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I hear ya.
Cool Manny... I get your point and respect your opinion...
In fact if it wasn't for the hours that my job requires I would love to go to a GTG.... I might be able to make an exception during Finals.... Time will tell.
Anyways... I got stirred up was because posters like this were already taking that belligerent stance against fans without season tickets.... without taking the chance to understand just how fortunate they are.
Again, reading through that particular post was highly derrogatory and offensive.
As if...
I hear ya.
Red McCombs would not let this happen, he would make sure all Spur fans got to see their team. even the little boy who lives in the courts can be a part of san Antonio.. But now times have changed, 3/4 of the north side are folks from up north that don't even know who the GunSlingers are. Red would make sure sections of the Hemis fair Arena , had 5 dollar tickets for the first come first served people of this great city, You took pride in standing in line, Tv and radio staions all chimed in, it was something special. your Spurs are going to play the lakers in the playoffs and Daddy is only 5th in line,, that was pride S A .
You only could get 4 tickets each, but you felt like you had a fighting chance,
unlike the Heros of the Alamo. I remember I could sell out the Joe freeman Coliseum at one time. My God what has this city become......?
How?Red McCombs would not let this happen, he would make sure all Spur fans got to see their team.
Did he have a stadium for two million people?
Holy ! thank you for the new sig
Holy ! thank you for the new sig
LOL @ Mouse's compilation of other people's quotes for his own signature list.
, when I see you next, it's on.
OMG are the Slovenians coming?
What I've gathered here is that there are a lot of tickets out there being sold for 2-3 times what they're worth. I'm guessing now, but it seems to me that the folks in this town who are wealthy enough to spend that kind of money already have their own tickets. The rest of us average joes can't afford, or simply don't want to pay, that kind of a price. So who buys these tickets? Visiting team fans? Do the seats simply go empty if they go unsold, or do the brokers have some deal with ticketmaster that they can start selling them back to them if a certain quota isn't made by noon of game day?
IMHO, the best seat to watch the game is in my own home, in front of my own big screen TV eating my own snacks, my own beer that doesn't cost $6 a bottle and I can control the volume and there is never a line at the the head.
I was going to say......what are they supposed to do to accomodate every single Spurs fan? Build an arena for 5 million or whatever? WTF? That'd be really cost effective throughout the course of the year.
Even if they opened the Alamodome with twice as many seats for the Finals, people will STILL be disappointed. So it sells out in 3 minutes instead of 1.
All professional sports playoff games are expensive...that's just the market value of that product, period. I can't afford that $80,000 car I want, so I don't think it's fair that I can't just get it for $10,000? I mean, it probably only costs about $10,000 to make...and that company makes a ton of money anyway. Maybe Redd McCombs can make it happen.....
And as far as accomodating the corporate ticket holders over the everyday fan, well, regular paying customers tend to get preferential treatment pretty much everywhere you go, why would anyone expect otherwise? Because you finally want to go and can't?
Last edited by SpursWoman; 06-05-2005 at 09:55 AM.
Opening the Alamodome would be a stupid idea anyways. Given all the whining about the awful sight-lines for shooters and the fact that this team is not used to playing in it, we would effectively turn home court advantage into a wash. It would be a neutral site series on our end.
What about opening the Dome for a Spurs Fan Watch Night?
But up some of those big screens they have for concerts and let the people party. But the beer prices would be too high,
I like the idea of opening up the dome for viewing the game. As far as the corporate block tickets, the problem I have with that is that these big corporates hand out these tickets as promotional incentives to clients or potential clients. they in turn don't even use them or give them forward.
I like the idea for opening up the Dome if the Spurs are going to pay for it. I don't want to have the city footing the bill.
Does not one of the local theaters screen show certain spurs games with free admission?? you just have to pay for your popcorn,beer, food etc.??
Alamo Draft House has had 3 or 4 screens showing it during the playoffs so far, I can't imagine they wouldn't do it for the finals, too.
Did anyone have any problems getting tickets for the previous playoff rounds?
since you did not live here at the time .and since you was a Utah Jazz fan?
I can see how your not a Big Red McCombs fan, But let me tell you about this person...
Red would make the upper level of the Arena 5 dollar seats. and you would go get your tickets in person, he would not allow anyone to take advantage of his team in any way, And he Would listen to the Fans unlike Peter Holt Red was always looking out for the hard working tax payer, That is why David Robinson and him got along so well.
You think Mr McCombs would allow Ticket master, and others,to do what they are doing today, If so ? then many of you don't know about the man they call Red he is like an Uncle here In San Antonio he made the Spurs part of our lives and part of our Familly.
You Think Red And David Robinson would just watch those young kids at the carver academy pay 200 bucks each of there school money just to sit in the nose bleed section of the SBC?
If so, then you have a lot to learn about what being a Spur is all about, it's not just a Game, it's a way of life..........
Last edited by mouse; 06-05-2005 at 01:21 PM. Reason: you better see Red for the answer
Well Mouse, I was here when the Spurs played in the dome and at the Hemi. Ticket borkers will always buy tickets and there is nothing you can really do to beat that. They hire regular people to wait in line for them and then collect the tickets from them. So even in lotto systems they will take a big chunk of tickets for resale. The 5 dollar tickets were nice, but they were more expensive in the playoffs too. The only good thing about the dome was that there were MORE tickets to fight over.
Bro I am talking about 25 years ago. you and Spurs Wowan was still in your play pens what do you know about Red?
Unlike Peter Holt red was always putting the fans first. and unlike Peter Holt , Red could handle his Booze
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