Brando19
09-06-2008, 08:16 AM
http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/09/06/jets-fins-not-sold-out/
The NFL announced on Friday that all Week One games are sold out. The slate of games includes a contest between the Jets and Dolphins in Miami.
On Thursday, the Dolphins declared on their official web site that the game is indeed sold out: “The Miami Dolphins opener against the New York Jets this Sunday at Dolphin Stadium has been declared a sellout. As a result, the game, which kicks off at 1:00 p.m., will be televised in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale area on WFOR-TV (CBS 4) and in West Palm Beach on WPEC-TV (Channel 12). Season tickets, in addition to single-game tickets for the Dolphins’ seven remaining home games in 2008, are still available.”
That last sentence, which mentions single-game tickets for the team’s “seven remaining home games,” clearly implies that no single-game tickets are available for the eighth one, the one that is played this weekend.
But our pal Todd Wright of Sporting News Radio told us that, as of early Saturday morning, tickets for the Jets-Dolphins game in Miami were still available at face value via the team’s online arrangement with Ticketmaster.com.
And so we checked it out. As of 8:30 a.m. EDT, we were offered two seats in Section 121 (lower level, corner of end zone), only 14 rows from the field.
We then tried for four tickets. And, at $80 each, we could have had seats 4 through 7 in row 30 of Section 410.
Just for kicks, we put in a request for eight tickets. Surely, we wouldn’t be able to get eight tickets together at a game that has been announced as a sellout.
And, lo and behold, we were offered seats 14 through 21 in row 20 of Section 407, at $52 each.
So then we decided to get really crazy, and ask for 20 tickets. There’s no way a row of 20 seats is available for a game that is sold out, right?
Well, they are. At section 222, seats 1 through 20. (They’re $300 each, but they were, as of this posting, available.)
Now, it could be that club seats don’t count toward the question of whether a game is sold out. But if a pack of 20 people can, if they so choose, sit together in the same row at any NFL stadium by buying tickets less than 30 hours before kickoff, how in the heck was the game “sold out” more than 72 hours prior?
Maybe the NFL applies an alternative definition of the term in South Florida.
The NFL announced on Friday that all Week One games are sold out. The slate of games includes a contest between the Jets and Dolphins in Miami.
On Thursday, the Dolphins declared on their official web site that the game is indeed sold out: “The Miami Dolphins opener against the New York Jets this Sunday at Dolphin Stadium has been declared a sellout. As a result, the game, which kicks off at 1:00 p.m., will be televised in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale area on WFOR-TV (CBS 4) and in West Palm Beach on WPEC-TV (Channel 12). Season tickets, in addition to single-game tickets for the Dolphins’ seven remaining home games in 2008, are still available.”
That last sentence, which mentions single-game tickets for the team’s “seven remaining home games,” clearly implies that no single-game tickets are available for the eighth one, the one that is played this weekend.
But our pal Todd Wright of Sporting News Radio told us that, as of early Saturday morning, tickets for the Jets-Dolphins game in Miami were still available at face value via the team’s online arrangement with Ticketmaster.com.
And so we checked it out. As of 8:30 a.m. EDT, we were offered two seats in Section 121 (lower level, corner of end zone), only 14 rows from the field.
We then tried for four tickets. And, at $80 each, we could have had seats 4 through 7 in row 30 of Section 410.
Just for kicks, we put in a request for eight tickets. Surely, we wouldn’t be able to get eight tickets together at a game that has been announced as a sellout.
And, lo and behold, we were offered seats 14 through 21 in row 20 of Section 407, at $52 each.
So then we decided to get really crazy, and ask for 20 tickets. There’s no way a row of 20 seats is available for a game that is sold out, right?
Well, they are. At section 222, seats 1 through 20. (They’re $300 each, but they were, as of this posting, available.)
Now, it could be that club seats don’t count toward the question of whether a game is sold out. But if a pack of 20 people can, if they so choose, sit together in the same row at any NFL stadium by buying tickets less than 30 hours before kickoff, how in the heck was the game “sold out” more than 72 hours prior?
Maybe the NFL applies an alternative definition of the term in South Florida.