Dolphins season ticket sales still in the crapper

This. I hate live football games, hate them.....

65'' and a handle of rum get me closer to the action than being there live...

 

It may be more relevant which ones have been giving raises versus paycuts to employees.

 

I don't know how people could sit there and watch a live game on a Sunday afternoon. Nothing beats watching 5+ games at once.

 

Interesting point.

If you looked at market penetration, or share, or whatever you call it of NFL SUnday ticket (and illegal streaming) I wonder if that didn't also takeoff more around that time.

And with the lockout in 2011, there may have been a few people who made the decision to simply not gamble on season's tickets or palnning around catching a single game on a weekend (often these are planned well in advance, esp. for out of town fans) that year, so they did something else with the money (or earmarked it) and once the season was "on again" it was too late to recapture those dollars.

 

Dee was headhunted... the process was done quickly, I'm sure a very competitive offer was made.

I can't find any info on NFL Team CEO salaries or MLB Team President salaries otherwise I'd try to draw a comparison.

 

Unless its going to a stadium that is full of energy. I'd go to a stadium that is packed with energy. I'd go to a Seahawks game or a Stillers game over watching it on TV. But if I'm going to a game and me and the fans are going to be ho-humming it (Miami), then yeah...I agree no need to go do a game. Sides....all i'm going to do is give myself an ulcer worrying about my fantasy leagues. Stadiums need more BYOD High Speed wireless so fans can bring in tablets, etc....with Fantasy lounges and stuff. Lower the ticket price....charge a flat fee for wireless....make lounges available to more people instead of gouging so more people do what they would do at home...but do it at the stadium. I'd go to the stadium and kick it if I could do everything I do at home at the stadium.

 

Dolphins actually will be the first NFL team offering high-density wifi in the stadium, for free.

 

I have seen talk of them putting the redzone channel up on the jumbotron at the games. I'm not sure that's really going to help though. People go to games for the atmosphere, if there is no excitement people quit going.

Offense is what gets people excited, our offense has been boring for years and years now.

 

Thing about 2007 though is it was fairly recent into the disaster years so ticket sales were still good. (Then of course 2008 helped) We can't count the 2001 playoff year, and even 2002 and 2003 when the team had a ton of stars and winning records yet frustratingly lost winnable games to miss playoffs. The team was at least exciting. Then 2005 it looked like things turned around before they hit the crapper in 2006. 2010-2012 was the apex of the crappy years when fans abandoned any hope of making the playoffs anytime soon.

The attendance thing will be interesting to watch though, because even in the cavernous and distant Sun Life Stadium they were a top 15 team in attendance up until 2010 pretty much every year.

 

That is a load of ****.

The Dolphins had strong attendance throughout their history, up until the last half dozen years. Fans have been worn down by a crappy product.

The Heat have no issues filling their building.

The Panthers can't fill their building because it's Florida, hockey doesn't matter and the Panthers have basically been rubbish since their inception.

The Marlins can't get fans because their ownership has bent over their fans too many times to count.

Miami can be a football town again. All it will take is WINNING and hope.

 

Silver lining ftw. Easier parking and shorter bathroom and concessions lines.

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I disagree that any of the fault for the decrease in season ticket sales had anything to do with Dee.

I was a season ticket holder for over 35 years and decided after the 2010 season that I wasn't going to renew my season tickets because Ross has retained Sparano and Ireland. I didn't purchase season tickets for the 2010 season, but I received numerous calls and letters from the Dolphins wanting to know the reason I wasn't renewing my season tickets after all the years I had been a season ticket holder. They also wanted to know what they could do to make me happy as a season ticket holder.

I spoke to them on the phone and I also wrote a letter explaining that my reason for not renewing my season tickets was based entirely on the product on the field and the fact Ross has not fired Sparano and Ireland after the 2010 season. Dee certainly didn't have anything to do with the product on the field or with Ross retaining Sparano or Ireland.

I attended no games in 2011, but last year I decided to attend games on an individual basis. I eventually ended up going to six Dolphin home games. Even though Ireland remains the teams GM, I have once again decided to purchase four season tickets for the 2013 season. Never once was Dee a factor in me deciding to give up my tickets after the 2010 season or in me deciding to once again purchase season tickets for this coming season.

I know many former season ticket holders and everyone I know who has stopped buying season tickets have either moved away from the South Florida area or those who remain in South Florida, stopped purchasing season tickets because they were fed up with the product on the field. I don't know a single former season ticket holder who stopped going to the games because of Dee.

I don't care if Dee leaves or not. I just don't see how anyone who has watched this team on the field over the past decade can place the blame on reduced season ticket sales on anything but the poor play of the team on the field. If the poor play continues this season, I suspect season ticket sales will go down next year, Dee or no Dee. If the teams turns it around and becomes an exciting and winning team, season ticket sales will start to rise again. It is the coaches, players, and GM who are responsible for what happens on the playing field. Dee held none of these positions and therefore it makes no sense to blame him for the decrease in season ticket sales over the past several years.

My reason for deciding to purchase season tickets again was because I hope the product on the field this year will be vastly improved in 2013. While I still have my doubts concerning Ireland, I feel this team has a chance to be a more entertaining team than any Dolphin team in recent history. I want to be in the stands to see for myself how this team develops. Also I think there is a very good chance that Ross might finally be getting tired of buying up the tickets for home games and letting too many fans sit on their fat butts at home watching the game for free.
If he wants the stands to fill up this year. Ross needs to stop buying up these tickets and just let these individuals actually purchase tickets for the games, if they want to see the Dolphins play at home. I am sure this would increase the number of fans in the stadium and for those too lazy to attend games, they can find out the score as they watch another NFL game on TV.