last few months, and I wanted to be shrewd with my purchases. Also, with school, work, band, and my homelife, I just don't have the free time I used to have.
Even after the preseason games where we looked good, I still didn't buy it. I've been burned by this team too many times over the years, so I decided to wait until they played a game.
I figured they'd have a good game against the Giants, and the next day I'd call the ticket office and buy two NEZ season tickets for this year. My fiance even liked the idea of going to some games if the team was going to compete.
Man did that Giants game change everything. We looked pathetic. That was the first game in a while that my fiance and I have watched together. She's a hairdresser and usually has to work Sundays, so not only would getting tickets with her be a mild financial pinch, she'd have to give up one of her most profitable work days as well.
We decided the Cardinals aren't worth it. I figured I'd go to a game or two with my dad because he kept his tickets for this year, but on the whole I'm just not as interested in the Cards as I have been before. Maybe I'm just waking up, maybe it's just despair for the team. Either way, I'm a hardcore fan, and they're losing me. I'm not buying season tickets for next year.
Now I'm not a fairweather fan, and I'll still root for the team, watch the away games, and go to the occasional home game, but I am not going to invest a decent amount of money in anything for this team (tickets, merchandise) until they put a product on the field I can be proud of. It's bad enough I get pity at work for having a Cards mini-helmet and banner at my desk, I don't need to be wasting my money on a team totally underserving of what I work hard for every day.
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