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http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/saipe/saipe.cgi
est median household income in salt lake county was $50,420 in 2004.
est median household income in bexar county was $38,832 in 2004.
They mentioned this on ESPN first take this morning about a lot of unsold tickets for tonight as well. It is crappy enough that Spurs fans have to deal with the perception of being boring as a team but now people can rag on them for their own city not even loving them.
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/saipe/saipe.cgi
est median household income in salt lake county was $50,420 in 2004.
est median household income in bexar county was $38,832 in 2004.
You guys are really hung up on this free cheap T-shirt thing.
Is this really what's keeping people away?
ESPN needs to learn how to MARKET their products too!
That would be idiotic on so many levels.
True enough since ABC owns espn and they are the ones brodcasting these games you'd think that they would try and keep that under wraps.
it's indicative of the team's approach to marketing the team and how the fans are viewed, along with jacking up the prices of tickets.
MSA 2005 median household income:
Salt Lake City: $48,993
San Antonio: $43,263
The MSA includes surrounding counties.
not saying it is but to eliminate the possiblity what's wrong with it? If it works they are marketing geniuses if it fails the SPONSORS still get advertising..
in my case....if i could afford it I WOULD BE there...with or without a TSHIRT!!
sure, which ones are included in the SA MSA?
also, link?
I guess with the price of gas what it is, people need help with clothing.
while you at it throw the dog a bone....free WHATABURGERS!!!
I'd say something was wrong with San Antonians if that's why a WCF game doesn't sell out.not saying it is but to eliminate the possiblity what's wrong with it?
If you don't want a pro basketball team in your town, this is how to show it.
I'm not sure about anyone else, but over the last several years, I found myself wanting to go to the games less. I mean, I have about $200 a year I can spend on sporting events. That's 2-3 Spurs games really. For that same amount I can go to 10-12 Rampage/Missions games.
The second option is better bang for my buck, especially since I can watch the Spurs on TV, but there is no TV coverage of the Rampage and Missions (even to barely a blip on the news coverage).
Maybe my willingness to compromise like that makes me less of a Spurs fan, but that's how it is for me.
Sadly, the simplest reason is probably the most likely.
It's the match-up.
To make it even sadder it is probably from lack of the other team's fans.
If this were the Lakers, Mavs, Rockets, Suns or even Nuggs, many of those tickets would be bought by the transplants and bandwagoners.
not saying it is but to eliminate the possiblity what's wrong with it? If it works they are marketing geniuses if it fails the SPONSORS still get advertising..
in my case....if i could afford it I WOULD BE there...with or without a TSHIRT!!
NOW THIS THREAD IS GOING SOMEWHERE!!!
Really what they should have done after game 1 was not a sellout was drop the prices quite a bit for the lesser sections and put that on their site and take out huge ads in the papers get that info to the people and i am sure they would have sold out for tonight no problem. I'd rather lose a couple bucks if i was the owner than face the embarassment of another non-sell out West final game. Looks like there is no doubt it will be another non-sell out tonight. I just went to Spurs.com and punched in 10 tickets and i could have got them, too bad i am thousands of miles way. This is pretty SAD
Every county that touches Bexar, and that's it.
Which reminds me, during one of the games this past weekend, who laughed when one of the commentators mispronounced Bexar?
i don't know what's with SA's problem with not filling up the center. I know for sure if I only had one final tomorrow i definitely would buy tickets for tonight and go. I'm even tempted to go tonight even though I have stuff to do. I'd even go if the only this that was left was nose bleed seats (unfortunately they are). Come on SA get your act together and root for your Spurs! I mean seriously is this not the same city that wated 4+ hours in advance to fill up the entire riverwalk and Alamodome in the championship parade and ceremony, with some people rushing over from the parade to the Alamodome? Is this not the same SA that would go downtown and celebrate a championship by honking and cheering until 3AM? I don't know what to think about our lack of attendance, but if attendance is crappy maybe a loss tonight would get Spurs fans' attention.
41700 San Antonio, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area
41700 48013 Atascosa County, TX
41700 48019 Bandera County, TX
41700 48029 Bexar County, TX
41700 48091 Comal County, TX
41700 48187 Guadalupe County, TX
41700 48259 Kendall County, TX
41700 48325 Medina County, TX
41700 48493 Wilson County, TX
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Exactly, Same here. And the same happened to many more. I do blame Ticketmaster for the 1st game, this here is proof of that. People thought they were sold out and that's what they were told for both Games 1 and 2. That's a fact. Period.
I think yesterday was too early to panic about Game 2. All the talk and criticism about the Game 1 non-sellout made this an issue (news worthy), (without disclosing that thousands of people were told that nothing was available).
Now that they are letting people know that tickets are still available, after all (without admitting the Ticketmaster foul up) I'm sure everything will be fine. It was only 1000 tickets available yesterday, not 3000. There is still today's sales and the walk-up crowd.
If you get NBA League Pass, you can still watch them play at the SAVVIS Center.
San Antonio is apparently too poor to know what that is.
Still....
$5,730 will buy you some nice tickets.
so the spurs have to count on attracting members of relatively more affluent households from outside of their 'home county' while the jazz can concentrate their efforts on those within their 'home county'.
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