Shaughnessy blasts Patriots over tickets, parking, time

[Danny Boy®]

I'll do that in a second if you include 4 regular season games at face value. I'll let you protect 2 games then I get to pick 4. I won't even ask for any rights to the postseason like a regular season ticket holder would have. Deal..?

No deal...but I'm still offering the Giants game.

 

[QuiGon]

No deal...but I'm still offering the Giants game.

Gee... since you won't make that sale, it seems to me like you're a fella who thinks the cost of 1 preseason game is worth it in order to get 4 regular season games for face value...

You better watch out or Double G will call you an assclown. He's a really funny guy.

 

[Danny Boy®]

Eek! I just saw a bad word! How does ******* get bleeped but that one gets out?

 

[Real World]

Now, which one is Shaughnessy?

He's the guy on the right. I think the guy on the left works for the Boston Bruins or something.

 

[Danny Boy®]

Gee... since you won't make that sale, it seems to me like you're a fella who thinks the cost of 1 preseason game is worth it in order to get 4 regular season games for face value...

You better watch out or Double G will call you an assclown. He's a really funny guy.

Nope. I dont find "value" in being forced to buy the 2 preseason games at all...thats why I'm trying to sell 'em...except, I'm not screwing anyone by forcing them to buy them.

 

[Pujo]

I admit it's kinda crappy, but that's how supply and demand works. Go to Cuba if you don't like it, they won't make you buy preseason tickets there.

 

[QuiGon]

Nope. I dont find "value" in being forced to buy the 2 preseason games at all...thats why I'm trying to sell 'em...except, I'm not screwing anyone by forcing them to buy them.

Except your actions clearly are not demonstrative of your words. Nobody is forcing you to buy the preseason tickets. It is simply a condition of having a season ticket package. Clearly, since you've been a STH for many years, your actions indicate that you feel the price you are forced to pay for presason games is worth it for the enjoyment of guaranteed seats to all home regular and postseason games.

 

[Danny Boy®]

Nobody is forcing you to buy the preseason tickets. It is simply a condition of having a season ticket package.

You call it a "condition" if you like...I'll call it it forced. If I want seasons tickets, I'm forced to buy the practice games.

 

[QuiGon]

You call it a "condition" if you like...I'll call it it forced. If I want seasons tickets, I'm forced to buy the practice games.

I think you just described the dictionary definition of "condition"... so you can play these semantic games all you want, but simple fact of the matter is you don't have to buy preseason tickets at all anymore if you don't want to. And we both know it. But it's a condition of your season ticket package - you know, the season tickets you hold on to like the grim hand of death because you know they are the best value in all of sports.

 

[Pujo]

You call it a "condition" if you like...I'll call it it forced. If I want seasons tickets, I'm forced to buy the practice games.

No, you have the option of buying no tickets. Going to a Patriots game isn't a right, it's a service you purchase at whatever terms it's being sold at. Nobody's twisting your arms, you want to go.

 

[fgssand]

No, you have the option of buying no tickets. Going to a Patriots game isn't a right, it's a service you purchase at whatever terms it's being sold at. Nobody's twisting your arms, you want to go.

I don't see any problem here......I am lucky enough to have had season tickets for over 35 years now. I'll have them for another 35 years (if I live that long) and then my sons will have them after me.

I don't mind paying for preseason games.
I don't mind paying for parking.

I happen to really like watching professional football and the New England Patriots.

Anybody that does not feel the value is there for them, should simply stay home and watch for free on TV.

What could be simpler than that??

 

[Pujo]

I don't see any problem here......I am lucky enough to have had season tickets for over 35 years now. I'll have them for another 35 years (if I live that long) and then my sons will have them after me.

I don't mind paying for preseason games.
I don't mind paying for parking.

I happen to really like watching professional football and the New England Patriots.

Anybody that does not feel the value is there for them, should simply stay home and watch for free on TV.

What could be simpler than that??

The problem is people who think they're entitled to something they're not entitled to.

 

[mgcolby]

I'm not a big fan of the NFL charging full price for the Pre-Season games for many of the same reasons that have already been stated. But, I understand why they do it. The teams only have 10 guaranteed home games to sell tickets to (including the pre-season). Baseball has 81 games, Basketball and Hockey have 41 games. Granted the stadium sizes tend to be much larger especially compared to the NHL and NBA. I think most season ticket holders dislike but understand the reasoning as well. But why let that get in the way of a sh!tty Grapefruit league analogy? Not to mention the NFL pre-season games are played in their home stadiums.

