2011-10-31
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Dude!
Out of curiosity, I checked out what tickets in my area of the stadium are selling for for the Nov. 5 Bama vs.LSU game.
Dude... $645 - $1000 per ticket!
That's nuts!
Selling 1 ticket (at the lowest number) would just about cover everything I spent for the entire season. (I'd net a profit with the high number).
Part of why they can drive the ticket prices so high is that every game is sold out to season tickets holders and have been for decades (except for the mandatory allotment of visitor's tickets {which in turn go to the opposing team's season ticket holders} and student tickets {which require student I.D.'s).
There's a waiting list to become eligible to buy season tickets, because people don't give them up. I've had the exact same seats since 1991 (if someone new picks up a seat around you, you wonder who got divorced or died. Seriously.)
So the tickets that are for sale are season ticket holder re-sales for this specific game. And at $1000 a ticket (face value I think is $75 or $85(?) I cannot blame them. (It would shatter my Dad's heart if any of us discussed selling our tickets to the game... which we wouldn't do... because are you KIDDING?!)
For those going wha-huh?
What's driving the economics of these tickets is that currently we're ranked #2 in the nation and LSU is ranked #1, and the winner of the game is all-but given the SEC West berth in the SEC championship (and the SEC east kind of sucks this year, so odds are with the West). And in the last five years, the winner of the SEC went on to (rather handily) become the National Champ.
In essence this regular season game will most likely kill one team's chances of even being allowed to play for the national championship, because despite being #1 and #2 in the polls, the odds are against the BSC allowing a re-match.
This week's game could be the whole ball of wax.
ESPN is has taken to hyping the hell out of the game:
Heh. And so have fans: (And you thought only shippers did fan vids! :)
Dude... $645 - $1000 per ticket!
That's nuts!
Selling 1 ticket (at the lowest number) would just about cover everything I spent for the entire season. (I'd net a profit with the high number).
Part of why they can drive the ticket prices so high is that every game is sold out to season tickets holders and have been for decades (except for the mandatory allotment of visitor's tickets {which in turn go to the opposing team's season ticket holders} and student tickets {which require student I.D.'s).
There's a waiting list to become eligible to buy season tickets, because people don't give them up. I've had the exact same seats since 1991 (if someone new picks up a seat around you, you wonder who got divorced or died. Seriously.)
So the tickets that are for sale are season ticket holder re-sales for this specific game. And at $1000 a ticket (face value I think is $75 or $85(?) I cannot blame them. (It would shatter my Dad's heart if any of us discussed selling our tickets to the game... which we wouldn't do... because are you KIDDING?!)
For those going wha-huh?
What's driving the economics of these tickets is that currently we're ranked #2 in the nation and LSU is ranked #1, and the winner of the game is all-but given the SEC West berth in the SEC championship (and the SEC east kind of sucks this year, so odds are with the West). And in the last five years, the winner of the SEC went on to (rather handily) become the National Champ.
In essence this regular season game will most likely kill one team's chances of even being allowed to play for the national championship, because despite being #1 and #2 in the polls, the odds are against the BSC allowing a re-match.
This week's game could be the whole ball of wax.
ESPN is has taken to hyping the hell out of the game:
Heh. And so have fans: (And you thought only shippers did fan vids! :)
Entry tags:
Dude!
Out of curiosity, I checked out what tickets in my area of the stadium are selling for for the Nov. 5 Bama vs.LSU game.
Dude... $645 - $1000 per ticket!
That's nuts!
Selling 1 ticket (at the lowest number) would just about cover everything I spent for the entire season. (I'd net a profit with the high number).
Part of why they can drive the ticket prices so high is that every game is sold out to season tickets holders and have been for decades (except for the mandatory allotment of visitor's tickets {which in turn go to the opposing team's season ticket holders} and student tickets {which require student I.D.'s).
There's a waiting list to become eligible to buy season tickets, because people don't give them up. I've had the exact same seats since 1991 (if someone new picks up a seat around you, you wonder who got divorced or died. Seriously.)
So the tickets that are for sale are season ticket holder re-sales for this specific game. And at $1000 a ticket (face value I think is $75 or $85(?) I cannot blame them. (It would shatter my Dad's heart if any of us discussed selling our tickets to the game... which we wouldn't do... because are you KIDDING?!)
For those going wha-huh?
What's driving the economics of these tickets is that currently we're ranked #2 in the nation and LSU is ranked #1, and the winner of the game is all-but given the SEC West berth in the SEC championship (and the SEC east kind of sucks this year, so odds are with the West). And in the last five years, the winner of the SEC went on to (rather handily) become the National Champ.
In essence this regular season game will most likely kill one team's chances of even being allowed to play for the national championship, because despite being #1 and #2 in the polls, the odds are against the BSC allowing a re-match.
This week's game could be the whole ball of wax.
ESPN is has taken to hyping the hell out of the game:
Heh. And so have fans: (And you thought only shippers did fan vids! :)
Dude... $645 - $1000 per ticket!
That's nuts!
Selling 1 ticket (at the lowest number) would just about cover everything I spent for the entire season. (I'd net a profit with the high number).
Part of why they can drive the ticket prices so high is that every game is sold out to season tickets holders and have been for decades (except for the mandatory allotment of visitor's tickets {which in turn go to the opposing team's season ticket holders} and student tickets {which require student I.D.'s).
