If you had read the article, the court already awarded a judgment for the team to the tune of around $65K. So, yeah, they did recover damages. Also, it was a default judgment, meaning of course that she didn’t contest it. Apparently she didn’t have enough assets to cover a lawyer. Funny how the world works.
OK, again don’t really know what you’re getting after here.
Yeah she’s been fortunate, and I now understand that you harbor some substantial ill will towards longtime season-ticket holders. However, that ill will still doesn’t warrant a multi-billion dollar corporation forcing a diehard supporter into bankruptcy simply because they can, especially when that corporation can effortlessly recoup their costs elsewhere. I don’t see much gray area here.
Also: most in demand sporting event in all of sport? The Redskins?
I didn’t read the full article but from the sounds of things this woman’s mistakes are legion. I’m not sure you want to hold her up as the oppressed fan.
Examples of people who had been extraordinarily fortunate and through horrible choices and business decisions are now destitute. Was it that opaque?
Not ill will. I’d be one of them if I could afford it. However people with little understanding of the industry, and journalists who should know better, trot out PSLs as examples of unfettered greed. They aren’t and the vast majority of PSL holders make windfall profits on them and those who who had the first chance to buy them were the sporting equivalent of IPO insiders. Were they as fortunate as the ones in the old days who got to rebuy tickets for nothing besides being there first? No, but they are still very desirable things.
Why didn’t this woman sell her PSL on the open market? She could have effortlessly recouped her costs too, but chose not to for some reason.
Yeah, that’s the perception. Can’t prove it but it’s the general opinion.
I have had Sunday ticket for three years, but it got jettisoned this year. When I’m paying for “all the games” FFS I should GET ALL THE GAMES. I follow two teams (Bucs and Browns, have mercy on me) and hence the ticket. But I was tired of 1/2 the games I wanted to see being on local SD feeds or blacked out.
Don’t worry, Bucs’ll be 8-8 this year. We’re actually doing quite well over the last five years considering we’re $40 million under the cap every year because Man United is losing the Glazers $40 million a year.
While MLB attendance in 2009 in down 2,200 per game, it is still a healthy 30,166 per game, with total attendance over 63 million. No one goes to games? 63M seems a lot higher than nothing to me. Cite
The real question is total gate receipts, not attendance, of course. What those figures are, I don’t know.
I agree with you. I can understand local blackouts on network TV, even if I hate them, but if you spend the money for NFL Ticket or whatever it’s called, you should be exempt from local blackouts. It’s essentially buying a ticket to every game.
I think you should be able to pay an additional fee to watch a blacked out game. Like, let’s say you live in Jacksonville and want to watch the game. For, say, $20, you could order it via an On Demand channel or something.
After watching this week’s Inside the NFL, I call bullshit on the entire blackout controversy. The NFL is expecting around 50 games to be blacked out this season, which is exactly normal. The last few years have been remarkably well sold out, with fewer than 10 blackouts per season. But in the early 2000s, they had 50 blackouts a year every year. We’re not talking way back in the 80s or something; the early friggin’ 2000s!
So this level of blackouts is normal, which is something I never once heard in what I can only assume were heavily biased media reports documenting the impending blackouts this season.
Interesting. You’re right…the media has been portraying this as a season full of blackouts like no other. I guess we’ll see as the season unfolds which side is true.
The NFL is granting extra day before they declare a blackout. Detroit just got close enough to avoid it. Last year 5 Detroit games were blacked out. But, Detroit is not representative. We have had such a bad product for so long, blackouts should happen every damn week.
It will take about 30 seconds for the Skins to resell those seats. They have a huge waiting list. They have no damages. They sue her for a bunch and collect. Then sell the tickets and make out again. That is a suck/suck for the fans.
