Season Tickets anyone?

[policeradio556]

Okay folks I have a question for everyone....I know we have a huge youth movement on this site but also some seasoned or (grizzly) vets here too... I was browsing through the Flyers website yesterday and wondered to myself how people afford season tickets...To give everyone an idea of what its like in Philly (I know a far shot from the most expensive seats in the sport) A ticket for the lower level to a game is $96.00...A season ticket holder pays $79 dollars for the same lower level seat...If a person pays for one season ticket for the lower level (excluding ice row ie the first 2 rows) the cost is $3,476 and I wanna say that doesnt even include a parking voucher....
While I know hockey isnt the MOST expensive sporting event to attend I often wonder how people afford that luxury...Let alone purchase 2-4 seats a year...In my opinion I have a stable well providing job am I missing something?!

[Nairb06]

i have season tickets to the Blackhawks and the White Sox. but i dont pay lol. My dad does.

[policeradio556]

Lol...I was in that same boat My dad used to get box seats through his company...and that accounts for alot of the season tickets...

[Nairb06]

Me and my Dad are HUGE sports fans so he bought season tickets to the hawks and sox and then we go to 1-2 Bears games a year and about 6-8 Bulls games a year :)

[HOCKEY68]

Paying over 4 g's for first row in the second level in edmonton,season seats sell out every year and the waiting list is huge just like in montreal.

[maple19]

tryed to get tickets in toronto you have to give up your first born ,house,car,trailer, boat,cottage

i not sure that will even come close to pay them off

ps : waiting list years and years,and more years

mike

mike

[policeradio556]

hmm question again lol...how much is 233.50CA in US funds? Is it more or less? lol Im looking to go to a game but dont wanna go hog wild and pay more then I think Im paying

[maple19]

canadian dollar at 93 cents to the american so it less

mike

[policeradio556]

lol sorry planning a trip to Toronto sometime in October (trying to figure how far things are ie airport,hockey hall of fame,Leafs game...Relative to hotels that offer transportation at least to and from the airport) Because Im lazy and dont feel like renting a car and dealing with that hassle...

[30ranfordfan]

Football is the only one I can afford season seats to :)

Had Buffalo Bills season tickets for a couple of years (me and 2 other friends split 4 tickets). It was only costing around $450 per seat, so it wasn't too bad. Just too much work getting from Cambridge Ontario to Buffalo that often, so we stopped doing it.

I've had Hamilton Tiger Cats this year (me and a friend split a pair). It's only $250 for decent seats. Gotta love the CFL :)

For hockey..... it's really not that unbelievable that people can afford it. You can get a decent seat in most rinks for $50 to $75. That's $2050 on the low end of that, and $3075 on the high end. When you consider that most teams will let you do a payment plan (during the off season, of course) you can probably set it up to make 4, even 6, equal payments. If you want to go to 41 games.... that's not really that horrible of a price.