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(Message started by: Daunte Williams on May 1st, 2003, 12:36pm)
Title: NFL Ticket- $199
Post by Daunte Williams on May 1st, 2003, 12:36pm
I just heard that the NFL Ticket price for this year will be a whopping $199.99. That is complete highway robbery, but I guess it must be paid to watch all the games. The NFL has the fans by the balls with the Direct TV Ticket and they are squeezing hard [smiley=ohshit.gif]. The only way I can watch Daunte, Ricky, & the Rams play is to pay this ransom.
Title: Re: NFL Ticket- $199
Post by DirkDiggler on May 1st, 2003, 6:04pm
No surprise it is so expensive.  They just re-upped for the rights again.  They payed like a bazillion dollars for it.
Title: Re: NFL Ticket- $199
Post by Keyshawn Johnson 76yards on May 1st, 2003, 6:40pm
I just go to a sports bar and watch the game for free, on a big screen t.v, with the companionship of fans from rival teams. Doesn't get much better then that.
Title: Re: NFL Ticket- $199
Post by StegRock on May 1st, 2003, 8:16pm
I know where you are coming from there, KJ 76, but for many of us "old guys," those days are long gone.  Now, granted, I have been away in Korea for most of the past eight football seasons, but I remember the last time I went out to a sports bar-type place with a buddy (in the GBRFL) up in Hoboken.  It was okay, but at this point in life, I would prefer to stay at home on the couch in my comfies with an open phone line and maybe a buddy or two dropping by.  Maybe we can go out and toss the ball to break up the monotony.  That's enough revelry for me anymore.  BUT, you keep doin' what your doin', KJ, my friend.  This "wonderment" is all ahead of you! ;)
Title: Re: NFL Ticket- $199
Post by Philly on May 1st, 2003, 9:27pm
You hit that one on the head, Steg.  I caught one Eagles game in a sports bar last season - while I was on the gulf coast of Florida on a biz trip.

I too prefer to watch the game at home now (unless I can score tix - or, more importantly, afford tix) with a few friends and toss the ball around during halftime.

I do tend to get rather intense during Eagles games, and the best way to watch them, for me, is all alone.
Title: Re: NFL Ticket- $199
Post by DirkDiggler on May 1st, 2003, 10:04pm

on 05/01/03 at 21:27:34, Philly wrote:
You hit that one on the head, Steg.  I caught one Eagles game in a sports bar last season - while I was on the gulf coast of Florida on a biz trip.

I too prefer to watch the game at home now (unless I can score tix - or, more importantly, afford tix) with a few friends and toss the ball around during halftime.

I do tend to get rather intense during Eagles games, and the best way to watch them, for me, is all alone.


I would love to go to an Eagles game.  I see them here in DC against the 'skins and when they played baltimore in the past.(I go to see the pathetic 10-10 tie a few years ago.)

However, I did go to the bar almost every week.  A bunch of go to watch our fantasy players and drink.  Ummm beer....
Title: Re: NFL Ticket- $199
Post by Daunte Williams on May 2nd, 2003, 12:12am
  You guys hit that one on the head- there is nothing better than watching games with the boys at home. We have the NFL ticket on two tv's in the living room with the computer fired up in the other room for live stats- now that's good livin... [smiley=hmmmm.gif]
Title: Re: NFL Ticket- $199
Post by Walker Boh on May 2nd, 2003, 8:33am
I agree with most of you.  [smiley=yes.gif] I love watching games at home or a friends house. You see, I tend to get a little excited and you never know when I'll jump out of my seat and run around the room like an idiot or get in a players face and tell him to back off my QB! My policy is get into it, or get out! I can't stand watching the games with people that don't care. I wait all week for these games and the last thing I want is someone telling me to sit down and relax, or one of my favorites... IT'S JUST A GAME. [smiley=annoyed.gif]

