dupsdell1 wrote:Anybody take a look at the tickets sales for the Calgary game looks impressive, I know there is the guaranteed night tickets ,
Looks encouraging. Eyeballing it I'd say about 50% of the ten extra sections (upper deck behind visitors' bench) is sold, about 80% other side. It's about 500 seats per section, or 5000 each side so that's around 0.5x5000 + 0.8x5000 = about 6500. Lower bowl has (eyeballing) average about a dozen singles per section left, with capacity about 27100, call it 26500 sold and that puts the crowd at 33.0k so far. So, already near a season-high figure, wouldn't take much more; granted, this is with GWN comps — of the four eligible games this one almost certainly has the most.
if the the lions could win the next 2 games that game could get 35,000 , I could imagine what the attendance would have been if there was no guaranteed night.
Yet another reason I don't like all this crossover talk I'm hearing. "Let's cheer them down to 4th place!" What kind of sales pitch is that? I'd have to think there'd be better buzz for this home finale if we still had a shot at 2nd going in than if we were locked into a lower seed with nowhere to go.
Sports can be a peculiar thing. When partaking in fiction, like a book or movie, we adopt a "Willing Suspension of Disbelief" for enjoyment's sake. There's a similar force at work in sports: "Willing Suspension of Rationality". If you doubt this, listen to any conversation between rival team fans. You even see it among fans of the same team. Fans argue over who's the better QB or goalie, and selectively cite stats that support their views while ignoring those that don't.