Coast2CoastAM2006 Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 Monday, Jul 21, 2008 10:52 am EDTNew ticket plan aims to keep Dallas fans out of Cards' stadiumGetty ImagesThe Arizona Cardinals are trying to "protect the nest." This means they'd like University of Phoenix Stadium to continue to sell out, and to do so with as few opposing fans as possible. In the past two seasons, there was little concern about this since the team sold out every home game. But with ticket sales a bit slower as the third season approaches, the Cardinals are requiring fans who want to buy tickets to the Dallas game on Oct. 12 to also buy tickets for the Aug. 7 exhibition opener vs. New Orleans. Cardinals fans have "created a decisive home-field advantage" the past two years, and the team wants to keep it that way by discouraging single-game ticket sales to Dallas Cowboys fans, team spokesman Mark Dalton said."Our goal is to have as many Cardinal fans in the stadium as possible," Dalton said.In terms of overall ticket sales, "We're a little slower than we were at this point" last year, Dalton said, citing the slowing economy. Dalton estimated about 58,000 season tickets have been sold. Ideally, the Cardinals would like to sell about 60,000 season tickets and hold back 3,000 or so to sell for individual games."If we don't get to that threshold, then there will be a few more individual single-game tickets available," Dalton said.Source: East Valley Tribune ------------------but if we keep the cowboys fans out of the stadium, who will show up? enjoy the empty stadium boys. Spoilers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Discrim Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 um, yeah. til they start going to the playoffs consistently, good luck with that A strong mind gets high off success, a weak mind gets high off bull Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WJMorris3 Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 um, yeah. good luck with that Perhaps a better solution would require some knowledge of Cardinals history to be permitted to purchase tickets?Of course, one could also start requiring, as a standard season ticket clause, that the purchaser sign an agreement saying that the Cardinals have the right of first refusal when it comes to reselling those tickets, with the cost being no higher than the original price of the tickets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiddySicks Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 This isn't a new thing. I've purchased Niners vs Bucs tickets and Raiders vs Bucs tickets where you had to buy at least three other games along with it. it's a pain in the ass initially, but it's not that hard to sell off those other tickets at face value, even vs really crappy teams. On 11/19/2012 at 7:23 PM, oldschoolvikings said: She’s still half convinced “Chris Creamer” is a porn site.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew22 Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 This isn't uncommon. Lots of colleges do this to keep their rivals fans from coming to the games. Eagles/Heels/Dawgs/Falcons/Hawks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oddball Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 The wimpy Chargers and that wimpy city do the same thing for Raider fans. My theory is, the home fans need to step up and buy the tickets and the front office/team needs to encourage their fans to come out and support them or just shut up. It's the front office's fault for putting crappy teams on the field that allowed this to happen, so when it does they need to look in the mirror! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illwauk Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 The Vikings started this crap a few years ago to try and keep Packers fans out of the Metrodump.And I agree that front offices needs to start taking responsibility for creating these situations. Of course if this were MLB, they'd "punish" the Cardinals owner (is it still the Bidwells?) by making him the commissioner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gothamite Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 Nah, only owners of really good organizations get to be Commish. As others have noticed, this isn't exactly new. I don't have a problem with them wanting to preserve home-field advantage in the face of some nationally-popular teams. The Green Bay Packers Uniform Database! Now in a handy blog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFoA Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 As others have noticed, this isn't exactly new. I don't have a problem with them wanting to preserve home-field advantage in the face of some nationally-popular teams.Agreed. Nothing's more embarrassing, to me at least, is to be in your home stadium and be outnumbered by the other team's fans, especially if the team is far away. That happened to the Falcons (notably) when the Steelers came to town the year after they won the Super Bowl. They sang the national anthem, and I kid you not, the Georgia Dome came alive with Terrible Towels everywhere and a "LET'S GO STEELERS" chant. It also happened to be the most exciting football game I've been to in person, and it was a good thing the Falcons won that game. That would've been horrible to walk out of that stadium with it being Pittsburgh party central afterwards. So yeah, I can understand why Arizona would want to do this. Protect your house, Cardinals! