Sell-outs remaining

[BlueFire]

Going to be tough to sell out the last two home games in October. The Rider game will be ok but a week later Montreal is here. Might be a nothing game (maybe not). Looks like 5000 left for Sask but way more for Montreal. A nothing game at the end of October won't help the streak. Lets show the league win or lose we support our team. Go Bombers !

[peg_city]

I'd expect they'd paper the house. I sit on the west side and there are always a lot of availability on the east side upperdeck, even if they announce a sell-out. And it's way more than people standing in front of the rum hut.

[Sir Blue and Gold]

I think they're going to get their entire season of sellouts.

After tomorrow's sellout there are only four games left. Banjo Bowl is already done. Orange Shirt Game will be easy and many of those seats are bought corporately and donated.

That leaves just October 17 (it's intercept cancer) but crucially, it's against the Riders which is going to draw. Then an afternoon game on October 25 against the Als. Probably the one they are most worried about but it's Halloween themed and they have time.

I think it's as close to a lock as possible.

[Blueforlife]

Yeah we are going to run the table for sure, even if we don't sell out we will give away a lot of seats, my favorite stock EIF supports the Northern communities and offers free flights and the Bombers offer free tickets, I don't think we have that game yet.  FYI, take a peak at the stock last couple of days, printing money and it supports the community and the Bombers.

[TecnoGenius]

Going to be tough to sell out the last two home games in October. The Rider game will be ok but a week later Montreal is here. Might be a nothing game

If SSK is still winning there could be 1000+ green fans here for the SSK game.

Oct is always a tough sell.  We've been lucky the last couple of seasons Oct wasn't too cold.  If this Oct is cold the casual fans will stay away, and if real cold many STH will dump their tickets on stubhub.  Same thing as happens in SSK.

Scheduling 2 Oct games in WPG is generally dumb.  We should have one Oct game and it be early/mid.  Late Oct is just asking for it.  Clearly the scheduler lives in more mild climes.

[TecnoGenius]

I'd expect they'd paper the house. I sit on the west side and there are always a lot of availability on the east side upperdeck, even if they announce a sell-out. And it's way more than people standing in front of the rum hut.

Every stadium has a much more empty visitor side.  The bad sun angles make it a hard sell.  And every single stadium puts the cams on home side, meaning all the TV audience sees is a ton of empty seats.

This is VERY noticeable at thinly attended stadiums, where the home side will have 10X the butts as visitor side.  I've always said a) cameras should be on the visitor side so the full home side becomes the faces of the league, and b) visitor side should be 10-30% discounted to entice more people there.  Price parity like @ PAS is counterproductive (though not the end of the world since we sell out so many).  (SSK discounts the visitor side 10% I think.)

SSK forum always points out how empty our "sell outs" are, trying to say they are as bad/empty as their stadium.  It's because they are looking at those empty gold seats on the less desirable side.

TSN should try to at least get the hand/field cams to zoom out and show huge parts of the West side sometimes, so people can see what it's really like.

[TecnoGenius]

SSK says LDC is sold out now.  Good for them, first sell out in a long time (last LDC?).  Of course, that makes it hard for me to go at the last minute... stubhub time.  But it may take inclement weather for any deals to be found...

[BLUEBOMBER]

Seems like its so easy to watch a game online or on tv these days, it's hard to convince people to dole out hundreds of dollars for a ticket to watch the game at the stadium.

[Jesse]

Seems like its so easy to watch a game online or on tv these days, it's hard to convince people to dole out hundreds of dollars for a ticket to watch the game at the stadium.

Seems pretty easy for the Bombers.

[Sir Blue and Gold]

Seems like its so easy to watch a game online or on tv these days, it's hard to convince people to dole out hundreds of dollars for a ticket to watch the game at the stadium.

It's because that's not what you're buying in Winnipeg (and it's not what the Bombers are selling either). And it's not easy and the team there deserve a ton of credit. They have a 'one ticket at a time mantra' and everything flows from that. If they sell out every game it's due to a ton of hard work, done the right way, iterated on over several years.

[blue_or_die]

Re the Montreal game:

1) Afternoon game so it can work for families easier than the usual late night games
2) Halloween (further to the point above)
3) It might actually work to our favour to be a mid-tier team by then, if we're struggling to lock up playoffs or a home playoff game by then. Could be a "pack the park!" rally.

[TecnoGenius]

Vs OTT officially a sell out