Northwestern Football Game
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Which (if the initial drawing is accurate) has most of the seats in the end zones. I like visiting Evanston for games, but not this time.
Stray Gator
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FWIW, the price of tickets to the Florida at Texas football game for Gator season ticket holders this fall is $200 per seat. And a ticket to squeeze into one of those naggingly narrow Neyland Stadium seats at Tennessee is $155. Of course, the face value of our tickets for conference games in Cameron last season were either $140 or $170, depending on the opponent -- except for the UNC game, which ran a hefty $270 each. Fans who enjoy attending games are definitely feeling the effects of inflation.
LOL, I’m old enough to remember when you could sit in the bleachers at Fenway Park for $.50 ( yes, 50 cents!)
OZZIE4DUKE
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Front row (literally front row) box seats at Yankee Stadium were $3.50 in the mid ‘60’s. From the seats my dad bought us I could reach over the rail in front of me and put my hand on the tarp used to cover the infield when it rained.
and the players all got to work construction during the off season, Oz!
OZZIE4DUKE
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Not my problem!
Well, yes there's inflation but athletic departments now have much higher costs that they have to cover with the $20M/year going to players and likely they've taken a hit to fundraising since a lot of those dollars have gone to NIL. So need to keep feeding the beast. Thanks for the notice about tickets going on sale. Ironically, I've signed up on the northwestern site to be notified when public tickets are available, and haven't gotten anything yet. I'll probably wait though and get on secondary market when prices drop. It'll be a cool experience though watching a big time conference college football game with the lake right next to you and that backdrop -- so yeah, while steep and a tiny stadium with mostly seats in the end zone it's likely to be a fairly unique experience/setup to experience. We shall see...
Quoting myself to add that after looking more closely, it is a bit silly that these are $91 when you can buy tickets vs UNC, FSU, or Va Tech in Wallace Wade for considerably less. But if you live in Chicago, then the decision is different and I guess Northwestern thinks they can get that price based on the market dynamics (i.e. supply and demand). With the semester not having started yet for this game, they may be overestimating demand though. I feel safe waiting it out some.
Well, they don't need incredible demand to fill a stadium that does not yet exist and will only seat 15,000 people if and when they complete it.
If you love siting in the end zone, this stadium is for you, as there will be essentially no sideline seating.
CameronBornAndBred
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Did the ball boys have to use a ladder to get the ball out of the peach basket or did it have a hole in the bottom?
burnspbesq
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If the will is there, this is do-able. The International Cricket Council put up a 34,000 seat stadium for the World Cup on Long Island in four months. Most of the seating was borrowed from the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
The major question isn't whether they can do it. The question is do you want to pay $90 and travel to Chicago for a horrifically bad end zone seat. Good luck trying to figure out how many yards were gained on each play with that perspective.
Absolutely. They also installed a pitch shipped in from Australia via Florida and secured the India-Pakistan match from very specific security threats. I was there and it was awesome. This can be done. Of course global cricket's overflowing coffers helps.
The calculus is different if you just have to walk over to the stadium from your house.
I wouldn't travel in for this game.....but if it's in "my backyard"....So, pretty much like every school’s official visitor’s section, then.
(End zone, or last section(s) of the sideline.)
Ha, I would do that, though is there any way you can watch from the lake side? This has to be the highest percentage of end zone seats a stadium has ever featured....The calculus is different if you just have to walk over to the stadium from your house.
Alas, I need more friends with boats! Although it will be dark at the time given the night game....
We'll see what becomes available as get closer, but I imagine the sideline seats will go for a pretty penny given their limited nature and I don't care THAT much. Typically, I'd just walk around but don't think with this setup that's going to be possible. We shall see.