The Fujitas - "The game that used and abused them"

ALLSAINTS66 · 03-25-2011, 10:50 AM

Originally Posted by SapperSaint

Most of sports fans are lower - middle blue collar people. Who work very hard for the money they make and are so devote to the teams they support that they will adjust their income just to buy tickets to games.

Once you make those people feel alienated, or feel betrayed.....your buisness is screwed.

Faddarekkid, I think the original baseball quote was Danno's.

And fadda resta darekkid, I'm a chick. Not that it really matters
in this context, but, just in the interest of full disclosure, I guess.

As for blue collar fans, it feels like most of the major sports leagues
have totally forgotten this. They cater to high dollar fans and corporations,
even tearing out season ticket holder seats to make room for corporate
ballrooms to watch games from. Glassed enclosures, away from all
of us rowdy, dirty, raucous, drunk and disorderly fans who made
all those gottdang seats POSSIBLE IN THE FIRST PLACE.

While I will *always* love the New Orleans Saints, I do feel like
the leagues have let their money go to their heads, and are shooting
themselves in the feet with some of this stuff. NASCAR is another
example. They keep trying to make the sport more "mainstream
friendly" and they keep wondering why seats at tracks like Bristol
last weekend get emptier, and emptier. They say, "it's the economy".
Naw, it's not the economy. It's that they keep jacking ticket prices
up, while changing rules and watering down the sport more an'
more. There's only so much fertilizer people will put up with.
And with ALL these leagues, there's usually a smaller, cheaper,
passionate and wildly entertaining local league we all CAN and
WILL go to instead of their overpriced pablum.

Except for the Saints. There is not, was not and never will be
a replacement for them. Which is why I really really REALLY
hope the NFL and the players will find a happy medium and
GET ON WITH IT ALREADY.

03-25-2011, 10:50 AM	#29
ALLSAINTS66 Bless You Boys! Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: In mah hause. Posts: 319	Originally Posted by SapperSaint Most of sports fans are lower - middle blue collar people. Who work very hard for the money they make and are so devote to the teams they support that they will adjust their income just to buy tickets to games. Once you make those people feel alienated, or feel betrayed.....your buisness is screwed. Faddarekkid, I think the original baseball quote was Danno's. And fadda resta darekkid, I'm a chick. Not that it really matters in this context, but, just in the interest of full disclosure, I guess. As for blue collar fans, it feels like most of the major sports leagues have totally forgotten this. They cater to high dollar fans and corporations, even tearing out season ticket holder seats to make room for corporate ballrooms to watch games from. Glassed enclosures, away from all of us rowdy, dirty, raucous, drunk and disorderly fans who made all those gottdang seats POSSIBLE IN THE FIRST PLACE. While I will always love the New Orleans Saints, I do feel like the leagues have let their money go to their heads, and are shooting themselves in the feet with some of this stuff. NASCAR is another example. They keep trying to make the sport more "mainstream friendly" and they keep wondering why seats at tracks like Bristol last weekend get emptier, and emptier. They say, "it's the economy". Naw, it's not the economy. It's that they keep jacking ticket prices up, while changing rules and watering down the sport more an' more. There's only so much fertilizer people will put up with. And with ALL these leagues, there's usually a smaller, cheaper, passionate and wildly entertaining local league we all CAN and WILL go to instead of their overpriced pablum. Except for the Saints. There is not, was not and never will be a replacement for them. Which is why I really really REALLY hope the NFL and the players will find a happy medium and GET ON WITH IT ALREADY.