Comments on: No Blackouts Offer A Peek Into Glazers’ Minds

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:34:09 +0000

Joe,
You were nicer than I would’ve been to Rick, but perhaps he does have a point: You might need to work on your search engine optimization.

By: Rick in Seminole

Rick in Seminole — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:31:13 +0000

Forgive me Joe, I do remember reading it in your column. I did a search for a link to the story and that was the first one that popped up.

I was under the impression the tickets for sale from the Bucs and Ticketmaster were simply unsold seats from people not renewing their season tickets.

You’re saying the Bucs had to purchase these and are now reselling them?

By: admin

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:32:24 +0000

Joe here,

Rick, first let me say that JoeBucsfan.com broke the story, http://www.joebucsfan.com/?p=19387 that the Bucs were upgrading season ticket holders to club seats.

You’ll notice our dateline for that story is the day prior to the message board thread you included. And we quoted the Bucs director of media with an explanation. …You’ll get a share of fresh news here on JoeBucsFan.com.

Second, the Glazers do have to buy up loads of non-club seats. All you have to do is see what’s available now on Ticketmaster or call the Bucs ticket office.

By: Rick in Seminole

Rick in Seminole — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:09:52 +0000

Check out this link regarding the Jags blackout situation:

http://espn.go.com/blog/afcsouth/post/_/id/2168/clarifying-blackout-numbers-for-the-jags

Raymond James stadium has around 15,000 Club and Suite seats. So the Glazer’s don’t have to buy nearly as many seats as it may seem.

Another thing they do is upgrade upper deck seatholders to the club seats for a game. It is a bonus for the people and it makes the Club section look full. It makes sense as I was in Miami for the game last month and their club section looked almost empty.

http://www.pewterreport.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=d367b3f28b75c3d8066b215643e29589&topic=49115.msg1042040

By: admin

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:32:58 +0000

Joe here,

Thanks, Ben. It’s as I thought.

I worked for the Raiders organization once upon a time, and for every ticket sold there is significant revenue that is sent per ticket/or ticket $ spent back to the NFL. So the Glazers do have to buy the tickets in the sense they have to cut a check for every ticket sold back to the NFL, plus local taxes, etc.

Then honor system referenced is simply on the fact the tickets were “sold” by a certain date, but the money is still due to the NFL, and subsequently to the local government. In Jacksonville and other cities, the teams haven’t wanted to fork over that kind of money — eating tickets.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:21:38 +0000

@BigMacAttack,
You don’t need all that stuff just to watch the NFL Network, in fact all you need is the $47 package and a CableCARD (assuming you have your own STB). I mean including the price of Internet and telephone and everything else you get it is still pretty cheap. It breaks down to basically about $50 for each service (TV, phone, internet).

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:17:57 +0000

Joe,
Here you go.
http://blogs.tampabay.com/bucs/2009/10/nfl-takes-bucs-at-their-word-when-it-comes-to-ticket-sales.html

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:01:52 +0000

Verizon Fios was nice when I had it in Bradenton but its not everywhere. Here in Lakeland its in some parts of the city but not in others.

Directv is OK.

I would probably go back to FIOS if it was available.

Brighthouse is not OK.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:29:19 +0000

Joe here,

Ben, would love to see a link/or report to what you mentioned about blackouts, that teams can decline the NFL “protection.” Never heard or sniffed that anywhere. Doesn’t really make sense.

By: Mr. Lucky

Mr. Lucky — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:12:02 +0000

BigMacAttack wrote: “I can’t stop drinking though. Just isn’t going to happen”

See what happens when you become a Bucs fans?

By: BigMacAttack

BigMacAttack — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:25:49 +0000

I have their highest speed internet, telephone, 6 boxes, 2 DVR’s, all the movie channels and the expanded HD package. It’s about $175/mo. with tax. It is what it is. I quit smoking cigs a couple years ago when I first got it, so it was pretty much a trade off. I can’t stop drinking though. Just isn’t going to happen.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:58:24 +0000

@BigMacAttack

Expensive? I only pay $47 a month and I get the NFL Network and many more channels in HD that BHN doesn’t offer. How exactly is that expensive?