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Iceland12 said:
So every thread and post is all about you? Also a pretty bad and self-centered assumption. Don't read it. If you've read the board and seen the constant suggestions that throwing away the season or not playing your best players is fine. That it has no impact then you would have got the point, but since it's all about you it wasn't clear. Every post must interest you or be about you?


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You specifically replied to my post with your idiotic and incorrect assumptions...not every thread or post is about me...unless you are replying directly to me...so this, you can be assured, is about you....Iceland12 is a dbag IMO. And if you go back and read the initial post that started this thread...the one I was discussing and pointless...it wasn't about what you are talking about...except in your own head. It was a rambling story of idiocy without point or reason except to a dbag like yourself.
 

HouseOfHagen said:
I've been a season ticket holder for about ten years (2 tickets) now and have made it to the vast majority of home games. After the Brewster debacle and knowing we could only make a few games this year, we thought about dropping the tickets but eventually renewed. Now as the season progresses, we can't even give the tickets away to Gopher fans when we can't make it. So it's either sell them to an opposing fan or toss the tickets in the garbage. Maybe I'm not as financially well off as the rest of you, but regardless, it's gotten to a point with the team's performance and lack of Gopher interest that I would rather sell them to earn back some of my $ than toss them away.
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That part just blows my mind. I can understand someone not wanting to pay full price for tickets at this point, but not being able to give them away? No matter how bad we are, I'd still much rather be hanging out outside watching a game in our awesome new stadium than sitting at home raking leaves or something.
 

GophersInIowa said:
That part just blows my mind. I can understand someone not wanting to pay full price for tickets at this point, but not being able to give them away? No matter how bad we are, I'd still much rather be hanging out outside watching a game in our awesome new stadium than sitting at home raking leaves or something.
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Been a problem for years. Plenty of Vistor's fans will take or pay for tickets. Trying to find a Gopher "fan" to take tickets when they are having a lousy season, let alone when they admit that they don't even care about winning, is damn tough.

That's okay though; after loudly proclaiming that the next two or three years isn't about winning there will be fewer and fewer Gopher fans in the stands and people will blame it on "marketing". :)
 

GopherinPhilly said:
You specifically replied to my post with your idiotic and incorrect assumptions...not every thread or post is about me...unless you are replying directly to me...so this, you can be assured, is about you....Iceland12 is a dbag IMO. And if you go back and read the initial post that started this thread...the one I was discussing and pointless...it wasn't about what you are talking about...except in your own head. It was a rambling story of idiocy without point or reason except to a dbag like yourself.
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Struck a nerve huh? Family not going to the game? Seems I was wrong, the post apparently was about you too.
 

Just sold my 4 tickets plus parking pass to a nice guy from Eau Claire on craigslist for $500. He wants to follow the Badgers thru a possible NC season. I want to ease the pain a little right now and it helps. Funny, no takers from the great state of Minnesota. Iceland -- come on in, the waters fine! The rest of you can commence ripping me. It's ok. I used to think just like you. Then Jerry Kill told me how lousy his job was, how overmatched we are talent wise, intelligence wise, and discipline wise, then proceeded to demonstrate it. I now see the light.
 


HouseOfHagen said:
I've been a season ticket holder for about ten years (2 tickets) now and have made it to the vast majority of home games. After the Brewster debacle and knowing we could only make a few games this year, we thought about dropping the tickets but eventually renewed. Now as the season progresses, we can't even give the tickets away to Gopher fans when we can't make it. So it's either sell them to an opposing fan or toss the tickets in the garbage. Maybe I'm not as financially well off as the rest of you, but regardless, it's gotten to a point with the team's performance and lack of Gopher interest that I would rather sell them to earn back some of my $ than toss them away.
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This is nothing new. I was in the same situation when the Gophers played in the damn dome as family members wouldn't use them the one or sometimes two games I was unable to attend.

So I don't even ask them anymore as they have had their chance. Now I happily donate to Tix For Tots, get a tax benefit and hopefully make a couople of kids happy. Maybe help create a future Gopher fan.

I assume that people purchase season tickets with the intent on using them. That makes sense. At least the majority of the games. Yet when the team is lousy, the intent now is to sell them to the enemy in order to earn back some on their $$.