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seadragon76 Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 Well, as long it's NOT keeping Seahawk fans out of Fake Internet School Stadium (Yeah, UofPhoenix is a fake IMHO), I couldn't give a royal you-know-what about the Deadbird fans in the Valley of the Damned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxmet Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 This isn't a new thing. I've purchased Niners vs Bucs tickets and Raiders vs Bucs tickets where you had to buy at least three other games along with it. it's a pain in the ass initially, but it's not that hard to sell off those other tickets at face value, even vs really crappy teams.Football isn't the only sport doing this. In baseball, the Milwaukee Brewers have the "Take Back Miller Park" promotion by having Brewer fans outnumber Cubs and Cardinals fans in home games at Miller Park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankCostanza Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 I remember reading somewhere the White Sox did this in 1997, for the first interleague series vs. the Cubs. Anyone who brought a Cubs ticket had to buy (i think) tickets to three other Sox games that season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 As others have noticed, this isn't exactly new. I don't have a problem with them wanting to preserve home-field advantage in the face of some nationally-popular teams.Agreed. Nothing's more embarrassing, to me at least, is to be in your home stadium and be outnumbered by the other team's fans, especially if the team is far away. That happened to the Falcons (notably) when the Steelers came to town the year after they won the Super Bowl. They sang the national anthem, and I kid you not, the Georgia Dome came alive with Terrible Towels everywhere and a "LET'S GO STEELERS" chant. It also happened to be the most exciting football game I've been to in person, and it was a good thing the Falcons won that game. That would've been horrible to walk out of that stadium with it being Pittsburgh party central afterwards. So yeah, I can understand why Arizona would want to do this. Protect your house, Cardinals!Ditto.I have never been more incensed/embarrassed as a Rams fan when I heard LET'S GO BEARS!!!!! chanted loudly in "Soldier South" throughout the MNF game they played a couple of years back. On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said: You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now. On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said: Today, we are all otaku. "The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010 The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seadragon76 Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 Ditto.I have never been more happy as a Rams fan when I heard LET'S GO BEARS!!!!! chanted loudly in "Soldier South" throughout the MNF game they played a couple of years back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi74 Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 Nah, only owners of really good organizations get to be Commish. As others have noticed, this isn't exactly new. I don't have a problem with them wanting to preserve home-field advantage in the face of some nationally-popular teams.Is having empty seats preserving home field advantage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopard88 Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 Nah, only owners of really good organizations get to be Commish. As others have noticed, this isn't exactly new. I don't have a problem with them wanting to preserve home-field advantage in the face of some nationally-popular teams.Is having empty seats preserving home field advantage.Compared to filling those seats with fans of the visiting team, I would say it is. Most Liked Content of the Day -- February 15, 2017, August 21, 2017, August 22, 2017 ///// Proud Winner of the CCSLC Post of the Day Award -- April 8, 2008 Originator of the Upside Down Sarcasm Smilie -- November 1, 2005 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illwauk Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 This isn't a new thing. I've purchased Niners vs Bucs tickets and Raiders vs Bucs tickets where you had to buy at least three other games along with it. it's a pain in the ass initially, but it's not that hard to sell off those other tickets at face value, even vs really crappy teams.Football isn't the only sport doing this. In baseball, the Milwaukee Brewers have the "Take Back Miller Park" promotion by having Brewer fans outnumber Cubs and Cardinals fans in home games at Miller Park.That's basically Mark Anastacio (still don't know how to spell his name) trying to make up for Bud Selig not caring who he sold tickets to... even if it meant not establishing a homefield advantage in a brand new building (why would he care when he knew he was going to sell the team all along?). Selig marketed the hell out of Miller Park to Cubs and Cards fan clubs who have now made a mini-tradition of going up to Miller Park.But Cubs and Cardinals fans are two different animals (no pun intended). Cardinals fans (at least the ones I've dealt with) tend to be very rational and knowledgeable about the game. But the Cubs fans that come to Miller Park tend to be walking caricatures... a bunch of yuppie d-bags who can't afford seats at Wrigley, so they come here and act like we owe them something for their presence. But these are probably the same morons who own vacation property in Northern Wisconsin, then complain about there being nothing to do but drink, hunt and fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gothamite Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 That's basically Mark Anastacio (still don't know how to spell his name) trying to make up for Bud Selig not caring who he sold tickets to... even if it meant not establishing a homefield advantage in a brand new building (why would he care when he knew he was going to sell the team all along?). Selig marketed the hell out of Miller Park to Cubs and Cards fan clubs who have now made a mini-tradition of going up to Miller Park.Bud Selig hasn't had anything to do with the operation of the Brewers since September 10, 1992. There may be plenty of blame to go around for the performance of the Brewers since then, but none of it ends up on his desk. The Green Bay Packers Uniform Database! Now in a handy blog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJTank Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 Come on his daughter owned the team for years you honestly think he was not still running things? www.sportsecyclopedia.com For the best in sports history go to the Sports E-Cyclopedia at http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illwauk Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 "Wendy Selig was nothing but Bud Selig in drag." - Mr. illwauk (illwauk's dad)I never did get the chance to ask if he meant that literally or metaphorically, but either way, I agree...The curious inclusion of the Twins to the contraction chopping block from a few years ago definitely suggests it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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