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If you went to see the Bears play the Vikings on 10-23-1972, this would have bee | VikeFans.com
If you went to see the Bears play the Vikings on 10-23-1972, this would have been how your ticket stub looked. The bears would run 53 times and pass just 5 times in a 13-10 upset over the Vikings #vikings pic.twitter.com/pGBWSRF28W

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7.00 for that ticket, if you had said 47 years ago that tickets would cost a couple hundred bucks for a game much more for a monday night game. People would have said you are crazy.

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I've said it before, 72 and 18 were very similar teams...hopefully the 19 team is one game better than the 73 team...

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@SDCAVIKESFAN said:
7.00 for that ticket, if you had said 47 years ago that tickets would cost a couple hundred bucks for a game much more for a monday night game. People would have said you are crazy.

You have to take into account inflation. You can say the same thing with almost anything: a new car in 1965 cost around $2800 on average. Its $34,000 today. And people pay for drinking water today.

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@StickyBun said:

@SDCAVIKESFAN said:
7.00 for that ticket, if you had said 47 years ago that tickets would cost a couple hundred bucks for a game much more for a monday night game. People would have said you are crazy.

You have to take into account inflation. You can say the same thing with almost anything: a new car in 1965 cost around $2800 on average. Its $34,000 today. And people pay for drinking water today.

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@SDCAVIKESFAN said:
7.00 for that ticket, if you had said 47 years ago that tickets would cost a couple hundred bucks for a game much more for a monday night game. People would have said you are crazy.

You have to take into account inflation. You can say the same thing with almost anything: a new car in 1965 cost around $2800 on average. Its $34,000 today. And people pay for drinking water today.

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@vikingknights said:

@StickyBun said:

@SDCAVIKESFAN said:
7.00 for that ticket, if you had said 47 years ago that tickets would cost a couple hundred bucks for a game much more for a monday night game. People would have said you are crazy.

You have to take into account inflation. You can say the same thing with almost anything: a new car in 1965 cost around $2800 on average. Its $34,000 today. And people pay for drinking water today.

@StickyBun said:

@SDCAVIKESFAN said:
7.00 for that ticket, if you had said 47 years ago that tickets would cost a couple hundred bucks for a game much more for a monday night game. People would have said you are crazy.

You have to take into account inflation. You can say the same thing with almost anything: a new car in 1965 cost around $2800 on average. Its $34,000 today. And people pay for drinking water today.

What about wages?

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NFL tickets have way out paced the middle class. 
The souce I just looked up say median income for men in 1972 was $7,450 per year. That sounds about right. $ 140 a week roughly. So a ticket in 1972 would have cost you 5% of your weeks pay. $140×5%=$7.00
How much would I need to make per week for $200 to be 5% of my weekly pay?

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@suncoastvike said:
NFL tickets have way out paced the middle class. 
The souce I just looked up say median income for men in 1972 was $7,450 per year. That sounds about right. $ 140 a week roughly. So a ticket in 1972 would have cost you 5% of your weeks pay. $140×5%=$7.00
How much would I need to make per week for $200 to be 5% of my weekly pay?

$4000 per week.  I mean, who's not making that??

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@Ralphie said:

@suncoastvike said:
NFL tickets have way out paced the middle class. 
The souce I just looked up say median income for men in 1972 was $7,450 per year. That sounds about right. $ 140 a week roughly. So a ticket in 1972 would have cost you 5% of your weeks pay. $140×5%=$7.00
How much would I need to make per week for $200 to be 5% of my weekly pay?

$4000 per week.  I mean, who's not making that??

Well in Florida not even our Governor. He makes a little more then half that a week. He doesn't have to buy his own tickets I'm sure.
That's why they give us big credit card limits. You charge stuff like this for fun. Then you have a $400 repair every time your car farts funny.  Of course unforeseen emergencies. Any wonder we have a credit problem in this country? 
I can't fix my own cars anymore because I'm not a electrical engineer. I can't control the cost of emergencies. I can cut out overpriced luxuries and still be on pace to retire.  I'm glad I got alot the NFL experience live in the 80's and 90's. I mean  before it was worth so much.