I don't doubt there are brokers. There are with many teams. The difference here is that the landscape of fans in the city is different from most. I talk about season-ticket holders because I know quite a few personally who own multiple seats. One guy I know has 4 seats on the visitors side, 48 yard line, about 16 rows up. I've sat with him on several occasions. More times than not, he goes by himself and sells the other 3 to the highest bidder(s). If they'e Dolphins fans, great. But more often than not they're fans of the opposing team. But again, these ticket profiteers wouldn't be such a big deal if South Florida wasn't such a transplanted city. Last night, Matt Millen said "Wow, these Bears fans travel well.", insinuating they had made the trip for the game. I HATE when people say that. It's such an unfounded, ignorant assumption because these people LIVE HERE. They're aren't hopping a flight to Miami to see the Bears for one night.
I loved the old Orange Bowl simply because of the noise and the atmosphere at the stadium. The new Dolphins stadium has never been able to bring about this type of crowd noise because of the way it was constructed. The fans are too far from the field. This distance prevents the crowd noise from affecting the visiting team. Robbie was too concerned with making the stadium a dual purpose stadium. Baseball and football, and this created a stadium which takes the crowd out of the game. The Orange bowl was a football stadium. This present Dolphins stadium leaves a lot to be desired whe it comes to providing a home field advantage for the Dolphins.
