Comments on: Another Blackout; $30 Seats Plentiful

By: Rjw123

Rjw123 — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:16:56 +0000

This makes me sick. You forget to mention those so called $30.00 Tickets actually cost $45.00 after ticketmaster service fees, and delivery charges. And then when you factor in parking costs/ Beer/Water (something you must buy in the 100 Degree heat) it just simply isn’t affordable to us who are struggling to get by. That is the real reason we aren’t attending the games.

The fan base is here, everyone I know is a bucs fan! I am sick of the media agenda!

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Bust Blackouts Staff — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:21:11 +0000

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By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:16:54 +0000

“Read the Buccaneer articles by the Tampa Bay Times and you’ll only gather that they publicly hate Greg Schiano”

Yep…..they kept defending Raheem for a long time but they’re already being hard on Schiano. I get it……Raheem was black and everyone liked that. Kind of like how people voted for Obama just cause he was black. Closet racism.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:09:05 +0000

C’mon Tampa………$30 seats is pretty damn reasonable.

By: The Dutcher Journal (Pete Dutcher)

The Dutcher Journal (Pete Dutcher) — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:49:57 +0000

Personally, I think all NFL games should be free. The truth is the teams make the true money on tv revenues anyway. Having fans reserve free tickets online or by phone would work…maybe do that with the $30 seats and then charge $30 for the more premium seats.

At this point, that may be the only option left open to the NFL because of the at home experience.

If they want more people at the games though, they need to do away with the blackout rules at the very least. All they are doing is hurting attendence in local markets at this point. Fans view it as a betrayal and instead of seeing their teams improve they listen to sports talk and tv personalities that are biased.

By: MTM

MTM — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:47:07 +0000

There are a lot of reasons why the Bucs don’t sell out.
1) Too many losing seasons with no hope in sight.
2) Ownerships poor choices over years.
3) The at home experience versus sweating your ass off, over paying for crappy draft beer, waiting to use the restroom, paying for parking, listening to some drunk dumbass drop the f-bomb in front of your kids and missing most of the game due to poor visibility.

Tampa is just ahead of the curve.

By: Pete I

Pete I — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:45:40 +0000

Why does joe trip all over himself about these $30 tickets. Is that supppsed to be a reasonable price? To sit in the worst seats in the stadium? How about lowering all ticket prices? If you don’t like tarps then lower all ticket prices. I had season tickets and they jist weren’t worth it. Neither is buying tickets at $30 to sit in the east side upper decks.

Nothing to do if the game is a stinker. The stadium experience is not that great anymore. Just a big hassle whether the team is winning or not.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 06:44:00 +0000

NYCbucman:

the Bucs need to do like how they do it in jacksonville, they put tarp over a ceetain amount of seats, and that prevents blackouts!!, something i wish the Bucs would look into!

Joe wishes there would be a never-ending string of blackouts before the Bucs pull a cheap stunt like that. Joe cannot tell you how awful that looks with the tarps. Empty seats are a plus compared.

By: NYCbucman

NYCbucman — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 06:23:01 +0000

the Bucs need to do like how they do it in jacksonville, they put tarp over a ceetain amount of seats, and that prevents blackouts!!, something i wish the Bucs would look into!

By: Miguel Grande

Miguel Grande — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:55:45 +0000

@Jimmy

Best comment, but you forgot $4 gasoline.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:57:34 +0000

$30 tix? Thought that was if you purchased season tickets and not single tickets. Doesn’t matter to me. I’ll be there as usual yelling my head off, trying to be the good 12th man and support the team.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:47:36 +0000

You mean losing 12 out of last 13 doesn’t pack em in?

What a head scratcher.