Many people worked for good companies and made a decent living during this time, but times have changed. The Good paying jobs are no longer in the area. ( This is why I moved back to Pittsburgh)

There are no more jobs that have normal pensions, (except a 401K that loses more money than they make)

Athletes salaries have jumped 3000% in the last 25 years but the normal person trying to survive and keep food on their table to feed their kids are making the same salaries as they did in the 1980′s.

How can anyone ask people to pay an outrageous price for tickets/ parking/concessions when they are struggling to make ends meet at home?

You can’t blame the people, because there are MANY people who would LOVE to be sitting in that stadium!!!
You have to blame Corporate America and the rising prices to feed the millionaire athletes and billionaire owners because these people don’t know when enough money is enough!!!
They have priced the every day fan out of the stadiums!!!!!

I don’t know about some of you people but I would rather feed my child than I would a millionaire athlete any day! And anyone who disagrees with me never had to struggle for anything in their lives… most of us wasn’t born with a gold spoon in our mouths!!!

Many people worked for good companies and made a decent living during this time, but times have changed. The Good paying jobs are no longer in the area. ( This why is why I moved back to Pittsburgh)

There are no more jobs that have normal pensions, (except a 401K that loses more money than they make)

Athletes salaries have jumped 3000% in the last 25 years but the normal person trying to survive and keep food on their table to feed their kids are making the same salaries as they did in the 1980′s.

How can anyone ask people to pay an outrageous price for tickets/ parking/concessions when they are struggling to make ends meet at home?

You can’t blame the people, because there are MANY people who would LOVE to be sitting in that stadium!!!
You have to blame Corporate America and the rising prices to feed the millionaire athletes and billionaire owners because these people don’t know when enough money is enough!!!
They have priced the every day fan out of the stadiums!!!!!

I don’t know about some of you people but I would rather feed my child than I would a millionaire athlete any day! And anyone who disagrees with me never had to struggle for anything in their lives… most of us wasn’t born with a gold spoon in our mouths!!!

You pay only $7.50 for a beer? At Dodgers games a 3% domestic light beer is over $11. Eff you, Frank McCourt!
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$11 for a cup of pisswater beer????? If I were a salesman, I would grab the names & #s of every single one of those obviously filthy rich people as they walked away from the concession stand with beers in hand knowing I’m not going to get any easier marks to swindle than they.

If I were an owner I would probably try to do some creative marketing where I offered a “family pack” of say 4 tickets which included a hot dog or hamburger, fries and a drink for 4 people for a reasonable deal or something. Usually the worse the economy is the more people need some entertainment to help distract them a bit. Help make it possible, owners of the NFL. Yes ticket prices alone aren’t the sole reason people don’t go to the stadiums, I get that. I also get that they make their money mostly on TV rights. But they need to keep interest high in attending their games or that could force a ripple effect they DON’T want.

Bucs got lucky in alot of games last year, and that won’t happen again.

2011 Bucs 4-12 just one game ahead of the panthers in the NFC South.

You can say the same exact thing about the Bucs.

Sounds like somebody’s still bitter that the lions took ya out of the playoffs last year? Ha! Goin down week 1 too!

Second – Just stop this “The Bucs are moving” nonsense because you’re just showing your ignorance. The Glazers have one of the best, most lucrative leases in the National Football League. No city, not even LA would have bent over and taken it from the team like the city of Tampa did for Raymond James Stadium. Not only to the Glazers make a mint off the Bucs – they also make a mint of ANY event in the Stadium. USF games, the Outback Bowl…tractor pulls, whatever is there is money in the bank.

Third – before the economy dropped in the crapper, the Buccaneers had 10 consecutive years of sell outs and a 10,000 seat waiting list for tickets. Perhaps the nation high unemployment level (which by the way is still high) had something to do with it….and don’t give me the “Oh they’re unemployed in Detroit, too” bs because they have a population of 5 million – I think they can find 70,000 or so saps to go see the Lions disappoint. Tampa only has a population of 335,000 (2 mill if include the surrounding counties)- most of which who are under or unemployed.

To make this football related, as an LA resident I would love to have a NFL team, but not at the expense of another city. I lived in the Bay Area when Skeletor tore the team out of Oakland to LA. The rage there was incredible. When he moved the team BACK to Oakland the fans in LA were pissed. Now the Oakland and Alameda County residents who had their taxes raised to pay for a billionaire’s stadium wish he would go away permanently.

The have the Lions, Falcons, Colts, Saints Texans, Panthers, and Cowboys coming to Tampa.

I live in Nashville, and have already purchased my 4 front row tickets to the Bucs Game. I also bought tickets to go to the Bucs home game against the Colts. I am not rich, but, I budget every year to go to at least one game, and I travel over 12 hours to get there.

As for the fans that complain about the heat… are you kidding me? Try being one of those players with no fan support running up and down the field with full gear and a helmet on? I love my Buccaneers, however, it’s no wonder that there’s talk about them moving. Every place has a bad economy. I don’t want to hear anything about it. Try going to Detroit…. you don’t hear of them on the black out list.

New Orleans sold out their games, even after their homes got washed away, and they were left with nothing. Sorry Bucs Fans, not on your side on this one.

Ticket – $100
Parking – $10
Tank of gas – $60
Food for tailgate party – $20
Stadium hot dog – $4
Stadium beer – $7.50
Total cost – $201.50

watching your favorate team….. Priceless!

Ticket – $100
Parking – $10
Tank of gas – $60
Food for tailgate party – $20
Stadium hot dog – $4
Stadium beer – $7.50
Total cost – $201.50
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Here in New England, parking is $40. and a bottle of water in the stadium is $7.50.

Just think how MT the stadium would be if this were the last game of the season with the 5-10 Bucs facing the 4-11 Lions …….

And what irks me is that the same fans who are screaming about why we don’t spend money would have been the first to scream if we’d spent the money and been in cap hell and unable to resign any of our young players in a few years.

Liar

Ticket – $100
Parking – $10
Tank of gas – $60
Food for tailgate party – $20
Stadium hot dog – $4
Stadium beer – $7.50
Total cost – $201.50

When you can watch the game in the comfort of your home on your HDTV, eat/drink the free food/beer in your fridge, why would you pay that kind of money to watch a game live? Are team owners really that dense about the economic situation around them?

You want more people in your stadium? Lower prices to where it’s affordable for more people to come enjoy a live game.

The cheapest Jaguars tickets are $30 each …that is if you buy a season ticket package and sit in corners of upper deck.

Otherwise cheapest Jaguars tickets are $50-$55.

Stay stupid.

conflict of interest here!!!

Also, I thought the Bucs sold out their game versus the Steelers last year?