TheMoreYouKnow
Registered User
Just to give my overall opinion on this subject one more time:
I am a huge Red Wings fan. I completely support ownership and management and in no way am I protesting.
I just got offered free Red Wings tickets for this Thursday. This will probably be the only time this year that I accept the free tickets. Between parking, food, and beer it will probably still cost me over $100 despite the most expensive aspect being covered. Between driving, parking, the game, and leaving the arena, this will take up my entire night starting at 5:00 and I'll be getting less than normal sleep for work in the morning.
Or I could watch the game at home. Sitting on a couch. Getting things done before/after/during intermissions. Cheap food and beer. Replay, DVR. Other games/things on tv during stoppages and intermissions.
The home experience is 1000Xs better for me, even when I get tickets for free. Sports as a whole, need to take a serious look at themselves if they want to continue having fans at games in the future
That's nice and not untrue for a lot of people, but even losing NHL teams are selling thousands of tickets at pretty insane prices. The reality is that a ton of people have the money and time to go to games and will do it if they think it's going to be a cool/entertaining thing to do. The issue here is obviously that going to see the Wings is not a very cool or entertaining thing to do and hasn't been for a number of years.