I know it’s a rhetorical question. But I remember the Bucs had a billboard in Tampa not even ten years ago touting a season ticket waiting list of over 100k people.

They have had almost every game blacked out the last two years and barely get 50k. Those waiting lists are worth about as much as the paper they aren’t printed on.

If you’re on the waiting list and pass on an opportunity to buy, you don’t lose your spot on the list. The team hasn’t been hot (no playoffs since 2008), and PSLs cost a fair amount of money, so it’s hard to get people to pony up right now.

They probably have at least 2-3% per year turnover/non-renewals to make available to the waiting list, and those probably haven’t been moving well the last couple of years. I get the feeling those unsold season tickets are the ones they are now offering in these “half season” packs that won’t require a PSL purchase.

Second, Bud Adams made it so there are always about 3-4K seats per game which are always made available to the general public (cannot be sold as season tickets). Those also have to be moved every year to reach a sellout. Prices are reasonable by NFL standards ($35 for cheap upper deck to $100 or so for prime lower bowl).

There’s a decent core of fans in TN, but it’s still a first generation fan base, and has a few too many bandwagoners. Last year between the lockout, the coaching change, the QB uncertainty, etc., morale was probably at an all-time low for this market (since the Memphis/Vandy no-home-stadium days). Single-game ticket sales were uncharacteristically slow.

It will be interesting to see if 9-7 and barely missing a wildcard spot was enough to energize the bandwagoners again.

Seems they should offer the 1/2 season package AFTER the waiting list is empty.

I think they keep a select number of individual tickets available even when the demand for season tickets is high. The partial season tickets probably come from that pool. It’s usually the corner sections of the nose-bleeds that teams seem to have left over when they can’t sell out the game.

I know they are required to keep a certain amount of tickets available for the other team.

Jaguars have that plans for 2 years already and they got bashed for it…now titans can’t sell their season tickets and have to sell half pack, people calling it a great plan? please..

Getting people to show up for games would not be an issue if the tickets were more reasonably priced. On a side topic if Tenn has a waiting list for season tix then how are they having issues selling out games?