If you can’t afford a 250 dollar game on 4500 a month (55 k a year) – you’re doing it wrong. Even after taxes.

Ain’t saying you have to go every week but re-evaluate what you ARE spending your cash on.

That’s some faux class warfare there bud.
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It’s true that for some people who don’t go it isn’t strictly the ACTUAL dollars. A lot of us could save our money and afford a game here and there. For me it’s more that if I spend on a BMW, I want a BMW not a pimped out Yugo. NFL stadium experience these days=pimped out Yugo.
If I stay home, I spend on Sunday Ticket and am perfectly happy, warm, dry, can pause the game if I need to get food, use the restroom, etc. and I’m not inconvenienced by trying to find parking and annoyed by the 90% of people at games who don’t care about the game so they interfere with my enjoyment of it. So I spend on a Toyota and get a Toyota.

After a ton of coaxing, I finally gave into my friends and played fanatsy football during the ’08 and ’09 seasons. I drafted better than anyone else, had the highest scoring team in my 12 team league in ’08 (and proptly lost in the first round of the playoffs) and then actually won the whole thing in ’09, a sweet $800 pot for that…what I found in those two years of playing fantasy was that as a true football fan, I found it was more fun to actually be able to watch and enjoy the games than it was to worry about if the Eagles were gonna throw to Maclin or to “my guy” Jackson, for example.

I’ll take real NFL anyday over a fantasy team.

I agree. I’m a die hard giants fan, but have Vick in 3 leagues. So I hope he runs for 200 yds n 2 tds n throws for 300 n 1 td but loses every game 24-21. But if you tell me him beating my real team means me winning my fantasy team, I elect for my real team breaking his face and him out for season.

“fans turn your attention to the scoreboard to see how our division rival star player is doing”

free agency already gave that a huge head start.

Being a fan of a team tough when every few years you get all new players, new coaches and in some cases new owners.

The only people I know who actually go to games got their tickets from wealthy relatives or business connections. That’s probably because none of my friends are millionaires.

If they lowered prices so that middle-America could go…(their fans)

“I am sick and tired of people more worried about fantasy stats than what their own NFL team is doing.”

this wouldn’t happen so much.

The “Linc” should be hooked up, Mr. Lurie.

Make it happen.

Ain’t saying you have to go every week but re-evaluate what you ARE spending your cash on.

That’s some faux class warfare there bud.

Since when is loyalty part of any professional sport today?

As a middle class hardcore NFL football fan, I find it very hard to spend $30-$40 per game for parking; $31 for concession stand food (2 beers at $8 each, 1 hot dog/sausage at $8, 1 bag of peanuts/chips at $5, and 1 bottle of water at $4); $85 for an upper deck seat (nose bleed)/lower enzone seat or $125-$200 for a lower deck seat around the 20 yeard line.

For the NFL fan, “cheap experience” = is a whopping $146.00 per person. For the NFL “middle in the road” fan experience = $191.00 per person. Last, the NFL experience that most NFL fans expect to receive = $266 per person. But won’t happen, because the blue collar NFL fan can’t afford to go a game on average yearly salary of $55,000-$75,000.

Yes, the NFL owners and players are pricing themselves out with the average consumer. In twenty years, the average fan won’t bother to watch any games, because they can’t afford to do so, because the average American will have to work two jobs, and won’t be able to afford to even watch the NFL footballs games on DIRECTV either. Healthcare, education, mortgage/rent, food, clothing, then maybe a little entertainment (NFL???). That’s reality for the future generation. Hey, at least we’ll be the Nation with the most BILLIONAIRES and MILLIONAIRES. That’s important?????

America, land of the wealthy and powerful…. The best government that money can buy. Ask the local House of Representatives Republicans, as they await for your wealthy endowment. TAX CUTS FOR THE TOP 2%. Tickle down food scraps for the poor.

Be careful, you’re pricing yourselves out of mainstream America.

Look around, look at your neighbor or just look at yourself…. It’s bad around…

Oh, I didn’t even mention all the public financed NFL stadiums. That’s for another day….

All at a cheaper price. The EXPERIENCE isn’t what’s lacking – it’s the AFFORDABILITY.