50-year streak of Redskins selling out home games could end Sunday
WASHINGTON (ABC7) — The Washington Redskins boast that every home game for the past 50 years has been sold out.
According to the team, there wasn't a free seat to be had at any of the 210 preseason, regular or postseason home games since 1967, no matter how bad the team was. (And there have been plenty of downright bad Washington Redskins seasons over the past five decades.)
It's a bogus claim that's already been debunked. Look at the stands in FedEx field, typically at least half empty. And most of the time, there's as many fans of the away team as there are Skins fans there. Ask any Eagles/Giants/Cowboys fan, they'll all tell you playing against the Skins at FedEx field is like having another home game.
Snyder is the reason. Redskins fans have had enough of him. RFK stadium was a great place to see them. Jack Kent Cooke built a stadium that was 50% bigger but didn't have the same vibe. Then Snyder tried to jam 90,000 seats into the 78,000 original spaces, and instead of winning football, offered a "game day experience." It's too loud, too glitzy, too hard to get in and out...and the team has the worst winning percentage under his ownership than any other in team history. It's much more fun to go to any bar and root for whoever is playing the Patriots (the arrogant cheaters).
The redskins were done when they left RFK stadium. There was nothing like a crisp Sunday afternoon football game at that place. @12:36 I'm with you now you couldn't make the invite sweet enough for me to support the league now
Who actually still wears Nike?? Oh that's right the only idiots are basketball shoe consumers. The very demographic and probably only Colin Kaeperdick is able to still reach
This has been debunked for MANY years! The Redskins have always sold ALL seats IN ADVANCE by way of season tickets. On the other hand(going back many years), the Baltimore Colts franchise ALWAYS held out 5000 tickets for day-of-game-sale, which were sold out for every single game they played. Back in the 60's the Redskins would tout a "sold out game" even when the stadium was half full (like for a snow storm; a bad season, etc.,). Meanwhile, up in Baltimore, the turnstile count would show a sell out game EVEN when there was a blizzard! The DC lobbyists held the majority of the 'Skins' season tickets, and would always have then for bribes, (sorry, I mean "gifts") to the politicians. In actual people through the turnstile, Washington has always been on the bottom half of that stat!
Snyder did it to the franchise and the young thug players in today's NFL are ruining the league. Two years of no NFL just college football on Saturday
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ReplyDeleteIt's a bogus claim that's already been debunked. Look at the stands in FedEx field, typically at least half empty. And most of the time, there's as many fans of the away team as there are Skins fans there. Ask any Eagles/Giants/Cowboys fan, they'll all tell you playing against the Skins at FedEx field is like having another home game.
ReplyDeleteTotal bogus claim. Just like the claim that the redskins had a waiting list for season tickets.
DeleteThey removed thousands of seats years ago.
ReplyDeleteSnyder is the reason. Redskins fans have had enough of him. RFK stadium was a great place to see them. Jack Kent Cooke built a stadium that was 50% bigger but didn't have the same vibe. Then Snyder tried to jam 90,000 seats into the 78,000 original spaces, and instead of winning football, offered a "game day experience." It's too loud, too glitzy, too hard to get in and out...and the team has the worst winning percentage under his ownership than any other in team history. It's much more fun to go to any bar and root for whoever is playing the Patriots (the arrogant cheaters).
ReplyDeleteThe NFL took a knee. I took a hike. Lifelong fan, now I don't go or watch. Nice going NFL.
ReplyDeleteIf u offered to give me tix, paid me and drove me there I wouldn’t go.
ReplyDeleteThe redskins were done when they left RFK stadium. There was nothing like a crisp Sunday afternoon football game at that place. @12:36 I'm with you now you couldn't make the invite sweet enough for me to support the league now
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ReplyDeleteWhat if they had Colon Crackerjack appear and he could give away Nikes that weren't produced by slave labor?
Waa waa...hows that nike boycott goin for ya
ReplyDeleteWho actually still wears Nike?? Oh that's right the only idiots are basketball shoe consumers. The very demographic and probably only Colin Kaeperdick is able to still reach
ReplyDeleteThis has been debunked for MANY years!
ReplyDeleteThe Redskins have always sold ALL seats IN ADVANCE by way of season tickets.
On the other hand(going back many years), the Baltimore Colts franchise ALWAYS held out 5000 tickets for day-of-game-sale, which were sold out for every single game they played.
Back in the 60's the Redskins would tout a "sold out game" even when the stadium was half full (like for a snow storm; a bad season, etc.,).
Meanwhile, up in Baltimore, the turnstile count would show a sell out game EVEN when there was a blizzard!
The DC lobbyists held the majority of the 'Skins' season tickets, and would always have then for bribes, (sorry, I mean "gifts") to the politicians.
In actual people through the turnstile, Washington has always been on the bottom half of that stat!