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3000 tickets unsold for MNF opener

DeathStar said:
I spent $6k per year on 4 premium seats for a whole decade...

I've had it.

Although I can still afford it, I rather not waste money on a bad product.

So to take on the national media, I should spend my money...LOL.

Who cares about the national media?

You know what gets respect...WINNING.

You know what doesn't get respect...our idiot owner making a fool of himself while chasing Harbough WHILE still employing a head coach...
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even more embarrsing he couldnt get Harbaugh to take the job lol
 
dlockz said:
I personally dont understand why people expect a team that has 4 out of 5 losing seasons to sell out every damn game. Esp with the price of tickets , concessions and parking. Only in the NFL do people expect an underperforming product to have full fan support.
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I don't understand the expectation. It's necessary for fan support to lag during extended periods of underperformance. Or else where is the accountability for failure? Not to mention, I don't think it says much for the fan who is apathetic enough to not care whether his team is competently run or not.
 
Mogwai said:
I don't understand the expectation. It's necessary for fan support to lag during extended periods of underperformance. Or else where is the accountability for failure? Not to mention, I don't think it says much for the fan who is apathetic enough to not care whether his team is competently run or not.
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overall we fans are much to loyal to organizations that could care less about the plight of the fan. the players and owners want to charge out the nose so they maxim ize an already very profitable enterprise. personally going to a game with the family is just not worth spending over 300 dollars per game for esp for a back to back 7-9 team. Not to mention how our taxpayer dollars usually end up supporting thier already filled pockets. Why the hell should tax payer dollars fund stadiums esp in a climate where a team can be moved at a whim. maybe they should use their record profits to build stadiums
 
it says in stubhub that there are 4100 available seats still and there is 4 days left still it will be filled by monday!!
 
This sentiment would make a lot more sense to me, if the team sold out games when we were competitive for years at a stretch. During the late 90's early 2000's when the team was built around a staunch defense, and we were either in the playoffs or in contention every year, we still didn't sellout. Not regularly anyway. You could see all those orange empty seats from outer space. If the reason people are not attending is economics, then I can completely empathize. But if it's because you're a fickle fan, just say so.

I live in a very fickle sports town here in Atlanta. Falcon fans don't have to contend with the intense heat like down in Miami during home games, because they play in a dome. Yet they still don't support the home team unless they're winning. Even then it sometimes takes 8-9 games into the season before the place is rocking and rolling. When Vick was here, you were hard pressed to get a scalped ticket, and you could forget about season tickets. The minute he was gone, ticket sales dropped off like Lindsay Lohan's clothes. Matt Ryan shows up, and it takes almost a season and half to get ***** in seats with regularity.

I'm seeing the same type of thing in Miami. Only worse. Weren't there empty seats in the playoff game against the Ravens 3 years ago?
 
roy_miami said:
Just looking at stubhub the Jets seem worse off than us.
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The REAL problem we have here is not the fans or selling out the games.

The REAL problem is that we don't have many REAL sports writers here in South Florida. The guys who get paid to be beat writers are shallow and lacking. THEY are the ones that write the idiotic local stories that get picked up by the national media and then make us look pathetically bad.

NY media doesn't write about the jests not being able to sell out or piping in fan noise, which EVERY FLIPPING TEAM IN THE NFL DOES. Instead we get local guys spinning this into what they like to spin it into. A pile of feces.

The story about Brett Farve is an example, but really all you have to do is read the passion flower who writes that blog on the Herald. What a joke. The casual fans only get a steady stream of shallow inane ego driven drivel. If we had better beat writers that would give the national media REAL FOOTBALL STORIES about the dolphins and not the idiotic shallow crap that gets passed today the perception would be different.
 
timbowens95 said:
Another thread about how bad our fans are started by someone who lives outside of Florida. Go figure.
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I'm not sure why that matters. Floridians have a much greater opportunity to go to home games than out of towners do. If an out of towner such as myself has the means to come down to a game once or twice a year (which I do), then what is your reaction?

I'd understand it if someone created this thread who's never been to a Dolphins game before. The criticism coming from that sort of person would be un-warranted.
 
Mogwai said:
This is a thread about someone not going to the game complaining about other people not going to the game...

I've been a Dolphins fan for as long as I can remember. There's a reason why teams are affiliated with cities. It's an extension of community. It seems those who don't live in the area experience being a fan in a vacuum. I'm not happy with the way the team is run. People around me aren't happy with it. This is not an economy where you throw money at something you don't believe in. It's a fan's obligation to express disappointment if it really matters to them.
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I am going to the game.
 
some of you are delusional if you think this is a common occurance - No regular-season Dolphins game has been blacked out since October 1998. A playoff game against Indianapolis was blacked out in December 2000. This is purely a result of fans getting fed up with the NFL (lockout) and the franchise in general..
 
phinphan4life said:
Weren't there empty seats in the playoff game against the Ravens 3 years ago?
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No.

My dad and I were season ticket holders from 1993-last year and I used to go to every game before I moved to Orlando. The whole "40% of the stadium' is empty" ... "50% of the fans are for the opposing team" are complete exaggerations made by people sitting in their living room outside of Florida.

I don't think people realize that all the moaning and complaining about South Florida fans goes to deaf ears. The diehard fans that have the money to spend will go to the games. Fair weather fans will go if we start winning. It's not a difficult concept to grasp.
 
Nublar7 said:
I am going to the game.
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Go to where all the empty seats are and wave like heck so we all can see you on TV.

Kidding ..... have a wonderfully time in the beautiful city of Miami. If you stay a couple days check out the Rusty Pelican on key biscayne. Expensive but the best view in the city.

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The economy in florida sucks just look at the bucs and jags nobody selling football tickets in this state.
 
EmperorPhin said:
The economy in florida sucks just look at the bucs and jags nobody selling football tickets in this state.
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Bucs are blacked out.

Even though they were 10-6...the detriot lions as an opponent...yea...

The Jags shouldn't have gotten a team in the first place...
 
DeathStar said:
Bucs are blacked out.

Even though they were 10-6...the detriot lions as an opponent...yea...

The Jags shouldn't have gotten a team in the first place...
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True on the jags but the bucs used to sell tickets and had huge waiting list until the economy tanked there
 
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