The opening home game 2007 was the stuff dreams are made of. Not an empty seat or parking space to be found. A roar like no other anywhere in the NFL that day for sure. Check out the YouTube videos , its worth the search.Tickets for most of the year went for their usual two and three times face value for most of the year.
Opening home game 2008 was a shock. Empty seats. Empty parking spaces. And as the year went on and the losses piled up it only got worse. Tickets were practically being given away on Stub Hub.
The preseason home opener this year produced the largest crowd I have ever seen at a preseason home game. The torrential rain didn’t even seem to matter, it just seemed to fuel the craziness and excitement. Stub Hub prices are up from last year, but its still hard to make anything beyond the face value, and the upper tier, well season ticket holders are losing money.
It looks like it will be a fine day at Arrowhead for the last home preseason game this Saturday, as usual your Arrowhead Correspondent will be there to report from the front lines.
What do you think Addicts? Will the old Arrowhead be back this year? Will it ever be back?
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The thing that filled the stadium in 2007 and prior years was a prevailing sentiment that the Chiefs were good enough to compete for a championship. Are we there yet?
It’s all about the wins. I went to the Tampa Bay game last year, dropped over $1,000 on two tix and hotels, and I felt ashamed for doing that for a 2-14 team. People don’t like spending money on a team that’s spinning it’s wheels. Victories and progression will bring the fans, and I’m not talking about the spread formation-Thigpen-close games progression. I’m talking about glaring improvement. Will the Chiefs have that this season? I dunno, the Schedule i a gauntlet ..
I just think its such a tough schedule. The hole in our O-Line is enormous some of those top defenses are going to kill us.
People are excited about the changes. They want to see if all the hype is real, and if they have something to get excited about. Our schedule is absurd, how you go 2-14 and end up with something like that is beyond me. But I don’t think the losses will be what hold people back from going to games this year.
Half the fans that want to attend a game go in to cardiac arrest after seeing the sticker value of one ticket. 20 yrs struggling to win a single playoff game. The past 3 stuggling to have a winning season. And last season struggling to even win a game? And yet prices remain competitive with those of super bowl winning, playoff contending teams?
Show some loyalty to the people that support you Arrowhead. It’d be nice in this unstable economy to see a team that’s been so bad, with such a loyal fan base, do something in return for the people that support them.
well Q honestly they have made a big portion of the seats $25.00 this year, half the price of the cheapest last year. They are in the corners, but there ain’t a bad seat in Arrowhead when it comes to the atmosphere in the stands.
Really? I missed that! Good point on atmosphere! I’m not a season ticket holder and I only get to go to a select few games a year. One of the ones that I’m planning on attending this year is the Dallas game and I almost crapped my pants when I was searching ticket prices.
On stub hub nose bleed was going for 108, just seemed like robbery. I’ve got great seats, I expect to pay for better seats so I’m not upset, but for those that can’t afford say lower/mid level, 100+ bucks a pop just seemed a little exorbatant. But 25 you say? Wow thats great! I’ll eat my words now =)
I have tickets to Oakland, SD and Denver….i am pumped
COOL WOODY you need to ride in on my red parking pass
YOU KNOW I was looking at STUBHUB after Quazzi’s comment and my tickets for several games are going for over $200 each. I almost cannot afford to use my tickets now!