Autograph seekers @ the game need wristbands?

[alamo50]

WTF is up with this?!?!
They give wristbands every game to a small group of selected people seated at the Balcony level and they are the only ones in the entire stadium who are allowed to ask for autographs from the players????


I have been to just 2 games and I already seen the same person there both times. Whoever thought of this stupid rule should get fired.
People who spend a lot of money to get a better seat are restrained from getting autographs.

Why not just do lit like in Houston and Dallas?
Everybody can get to a certain area down near the court for autographs and half an hour or so before the game everybody needs to get to their seats.
What's so bad with that?

[SequSpur]

New World Order.

Blame the Middle East.

[exstatic]

New World Order.

Blame the Middle East.
Blame Sequ. He tried to use Silver Star tickets to get down on the floor.

[rasho8]

Blame Sequ. He tried to use Silver Star tickets to get down on the floor.

:lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao

[T Park]

Everybody can get to a certain area down near the court for autographs and half an hour or so before the game everybody needs to get to their seats.
What's so bad with that?



The problem was people weren't sitting in the right seats, and when the people with the correct seat would show up, theyd have to move them, DURING the game.

These people would be up blocking the view.

It would be a pain in the ass.

Also Im sure its another in the long line of bitching by people saying "The people in the lower level arent HALF the fans we are, WE DEMAND MORE STUFF SITTING UP HERE!!"

[SequSpur]

Blame Sequ. He tried to use Silver Star tickets to get down on the floor.

Borat, I have never even been to a WNBA game.

[velik_m]

Borat, I have never even been to a WNBA game.

I would just like to point out that you didn't deny owning them. Cunning tactics - dismissive, yet truthfull.

[Brutalis]

That's very ignorant if true..

[T Park]

Borat?

That insult doesn't even make sense.....

[mrsmaalox]

Well my son and I sit in sec 102; we are always allowed to get to the tunnel for autographs. My son stands there and I walk down to the FLOOR to watch shoot around. My understanding is that you must have a lower level ticket (no particular section) to get there. Then at playoff game 1 we tried the usual and we were told we needed a wristband. So where to get a wristband? The guy said only SEASON ticket holders could get them IF they contacted their representative in advance for one. News to me! So over at the Denver tunnel, there is no one, so we decided to go over there and get a look. As we walked over there we got stopped by 3 different ushers asking where our seats are and instructing us to get back there! We pretty much just kept going; then when we got to the tunnel there was absolutely no one in that section when some woman usher came over, asked for our tickets and personally escorted us back to our section! I asked why and could only be told "It's the playoffs; we are much stricter". My 3rd playoffs and I never heard that before!

[spurschick]

I got stopped just walking to my seat by the woman usher who has seen me all damned season. She asked "can I help you?" - I said that I was going to my seat and she went into this diatribe about if I wanted to get an autograph I was going to need to go to this, that and the other place, blah, blah, blah. I told her that I wasn't looking to get an autograph and that I was just going to my seat, which then she asked to see my ticket with a look like she didn't believe me. I understand that they're doing their job, but there comes a point where you can't treat people like their automatically doing something wrong.

[alamo50]

Those damn aHoles bringing a bag full of stuff to get signed and are there every game should get banned from the stadium.
They ruin it for everybody else.

I just hoped to get my Elson jersey signed, but now I know there is just no chance at all. This would have been the very 1st time ever that I would have been approaching a player for an autograph as I always let the kids get the autographs. I rather have a handshake and a greeting.

This time is different as I am the only person in the world in need of an Elson signature on the jersey that was given to me by Tpark as it is nowhere to be purchased at all.
For me it would have been special.
Thanks for taking it away you bastards.

[ploto]

Every place is so different, but ATT can be the worse. Last season, I watched an usher start to harrass a group of people to hurry up and leave-- one of whom was Micheal Finley's mother. I went over to that usher and told her-- do you know that is a player's mom you are yelling at. Like people said, always assuming someone is doing something wrong without even asking.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

I got stopped just walking to my seat by the woman usher who has seen me all damned season. She asked "can I help you?" - I said that I was going to my seat and she went into this diatribe about if I wanted to get an autograph I was going to need to go to this, that and the other place, blah, blah, blah. I told her that I wasn't looking to get an autograph and that I was just going to my seat, which then she asked to see my ticket with a look like she didn't believe me. I understand that they're doing their job, but there comes a point where you can't treat people like their automatically doing something wrong.

M, you just have to accept that you were being racially profiled.

[jn77]

Not sure if it is buulshit or not, but I was told by a guest services rep that it was an NBA wide thing inlight of recent events for player security. If that is true then I applaud the move, if it is just to be bitches and only targeted at season ticket holders then it is a load of crap.

