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Originally posted by Lurker64
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The Cards got an extension and announced already that the last 1100 tickets were sold today. They have a sellout.All hail the Ruler of the Meadow! -
Down to 8,000 tickets left :
Steve LaCroix, the Vikings vice president of sales and marketing, said that 8,000 tickets remain for Sunday’s playoff game against the Eagles. That figure is down from 11,000 on Wednesday.
The Vikings have until 3:30 p.m. Friday to sell the remaining tickets to avoid a blackout.
LaCroix said sales were a little sluggish last night and this morning but have picked up a little this afternoon. He said he is “cautiously optimistic” that they will get it done but the Vikings are moving closer to their first blackout since 1997.
LaCroix said many of the remaining tickets are prime seats, ranging from $80 to $160. LaCroix said the ticket office is working “24/7″ and the team is making a lot of calls to season ticket holders who did not buy playoff tickets.
LaCroix said Vikings officials are talking to various companies in addition to Fox about providing some assistance as a corporate sponsor, but the response hasn’t been favorable.
“No one is coming in to save the day at this point,” he said.
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Wierd, I read then that the game was a sellout, but apparently they have over 3500 left to sell still and got a 2nd 24 hr extension.Originally posted by Cheesehead CraigAll hail the Ruler of the Meadow!Comment
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I don't get how they cannot sell out. It's a big city, good team, etc. What's the problem?Comment
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I'm in the Twin Cities over the weekend, I'm hoping that some Eagles fans or something buy tickets, so I can watch the game.</delurk>Comment
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There is just a general feeling that the Vikes will disappoint. Now before the Viking rats here get all hot and bothered, this is what I'm hearing from the fans and the media. NBC sports director Randy Shaver has said it multiple times. Given that 55% of the season tix holders declined to buy playoff tix, that gives a whole lot of credence that that argument.Originally posted by Partial
People can bring up the whole economy being bad, but this has been a chronic problem for the Vikings to get sellouts for years. So it's not the current state of the economy is not the primary factor. It's the general feeling about the team.All hail the Ruler of the Meadow!Comment
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This is really weird for me. Your team is in the playoffs but you don't think they can win so you don't go?
And beyond that, we're not talking about the Queens going up against the Giants or some uber-team. They're playing the Eagles at home, for gosh sakes.
Buy some more tickets, Ras!"The Devine era is actually worse than you remember if you go back and look at it."
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What do you mean? They've soldout every game since 1997.Originally posted by Cheesehead Craig
Of course, they seem to need the TV station to buy tickets for a few games every year. Making people buy another game ticket to go along with their Packer game tickets hasn't ended the problem.
The Vikings are actually the most popular team in town, but just think about what this franchise has put its fans through over the years, and it's somewhat understandable.
I will say that a lot of the Viking fans that I know act like they barely follow the Vikings when they aren't doing well. Then, when the team is doing well, they are right there to smack talk me--even though I don't say anything when the shoe is on the other foot. It's a small sample size though. There is a pretty big bandwagon factor in this area."There's a lot of interest in the draft. It's great. But quite frankly, most of the people that are commenting on it don't know anything about what they are talking about."--Ted ThompsonComment
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I'd argue the Wild are.Originally posted by HarveyWallbangersAll hail the Ruler of the Meadow!Comment
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I've been here for 20 years, and I don't think it's close. The Vikings. I think the Wild are third--behind the Twins. The problem is that Minnesota sports fans have come to expect the Vikings to let them down, so they have a hard time believing the team won't let them down again.Originally posted by Cheesehead Craig
"There's a lot of interest in the draft. It's great. But quite frankly, most of the people that are commenting on it don't know anything about what they are talking about."--Ted ThompsonComment
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I've been here for a while too. When the Stars left there was public weeping, gnashing of teeth and cloth rendering happening in the streets. St. Paul went way out of their way to get a new hockey team and they have been the hottest ticket in town. There's nothing even close to that kind of support for the Vikes or Twins.Originally posted by HarveyWallbangers
But we'll just agree to disagree on this one.All hail the Ruler of the Meadow!Comment
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There were also tons of empty seats. I didn't see that much weeping over the Stars leaving. If the Vikings ever left town, I think we might just have to shut down the doors here.Originally posted by Cheesehead Craig
Even before Norm Green bought the team, the Stars did all they could to get fans to the rink, and they only averaged 11,000 fans/game. Here's a good youtube clip that shows the problem. It didn't get any better--even after the North Stars made the Stanley Cup Finals. They still had severe attendance problems.
While the late 1980s saw the franchise draft what would turn out to be their greatest player – forward Mike Modano – chronic attendance problems spurred the owners to threaten to move the club to the San Francisco Bay Area, against the league's wishes."There's a lot of interest in the draft. It's great. But quite frankly, most of the people that are commenting on it don't know anything about what they are talking about."--Ted ThompsonComment
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BTW, the North Stars goalie at the time, Jon Casey, led UND to the 1982 NCAA title. Ed Belfour backstopped them to their 1987 title.
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From an article posted in 1990. Laughing at Norm Green promising there would be better times ahead.
They ended up averaging just 7,838 fans/game in 1991--no other team finished below 10,000. Even after the Stanley Cup Finals appearance in 1991, only 5 teams averaged fewer fans in 1991-92 and only 7 teams averaged fewer fans in 1992-93.Minnesotans' affection for the pro game have so melted that opening night of the 1990-91 season drew only 5,730 fans to the 15,093-seat Metropolitan Sports Center? As if to prove that the attendance figure isn't a misprint, the second and third games at the Met Center drew 5,970 and 5,280, respectively. The fourth game brought out 9,129 to see Norris Division rival Chicago. It also brought a brave declaration from Norman Green, the North Stars' new owner, of better times ahead. "I'm certain that within a year we'll turn this thing around and within two years we'll be sold out," he said before the game.
Minnesota played dismally that night and lost 4-1, yet the fans hardly bothered to boo. At this point in their seven-year attendance slide, the North Stars would prefer anger to apathy. The 11,354 average attendance last season, inflated by an estimated 3,000 discounted and free tickets, was almost 4,000 less than the league average."There's a lot of interest in the draft. It's great. But quite frankly, most of the people that are commenting on it don't know anything about what they are talking about."--Ted ThompsonComment
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Don't bother me with facts Harvey! That's Patlers job!
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