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Bird what do you think the Goph's chances are?
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Not good.Don't know much about them except who their coach is.Its early so anything can happen at this point.
What is the deal with the Vikes not selling enough tickets and possibly having to black out a playoff game?
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I heard the number was low, they have one more day. If they don't sell out...I live far enough out of the city that I'd still get it on TV.
I would enjoy watching the Vikes pummel your Fecals.
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Is there no excitement over this team for any particular reason?Its odd to me that you guys arent jacked up about making your first playoffs in almost a decade.
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You're right that fans do lack intensity. But there are other factors that make up a portion of lagging ticket sales.
Has a lot to do with when the made the playoffs. Back in '98 they had sold out the first playoff game and pre-sold 80% of the NFC championship game.
This year they didn't clinch until late Sunday, plus didn't know who there opponent was until the conclusion of the Philly/Dallas game.
They're on pace to sell out by the noon Thursday deadline. Normally the network that risks losing the telecast will buy up 4-5 thousand tickets to avoid losing millions in advertising to case of a blackout.
The Minneapolis/StPaul metro isn't very big. A good portion of the season ticket holders live in the out state area or neighboring states.
Sad reality of it is.....If there were a chance of a Vikes/Packers playoff game...cheese heads would have gobbled up 20K tickets in just a few minutes.
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I heard that the team is looking for the state to kick in a couple hundred million for the new stadium they want to build.Not sure they can justify it when they can't sell out a playoff game.
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how come los angeles can't support a team?
it is, after all the 2nd largest city in the country.
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why would you wast money on an NFL playoff game when you have the T-wolves and North Stars currently playing and Twins around the corner. Minny is in the playoffs so much it doesn't matter.
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BIRD33 Wrote:Theres an engineer in Philly working on a NFL stadium for LA that I'm involved with.Its for the owner of the Staples center and from what I hear he's pretty sure he can get a NFL team to move there in the next 5 years.
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I'm sure you spend a lot of time wondering about that.
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wallah!!
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LA Lions, bank on it...Detroit is done in the NFL game.
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Would just be terrible timing for the NFL if they do it in the next 5 years.It would look like the league is abandoning a city during a crisis.Imagine if the saints left New Orleans after that hurricane.PR disaster.
I can see the Rams moving back.
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ewing cole is one of the better firms. i do some work with them.
al davis should be in someones dead pool.