There's a waiting list to become eligible to buy season tickets, because people don't give them up. I've had the exact same seats since 1991 (if someone new picks up a seat around you, you wonder who got divorced or died. Seriously.)
So the tickets that are for sale are season ticket holder re-sales for this specific game. And at $1000 a ticket (face value I think is $75 or $85(?) I cannot blame them. (It would shatter my Dad's heart if any of us discussed selling our tickets to the game... which we wouldn't do... because are you KIDDING?!)
For those going wha-huh?
What's driving the economics of these tickets is that currently we're ranked #2 in the nation and LSU is ranked #1, and the winner of the game is all-but given the SEC West berth in the SEC championship (and the SEC east kind of sucks this year, so odds are with the West). And in the last five years, the winner of the SEC went on to (rather handily) become the National Champ.
In essence this regular season game will most likely kill one team's chances of even being allowed to play for the national championship, because despite being #1 and #2 in the polls, the odds are against the BSC allowing a re-match.
This week's game could be the whole ball of wax.
ESPN is has taken to hyping the hell out of the game:
Heh. And so have fans: (And you thought only shippers did fan vids! :)
Entry tags:
Dude!
Out of curiosity, I checked out what tickets in my area of the stadium are selling for for the Nov. 5 Bama vs.LSU game.
Dude... $645 - $1000 per ticket!
That's nuts!
Selling 1 ticket (at the lowest number) would just about cover everything I spent for the entire season. (I'd net a profit with the high number).
Part of why they can drive the ticket prices so high is that every game is sold out to season tickets holders and have been for decades (except for the mandatory allotment of visitor's tickets {which in turn go to the opposing team's season ticket holders} and student tickets {which require student I.D.'s).
There's a waiting list to become eligible to buy season tickets, because people don't give them up. I've had the exact same seats since 1991 (if someone new picks up a seat around you, you wonder who got divorced or died. Seriously.)
So the tickets that are for sale are season ticket holder re-sales for this specific game. And at $1000 a ticket (face value I think is $75 or $85(?) I cannot blame them. (It would shatter my Dad's heart if any of us discussed selling our tickets to the game... which we wouldn't do... because are you KIDDING?!)
For those going wha-huh?
What's driving the economics of these tickets is that currently we're ranked #2 in the nation and LSU is ranked #1, and the winner of the game is all-but given the SEC West berth in the SEC championship (and the SEC east kind of sucks this year, so odds are with the West). And in the last five years, the winner of the SEC went on to (rather handily) become the National Champ.
In essence this regular season game will most likely kill one team's chances of even being allowed to play for the national championship, because despite being #1 and #2 in the polls, the odds are against the BSC allowing a re-match.
This week's game could be the whole ball of wax.
ESPN is has taken to hyping the hell out of the game:
Heh. And so have fans: (And you thought only shippers did fan vids! :)
Dude... $645 - $1000 per ticket!
That's nuts!
Selling 1 ticket (at the lowest number) would just about cover everything I spent for the entire season. (I'd net a profit with the high number).
Part of why they can drive the ticket prices so high is that every game is sold out to season tickets holders and have been for decades (except for the mandatory allotment of visitor's tickets {which in turn go to the opposing team's season ticket holders} and student tickets {which require student I.D.'s).
There's a waiting list to become eligible to buy season tickets, because people don't give them up. I've had the exact same seats since 1991 (if someone new picks up a seat around you, you wonder who got divorced or died. Seriously.)
So the tickets that are for sale are season ticket holder re-sales for this specific game. And at $1000 a ticket (face value I think is $75 or $85(?) I cannot blame them. (It would shatter my Dad's heart if any of us discussed selling our tickets to the game... which we wouldn't do... because are you KIDDING?!)
For those going wha-huh?
What's driving the economics of these tickets is that currently we're ranked #2 in the nation and LSU is ranked #1, and the winner of the game is all-but given the SEC West berth in the SEC championship (and the SEC east kind of sucks this year, so odds are with the West). And in the last five years, the winner of the SEC went on to (rather handily) become the National Champ.
In essence this regular season game will most likely kill one team's chances of even being allowed to play for the national championship, because despite being #1 and #2 in the polls, the odds are against the BSC allowing a re-match.
This week's game could be the whole ball of wax.
ESPN is has taken to hyping the hell out of the game:
Heh. And so have fans: (And you thought only shippers did fan vids! :)
Entry tags:
Huh...
Shadowcat had a meme about favorite scary tv episoddes, which brought to mind the "A More Permanent Hell" episode of Forever Knight to mind... which in turn led me to You Tube. And honestly, until I saw the first few seconds of it again after all this time, I did not remember how eerily similar the opening bars of AtS's "Angel" theme was to opening bars of FK's theme:
Entry tags:
Huh...
Shadowcat had a meme about favorite scary tv episoddes, which brought to mind the "A More Permanent Hell" episode of Forever Knight to mind... which in turn led me to You Tube. And honestly, until I saw the first few seconds of it again after all this time, I did not remember how eerily similar the opening bars of AtS's "Angel" theme was to opening bars of FK's theme:
Entry tags:
Huh...
Shadowcat had a meme about favorite scary tv episoddes, which brought to mind the "A More Permanent Hell" episode of Forever Knight to mind... which in turn led me to You Tube. And honestly, until I saw the first few seconds of it again after all this time, I did not remember how eerily similar the opening bars of AtS's "Angel" theme was to opening bars of FK's theme: