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Attendance

My near 2000 mile drive might not be as manageable as others but **** it, I'm game............................................. If I used Spike's example........... 120" HD




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Black & Gold Bleeder said:
Sunday night game at !830, people who can afford the tickets work Monday morning.
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I don’t get this excuse. If you have a job that affords you Steelers tickets, it seems it would also allow you to take Monday off or go in late. I usually take the next day off and I don’t even go to the games.
 
So if you were going to a game from way the hell and gone and it was a night game against a non rival, you feel like you could get good tix cheap.
 
Drink IRON City said:
My near 2000 mile drive might not be as manageable as others but **** it, I'm game............................................. If I used Spike's example........... 120" HD
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Im working on a guy who has Saints season tickets, if i get one of those ultra cheap its only a 3 hr drive and i can stay in a Biloxi MS casino hotel, comp free for a day

Yeah baby
 
I wonder if the cost of the tickets, including travel, and food, combined with fan violence which might have been seen, but not reported until recently had something to do with no shows.

Personally I think moving the game to 8:20PM at night is the main reason.
 
Spike said:
Im working on a guy who has Saints season tickets, if i get one of those ultra cheap its only a 3 hr drive and i can stay in a Biloxi MS casino hotel, comp free for a day

Yeah baby
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I wish nothing but the best for you and the Steelers, but hedge your bet and get drunk,. The Steelers will get pumped in that one.
 
You gotta believe!

Wheres WarEagle? He would go with me
 
Sorry I'm all out of belief. I believe they could make playoffs. Maybe advance a round. But short of Brees getting injured they are going to hang a forty burger on this sad sack defense with their shity coaches.
 
spike said:
i had a chance to go to the jags game but spent that $450 (tickets gas hotel) on a new black friday 4k 60 inch tv

call me old
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old......................
 
I've been to every single regular season, playoff game ever played at Heinz. Been to many played at TRS. Three Rivers was such a better environment. Regardless, I've also been to over 24 different away stadiums so I think I can judge fairly.

The last two seasons the crowd has been louder than the few years prior. So at least that is getting somewhat better. But no one is going to tell me that the fans that live in Pittsburgh aren't soft when there are 1000s of tickets for sale against a big time opponent and tickets are only $39 before kickoff. I drove 3 hours home after the game and got up for work on Monday morning. People that live 20 mins away from Heinz won't do the same.

Hell, wait until you see the price of tickets on the secondary market if we get a home playoff game. You won't be able to give those away.
 
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Steelerfan81 said:
I've been to every single regular season, playoff game ever played at Heinz. Been to many played at TRS. Three Rivers was such a better environment. Regardless, I've also been to over 24 different away stadiums so I think I can judge fairly.

The last two seasons the crowd has been louder than the few years prior. So at least that is getting somewhat better. But no one is going to tell me that the fans that live in Pittsburgh aren't soft when there are 1000s of tickets for sale against a big time opponent and tickets are only $39 before kickoff. I drove 3 hours home after the game and got up for work on Monday morning. People that live 20 mins away from Heinz won't do the same.

Hell, wait until you see the price of tickets on the secondary market if we get a home playoff game. You won't be able to give those away.
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I hope you're right about the playoff tickets. I'll be looking for lower level seating to that, if we make playoffs.
 
Black & Gold Bleeder said:
Sunday night game at !830, people who can afford the tickets work Monday morning.
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Costs a lot, I have a job that pays well NOW but then I'm new so I can't be taking days off. I don't check Stub Hub two hours before kickoff.
Football is supposed to be Sunday afternoons at 1:00 with maybe one game a year on Monday night. Period.

 
I've been saying Pittsburgh fans are soft for years. It started maybe 4-5 years ago with fans not showing up to games against poor opponents or when the weather got a little cold. Those that travel to Pittsburgh are still hardcore and there are still some season ticket holders who are there every week.

Another issue is they play way too many night games. The NFL oversaturated our market with prime time games and Pittsburgh fans have basically said they hate them by not showing up. I posted in the flex thread a couple of weeks ago that there'd be 6-7,000 no shows for the game as soon as they moved it to a night game. I go to them, but I hate them. I still haven't got back on a sleep schedule since Sunday messed it up.

