It is supply and demand but there are also things that probably shouldn’t be allowed. The algorithmic buying off of the initial sales market for interest. The more parties selling in the secondary market the better it would be for customers.
My wife went to buy AC/DC tickets directly and the website “crashed”. By the time it was available again all of the tickets had somehow been snapped up by Ticketmaster and stub hub. How strange! It was for our anniversary so she bought them anyways, because my wife is the best. Paying double the original price really sucked though.
Anyone blaming the team or NFL is off base… The market sets the price. You wanna be mad? Be mad that people are willing to pay those prices… They’ll go down when fans stop going. The Lions have a fan base starved for a winner and now everyone wants to experience it first hand. The real thing I’m upset at is the processing fees these platforms charge… THAT’S the real robbery
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So Forbes just came out with their annual NFL valuations and in those figures, they have the gate receipts for all teams. NFC had 9 home games and there were 5 international games. Based on those figures, the average ticket price is as follows:
I don’t know if the playoff games are included in the Home teams gate receipts (I’d imagine) and International games aren’t included. I had thought that Detroit was more toward the middle of the pack.
They don’t purchase tickets… People do and then relist them on their sites for profit
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I will likely never see another game live either. Just can’t see paying that much. Travel, gas, hotel and tickets. It’s outrageous money for 3 hours, which is mostly commercial breaks anyways. Plus they can flex games now and that really messes things up.
Winning is nice but they are pricing out the hardcore, real fans.
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You mean, “people.”
And don’t worry, Ticketmaster and Stub Hub get a taste too.
Yes… “People”… And the platforms are my biggest issue in today’s ticket market
Bots have really changed the game
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I’ll never go to a game. Just no way I’m paying that kind of money and I can afford it. I like my man cave and affordable beer and food that I’m cooking. Let’s be honest, the amount of money we pay professional sports players is truly sickening. He’ll, the way the price of Sunday Ticket keeps going up not sure I’ll keep it either.
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If I’m really interested in a game, I prefer watching on TV so I can see the many details that are too distant or fleeting to see in person. The game day experience is fun when I don’t particularly care about outcomes. A big high school game live works for me. But I’m an old ■■■■, so there’s that…
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Was about to say the same thing. It’s fair to accuse the NFL of being greedy—money drives every decision the league makes. But the huge spike in the price of Lions tickets is just because for the first time in years, a LOT of people want to watch the Lions play football and will pay for it. If the Lions kept prices way lower than demand, it would still cost a mint to get tickets—you’d just be paying sleazy aggregators on stubhub for them instead of the Lions.
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Yep yep aaaaaand YUP. I live about an hour from Cincy now and the wife and I thought about going to the game this year. A little stroll at the tix and it was like…. uh… yeah… nope. You are LITTERALLY about 1/2 the way to a new 80 inch big screen TV to watch all your games on, if you say no to ONE in person Lions away game FOR TWO PEOPLE!!!
Watching a stadium full of people is like when I visit the Gulfstream plant in Savannah and see 40 fuselages being built and I’m thinking how are there so many people who can drop 75M dollars on a plane???
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I can too, but I can’t justify spending that kind of money on three hours of entertainment when I can watch it for free (or pretty close to free) on TV and to put it in relative terms, for $2,000, you could buy 4 plane tickets and a hotel room for a few nights.
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It’s been a few years for me, but it’s also eye-opening how little action there really is at NFL games as well.
I mean, if you’re lucky to get an entertaining game that’s cool. But quite often there so much downtime, plus bathroom visits etc that it’s not really a special experience, like say a concert can be.
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With TV money, the team does not have to sell a single ticket to show a profit.
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The average nfl game has about 20 mins of actual football being played. Don’t get me wrong I enjoyed the many games I’ve been to, but lots of just sitting around waiting.
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I know some guys/gals who enjoyed their corporate gigs getting flight time, not so sure I would have enjoyed it. That’s not the lifestyle for me.
But Savannah is a nice place to visit assuming you’re not working all the time with no time to enjoy the city.
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Right, most games have between 11 - 12 minutes of action. At $400 / ticket it breaks down to about $0.60 / second. For a family of 4, that’s $2.40 / s without counting parking or concessions. I guess people can spend their money how they choose but that’s too rich for my taste. Then think when your team goes out and craps the bed…$1500 gone because, well, the guys just didn’t feel like playing that day.
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Greed is a hell of a thing.
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