1. Many have advocated raising the price for every game to around $150. If that were the case then going through ticket brokers would make it all the more expensive.
"wpr" wrote:
What's your point? My post had nothing to do with the prices of tickets and everything to do with their unavailability on the primary market (because they're ALL season tickets).
2. I don't live in WI. I don't live in Brown County and yet I am a season ticket holder. But I didn't inherit mine.
"wpr" wrote:
Again, what's your point? I wasn't talking about season tickets -- I was talking about single-game tickets, which are awarded by lottery to Brown County residents. Obviously, anyone, anywhere can buy season tickets.
I got on the waiting list when I was 18 and still in college and without a job.
"wpr" wrote:
Good for you, but I don't want season tickets. The last thing I want to do is saddle myself with the pressure of that kind of financial commitment, when I have no idea if I'll be able to attend every game, much less afford the tickets. I love the Packers as much as anyone, but in the end it's still just a game. I would, however, like to have the freedom of being able to attend an occasional game, without having to pay double or triple the face value.
If you want to go to one game only then go to a game in another city.
"wpr" wrote:
It's stupid that the only way I can see my team in person is to patronize another team's stadium.
3. The Brown County residents get the game day lottery because they pay taxes on that stadium that you and I do not have to pay. It is pretty small compensation if you ask me.
"wpr" wrote:
Again, the only reason this dubious benefit is considered "compensation" is because of the stupid system already in place that makes game-day tickets such a luxury. If the Packers offered game-day tickets at the box office, like other teams do, they wouldn't need to be awarded by lottery.
4. Don't compare the price of baseball tickets to football. Since there are only 8 home games instead of 81, football can and does charge a whole lot more than baseball for the games. Just as St Louis, since they are and have been a winning team, can charge a whole lot more per game than Milwaukee can.
"wpr" wrote:
Yeah, fine. My point wasn't the price. The point was the impossibility of obtaining tickets at face value.
The Packers love to brag about being a blue-collar organization, but by making tickets only available to season ticket holders, what they've really done is turned Lambeau Field into a shrine only accessible to people who either have the money or enough fanaticism to sacrifice other things for their mystical season tickets. If it's a blue-collar organization, then open the doors to everyday, ordinary fans who don't have to wait 30 years for a ticket.
It's all good. If they want to make it that difficult to get my money, they won't get it, that's all. There is way more to life than football. 🙂