Lastly, the closed end zone and expanded seating capacity has decreased demand. There was a two-year jump in attendance, but overall the Steelers are usually in the bottom half of capacity (then again, some teams may report tickets sold rather than actual turnstile attendance like the Steelers do). The Steelers pretty much averaged around 62-63,000 for Heinz Field. Those extra 3,000 seats haven't been filled since they added them.
 
Ron Burgundy said:
Costs a lot, I have a job that pays well NOW but then I'm new so I can't be taking days off. I don't check Stub Hub two hours before kickoff.
Football is supposed to be Sunday afternoons at 1:00 with maybe one game a year on Monday night. Period.

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DEATH and taxes. Both inevitable and EXPENSIVE.
 
Also what is the average age of season ticket holders. I'll wager it's higher than most markets. I don't figure the night games are liked by them.
 
I've been to three games this year. Home opener against the Chiefs, the Tampa game where Steelers fans took over that stadium and the Broncos game. Denver got up and won that game at mile high because of their fans. I've been to three games at Heinz field nothing there comes close to the noise the Broncos fans made. People need to get off their ***** and make more noise at home games
 
Black & Gold Bleeder said:
Also what is the average age of season ticket holders. I'll wager it's higher than most markets. I don't figure the night games are liked by them.
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I would argue season ticket holders are the group of fans the NFL cares about least.

nooneuno said:
I've been to three games this year. Home opener against the Chiefs, the Tampa game where Steelers fans took over that stadium and the Broncos game. Denver got up and won that game at mile high because of their fans. I've been to three games at Heinz field nothing there comes close to the noise the Broncos fans made. People need to get off their ***** and make more noise at home games
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This is what happens when you are trained to go crazy when Renegade is played during the fourth quarter of a game leading by 20 points.
 
I've been to games in Pittsburgh where I was shocked by the lack of enthusiasm.
 
Steelerfan81 said:
61k (7k no shows) showed up on Sunday night for a game against a 8-3 team in December. Oh, and it was 50 degrees and clear at kick off.

I hate to say this, but our fan base in Pittsburgh is soft. Won't come to night games, won't come to cold games. It's sad. Tickets were $39 each on StubHub a few hours before KO.
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I'd assume total capacity is 68,000 then? I wonder what or how that compares to other stadiums attendance percentage wise??? That would be a near 9-10% no show at Heinz. I'm venturing to say that is near what other stadiums are at as well. One would want to make sure apples to apples on how respective attendances are counted. You'd know way better than me as to how "SOFT" local fans are. Where I come from I venture all climate weather from -35 to +80 start to finish season and all elements along with that........to battle my way to sports bar to watch...............Yoiikkkeeessssss





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Drink IRON City said:
I'd assume total capacity is 68,000 then? I wonder what or how that compares to other stadiums attendance percentage wise??? That would be a near 9-10% no show at Heinz. I'm venturing to say that is near what other stadiums are at as well. One would want to make sure apples to apples on how respective attendances are counted. You'd know way better than me as to how "SOFT" local fans are. Where I come from I venture all climate weather from -35 to +80 start to finish season and all elements along with that........to battle my way to sports bar to watch...............Yoiikkkeeessssss





Salute the nation
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Heinz Field is one of the smaller stadiums in the NFL.
 
Drink IRON City said:
I'd assume total capacity is 68,000 then? I wonder what or how that compares to other stadiums attendance percentage wise??? That would be a near 9-10% no show at Heinz. I'm venturing to say that is near what other stadiums are at as well. One would want to make sure apples to apples on how respective attendances are counted. You'd know way better than me as to how "SOFT" local fans are. Where I come from I venture all climate weather from -35 to +80 start to finish season and all elements along with that........to battle my way to sports bar to watch...............Yoiikkkeeessssss
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Ranks 26th in the league and they rarely rate in the top half. Heinz Field also reports actual attendance. I don't know how many NFL teams do that (probably not many). There are 7 teams that report 100 percent or more of capacity and 13 teams that report 99 percent or above. Only 10 teams have below 94 percent reported.
 
The NFL experience is not worth the 175 or so for tickets. The game is soft, the 99 yard last night by Henry was an awful football play, the defenders just patty caked all down the field, a metaphor for todays soft and watered down NFL. I can count the number of hard hits all season by the Steelers on one hand a sad way the game has devolved.
 
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