Loyal fans priced out of college football

[huskyhooligan]

On the flip side of this, I was delighted to get great seats for $85 ea, direct from UW, for the Oregon game.

"Great seats" to me = south side very bottom of upper section .. it's like a little "mini section" and is nicely protected from south wind and rain (and is covered) and affords a great view with no mandatory standing all game.
Here's a shot from such a seat at the Illinois game.

Our family gave up on Tyee stuff, after doing it since the mid 80's, after realizing how little they value the loyalty. Also, once they re-did the stadium and changed the nature of how the seat reallocations worked, we lost the experience of being around the same folks for decades. It was an aspect of it that was so cool .. seeing the same folks around us every Fall — folks we knew nowhere else but at Husky games.
We were section 26 folks the whole way until the 2013 change. We only moved up/down/left right a few notches here and there in S26 the entire time from the 80's on.

Here's the old seat map if anyone is curious

Shifting the student section to the endzone shifted the majority of ticket holders. In the old set up empty seats were down in the first 5 rows and in the horseshoe. Now the empty seats are in the upper decks.

 

[EwaDawg]

Wrong you're depicting your gay ass O sign which means vagina in sign language. Fuck off fag. Looks like you have some soccer friend who also like smoking pole.

sorry, I don't speak middle school.

That is okay, Maybe, one day, you can.

 

[DucksFC]

Wrong you're depicting your gay ass O sign which means vagina in sign language. Fuck off fag. Looks like you have some soccer friend who also like smoking pole.

sorry, I don't speak middle school.

That is okay, Maybe, one day, you can.

I might regress back to it when I hit the retirement home and just end up like Race calling everyone around me a faggot.

 

[graveyardDEADdawg]

@ducksFS

 

[DucksFC]

took you a lot of effort to make that poast only for me to just say no.

 

[greenblood]

I was priced out years ago, but not because I couldn’t afford it.

Why pay $150+ per ticket with parking, only to arrive at noon for a 3:30pm kickoff, pay $15 for a substandard beer, $20 for a stale burger, and wait in line to empty my whistle? Then after it’s over, fight traffic to be home by 10pm? All the while, missing three other banger college games completely, not eating my own smoked ribs and smoked salmon, no line to the toilet, and a comfy couch to lounge on?
The value just isn’t there. I usually attend one home game and one road game a year now, and that’s it. I save $2-$3k and I get a much better experience.

There’s simply too many options now. Also, if the game is a route and no other game I like are on, I’m free to rub one out in time for the next slate of games to start.

 

[haie]

I was priced out years ago, but not because I couldn’t afford it.

Why pay $150+ per ticket with parking, only to arrive at noon for a 3:30pm kickoff, pay $15 for a substandard beer, $20 for a stale burger, and wait in line to empty my whistle? Then after it’s over, fight traffic to be home by 10pm? All the while, missing three other banger college games completely, not eating my own smoked ribs and smoked salmon, no line to the toilet, and a comfy couch to lounge on?
The value just isn’t there. I usually attend one home game and one road game a year now, and that’s it. I save $2-$3k and I get a much better experience.

There’s simply too many options now. Also, if the game is a route and no other game I like are on, I’m free to rub one out in time for the next slate of games to start.

Great post. Driving "up" to Seattle and driving "down" to Eugene feels like a journey that is not worth making every single weekend anymore. I ate my Rutgers and Illinois tickets without issue.
I felt like in 2022 when we got a table at Sun River Brewing it was a borderline miracle and only because I was with a chick that went to school there and knew how to butt her way into that.

 

[dirtysouwfdawg]

I was priced out years ago, but not because I couldn’t afford it.

Why pay $150+ per ticket with parking, only to arrive at noon for a 3:30pm kickoff, pay $15 for a substandard beer, $20 for a stale burger, and wait in line to empty my whistle? Then after it’s over, fight traffic to be home by 10pm? All the while, missing three other banger college games completely, not eating my own smoked ribs and smoked salmon, no line to the toilet, and a comfy couch to lounge on?
The value just isn’t there. I usually attend one home game and one road game a year now, and that’s it. I save $2-$3k and I get a much better experience.

There’s simply too many options now. Also, if the game is a route and no other game I like are on, I’m free to rub one out in time for the next slate of games to start.

Great post. Driving "up" to Seattle and driving "down" to Eugene feels like a journey that is not worth making every single weekend anymore. I ate my Rutgers and Illinois tickets without issue.
I felt like in 2022 when we got a table at Sun River Brewing it was a borderline miracle and only because I was with a chick that went to school there and knew how to butt her way into that.

butt stuff?

 

[dirtysouwfdawg]

sad and depressing.

Going to the World Cup to watch the USMNT and I’m having to sell a child. Win win.

I’m poor.

 

[haie]

Maybe these people should get their company to pay for all this shit then?
Was behind our bench for this

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