Re: Re: Re: Some surprising attendance figures I read...
Originally posted by FFiB
Now, early leavers....you have that only when the game is almost decided...we are up by a couple TDs or we are down by a couple TDs. If the game is close...people stay. But that is a phenomen which is being seen in 90% of NFL stadiums.
Can't agree with you on the early leavers FFib.
IMO our fans are the worst at that. I go to most if not all the games and around the 3rd quarter it's a mass exodus regardless of the score. Only exception is a nationally televised night game.
Day games, you have a pick of any section you want to sit in on the lower level by the beginning of the 4th quarter.
Regularly televised games for us are an embarrassment fanwise. Many announcers have mentioned all the Orange from empty seats around the stadium and wonder how that could be with such a talented team year in and year out.
It's always bothered me. It WASN'T that way at the Orange Bowl.
That is the price of corps. buying up all the inflated lower level seating though. You get large numbers of people who really could care less in attendance. It won't change. Too bad but true.
I think that is why northern blue collar towns like Pittsburgh, Green Bay etc. have always been known as great fans.
Their true fans buy all the tix and everyone there does care.
Their whole Sundays are focused on the event. They arrive early in the morning and leave well after the game ends.
One of my best friends is a long time Steeler fan and I've been to some of their games. BIG difference in atmosphere at those games and no one leaves unless the Steelers are getting slaughtered.
