Viqueens Have Trouble Selling Out

[Chevelle2]

From the ESPN NFC-N blog:

"The Minnesota Vikings are nearing a sellout of their Sept. 14 home opener against Indianapolis, but they have 8,000 tickets remaining for their Sept. 21 game against Carolina. To avoid a potential blackout, they are teaming with the local Fox affiliate to sell discounted tickets."

[BallHawk]

How long until they start selling tickets for a fiver? Maybe they'll start giving them as a substitute for a toy in Happy Meals. Whatever it takes to fill seats.....

[GBRulz]

heck, we could have just bumped last years thread about this!!

[Rastak]

I have to admit, the Fudge Packers do NOT have this problem.

[Scott Campbell]

How long until they start selling tickets for a fiver? Maybe they'll start giving them as a substitute for a toy in Happy Meals. Whatever it takes to fill seats.....

Last year was $3 per ticket. I think the local Fox affiliate finally bought like 1500 tickets to avoid the blackout/black eye.

Embarrassing. Think how mad you'd be if you paid full face value as a season ticket holder and sst next to the guys with same face value tickets that got in for $3.

[]{ilr]3]

How long until they start selling tickets for a fiver? Maybe they'll start giving them as a substitute for a toy in Happy Meals. Whatever it takes to fill seats.....

Last year was $3 per ticket. I think the local Fox affiliate finally bought like 1500 tickets to avoid the blackout/black eye.

Embarrassing. Think how mad you'd be if you paid full face value as a season ticket holder and sst next to the guys with same face value tickets that got in for $3.

I have to admit, the ViQueens do HAVE this problem!

[Chevelle2]

Are you serious, $3 a ticket?

[Rastak]

Are you serious, $3 a ticket?

No, urban legend bullshit but they don't have a list of a million people waiting with bated breath to buy a ticket. That much has to be admitted,.

[Zool]

Are you serious, $3 a ticket?

No, urban legend bullshit but they don't have a list of a million people waiting with bated breath to buy a ticket. That much has to be admitted,.

Wow put the claws away kitty. As the saying goes, dont hate me cause you aint me. There actually was some crappy seats available last year for something under $10. You WISH the Viking had the rabid fan base and you know it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpimRrhWi4E

[Rastak]

Are you serious, $3 a ticket?

No, urban legend bullshit but they don't have a list of a million people waiting with bated breath to buy a ticket. That much has to be admitted,.

Wow put the claws away kitty. As the saying goes, dont hate me cause you aint me. There actually was some crappy seats available last year for something under $10. You WISH the Viking had the rabid fan base and you know it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpimRrhWi4E

I could give a good god damn to be blunt. (My Tex imitation!) I go because I want to see the games. The place rocks when I am there. I can't control how many people share that passion. You have x amount of dollars to spend on entertainment and people make choices. I choose to spend the money. I'm a fan that spends about $1500 bucks a year on my team.

[Rastak]

Oh one more thing, based on the thread title I thought it was a thread to call teams names, so no kitty claws without it being assumed they were wanted.

Hey, I can roll with Green Bay Packers or Fudge Packers. I can roll with Minnesota Vikings or ViQueens. Let me know what mode people want and I can shift gears!

[Iron Mike]

Oh one more thing, based on the thread title I thought it was a thread to call teams names, so no kitty claws without it being assumed they were wanted.

Hey, I can roll with Green Bay Packers or Fudge Packers. I can roll with Minnesota Vikings or ViQueens. Let me know what mode people want and I can shift gears!

Well, we haven't been called "piss and mold clowns" for a while.

[mraynrand]

This from a team that is supposedly going to be 13-3. What would it be like if they were slated for 4-12?

Alternatively, could it just be that people would rather have food poisoning than watch Peyton Manning?

[Partial]

Minne is a hufe city. Fck that. How can they not sell out?!? I'nh onestly a little sad fror thopse guys. Seriously, how can you not sell o9ut?

[Lurker64]

Minne is a hufe city. Fck that. How can they not sell out?!? I'nh onestly a little sad fror thopse guys. Seriously, how can you not sell o9ut?

I imagine a large part of it is that the Metrodome is really a terrible venue. I mean, I love the Twins to death but I really hate going to that building when I can just watch their games on TV. I've been to a couple of Gopher games in that building too, and it doesn't improve markedly as a football stadium.

There's a reason the Twins and Gophers both got new stadiums and the Vikings want one. Other than the atmosphere created by the crowd (which could, ostensibly, be created by that same crowd in any venue), it's really sort of a grim place. As a Minnesota taxpayer, I certainly hope they don't get a new (taxpayer funded) stadium, but I certainly understand why the Vikings want one. In a decent stadium, they'd have no trouble selling out

Also, partly, the sense I get from the Minnesota sports scene is that there's not unbridled optimism about this Vikings team. There are a lot of questions still about Childress and Jackson, Peterson is phenomenal but runs in a way that makes him prone to injury and was successfully shut down by a number of teams last year, the WR corps has question marks, as does the pass defense. The Vikings have had a lot of disappointing teams (some with high expectations no less) over the last 6-7 years (really, a lot has been grim in Vikingland ever since 41-donut against the Giants, and the death of Korey Stringer in the following preseason), and they've really only started to be exciting to non-hardcore fans because they ended up with Peterson, and the resulting success because of that.

Also, part of the issue with large cities is that yes you have a larger population to sell tickets to, but larger cities also have many more things competing for your entertainment dollar. St. Paul and Minneapolis have a whole lot more things going on than Green Bay (or really, any city in Wisconsin) does, and most of those things cannot be had for free on the TV, unlike Vikings games. The same explanation (i.e. "there's a lot of stuff going on, much of it less expensive than going to sporting events, which are all on TV anyway") partly explains why the Twin Cities aren't as sports crazy as other towns. I mean, the Twins are a great story this year, but look at their attendance numbers at home.