Cincy, Indy & Now Denver Joins In The Lameness

IggyWH · #1 01-17-2006, 11:40 PM

If this was common procedure, I wouldn't care. This is far from normal though. For each week, 15,000 tickets went on sale to the general public for the playoff games.

Cincy's ticket office would hang up on anyone that called with a 412 or 724 area code (Pittsburgh & surrounding area). There were pleas to ticket holders to not sell tickets to Steeler fans from the media.

Indy's ticket office wouldn't take any calls from Pittsburgh area codes and the organization even issued a plea to people to not sell tickets to Steeler fans.

Now, Denver has joined in the lameness. Their ticket office also was not accepting calls from Pittsburgh area codes.

LAME.

The NFL needs to do something about this. The home team already has the advantage on ticket sales since it is through their ticket office. They are publicly released so anyone can buy them. Things like this can only lead to the league future allocating so many tickets directly to the opposing team. I'm sure no one want that.

DMBFan23 · #2 01-18-2006, 12:00 AM

I think its awesome

(I'm a tampa fan, I like bettis, I hate brady, I like manning. those are all my possible biases.)

$DEADSEXE$ · #3 01-18-2006, 12:05 AM

if you really were that concerned with this..then maybe your team should won home field advantage instead of squeaking into the playoffs

Six_of_One · #4 01-18-2006, 12:09 AM

Shouldn't the home team have the advantage in ticket sales? Seems only logical to me.

IggyWH · #5 01-18-2006, 12:09 AM

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if you really were that concerned with this..then maybe your team should won home field advantage instead of squeaking into the playoffs

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This isn't really a "my team" "your team" thing. It's easy to say that because of the situation.

As I said, things like this can only lead to other teams following along. With enough complaints, the league could look into allocating tickets directly to the opposing team. That is not good for football and no one want that.

Be sure that the Steelers will bitch come league meetings about this. With the Steelers having one of the loudest voices when it comes to the NFL, it won't take much support from other teams for things to change.

IggyWH · #6 01-18-2006, 12:12 AM

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Shouldn't the home team have the advantage in ticket sales? Seems only logical to me.

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Yes, they should. This is why the home team sells the tickets and no tickets are allocated to the opposing team.

It's a completely different thing to refuse ticket sales to a specific group though. This is why these tickets are made available to the public, so anyone can buy them. These teams are changing the norm.

Case Closed · #7 01-18-2006, 12:14 AM

Very lame.

rwperu34 · #8 01-18-2006, 12:27 AM

Are you trying to say that the game is not sold out already?

IggyWH · #9 01-18-2006, 12:30 AM

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Are you trying to say that the game is not sold out already?

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I'm sure it is now... at least I hope so. The tickets went on sale Monday morning.

Seadood228 · #10 01-18-2006, 01:57 AM

This is pretty common for any large sporting event. I remember having the same problem in 98, but I'm not sure if they were turning back phone-ins(never tried). I do remember trying to buy tickets, and as soon as I told them I wasn't local.. click.

I'm not really sure if it's LAME or just good gamesmanship.