My wife and I have season tickets in section 224. Once and a while we pay to go to get good seats. We went to game one, got there early so we could get pics and maybe an autograph or two. I was refused because I didn't have a wristband, I accepted defeat and returned to my seat.We were in section 102 row 34. I saw Melvin Ely and jackie Butler sitting in the crowd below. I wanted to go and get a picture with them, but was refused because of the wristband thing. Just ridiculous. All I wanted to do was go get a picture and come back, didn't even want to go near the tunnel. They need to work on this before next year...Oh and I think my wife and I are going to finally get lower bowl season tix next year!!

[Useruser666]

When I took Christy's son to a game last season and we were selected for the UPS seat upgrade something funny happened with an usher too. The UPS "promo" guy took us down to the lower level seats we had won, and the usher wouldn't let us go to our seat till a break in play happened. That was even with us being escorted by the UPS "promo" person. He kinda gave a look of "wtf?!!" when she said we couldn't pass, lol. He kinda of verbally pushed her aside and guided us through anyways. Thought that was quite odd for an usher to do. On an unrelated note, from the perch we had last year we couldn't help but notice how many lower level ticket holders would always march out early on games weather the Spurs were up or down at the end. Sometimes it was even close and the outcome changed in the last 30 secs. We wondered, what's the point to go if you're just going to leave during the last 3-4 minutes.

[exstatic]

When I took Christy's son to a game last season and we were selected for the UPS seat upgrade something funny happened with an usher too. The UPS "promo" guy took us down to the lower level seats we had won, and the usher wouldn't let us go to our seat till a break in play happened. That was even with us being escorted by the UPS "promo" person. He kinda gave a look of "wtf?!!" when she said we couldn't pass, lol. He kinda of verbally pushed her aside and guided us through anyways. Thought that was quite odd for an usher to do. On an unrelated note, from the perch we had last year we couldn't help but notice how many lower level ticket holders would always march out early on games weather the Spurs were up or down at the end. Sometimes it was even close and the outcome changed in the last 30 secs. We wondered, what's the point to go if you're just going to leave during the last 3-4 minutes.
Uh, that's the rule in the lower bowl, and is nothing new. You don't transit to your seat until play stops. It's consideration to the fans who are seated and watching the action.

Back to the wristband thing: could we get a ST wristband exchange going on? Exchange phone numbers and after the first person gets theirs, pass along the wristband?

[alamo50]

Back to the wristband thing: could we get a ST wristband exchange going on? Exchange phone numbers and after the first person gets theirs, pass along the wristband?


The man with the master plan.

[exstatic]

The man with the master plan.
Well, the Spurs may be smarter, and make the bands destructive if removed. I have no idea what they are like, I was just throwing an idea out there.

[Useruser666]

Uh, that's the rule in the lower bowl, and is nothing new. You don't transit to your seat until play stops. It's consideration to the fans who are seated and watching the action.

Back to the wristband thing: could we get a ST wristband exchange going on? Exchange phone numbers and after the first person gets theirs, pass along the wristband?


We were being lead there by the UPS promotions guy!!! Sorry but if we were selected to go to the new seats, and the person in charge of moving us there was escorting us, why the big deal from the usher? It's like if the Coyote grabbed us by the hand, would the usher have stopped us? The promotions guy had an incredulous look on his face when the usher blocked his path. So obviously something was out of wack.

[angel_luv]

This is the first I have heard of the wristband thing- what a pain.
I'm especially sorry for you Alamo. I am sure Elson would love to sign your jersey for you.


I'm all for the autograph hounds who obviously are there to get items signed to sell being banned.
I am still mad about that guy who ruined my getting to talk to Timmy- that creep ( guy not Timmy :lol) is always there making his kid do his dirty work.

[baseline bum]

Man, things have changed so much. When I used to go to a lot of games in the mid-late 80s, I used to go talk to the players a couple hours before tipoff every single game. As soon as I finished school, my dad and I would hit Hemisfair and go shoot the shit with guys like Artis Gilmore, Alvin Robertson, Cadillac Anderson, Eddie Nealy, Frank Layden, Charles Barkley, and so on like it was nothing. I even went into the locker room a few times way before game-time to tell Artis happy birthday, to congratulate Alvin for making the all-star team (my dad and I put in a huge number of votes for him), and so on, and it was always cool.

[ploto]

I don't really see how the wristbands provide any sense of security, if that is the claim. It's not like these people go through any more of a security check than everyone else. Two years ago when the terror alert went up, there was no one allowed by the tunnel for autographs for the entire play-off run. At least that makes some sense.