2013 NFL Season

Disp_sl said:

They sold out in 30 minutes, so no.

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This. The Clink will be as loud as it usually is on sunday.

Id rather pay $400 for a potentially awesome NFC Championship game than 1 of possibly 7 world series games. And besides Football > Baseball any day live.

Disp_sl said:

They sold out in 30 minutes, so no.

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That's with the restrictions too, where you had to have a valid NW billing address to buy them officially. So no SF fans getting in without friends or buying 3rd party prices.

Disp_sl said:

They sold out in 30 minutes, so no.

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They sold out Monday in a few minutes. I tried at 10am when they became available to get just one or two and there was just nothing. I wasn't even upset I couldn't go, just figured I'd try for the hell of it. If the Niners win it'd have been awesome to be there, but it would suck having 50,000 Seattle fans yelling in my ears all game if they were to lose.

Mike Holmgren was at the game where they initially set the "Loudest Stadium Ever" record this year and he was asked if it was louder than the NFC Championship game against Carolina. He emphatically said "No, and it wasn't even close to as loud as that NFC Championship game."

I think C-Link will be as loud as it has ever been this weekend and ticket price will have zero impact on that.

I've seen resale tickets listed that high for regular season games if they are big bandwagon teams like Dallas or Green Bay, or like Ravens/Steelers in a good year. Whether theysellthat high is another story. But consider also, if the pricing scheme is anything like Baltimore, a conference championship game is going to be pushing $200 a seat or more for the lower levels in the first place, so $400 might not even be that outrageous. Plus its the secondary market, a large amount of season ticket holders will simply be there as usual.

Plus how many championship games has Seattle hosted in any sport? This is like Haley's comet for them.

My buddy and I paid $300 or $350 a piece for last year's 49ers/Packers divisional playoff game in these seats. Think we were maybe 40 rows up? Playoff tickets aren't cheap.

Candlestick was basically a dump, wasn't it? Definitely tons of history there, but the place itself looked so shitty on TV. Like between Candlestick and the toilet in Oakland I hope no one is ever tempted to build another dual use park for football and baseball.

LT definitely implies only Lawrence Taylor.

Behind Brady he's my fav. player ever.

I'll be shocked if the Pats can beat Denver again. As a fan I hope it happens but I'm always weary of beating a team like Denver, especially the way they lost, then having to play them again in the championship game.

I think Seattle is going to beat San Fran fairly easily.

Nothing beats watching a big play live. The home has so many advantages, but it doesn't have that. That feeling warms you up on a cold day.

I'm not old enough to have watched Lawrence Taylor; so I don't know him as LT.

I've been to quite a few games and as I get older and enjoy the drinking / tail gating less I find myself not as interested in being there as often. I'd rather watch it at home.

Watching football is much better at home but I have one experience that I wont forget and its probably because I was at the game. I was at an raider v niner game in the regular season in 2000 and the game went back and forth with missed and blocked game winning feild goals, it featured jerry rice,terrel owens, and tim brown. Mind you im not a fan of either team I just went because they were free tickets, but the game went to overtime and ended with an amazing bomb to tim brown right toward the endzone I was sitting in. It was just an amazing moment and probably when I really fell in love with football. The back and forth and the beauty of that last play will forever be imprinted on my brain.

I'm not old enough to remember LT specifically but I am old enough to remember all the grownups saying 'LT' a lot and always meaning that one crazy ogre who played football on tv. I remember a running back in San Diego who was very good for quite a while. He fancied himself maybe good enough to 'take over' the LT nickname but in the end, was not quite able to get over the hump of the Lombardi Trophy thus forever cementing gold-toothed earring man as the ultimate one and only true LT, forever and always.

I started childhood as a mild NFL fan back when the Cardinals were still in St. Louis and have grown to become and bigger and bigger fan over the years. I have still only ever been to one game and that was just last season. Practically all of my NFL experience is on tv or on line but I still love it. I would go to more games I think if I had a bit more money, if I had a partner in crime (a gal who liked football), or if our dome didn't suck. The Edward Jones Dome sucks. I don't care how the team is doing but I have to have fun and I have to feel like I got my money's worth. That dome with that team at that price isn't quite good enough to pull me away from the Redzone Channel. If I lived in a real football town like Greenbay or Pittsburgh though it might be different. The scene would be all different.

Broncos over Seahawks.

Watching at home is nice, but nothing beats going to a game. When we had season tickets we would skip out on like Buffalo V Jacksonville or some stupid shit like that but whenever it was an interesting game, always there at 10AM playing football in the parking lot and firing up the grill. Good times.

BrutulTM_sl said:

Am I the only one that thinks watching football is much better at home?

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Of course not, which is why teams not selling out their games and being blacked out in local markets has become a big deal and hot topic in the last decade. The at home watching experience has become superior for a lot of people. All the shit you mentioned: Comfort of home, not dealing with strangers and drunks, no travel time, everyone having a big screen high-def TV... all things that appeal to a large number of people. Especially if your team sucks, but shit really would have come to a head, I think, if one or multiple Wild Card playoff games had been blacked out locally.

I much prefer watching football from home. About the only time I go anymore is if I score a luxury box ticket, but I'm such a small fish I generally only get those for like the 4th pre-season game. Still, free beer is free beer. Otherwise, it is just too damn expensive to go to the games. Even at $400 a ticket I'd probably end up doubling that buying food and beer throughout the day. Plus I'd also have to bring my wife, so by the time I get done I've spent nearly a Hawaiian vacations worth of money on a single day. Just not worth it imo, especially with how good the home viewing experience is these days. I might feel different if I actually lived near the team I root for, maybe.