The NFL & NCAA to an extent are walking a fine line of issues. I lost interest into killing my whole Sunday going to Card games.. I may make the trip for a Monday/Thurs/Sunday NIGHT game on the dime of a work related expense. I held ASU season tickets for 30+ yeas since getting out of the service. The effort and experience has diminished greatly with the added cost of everything outside of the ticket to get in. The ASU rep is all over me to renew, I might eventually do a little 3 game pack just to secure a decent seat to a few games. But will probably just do a wait and see to pick and choose the weekends/teams i decide i would like to go see. I also make 1 road trip a year, hopefully somewhere i have not been before. I had 4 season tickets (ASU) that i could not give away last year at times. The appeal to just sit at home in front of an 85" HD TV and/or meet a couple of buddies down the street at a sports bar is just making too much sense.
I get that, but at the same time when NFL owners are making record profits largely due to tv deals, etc. I highly doubt they’re passing that through by giving the concession workers, accountants, and maintenance workers an additional 2%. I’m not going to speak for everyone else in that building, but had the Cardinals raised a banner or two during my time as a season ticket holder, I’d have little problem paying more.
To what end? Being a national embarrassment?
Lol, there may be some truth to that but the people in charge need to read the room. If the product on the field is crap and all you are doing is raising prices and running off a chunk of your long time loyal fan base, I don't think that is a good thing for any franchise. For as bad as this franchise has been historically, it's that loyal fan base that got them thru those many lean years. Obviously, if they start winning, all the fair weather and bandwagon fans will jump on board and nobody will care. But if they don't, look out.
costs are inflated. this has really nothing to do with wins and losses. Like i mentioned before the cardinals are one of the cheapest tickets in the league. Increases happen
Meh… that fan base didn’t get them through anything. Revenue sharing got them through and will continue to.
Then they lose so many season ticket sales that they make little, if anything, and will have alienated a base of folks they should be counting on. Yes, by all means, raise prices, but not by 1/4.
Meh.. you act like theres some band of brothers of face painting super fans that are going to stage some eye opening walkout. Its a football team, people will come and watch football and drink beer and eat the food. Its just part of doing business with professional sports in America. Ticket increases happen, gotta swallow it up.
It's not a little steep; 1/4 price raise is awful. And you might minimize the issue, but if a bunch of ASFNers are canceling, many more people are canceling too. Very poor business practice. First, to be so far behind in pricing, then to try to make it all up in one offseason. But the Cards are known for dumb decisions.
I went to a game this year and was shocked at how cheap it was.
Amazon operates many of their departments at a loss so they have a market presence in those areas. They are able to do this because they fund their entire company with their profits from their AWS department.
They did a 25% price hike last year. Here's the thread where we discussed it at the time. You'll be surprised at who was also in that thread claiming that ticket prices were no big deal.