My only reaction to CHB's bull**** article is the fact that I just recieved two free tickets to tomorrow night's Steelers @ Redskins game because a guy I work with has season tickets and couldn't attend. He didn't ask for any money because in his own words "The tickets are worthless"! Psst to CHB it's league wide.

 

[Double G]

Have fun at the games next year Quigon with your "free seasons tickets" (yeah right, someone gave you free tickets; on what grounds, to have your award winning comedy routine play out during tailgating and during the games?).


You'll be the guy wearing the nacho hat and the STFU tee shirt that's four sizes too small.

 

[QuiGon]

Have fun at the games next year Quigon with your "free seasons tickets" (yeah right, someone gave you free tickets; on what grounds, to have your award winning comedy routine play out during tailgating and during the games?).

On what grounds..? Well that's for me to know and you to find out. But I can say, in absolute honesty, that next year I have free season tickets coming to me, they've already been arranged and, going forward, I will be able to renew them directly from the team and they will be in my name (although next year is the only free year).

I am sure some people in here will know how I am doing it. It's not like it's any big huge secret... But I guess sometimes it is what you know and not whom you know.

 

[Double G]

That's great, good for you; you went from *****ing on this thread about having to wait for tickets to suddenly not only getting them, but getting them for free AND having the chance to renew them, but not for free.

Wow, what a fable.

Don't forget your nacho hat/shinebox (nice obscure reference to a movie older than dirt too by the way).

All of this nonsense because you decided to go off on me for stating my opinion on something I have first hand experience with and you had no dog in the fight I might add.

Do you always make a habit out of sticking your nose in places it doesn't belong and telling total strangers to STFU? Because I sure as **** don't, I respect other peoples opinions around here (ok, not yours, but other peoples).

Have a nice life toughguy.

 

[QuiGon]

That's great, good for you; you went from *****ing on this thread about having to wait for tickets to suddenly not only getting them, but getting them for free AND having the chance to renew them, but not for free.

I didn't complain anywhere about having to wait for tickets. I said I was on the waiting list and that I was "a little jealous" of people that do have season tickets. That's *****ing to you..? Puh-leeze

Wow, what a fable.

Yeah... sure... right... I am making this all up to impress people on the internet... Boy, it really does annoy you, doesn't it..? Or, I should say "jerk a knot in your ass"... I think I told Danny Boy my little secret (which isn't really a secret at all - it's actually quite well known how to do what I did) once upon a time so maybe if you're really nice to him, he'll clue you in...

Don't forget your nacho hat/shinebox (nice obscure reference to a movie older than dirt too by the way).

"Obscure" reference..? I would say that that reference is extremely well known by most people in here. "Older than dirt"...? I don't think you know what movie I am referring to, or you don't know when it came out... it isn't even 20 years old... that's "older than dirt" to you...? Something from 1990 is "older than dirt"...?

All of this nonsense because you decided to go off on me for stating my opinion on something I have first hand experience with and you had no dog in the fight I might add.

And, by your own admission, neither do you... so STFU and stop whining....

 

[wdkantro2]

He complains that preseason tickets are just as expensive as Chargers-Pats game tickets. Does he not realize that every game, regardless of matchup, costs the same amount to put on?

 

[Danny Boy®]

On what grounds..? Well that's for me to know and you to find out. But I can say, in absolute honesty, that next year I have free season tickets coming to me, they've already been arranged and, going forward, I will be able to renew them directly from the team and they will be in my name (although next year is the only free year).

I am sure some people in here will know how I am doing it. It's not like it's any big huge secret... But I guess sometimes it is what you know and not whom you know.

I thought that they didnt renew tickets under a different name?

 

[Scott37]

I just got back from the game. I don't have season tickets but am willing to pay face value to bring my 9 & 11 year old kids down to see a real NFL game and regardless of the time of year they had a great time. I don't mind paying for parking. As long as tailgating is allowed there is a certain amount of expense related to parking and if I choose to pay for tickets to a game another $40 to park a few steps away from Gillette isn't going to kill me.

What I don't appreciate is the game being played on Friday night at 8:00 PM. The traffic on the way down to the stadium was awful. A trip that usually takes only a couple of hours took over three and a half. The parking situation at Gillette is a mess with all the new construction. By half time the kids were exhaused and were begging to go.

I'd much rather the games be at 1:00 PM on Saturday or Sunday. What have they got to lose?

Incidently - All the construction has me a bit nervous. Does anyone else have the feeling that once "Patriot's Place" is completed the team will try to stop tailgating?