Getting Tired of Opposing Fans at Lambeau

[Raptorman]

A lot of season ticket holders are elderly though, and may have trouble getting to games, for various reasons. But they want to hang on to those season tickets, because they're a valuable asset.

And that's the problem. The Packers allow them to pass them on to family members who may not even be football fans, who then sell them for profit. And don't tell me it doesn't happen.

 

[Dayooper]

I have been looking to come up to Lambeau with a buddy but I can't afford the prices the secondary markets are asking. It has become a rich mans game not a fans game

 

[El Guapo]

My buddy has had two family tickets since the 70s in the corner of the endzone, halfway up the bowl. In the past five seasons or so, those tickets have gone up from $65 to $110 face value. As we watched the Packers/Eagles game together from the Twin Cities (because neither of us could make a Thursday night game), he showed me that he lost about $5 off of face value selling his tickets. It was the same for the Broncos game that he couldn't make, losing money. Prices have gone up a lot, and face value doesn't include the personal seat license cost.

The number of "primetime" games also makes it harder for fans to go. Those tickets then get sold on the open market to anybody willing to pay.

I was a long-time college football season ticket holder. The coerced "donation" ticked me off, and the fact that I didn't want to sell my unused tickets on the open market. I always tried to sell or give my tickets away when I couldn't go, but then preferred that my seat stay empty versus sold to a fan of the other team. I eventually was losing too much money on the tickets and gave them up.

The ticket model and, to some extent the scheduling, for professional and college sports leads to these types of issues.

 

[rmontro]

I have been looking to come up to Lambeau with a buddy but I can't afford the prices the secondary markets are asking.

Speaking as someone who lives outside the state:
I don't even think the ticket prices are that bad. It's the price gouging the hotels do on game weekends.