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5/20/15, 4:26 PM |
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5/20/15, 4:27 PM |
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Since 2013 our 500 seats have increased SEVENTY dollars per ticket.
That figures out to just shy of a 47% increase per ticket in just THREE YEARS. I know, I know, there is no one holding a razor to my throat to buy the dammed tickets, and we probably won't continue to. But, when you get beyond all the conjured up rhetoric about the tradition, history and ambiance you're still just watching a bunch of spec race cars driven by mostly foreigners who we don't care a thing about the other 11 months of the year at a track where even if you're setting in the very best seats in the place you can see less than half the track. However, I've been told by a Speedway representative that I can bring a cooler to my seat and most other sports venues don't allow that. I have only one thing to say to that............. BIG F'N DEAL!! And given all that, some would call a 47% increase in just 3 years A BARGAIN!! If that's the case I'd sure like to know what ya'll consider gouging. Sorry for the rant, guys.
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5/20/15, 6:05 PM |
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Race Count This Year: 19 Race Count Last Year: 22 Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 2,259 |
The 2014 increase was the first in a decade. The most expensive seats in the house are $186.00 this year. OK, heck with it, let's spend our Memorial Day at another iconic sports venue, Fenway Park, and watch the Sox and the Angels; let's see, best seats in the house, right behind home plate....$620.00.
Stop whining.
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5/21/15, 2:43 AM |
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5/21/15, 7:30 AM |
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I don't think it's considered a "Top" tier sporting event anymore. Almost zero news coverage here in Cincinnati (we're less than 2 hrs away). The recent TV ratings for the race have been less than stellar. Also, they have removed 1000's of lower level seats to condense the crowd for camera shots and there are still 1000's of empty seats on race day...I'd bet there are less than 175,000 spectators on race day....it really saddens me.
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5/21/15, 7:42 AM |
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I disagree about the crowds growing in recent years. You realize, they removed thousands of seats in the last few years...We sit in the northern part of the Tower Terrace, and the last several years it has been "nearly" half empty.. there is no one in the lower seats. I'd bet the deed to my house they're not getting close to 200,000 anymore...
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5/21/15, 8:19 AM |
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5/21/15, 8:50 AM |
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What's really killed the 500 is the lack of attendance during the rest of the "month". Practice and Qualifying crowds this year were as low as they ever been. Not all that many years ago Pole Day attracted as large a crowd as the race does now. Overall May attendance is no more than 50% of what it was 25 years ago at best. The Speedway itself stated that actual 500 attendance for the full month in 2013 was 275,000 and for 2014 was 360,000. The numbers for 2014 reflected an additional 75,000 people that attended both the new Grand Prix of Indianapolis and the Jason Aldean concert the night before the 500. |
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5/21/15, 10:54 AM | #29 | |
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Pack your cooler with your sandwiches, water and beer. Go try to get into any football or baseball game, let me know how it works out for you.
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5/21/15, 1:27 PM |
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Why are we comparing Indy to Football and Baseball? I believe the discussion is: media and fan interest now vs. what it once was... and there's no denying the event is a mere shell of what it once was...
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