I understand the reason why the Lions are doing this, but once they sell those tickets to the fans, they should really belong to the season ticket holders. I don’t know what the cutoff is for selling your season tickets, but obviously these guys surpassed that number. Just strange, I didn’t know they could do that. Frankly, I didn’t even know they kept track of those things.
As a STH, you agree to them being able to do this. They always could, but when there wasn’t a waitlist there was no reason. These individuals have been profiting off selling them for a while and it caught up to them. They both acknowledged selling more than they attended. My rep has said if you sell more than 30% you will be audited and maybe removed. They are watching for folks that only buy them to sell them.
I certainly understand the Lions want to be able to offer tickets at a reasonable price and not have fans get gouged on the secondary market. Again, I just didn’t know they kept track. You certainly make a good point that it didn’t really matter when the team sucked, but now that they are hot, it becomes a little more tricky. I actually think it’s a good idea by the team. You should be buying season tickets because you want to enjoy the team, not to make a profit.
My brother and brother-in-law used to have season tickets back in the day for the Golden State Warriors, 3 rows up at mid court. They could just about pay for their season tickets by just selling the games when the Bulls and Jordan came to town.
My ships home port was NSC Oakland, went to many warrior games and Laker tickets went to Laker fans in high numbers
as they should
I have no problem with this. The Lions aren’t selling timeshares.
I sort of get doing this when your team has a highly requested ticket - which clearly the Lions do - to get rid of any brokers/scalpers etc. But to kick out a fan who’s had season tickets for TWENTY FOUR years? That’s ■■■■■■■ ruthless. Like the guy said at the end… they had no problem with these guys when the team stunk.
I understand how the tickets business works, and why the Lions are cracking down - but this feels a bit misguided.
This guy must still work for the Lions…
I live in NY so I’m not around - but years of being on this board and hearing stories… the Lions ticket situation always struck me as less than ideal.
Good point. At least give them a warning and say you need to attend more games and stop selling so much. They may have been fine with that.
In this case, they knew the rules and even acknowledge it. One of the guys has been adding more seats each year and selling them all. No one should feel bad for them. The Lions are very open about the rules and that they will revoke if you don’t follow them.
If that’s the case then sure.
As a STH myself, I can definitely tell you they give a ton of information on what you can and can’t do. There’s more and more stories about people getting revoked and they really have no one to blame but themselves. My rep said as long as I communicate I’ll never have a problem.
Good luck! 
sounds like its in writing every year.
My rep similarly said it wouldn’t be an issue unless you sold a majority of them. If I don’t go to a majority of games, then what kind of fan am I ? Let someone else be a season ticket holder and I can just buy tickets to the few games I go to myself.
1,000% It’s insane to me that people would have a problem with this.
The alternative is: people who aren’t fans buy season tickets, and scalp them for much, much higher. And then our stadium looks like LA.
I hate scalping in any way shape or form but what did you expect raising your tickets 40 friggin percent
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