The Dallas Cowboys are hell-bent on making Super Bowl XLV the highest-attended event in the championship game’s history. Or, I should say, Jerry Jones is, as he’s resorting toward selling four-packs of what are being called “plaza tickets” at $800 each.

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said Tuesday that season-ticket holders who purchase tickets for a party plaza outside Cowboys Stadium will be “counted toward attendance.”

Party plaza ticket holders will be in an area in the east end zone plaza, where they can watch the game on big video screens and theoretically enjoy being part of the atmosphere surrounding the game. They will be exposed to the elements, however, instead of nestled comfortably inside in a covered, climate-controlled stadium. –Bahston Herald.

Great, so three of my friends and I can spend $200 apiece to drive to the stadium, park, get frisked at the gate and then WATCH THE GAME ON A TELEVISION. That’s a joke, and how anyone can consider that “theoretically” being part of a game is damned fool and I will punch that person in the face. Theoretical punching. Obviously.

The Cowboys would have to sell about 12,000 plaza tickets to break the Super Bowl XIV record of 103,985; That was Steelers-LA Rams at the Rose Bowl. That’s right, the Rams had home-city advantage for the game and still lost to the Steelers. I guess it’s no bother. Look how well the Rams are doing now!

Ozzie Guillen has been the gift that keeps on giving since taking the helm of the Chicago White Sox in 2004. Here, he dons an ugly Christmas sweater and implores you to buy the White Sox 13-game season ticket plan. I’ll be honest, that sounds like a lot of baseball to watch, but if Ozzie was sitting next to me and swearing his ass off throughout that package, you could put me down for the whole season. But I’d want a sweater. Ozzie could be the dad I never had. No, I mean he really could be. We’re still waiting on the DNA test.

See the video after the jump. Thanks to Weed Against Speed for the heads-up on that link..

I’m probably not the only one that’s paranoid about buying tickets to sporting events online. Though I’ve done it a handful of times and not been burned by it, surely some people have. One such gentleman did get the shaft when a buyer reneged on a deal to buy his tickets for an undisclosed sporting event.

The auction had ended at 10:00am and by 5:00pm she still hadn’t responded to my emails trying to organize the exchange. Finally, at 9:30pm, I got a one-liner email: “I overbid and my husband won’t let me buy these. Sorry and enjoy the game! :)”

I first tried explaining that I wouldn’t have the time to resell the tickets (I already got turned down by the losing bidders). She said, “… that’s not my problem. It’s eBay, not a car dealership. I can back out if I want.” I still don’t understand the car dealership reference.

Instead of sulking and taking the loss, the guy fought fire with fire and pulled a scam of his own, and then shared the tale of his “conquest” on Reddit. You can read it over there; I won’t ruin the ending for you, but I’ll be curious to see what happens to the guy that basically confessed to pulling a scam on eBay. Hopefully he’ll get some kind of reward, but that broad–provided all of this actually happened–totally had it coming.

–via Gizmodo.

This may come as a shock to some of you, but it’s hard for a hockey team to survive in South Florida. I have no idea why, but my guess is that it has something to do with the lack of snow and the citizen’s strong distaste for Europeans. Their ownership should have thought of that before they took the franchise’s talents to near South Beach, but they’ve managed to survive for the past 17 years. In their most clever way to fandangle some cash flow, Panthers management has started negotiating season ticket prices.

Florida Panthers announced their “Perfect Plan” on their website.
Take a look at the retail price. Then, just like Priceline, name your price. Within 24 hours, the team will get back to you to tell you if it was accepted or not.

The promotion is going for 10 days and it’s only 24 hours in. So far, team president Michael Yormark told me about 50 season tickets have been sold this way — just as many fan proposals have been predictably rejected. –CNBC

The Panthers play in Sunrise, Florida, which, last time I checked, is where old Jewish people go to die. Don’t be surprised if the local Country Kitchen Buffet adopts a similar business plan for their late night special. They haven’t been open after 5 in decades.

The Boston Red Sox are five and a half games out of first place, and with the Tampa Bay Rays making a charge for the AL wild card, it seems all but obvious that the Sawks will miss the playoffs. And their fairweather fanbase has responded in kind–they’ve stopped going to the games. One of the groups feeling the loss is ticket scalpers, who have all those extra tickets that they can’t sell. Poor widdle babies…

Rich claims he made about $100,000 in his first year re-selling tickets to NASCAR events and Sox games. This year, though, he says he’ll be lucky to bring in one-third of that.

A fellow re-seller overhears Rich’s claim. “[Down] 70 percent? It’s way worse than that,’’ said the man.

The other scalper is silver-haired with a belly and a limp. He’s wearing a Red Sox jersey and isn’t interested in saying much more. “Things are bad enough already,’’ he says. –Boston Globe.

How bad are they? Oh, just dreadfully bad… Read the rest of this entry »

Torrential rain has caused abundant flooding in Nashville, Tennessee. The rain caused the level of the Cumberland River to rise over the levees that were in place. It all happened so quickly that the flood reportedly claimed the lives of 18 people in Tennessee.

And then there’s LP Field, home of the Tennessee Titans. While many of Nashville’s residents have evacuated, others were scrambling to or calling the stadium, hoping to renew their season tickets. Priorities…

“There are more pressing issues in our community — life and death,” said Don MacLachlan, Titans executive vice president of administration and facilities. “We have had fans trying to call us and even trying to get to the stadium for fear of missing the deadline.”

MacLachlan said fans should not come to the stadium and that the deadline will be extended to Monday and perhaps beyond. –The Leaf Chronicle.

Perhaps beyond? We’ll have to wait and see if anyone dies first. I’d expect nothing less from a League that essentially prints its own money. So is this better or worse than the oil spill off the Gulf Coast? Lemme drive around the block a couple of times while I think it over…