I do think something is going to have to give when it comes ticket prices for sporting events. Not to mention concerts and such! Its just not going to sit well with the average person who is having a hard time making ends meet. With many people hit hard by the economy, watching some overpaid guys play a sport just wont be the same!!

No doubt. I wanted to take my father to the Giants/Steelers game earlier this year. The cheapest tickets I could get, and these were tickets that would make you wish you stayed home, were $200 apiece, and that does not include parking, etc. I would have dropped $600 easily on that game in the nosebleed section, over a grand with halfway decent seats. Dad had to watch it on TV instead - I'd sooner give him the $500 to supplement his income than piss it away at the lip of the Meadowlands.

Same thing with Yankees tickets this year. Going to any sports game has gotten ridiculous. Back when my grandfather was alive we could take him to the game, plus buy him a hat, a hot dog & soda and have decent seats & parking for less than $100 for 3 people.

These arenas, stadiums, ballparks will take a hit.

I was watching the end of the Bucks game tonite (i don't watch NBA, but it caught my eye for some reason). I noticed that wherever they were playing, the place was empty. There were empty seats everywhere.

NBA just sucks now. Back when i watched it (Jordan, Pippen) it was a lot more interesting. Now its just a bunch of rapping, gangsters with their bling bling and their giant paychecks.

You haven't seen anything yet. The real crash in the U.S. economy is coming at the end of Dec., 28 or 29. We will see you plays the game just "for the love of the game". Ha ha ha.

Football-Basketball-baseball-soccer ect..are past time sports played by youth or men for fun...it has in the oil age turned into a multi-billion dollar industry.
Sports have no lasting value or spirit to them..they dont do much more then a basic movie does on entertaining a spectator for a few hours.
I for one will be glad to see pro-sports fall by the way...and if they are played..they are played by a man who has a job as a mechanic, a plumber, a farmer etc..not by some overpay IQ-52 moron for 25 million dolalrs a year.

Sorry but I can think of 1,000,000 other things I can spend 500 bucks on...hell a high school football game cost 7 dollars and brings just as much entertainment value as some pro-sport does ..and its local..I actually can meet and talk to the players "who are all most likely doing a part time job in the community'
pro-Sports-May they fall by the way

Some past and future ruins:

Nice!

Im doubting those new ruins will last 2000+ years though!

Like this fool?


Ha-ha!

Alternatively, professional teams can start having salaries like the rest of us, and save millions a year.

Some great possibilites for a post crash community there...

It's actually kind of interesting. The early NFL had to deal with exactly the same thing--people financing their team through their normal business activities, and having to occasionally fold up the operation when things got bad. No problem to pick up the team and move it if you thought things would be better in some other city... teams hibernating for a couple of years until they could find some financing...

Of course, the Indian Packing Company team is still in existence, as are the Decatur Staleys, who had to move to Chicago. The rest of the original teams are long gone. The Boston Redskins played their first championship game in New York in 1936 during the process of relocation to DC. The Cleveland Rams have now relocated twice. The Chicago Cardinals have also relocated twice.

In 1934, the St. Louis team only played 3 games, and the Cincinnati team only played 8.

If one can imagine--the Eagles and Steelers had to merge in 1943 because of the war and lack of players.

The point of all of this: When money is tight, entertainment money is tighter.

An additional point: One of the major NFL sponsors, the Anheuser Busch company, was recently bought out by the Europeans. This will no doubt have a dramatic effect on the league revenue.


NFL Historical Standings

Back in the mid 90's my roomate was the DJ for the Oklahoma City Blazers Hockey. I use his season pass to take dates for 8th row, center ice. Sometimes I'd get in free just by carting his equipment .
Back then CHL hockey could pack in 8-10,000 people.

Regarding Jerry Jones. He has soaked the people of Arlington, they just don't know it yet . I have lived in Dallas since 1998. I have never gone to a game and never will. Maybe they will have a superbowl there in the future or a final 4 NBA championship. Unlike the American Airlines center that has Mavericks and Stars games, the Cowboys have 8 home games a year. They need something to occupy that monolith for the other 357 days of the year.

EB if you were on that project I'm sorry.

DUPLICATE

Nah, different firm. It's just that many more pounding the pavement (along with myself) for a job, though.

*PLAYS "HAIL TO THE REDSKINS" IN THIS POST*