Price for Family to Attend Lions Game is Astronomical

[Wrath-SRT]

@Tucker

With TV money, the team does not have to sell a single ticket to show a profit.

These inflated salaries the players get is from TV and merch.

[Wolverine0611]

Don’t hate the player hate the game. Greed is driving the market. Lions fans that bitch about how crazy individual ticket prices are sit next to other fans that are thinking about how much they can make out of selling half of their games.

The choices are:

1. you can hope for the Lions to suck and have secondary market prices drop
2. don’t support the secondary market and come to the realization that you going to a Lions game no longer makes financial sense
3. Use what would be the cost of taking a family of 4 to the game, buy a new tv, a kegerator, a 1/4 barrel of beer, smoke some ribs and you’re done.

[Lionpile]

@Wrath-SRT

These inflated salaries the players get is from TV and merch.

I don’t think you can separate it out like that. We’ve seen now the Lions spending more money and ticket prices being raised significantly on the primary market. Their revenue streams are from TV, merchandise, and tickets sales. The bean encounters aren’t sitting in an office saying well we’re making enough money through TV and merchandise so we won’t raise ticket prices. They do all three. They are trying to maximize profits.

[Bols]

@Lionpile

At $400 / ticket

For $400 bucks I should be able to sit in my wheelchair at the tunnel entrance and provoke Matt LaFleur.

[BarrySanders20]

@Lionpile

Yes, for a family of four to get just OK tickets, you are looking at anywhere from $1500-$2000 to attend a game. That is outrageous. I’m all for players getting paid, but some of these guys are getting almost $1 million per quarter. I’m with you, I may have attended my last game live. I would rather invest that money and watch the game on TV. Those cheese heads should see a big increase next year. Micah Parsons doesn’t come cheap.

I still have my ticket stub from the 1992 playoff game against Dallas. The ticket, upper deck on the 10 yard line, was $18.50 with a two dollar service charge.

Imagine how much money these owner’s are making???

[Wolverine0611]

Can anyone here report what actual season tickets and individual’s single game prices are being offered for by the Detroit Lions themselves?

Until there is legislation that forbids reselling tickets by individuals and brokers beyond a certain limit—say 300% above face value, the tried and true “what the market will bear” will continue.

[Davicus]

@Wolverine0611

Until there is legislation that forbids reselling tickets by individuals and brokers beyond a certain limit—say 300% above face value, the tried and true “what the market will bear” will continue.

In America? LOL.

[Lionpile]

@Wolverine0611

Use what would be the cost of taking a family of 4 to the game, buy a new tv, a kegerator, a 1/4 barrel of beer, smoke some ribs and you’re done.

I like this one.

[Wrath-SRT]

@Lionpile

I don’t think you can separate it out like that.

The revenue a team gets for ticket sales is a drop in the bucket in comparison to the media rights.

[REMRebound]

I love watching our sold out stadium go nuts—go crazy live game attendees!!—but as a fan, I’m sorry, but football is just way, way better on tv. The sport is just such a perfect fit for instant replays from 10 angles, real time analysis of the game within the game, all that good stuff. I recommend the model I use for Michigan games:

Step 1. Go hang out outside the stadium and tailgate with a million people pre-game

Step 2. Go home and watch the actual game in the comfort of your living room, surrounded by booze and snacks that didn’t cost you a thousand bucks

Step 3. Take a well deserved nap

[Tucker]

@Wolverine0611

Until there is legislation that forbids reselling tickets by individuals and brokers beyond a certain limit—say 300% above face value, the tried and true “what the market will bear” will continue.

As it should. The value of something is what someone is willing to pay for it. Keep the government out of private business.

[Lionpile]

@Wrath-SRT

The revenue a team gets for ticket sales is a drop in the bucket in comparison to the media rights

Each NFL team gets slightly more than $400 million from their TV deal and they average about $130 million from Ticket sales, concessions, and parking.

I wouldn’t call $130 million a drop in the bucket. But regardless, the fact is ticket prices are going up as the team payroll gets more expensive. It’s irrefutable. To say that they only worry about that TV money is false. Recent price increases account for tens of millions of extra dollars annually. Increased salaries are causing a rise in ticket prices. If not, I would still be paying $18.50 for a ticket like in 1992. Just because the tv money can theoretically cover payroll, does not mean ticket prices aren’t increasing as well…because they are.

[Wolverine0611]

@Tucker

As it should. The value of something is what someone is willing to pay for it. Keep the government out of private business.

Not complaining. Except when I find out the secondary market for a bottle of Eagle Rare 12 is $300.

[ztonyg]

Makes me feel better about the 6 tickets in the upper deck I bought for the Cardinals / Rams game in Arizona this season for $412.65.

$69 a ticket is doable.

[stephenboyd57]

@Bols

@Lionpile

At $400 / ticket

For $400 bucks I should be able to sit in my wheelchair at the tunnel entrance and provoke Matt LaFleur.

And throw stale pretzels at him lol

[Lionpile]

@stephenboyd57

And throw stale pretzels at him lol

As long as the pretzels are shaped like dildos, I’m in.

[stephenboyd57]

@Lionpile

@stephenboyd57

And throw stale pretzels at him lol

As long as the pretzels are shaped like dildos, I’m in.

Content like this is why the den is the best

[3rdRGR]

@SV1432

But Savannah is a nice place to visit assuming you’re not working all the time with no time to enjoy the city.

In cool places, I always try to mix in a little fun time. Savannah is no exception.

[Tmanqz]

If you could guarantee that I’ll pitch in 200$ as long as you film it.

[Tmanqz]

Now that’s Swagger! Thats what I’m

talking about!