So you would go to the games if the Gophers were good and consider the money well spent but, if they are lousy, then you can't afford the cost of the tickets. Huh?

Would you consider selling them at above market value if the ticket was a hot itme rather than going to the game? My guess would be probably not.

Speaks volumes for the type of "fans" we have.
 

Firejumper said:
Just sold my 4 tickets plus parking pass to a nice guy from Eau Claire on craigslist for $500. He wants to follow the Badgers thru a possible NC season. I want to ease the pain a little right now and it helps. Funny, no takers from the great state of Minnesota. Iceland -- come on in, the waters fine! The rest of you can commence ripping me. It's ok. I used to think just like you. Then Jerry Kill told me how lousy his job was, how overmatched we are talent wise, intelligence wise, and discipline wise, then proceeded to demonstrate it. I now see the light.
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Nah, I'll keep trying to get people to take them up until game day and if not I'll eat them, like i've done many times in the past. I agree with you though about the difference this year. Mason and Brewster did the same thing in their first years but they didn't brag or whine about it. I've ripped people in the past for selling their tickets but not now. The board has gone out of the way proclaiming how lazy, lousy, self-centered these players are. Some even applauded the coach for questioning the players mental capacity. Then when Kill backed-off they ripped him for it.

Then they proclaim themselves "true supporters of the team". :confused:

I hope these aren't the same people who've questioned "marketing" efforts in the past.
 

Bayfieldgopher said:
I assume that people purchase season tickets with the intent on using them. That makes sense. At least the majority of the games. Yet when the team is lousy, the intent now is to sell them to the enemy in order to earn back some on their $$.

So you would go to the games if the Gophers were good and consider the money well spent but, if they are lousy, then you can't afford the cost of the tickets. Huh?

Would you consider selling them at above market value if the ticket was a hot itme rather than going to the game? My guess would be probably not.

Speaks volumes for the type of "fans" we have.
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Please re-read my post(s) as you obviously didn't the first time. I never said I'm selling the tickets because the team is lousy and the few games I'll be missing has nothing to do with the team being good as you put it. Case in point: I could not make the MN vs. NDSU game which I knew in advance. I literally could not give them away to friends, friends of friends, family, etc. "Why would I want to watch the Gophers lose to NDSU?" is the common reponse I got. So, therefore, the tickets were sold at $100 each to NDSU fans from Minnesota, which was not at all my original intent regardless of how the team is doing. I also never said I couldn't afford the tickets, but in these times and my current situation, any extra $ helps. But again, this was never my intent when purchasing the tickets and never has been.
 

This is a unique year for me. I have two sets of tickets, Outdoor Club and endzone. After 40 years of going to Gopher football games, I now have a four month old. I took him to 2 games, and it isn't easy, so I've been posting my tickets for sale. What I get is requests to sell low (even one saying they would take the tickets for free if I drove to Maple Grove to drop them off) simply because they are Gopher fans and not cornhusker, badger, hawkeye, etc. So Gopher fans think they should buy cheaper (and below face) simply because they are Gopher fans and not the opposing fans. Opposing fans do pay higher. Must be because Gopher fans leave the stadium early.
 



Tix For Tots

Thanks for posting a bit about Tix For Tots. That is a fantastic option to consider. We need as many little Gopher fans as we can get.
 

blue52 said:
This is a unique year for me. I have two sets of tickets, Outdoor Club and endzone. After 40 years of going to Gopher football games, I now have a four month old. I took him to 2 games, and it isn't easy, so I've been posting my tickets for sale. What I get is requests to sell low (even one saying they would take the tickets for free if I drove to Maple Grove to drop them off) simply because they are Gopher fans and not cornhusker, badger, hawkeye, etc. So Gopher fans think they should buy cheaper (and below face) simply because they are Gopher fans and not the opposing fans. Opposing fans do pay higher. Must be because Gopher fans leave the stadium early.
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Please tell me the jackwagon from Maple Grove actually made it sound like he was doing you a favor. Because that would be so effing classic.
 

