Single Game Tickets Now on Sale

Started by ModAdmin, May 06, 2023, 12:16:28 AM

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GOLDMEMBER

Quote from: ModAdmin on May 23, 2023, 01:33:29 AM
Not particularly good news for the Riders or the league...

CFL Attendances

@1CFLAtt
Saskatchewan

#Riders STHolder base is at a low. Their home opener also has well over 11,000 empty seats currently vs. their rival, Blue Bombers. Yikes

It's going to be tough ssn again in Saskatchewan to sell tickets.
There chest thumping days are gone! Ala we support our team through thick and thin. Pffft really?!?! Might be worth heading down for the game!
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Pigskin

Quote from: GOLDMEMBER on May 23, 2023, 02:28:47 AM
There chest thumping days are gone! Ala we support our team through thick and thin. Pffft really?!?! Might be worth heading down for the game!

Yes, you can add my cousins to this list. A couple of years ago they had 12 season tickets. This year zero.
Don't go through life looking in the rearview mirror.

TecnoGenius

Quote from: ModAdmin on May 23, 2023, 01:33:29 AM
#Riders STHolder base is at a low. Their home opener also has well over 11,000 empty seats currently vs. their rival, Blue Bombers. Yikes

Heck, that might convince me to drive there and attend!  :D

I talked with a lot of SSK fans last year: at LDC, at BB, at week 17, at GC.  They were almost without exception really depressed.  You could tell it wasn't fun anymore.  They didn't even have a hope of winning.  Losing sometimes is fine.  Losing most of the time is fine.  But losing all the time is WPG @IGF in 2013.  No one wants to be WPG in 2013.

SSK fans know their CFL.  Jokes aside, they have a pretty good feel for CFL players.  They know, like I know, that T.Harris isn't going to improve anything with their still-iffy OL and ho-hum receiving corps.  They know they'll almost certainly be leapfrogged by C.Jones' Elks.  That's adding insult to injury.

Goldie is right: they claimed to be the best fans that support through thick and thin.  But they're really only just 1-3 years removed from looking like EDM or OTT fans: non-attendees.

An ideal situation would be if SSK lights it up in week 1.  They might get some more STH out of that if the fans think they are better than EDM.  If EDM trounces them, things will go downhill fast.  (Losing to WPG in week 2 will be fine, because they'll expect to lose.)

Yes, not a great situation for the league: they depend on the good western team fan support.

I think SSK will turn around when they fire Dickerson The Lesser and JOD.  If they suck bad enough, might they get the axe before LDC?  Could Lapo end up back in SSK??
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Jesse

Keeping Dickie around was purely a cap saving move. I'm sure he'll by cut during the first extended losing streak. Clean house at the end of the year.
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DM83

I am surprised to hear the Riders are not getting people out.

Is it because of the climate.?

One year I ordered about 20 tickets for a group I represented. We all sat together, buy one row over, they the Riders folk, mentioned at the Labour Day classic, shedulling the game was a concern.  It was at harvest time, and it was a real decision to come to the game, for them, as the kids were out of school for the week, and helping get the crops off the fields! 

Another experience (out of football) was when I was appointed to escort ten of our kids to New Brunswick, for an event called "Clash of cultures"
A number of events and local attractions around Moncton was provided.  Wow!  Now there the same groups from every province.  On one of the  excursions from Moncton to the  attraction the adults(teachers) sat in the back of the bus.  As we were talking I was next to a teacher from N. B. and their concerns every winter was that logging was reduced due to the snow, and their economy had to be based on half a year's work, rather than the entire year.   That was an eye-opener!

So, my point is, depending on the regions, there may be economical or other factors involved that are keeping people away from Pro Sports. I am still shocked to realize the transportation industry and those shipping goods are still paying exorbitant prices. and our  stores are passing the increased costs on to us.  I am believing that this may be one of the causes of decreased attendance. When I watch a game at home, it costs me nothing.  When I go out with the boys, it's about $65.00 for beers, as well as my Pinnacle lounge area ticket.

Sad to say. I think we are all realizing that our disposeable income has been reduced. 

Maybe it's time to set up a Viewing area like the Jets and Leafs did, for those  young fans.?