Michael Girdley

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Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Why aren't the San Antonio Spurs selling out the Western Conference Finals?

It's pretty easy to see why:

1) Utah Jazz. Who cares to see these guys play anyway? Boozer and Kirilenko? Boo-ring.

2) Letdown. Everyone sweated the Suns series and then the Spurs won.

3) Performance Fatigue. I've personally attended 20+ playoff games and two NBA finals since 2001. Fun, but not something I need to do every single year.

4) The Price. Ticket prices are ridiculous. Once you factor in $15 in ticket bastard fees, you're looking at $65 for Upper Level nosebleed seats. For bad lower bowl seats, you're looking at $200+ a piece. Huh?

5) The Product. Face it, in person the games are boring -- especially on national TV. The Spurs organization ramble the same soundtrack repeatedly, play the same gimmicky games, and so on. Then you have to sit there in a teeny tiny seat for a 20 minute half-time where they truck in some total crap plate spinner or paint bucket beaters and only have garbage refreshments available for $6.75 a beer.

6) Game Time. 8pm start on a Tuesday? I don't want to get home at midnight.

The Spurs are out to make a buck. Just like any other business they are trying to maximize profits. I don't hold that against them. But, I don't have to go to the games and I generally don't. Looks like many other people don't either...

1 Comments:

At October 28, 2008 1:36 PM, Anonymous Kris said...

Thanks for writing this.

 

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