I would not pay much. If it was a nice day, the opponents were interesting, the invitees were people I liked - perhaps.
Sometimes the best thing about the game is not the game. In university, I had some friends who loved to go watch their local Ottawa Roughriders (1976 CFL Champions!, sometimes played the Saskatchewan Roughriders; a league of nine teams had two with the same name). They did this because there was a tradition of getting drunk in the cheap seats, and mocking other fans. Not sure how much fun this sounds to me now.
Agree. The only time I ever went to a Cowboys game in person again was the Dallas-Seattle playoff game a few years ago. I had decided that no preseason or regular-season game was worth the hassle.
I give approximately zero fucks about sports and even fewer about football but found the question in the OP bizarre. I’ve never been to an NFL game but would happily attend one, especially if someone else were paying. Seeing people who are good at something (and even the shittiest at that level are good) is interesting in person.
I might bring a couple magazines like I did at some college football games (sooo much down time.)
I do watch the regular-season games, but only on TV.
Only playoff games are worth the additional hassle of travel and buying tickets, stadium security, etc. - especially since I’m 3 hours away from Dallas.
Nitpick: although they are the Saskatchewan Roughriders, the Ottawa team was called the Ottawa Rough Riders (two words). Ottawa took the name several decades before Saskatchewan.
Yeah, something like that for me and the Red Sox. Between 1997 (when I moved up here) and about 2005 or 2006, we bought ticket 10-packs every year, plus random bleacher seats, but with the playoff and then WS success it just got harder and harder to get good & cheap tickets, plus the stands were full of yahoos not paying attention, doing the wave mid-inning, etc. Bah! Humbug.
ETA: to put the availability in perspective, one workday in 1999 a co-worker said “let’s go see the Red Sox tonight, Pedro Martinez is pitching against the Yankees,” and we were able to buy 8 or so bleacher seats near the front, in a row, at a reasonable price. That kind of opportunity went away pretty quickly.
I was aware of that, but did not want to go into too much detail and wanted to emphasize the stupidity of team names with the same sound. How often do you say a name versus writing it? But you are right and I appreciate the correction.
I think they’d have needed to have won at least a few games for me to be interested. But I can’t imagine bothering to head out to the stadium so I can check out a team that, say, has locked up next year’s No. 1 draft pick and/or is polishing off a winless campaign.