Dolphins/Bud Light buy remaining tix for Texans game to avoid blackout

move em to LA

 

relocate those bitches to Winnipeg, I heard they have a hockey team now.

 

To be fair, there's a lot to do in Florida besides go to a Dolphin game.

Commit incest, build a meth lab, get strung out on oxies, huff spray paint, etc.

 

produce rap videos?

 

climb your abnormally large girlfriend like a tree?

 

It's OK, Marc Anthony is the face of ownership. Him and Fergie will right the ship!

 

The Jets start are starting down the road to having the same thing happen to them if they are not careful. Last year I rolled into town and I sat in the UD for last Thanksgiving nite and paid $55 for upper side lines and UD was 3/4 full. Face value was $105 and there is no way in the world that ticket is worth it's value given the view from up there. Granted it was T-giving nite when I went but just look at how cheap this weeks game is selling for.

 

and get paid get paid get paid get paid get paid get paid

 

i think we would need a few consecutive seasons in the bottom of hte AFCE, and then maintain a pretty shitty home record, perhaps going winless at home in a year before anything similar happens to the jets.

 

Why spend good money on a bad product?

Looks like lots of people are doing what I am and giving up the season tickets...

 

The Dolphins aren't the only team in Florida to have these problems. Week 1 saw the Jags perform a similar maneuver to lift their blackout.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/09/09/jaguars-lift-blackout-but-game-is-not-sold-out/

 

They should have Gloria Estefan and the Miami sound machine at half time every game. The homos would pack that place to full capacity

 

i might go, fuck it. bet big on the texans and rub it in those disinterested fans faces'

 

Didn't we have to do the same thing last year?

 

I don't know if it actually happened, but it certainly was the case that a few days before the home opener the Jets hadn't sold all of the non-premium seats and were prepared to buy the extras to make sure the game wasn't blacked out (http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/jets/woody_pay_tv_nl2TaMhQaz05pVy3SWBeHM). The Giants hadn't sold all of their seats either, but those were premium seats.

A difference is that this is 10,000 seats, not 1500, and the problem with the Jets was the requirement to purchase PSLs (if the seats were offered without PSLs they'd sell in a minute). Still, your point is well-taken - this is something that happens often in the NFL. An interesting aside is that this actually costs the team money - they have to pay the NFL 34 cents on the dollar for any seats that they buy.

The real point is that Miami is not a good sports town, and never has been. The Heat win an NBA title, and 2 years later have thousands of empty seats every game. The Marlins win 2 World Series, and don't even fill the ballpark while it's happening (the fact that each time they immediately gutted the team didn't help).

 

I remember last year in the Dolphins game, Me and a friend got free tickets to the Touchdown club.

I figured it was part of "Fan appreciation day", but was it because they were just trying to fill the seats?

 

The difference between the situation we have been in and the one the dolphins are in is that people want to go to our games but the tickets are abominably expensive and no one can afford it, people in miami just do not want to see the dolphins play.

 

Wonder if Jets are in a similar situation,, they are heavily advertising

 

The Jags game was blacked out.