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« Reply #15 on: September 08, 2009, 08:34:36 pm »
Quote from: myami54 on September 08, 2009, 08:30:51 pm
I want to throw merchandising into this discussion as well. T-shirts, sweat shirts and other apparel is ridiculous.

You have a point there.  I remember when NFL jerseys used to cost like $30 to $40 and they used to be made by Nike, Addidas, Reebok, and all sports marketing brands.  Then all of a sudden, they switched to Reebok only and jacked up the price to $65 per jersey in 2002.... now they're going for upwards of $80
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« Reply #16 on: September 08, 2009, 08:40:54 pm »
I find that if you're not buying brand new official apparel, that there are plenty of reasonable options.  You just have to be patient and look online or at places like Ross, or wait until it's offseason.  If you order from the catalog, the prices are insane.
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« Reply #17 on: September 09, 2009, 03:46:16 pm »
I prefer to watch sports on T.V.  I prefer to listen to my music on my I-Pod, If the dolphins score a touchdown I don't feel the need to touch a random stranger.  I used to go to games to get drunk but now I would go to hang with friends anyway.  The only sport I would prefer to go to the venue would be something like boxing although I've never been. 
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« Reply #18 on: September 09, 2009, 04:14:19 pm »
The problem with the high prices is that there are plenty of people willing to pay them.
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« Reply #19 on: September 09, 2009, 04:14:51 pm »
Quote from: StL FinFan on September 09, 2009, 04:14:19 pm
The problem with the high prices is that there are plenty of people willing to pay them.

Not anywhere near as much as before.
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« Reply #20 on: September 09, 2009, 04:22:54 pm »
If they weren't making enough money as they thought they should, they would lower their prices.
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« Reply #21 on: September 09, 2009, 04:38:58 pm »
In someway the actual cost haven't gone up as much as the profit on the secondary market has shrunk.

These aren't actually numbers...

But I vaguely remember as a kid there would often be rock concerts where the face value on the price would be $5 but you couldn't buy a ticket for under $60 dollars from a scalper.  So one artist raised the price to $50 on his next concert and said screw the scalpers. 

It is false to say that the NFL sets the price for a superbowl ticket.  The secondary market does.  By raising the prices the NFL simply gets a higher % of the actually selling cost.   



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