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Toronto Tourism Desperate To Sell Bills Tickets
As mentioned in today's Morning Brew, the prospects for a packed house for tomorrow's Bills/Steelers exhibition game aren't looking too good. In an effort to save face and boost sales, Toronto Tourism has street teams out in the Financial District this week trying to convince un-enthused Torontonians to care.
In a sign of desperation, they're handing out flyers promoting half price 200 level tickets - which can now be had for the amazingly affordable price of $184. That'll give you the privilege to watch second stringers and future training camp cuts play uninspired football in a meaningless pre-season game next to what will surely be a quiet crowd munching on overpriced beer and fast food.
Sounds like fun.
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the announced ticket prices cemented it for me.
Toronto may have a lot of Bills fans but the majority of them aren't shelling out big bucks for a little show.
Mwahahahahahaaaaa...ahhaaaa...hahaaaaahahaaaa. My laugh of the rich is coming along. I'm working with a vocal coach, strengthening the "aaaaaaaah".
There is no way the costs for bringing the team to Toronto makes it necessary for ticket prices to jump that high. It's gouging, plain and simple.
I may be the biggest NFL fan (J!E!T!S!) I know -- I don't do anything on Sundays but watch every game I can during the season, and own a ridiculous amount of useless NFL merchandise -- but even I'm not interested in shelling out a week's pay to watch a pre-season game.
If I really wanted to see a game it is FAR cheaper to go to Buffalo. Even though I live 5 mins from the SKYDOME.
P.S. Tim I'm loving your cynicism lately :)
If, on the other hand, the point is to half-fill the SkyDome with suckers who are willing to overpay for NFL tickets, on days when the Blue Jays aren't in town to half-fill the stadium, then kudos to those running the show...
programming.
Guess which one lasts longer and is better value for
money?
Then, there's the business of disagreeable persons
sitting around you in the stadium. We could all
do without that.
Just like the cinema nowadays, it's just better to
stay in and enjoy it all in HD on a large screen.
<a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1771603";>"Among the major sports, the NFL has the highest average ticket price of $50.02"</a>
What ever it is that allows Americans to have such low prices I want them to export it to us, quickly.
Here's another great example <a href="http://www.natoonline.org/statisticstickets.htm";>movie prices in the states, $6.88</a>. I barely recall when I paid $6.88 to see a film. Yet that's the price south of the border.
For the Bills it doesn't matter they could give the tickets away I won't go. But for movies, I sure as hell stay away from a bunch of them because the price isn't fair.
It happens to be the price for 4 people to go, eat at and park at an Argo game, get good seats, and get better entertainment then what they'll be getting tomorrow.
I don't know what's more pathetic about this exercise. That Rogers is getting shown for the corporate buffoons they are, or the further delving into irrelevance Citytv is doing in being the resident prostitute for this venture.