I offered to take a friend of mine who is a Bear's fan "Mecca" for the Packer-Bears game. He just couldn't work things out this year. I told him that he has to see a game in GB once in his lifetime.
"AKamp74" wrote:
Over the past three seasons.. I have given away 5 sets of tickets that were passed to me from Vendors.. normally to people that need a break from the "real" world.. the stories they tell when they come back from the games is worth more than attending the game myself. None of them had ever been to a game.. and everyone of them say there is nothing like it.
One spry gent thought he had a pace maker installed jokingly.. he said that the atmosphere, excitement and intensity of the crowd could jump start a heart if need be. :lol:
Odd thing though this year.. I haven't gotten a single ticket.. dang gum economy anyway. ;)
"pack93z" wrote:
How much do you sell the tickets for or by "give away" do you mean you just give the people the tix? I am telling you, if that is what you mean...you are very generous person and that is a nice thing to do.
Thing is, last year my fiance had bought tix from some site because I desperately wanted to go to a game before Brett was done. She surprised me and bought the tix on her own. Turns out the tix they sold her were handicap tix and well, I am not one to fake something like that. She felt horrible and I felt horrible for her because she tried so hard. Thats my story. It was the thought that counted.
"wpr" wrote:
The people I gave the tix to were family and close friends. I can not charge them for the tickets. They would have paid for them but I did not ask. I told my friends if they feel the need to pay for the tickets to put the money into the Church offering. They will have paid for the tickets, I did something for someone without being compensated and a Church would have picked up a few bucks. It was a win win win situation.
I went with my son when he took my Dad and later my Father in Law to the game. (I watched the game at a nearby bar.) They paid for our motel room. I wanted my son to have the memories of doing something with them that no one else had. That was easily worth $150 to me. That was a few years back. We knew my Dad had cancer. (He has since passed away.) His other grandfather has since had a heart attack and other health problems and is not able to get out of the house very often nor drive very far. We talk about taking him back to his childhood farm in TN one more time but I gon't think he can take a long trip like that.
Don't get me wrong, I don't have a lot of cash and have thought about selling the tickets for some extra money a few times. But things always work out. There are times when I would sell them at face value if the situation was right. Last year when my Dad was about to pass away I decided not to go to the preseason game. (Good thing, as he died the next morning.) I tried to sell the tickets to a few people and got no takers. Not even at half price.
As Pack93 says it is mainly about seeing their faces and hearing their stories that makes it worthwhile.
My son is shipping out for Afghanistan in a few weeks. It helps all of us to have these kind of memories in order to get thru this next year. My FIL and MIL and my Mother, wife, daughter and other family members think and talk about these things and others like them.