OT: Lions Fans Suffering the Price of Success

[Ian]

Lions ownership wasting no time capitalizing on the team's success:

 

[archstanton543]

Lions ownership wasting no time capitalizing on the team's success:

Almost like they're run by some overpriced car company.

 

[A Defiant Goose]

 

[SammyBlueCat]

Please don't trade me to Detroit.

The family resemblance is strictly coincidence.

 

[FortressX]

Hopefully they don't renew.

I also don't view a choke on Thanksgiving as a "success".

 

[Ian]

This kind of sucks:
"There wasn’t even a letter (explaining the price increase) this year, there was just, here’s your renewal form kind of email," she said. "In the past there’s always been a letter signed by (team owner) Sheila (Hamp) or (team president) Rod Wood … and it bragged about how we had some of the lowest prices in the league. This isn’t how you treat family. This is not how you would."

 

[VrabelJr]

That's just pure greed after the decades of suffering they put their fans through. They haven't even won a playoff game yet and I doubt they will this year. Sure they're 10-4 but their schedule is pathetic.

 

[denverpatsfan]

Tough times in America

 

[IcyPatriot]

All the years of suck ... Lion's fans never view success as a reality.
Now they will pay more for the delusion ... I hope they do well this playoffs.

 

[Pape]

Well im sure the Ford family needs the money... Gotta keep up with the Jones's, the Kraft's, the Teppers, the Mara's, the Rooney's etc... being a billionaire aint cheap these days...

 

[cmasspatsfan]

For all those bad years the fans suffered through and supported the team, they should give the fans a break.

 

[Ring 6]

This kind of sucks:
"There wasn’t even a letter (explaining the price increase) this year, there was just, here’s your renewal form kind of email," she said. "In the past there’s always been a letter signed by (team owner) Sheila (Hamp) or (team president) Rod Wood … and it bragged about how we had some of the lowest prices in the league. This isn’t how you treat family. This is not how you would."

It’s funny that a guy who buys tickets to a game considers himself the owners family. People are strange.

 

[borg]

Do the Fords charge $5 for cup of tap water like another owner who requires employees to refer to him as Mr. _______.

 

[Triumph]

Upper level Carolina Panthers tickets were going for 45 cents last game.

Move there and have money left over in your pocket.

 

[Triumph]

Well im sure the Ford family needs the money... Gotta keep up with the Jones's, the Kraft's, the Teppers, the Mara's, the Rooney's etc... being a billionaire aint cheap these days...

Ford just took it in the shorts on their battery F150.

You can buy them for a song.

 

[Pape]

Ford just took it in the shorts on their battery F150.

You can buy them for a song.

just a write off/deduction to them...

 

[Ross12]

Seems awfully fast. They were bad a season and a half ago. Turning it around late last year to ALMOST make the playoffs, but not quite, and then looking good this year so far a few weeks away from the playoffs, is not really success. They haven’t even earned a playoff game, much less won one. For all we know they could lose their last 3 and miss the playoffs.

 

[Ring 6]

just a write off/deduction to them...

I love these king of comments.
As Jerry said to Kramer, do you even know what a wrote off is?

You are implying that a write off is a positive thing.
In order to “write off” you have to lose the money.
You save what the tax would have been on the loss.
So in a 36% tax bracket you lose $100 million and it saves you $36 million in taxes. You still lost $64 million.
It’s like saying better to be poor so you don’t have to pay taxes on all that money you would have made.

 

[Steve102]

Don't buy them. Pretty simple.