Around the NFL - 2013

[Sgt PSN]

If more people were like you there'd also be at least 2 Grand Canyons in this country.

[reese125]

ha

[PhillyPhreak54]

If more people were like you there'd also be at least 2 Grand Canyons in this country.

lol

[Diomedes]

this is next level thinking....if the next level was 1995

Are you sure you don't mean 1993, or possibly '97?  Dick.

[Rome]

You're complaining about ticket prices to a guy who rarely goes to games.  You know this, right?

I wasn't complaining, just voicing my opinion.   If I lived in PA or Jersey I'd be at every Eagles game, and a shteinload of Phils & Flyers games too.  I would go because I'm a hopeless & pathetic Philly fan whose self-worth is largely empty without my sports teams affiliations.

But Dio's follow-up response is a good one.  Sports fans are at fault for allowing the ridiculous escalation in prices to happen.

[QB Eagles]

Eagles season tickets are sold at far below fair market value, as the enormous waiting list attests. In addition, I would bet that the increase of prices on the secondary ticket market since the days when you paid $10/game is even greater than the increase in the official ticket price.

There is vastly increased demand to attend Eagles games, and that's the main reason prices have gone up so much. It is not like the 1950s when this was the primary way the team made money. The ticket price is not a make-or-break financial calculation for the team.

Dio is right, with one caveat. Yes, prices would go down if demand to attend the games dropped steeply. But it's also possible for the price to decrease (or more slowly increase) when the public bitches a lot about the price. After all, fear of public (and political) backlash is the reason Lurie doesn't sell the tickets at the profit-maximizing price to begin with. The Eagles have raised their prices slowly though, and they've never been among the highest price tickets, so I doubt a big backlash is in the cards unless the team blows terribly for the next ten years and the region loses most of its interest in football.

[Sgt PSN]

Yup.  If there's one thing about the Eagles you really can't bitch about, it's their ticket prices in relation to the rest of the league.  Not saying their ticket prices are "cheap" but they aren't anywhere near expensive in comparison to what a lot of other teams charge.  I'm guessing they've got to be somewhere around the middle of the pack on prices, aren't they?  Somewhere between maybe 12-16?

And they're parking/tailgating prices and policies are still among the best in the league.  So I guess that's 2 things we can't bitch about.   

[MDS]

tickets are 95 because you sheep pay 95

if you want to go pay 95. if you dont then dont. no one cares.

[ice grillin you]

my tickets are 75

dirt cheap for nfl football

[MDS]

yea exactly

you make 3x what i make and id pay 75 no problem if i could....other people want to pay 10 bucks because it was that way in 1972

[reese125]

flacco only got $52 million guaranteed

[Zanshin]

Haha @ "only". I get the context, but still....

[ice grillin you]

how worthless is the nfl cap?

flacco will make 30 mil this year but only have a 6.8 mil cap hit

[PhillyPhanInDC]

Brady's deal might be an even more apt example of how worthless the cap is.

[BigEd76]

Miami tagged Randy Starks, so Jake Long, Sean Smith and Brian Hartline are free to sign elsewhere