Ravens announcement...

[bmore_ken]

I started thinking about the home games as a season ticket holder and came up with some staggering facts. I ride in an RV with a group of 12 people to each game.

Our average ticket price is around $100 plus we have to each pay for 2 preseason games that we don't attend. Plus we pay $80 to park (the Ravens charge us for 2 spots even though we are only take up 1).

Add all that up and you get $12,800 plus about another $4000 we spend on concessions. With all that money we could have a $2000 per game catered party and watch on big screen high def TVs.

While I will still be attending all home games again this year I have to admit at some point it is not going to be worth going to the games and sitting through rain, cold, heat etc. when I can have one hell of a party in the comfort of my home for the same price or less.

Your post is one of the reasons I didn't run out to buy a PSL when the Ravens came to town. I can still get a ticket to any home game I want and if the weather sucks I can just stay home and get drunk while watching the game. I would think though that having guaranteed seats to every home playoff game would be worth it though.

[Ravens2006]

My father and I spend about $1500 a year on our two tickets and parking, for 10 games. A little more if there's a playoff game at home. A fun tradition since '96, and I've missed all of two regular season games at home. TV is great, but for me, I prefer to be in the stadium. You see more of the play unfold, our "seat neighbors" are a lot of fun, and the atmosphere is awesome. Well worth it for me.

It's a shame they can't keep a few thousand truly "low price" tickets available that could get in to more peoples' hands, but chances are someone would wind up scalping them anyway...

[Aclobat]

Crap, i gotta pay a extra 8.50 a ticket now

[rgh]

My father and I spend about $1500 a year on our two tickets and parking, for 10 games. A little more if there's a playoff game at home. A fun tradition since '96, and I've missed all of two regular season games at home. TV is great, but for me, I prefer to be in the stadium. You see more of the play unfold, our "seat neighbors" are a lot of fun, and the atmosphere is awesome. Well worth it for me.

It's a shame they can't keep a few thousand truly "low price" tickets available that could get in to more peoples' hands, but chances are someone would wind up scalping them anyway...

I agree the game experience is a lot of fun. But at some point people are going to stop paying all this money to go when they can watch it on TV and use the money for something else. This is not just a Ravens problem it is an NFL problem. And there are a lot of teams charging outrageous money while putting a terrible product on the field. The NFL has to realize that at some point if the prices keep rising people will stop coming. I don't think the Ravens plan of raising prices every other year can go on forever. There will be a breaking point eventually.

Also to compare the average movie cost in 1999 was about $5 now it is about $8. The average Oriole ticket in 1998 was about $18 now it is about $26. The average Ravens ticket in 1999 was about $42 and last year it was about $92. (I admit my research is based on a quick google and may not be 100% accurate but it still proves my point that football is increasing ticket prices way too much and eventually it will hurt attendance.)

[bmore_ken]

Perhaps, but there's still a PSL waiting list so I don't see that happening any time soon

[Fang]

I'd much rather be at the games than watching at home on TV. The excitement and crowd energy is just something you can't get at home. I don't really mind bad weather as long as I'm dressed appropriately. Football is the only sport I really watch, so 8 games a year plus some away games is nothing. We're talking 10-12 days out of 365.

[can you hear me now!]

I didn't know this part of your post. I'll add this, I only paid $110.00 for the playoff game against the Colts. And I got those tix 2nd hand, so that may have even included a mark up from the season tix holder.

I think those are great prices for a post season football game in a city with a very supportive fanbase.

a lot of people don't know that the league sets the prices for playoff games and the Super Bowl....

here are a couple of useful links to determine just hiow much you may ahve overpaid....

http://prod.static.ravens.clubs.nfl....fInfoSheet.pdf

and http://prod.static.ravens.clubs.nfl...._FAN_GUIDE.pdf page 25.....

I miss the 8 Sundays at M&T....not quite in the income bracket where I can fly in for games :-).

[jessup270]

I started thinking about the home games as a season ticket holder and came up with some staggering facts. I ride in an RV with a group of 12 people to each game.

Our average ticket price is around $100 plus we have to each pay for 2 preseason games that we don't attend. Plus we pay $80 to park (the Ravens charge us for 2 spots even though we are only take up 1).

Add all that up and you get $12,800 plus about another $4000 we spend on concessions. With all that money we could have a $2000 per game catered party and watch on big screen high def TVs.

While I will still be attending all home games again this year I have to admit at some point it is not going to be worth going to the games and sitting through rain, cold, heat etc. when I can have one hell of a party in the comfort of my home for the same price or less.

The HD flat screen TVs are getting bigger and bigger and the cost is coming down every year.

Clean bathroom, instant replays, no long waits to get off the parking lot and no abusive drunks. Did I mention FREE.

[weird-O]

a lot of people don't know that the league sets the prices for playoff games and the Super Bowl....

here are a couple of useful links to determine just hiow much you may ahve overpaid....

http://prod.static.ravens.clubs.nfl....fInfoSheet.pdf

and http://prod.static.ravens.clubs.nfl...._FAN_GUIDE.pdf page 25.....

I miss the 8 Sundays at M&T....not quite in the income bracket where I can fly in for games :-).

I looked at the stub last night, it was $74.00. considering I paid $65.00 for the first playoff game against the Yankees, that's a steal at face value. I'm still happy with the price I paid.