Popeyejones":1983e4f3 said:
Marvin49":1983e4f3 said:
Perhaps they can sell their tix to peeps who can now better afford them who will appreciate them more than those selling the tix did.
This is the positive spin I'm hoping for too. I still haven't been to Levi's*, but from everyone I've talked to who has gone last year was really out of whack with regards to revenue generation (pretty clearly a huge amount of season tickets becoming Valley company tickets; Jed's wet dream worked) and fan experience (season tickets held by actual 9ers fans rather than corporate entities). Did you get this sense too, or no?
*My last game was the Bowman INT against Atlanta at the last regular season Candlestick game; I moved to Canada for work two years ago.
I was at that game too...Bowmans INT.
Levis was the shiny new toy. Everyone wanted to get a piece of it. I knew right away that I couldn't make every game and selling 5 of my games got me enough $$$ to pay for the next 1.5 seasons worth of Season tickets.
Hell...I was out of town for thanksgiving and sold my seats that I purchased for $250 for $1200.
Once the newness wears off on the place and the peeps who never should have had tickets to begin with (you know, the ones who saw three NFCCGs and a new building and assumed that would continue forever) sell their tickets to fans who really do want to be Niner fans win or lose, things will change. Pac Bell/AT&T went through something similar when it first opened. Now its one of the more intimidating home fields in MLB.
The fan experience was a big deal to the 49ers. The whole stadium is designed around it. Good food, wifi, clubs all over the place....but unfortunately too many people were buying tix to one game from SBL holders and every week you had a new flood of peeps who just wanted to check out the new building, go into the clubs (and they paid a lot of money to do so...can't really blame them), walk around the concourse, check out the museum, check out the team store, etc. It became the "new place to be" (especially early on) and that showed with ALOT of peeps who weren't even necessarily Niner fans but just wanted to "check it out".
I got a ton of requests for my tix myself...from peeps who were fans of OTHER TEAMS. My boss is a Raiders fan and he asked about my tix because he wanted to go to a game. He was annoyed when I told him I'd sold them for 2.5x face value. I have another friend and she asked about my tix and she doesn't even like football.
Eventually, all those peeps who "just want to check it out" will be gone and the peeps in the stands will be actual Niner fans.
That's my take anyway.