The notion of not being able to give tickets away isn't just a Gopher thing. It's true of other teams as well. During the 90's when the Twins were terrible and still in the dome, drawing 12,000 a game, you couldn't give tickets away. That was during the era of the $81 general admission season ticket (a DOLLAR A GAME). The same is generally true of the Wolves over the past few seasons. My friends and I went to a Wolves game and sat in $100 plus seats for $15 each from StubHub, and I know lots of people who wouldn't go to a game if you paid them.

I'm not a huge fan of the notion of selling tickets to opposing fans, but I know a guy who paid for his entire season ticket cost by selling just his two tickets to the Cornhusker game. I have another friend who pays for almost her entire Twins season ticket plan (40 games) by selling the Yankee, Red Sox and Brewers tickets, plus a few games she can't attend. I can't say I blame people for doing this. Sports tickets are a luxury item and if you can help your budget during tight times, and still be able to attend a lot of games, you do what you have to do.
 

Shame on you people. Really if your not going to take a bad season here and there then don't get the tickets because you are buying tickets for gopher football your going to have these seasons. Be a true fan and just keep the tickets and just have something to do on saturday and just go the game and cheer on your team for gosh sake because the poor players and Jerry Kill really need it. If your not a true fan don't go.
 



Please have some consideration for your neighbors before you sell your tickets to fans from an opposing team. I am sure the people your neighbors would like to see sitting next to them are:

#1. You
#2. Another Gopher fan
#3. Someone that doesn't get to go to games often (Tix for Tots)
#4. An empty seat

BUT NOT A IA/WI/NE FAN.
 

discochris said:
Sports tickets are a luxury item and if you can help your budget during tight times, and still be able to attend a lot of games, you do what you have to do.
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What you wrote represents logical thinking. That is where you went wrong. Being a football fan means you throw logic out the window. This isn't baseball-there are only a handful of games (during a football season) to attend so you treasure them. Baseball goes on forever.

You don't sell your tickets to the enemy-you just don't. You take the hit if you can't find anyone to buy them. Selling tickets to a Badger/Husker/Hawk fan is the worst thing you can do as a Gopher fan.

Stop being logical.:)
 

I have 4 season tickets and have had them for 12 years. My kids are now 8 & 10, so they go to more games every year - probably 4 or 5 this year. But often times, either it's my wife and I and friends or rarely (like 5 games in the past 12 years) we simply cannot go. Here is what we tend to do with our 2 extra tickets (or 4 when we can't attend):

1) Invite friends that we know are Gopher fans to go with us (these have been hard to find in bad seasons):
2) Invite friends that are fans of the opposing team - I know many of you are against the opposing fans in Gopher seats, but we don't sell the tickets and its always a good time with our friends. For the past 7 years, we have been going to every Gophers/Hawkeyes games (both here and in IC) with frineds and have had a blast).
3) Sell any remaining tickets (often single seats) to scalpers on our way into the stadium. For the Miami game, I got $2 for a single ticket :(

We have never knowingly sold our tickets to an opposing fan, but are guilty of bringing them along from time to time (next week a friend is driving up from Omaha). So I guess I am guilty of treason.
 

I don't make a habit of telling people what they should do with something they purchased with their hard-earned money. It's their money, not mine. If someone has a chance to to pay for their entire season-ticket package (or close to it) and they decide to sell their tickets to a particular game i.e. Nebraska, Wisconsin or Iowa, that's their business, not mine.
 

Go Gophers Rah said:
We have never knowingly sold our tickets to an opposing fan, but are guilty of bringing them along from time to time (next week a friend is driving up from Omaha). So I guess I am guilty of treason.
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Bringing friends from other states/schools is in another category all together imo. No treason there.
 

They gave their 2nd set of tickets to two Mormon Grad students from Utah who promise to cheer for the Gophers. Go figure..
 

While I obviously prefer that the tickets to to Gopher fans, what people decide to do with them is completely up to them, and it shouldn't matter what you, I, or anyone else thinks.

Nebraska, Iowa, and Wisconsin fans can all buy tickets from the Minnesota box office now anyway, so if they can make some good money off the tickets, so be it. The fans from opposing schools are going to show up no matter if they buy them from the ticket office or a Gopher fan regardless.
 

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