I think $199 is a fair price, but that doesn't mean I can afford it. [smiley=no.gif] Looks like another long season of watching every Bear's game... :'( Why not charge $59.99 and get 4 or 5 times as many people subscribing? [smiley=yes.gif]
Title: Re: NFL Ticket- $199
Post by PA Outlaws on May 2nd, 2003, 8:35am
To be honest, the ticket is a great thing but doesn't interest me much! I am going to watch the Eagles no matter what game would be on. FOr all of the other games, the computer tracks everything I could ever need! Plus the computer gives me the stats, which is more important for FF!
Title: Re: NFL Ticket- $199
Post by StegRock on May 2nd, 2003, 9:04am
Yea, and I love runnin' from the pisser to in front of the TV set every time I hear that little FOX or CBS jingle indicating "bottom-line" updates!  When I can "view" ALL the games like when I am with a friend that has a satellite dish or at a sports bar, I kind of get to thinkin' that it is a bit anti-climactic. [smiley=shrug.gif] In Korea (when I was able to watch games on the tube, which was NOT always), hearing that jingle used to lead to quite a bit of exercise by way of a grueling obstacle course of sorts.  Here is how it would go:  hear sound (then, like Pavlov's dogs [smiley=dog.gif] ), cut off current pee stream, jump out of bathroom rubber slippers and into house slippers (remember no shoes in the house in far-east Asia), trying not to drip piss on jammy pants, depart bathroom, trying my best, but usually failing, to NOT stub my toe on the ledge between the bathroom floor which is lower and rest-of-apartment floor which is elevated (this is because their-style heating system is in the floor and their bathroom is typically just a concrete floor with a "main drain"), and run to the TV usually located in my bedroom, between the rest of the apartment and which there is usually another little doorway ledge to stub your fuckin' toe on (they're all over the place there).  All of this typically in the middle of the night Sunday into Monday as that is when the Sunday games are being played and broadcast live by way of the Armed Forces Network, which I oftentimes did NOT get based on where I lived, like LAST SEASON... [smiley=bawling.gif] when I was only able to catch games if I had Monday off and could head up to Seoul to my in-law's.  Anyway, lots of bruised toes and lost toenails during that era! [smiley=doh.gif]
Title: Re: NFL Ticket- $199
Post by PA Outlaws on May 2nd, 2003, 9:05am

on 05/02/03 at 09:04:06, StegRock wrote:
Yea, and I love runnin' from the pisser to in front of the TV set every time I hear that little FOX or CBS jingle indicating "bottom-line" updates!  When I can "view" ALL the games like when I am with a friend that has a satellite dish or at a sports bar, I kind of get to thinkin' that it is a bit anti-climactic. [smiley=shrug.gif] In Korea (when I was able to watch games on the tube, which was NOT always), hearing that jingle used to lead to quite a bit of exercise by way of a grueling obstacle course of sorts.  Here is how it would go:  hear sound (then, like Pavlov's dogs [smiley=dog.gif] ), cut off current pee stream, jump out of bathroom rubber slippers and into house slippers (remember no shoes in the house in far-east Asia), trying not to drip piss on jammy pants, depart bathroom, trying my best, but usually failing, to NOT stub my toe on the ledge between the bathroom floor which is lower and rest-of-apartment floor which is elevated (this is because their-style heating system is in the floor and their bathroom is typically just a concrete floor with a "main drain"), and run to the TV usually located in my bedroom, between the rest of the apartment and which there is usually another little doorway ledge to stub your fuckin' toe on (they're all over the place there).  All of this typically in the middle of the night Sunday into Monday as that is when the Sunday games are being played and broadcast live by way of the Armed Forces Network, which I oftentimes did NOT get based on where I lived, like LAST SEASON... [smiley=bawling.gif] when I was only able to catch games if I had Monday off and could head up to Seoul to my in-law's.  Anyway, lots of bruised toes and lost toenails during that era! [smiley=doh.gif]



Absolutely hystirical!  [smiley=laugh.gif] Just trying to get that picture out of my head!
Title: Re: NFL Ticket- $199
Post by Philly on May 5th, 2003, 10:37am

on 05/02/03 at 09:04:06, StegRock wrote:
jump out of bathroom rubber slippers and into house slippers (remember no shoes in the house in far-east Asia)


Even if was your own apartment and no one else was there??
Title: Re: NFL Ticket- $199
Post by StegRock on May 5th, 2003, 2:39pm

on 05/05/03 at 10:37:29, Philly wrote:
Even if was your own apartment and no one else was there??


Yes, for functional, practical reasons involving (the unrelenting) dust (of Korea) and wet feet, pubic hairs, etc., etc.!  Oh, and don't assume I was always alone on these nights! [smiley=hooters.gif][smiley=gettinridden.gif][smiley=titflash.gif] (and that is not at all far from the truth [smiley=awwgee.gif] ) ;)


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