How could there be empty seats in that stadium today?

They went turtle!  B) 

Their fans are fickle. $1.6 billion on that building. The crowd was more excited for the SEC  championship game there. 

The stadium announced crowd was 71,000, and there were no more than 30,000 in the stadium.  The NFL has a problem if they can't fill a new stadium like Atlanta's who had a 7-4 record coming in

The stadium announced crowd was 71,000, and there were no more than 30,000 in the stadium.  The NFL has a problem if they can't fill a new stadium like Atlanta's who had a 7-4 record coming in
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@"Tom Moore" said: The stadium announced crowd was 71,000, and there were no more than 30,000 in the stadium.  The NFL has a problem if they can't fill a new stadium like Atlanta's who had a 7-4 record coming in

@"Tom Moore" said: The stadium announced crowd was 71,000, and there were no more than 30,000 in the stadium.  The NFL has a problem if they can't fill a new stadium like Atlanta's who had a 7-4 record coming in

Its similar to Pittsburgh, New York, and LA. You have a strong team or new stadium and corporate sponsors buy up seats. When it comes to game day you have the casual fans and then the corporations who don't use their seats half the time.

The teams and NFL don't care since they're selling the tickets. But it would be nice to fill the building. MN is a bit better since the PSL's didn't out price the casual fan. 

Could it be the blowback to the the NFL/Goodell's idiocy in handling, take a knee on-purpose injection of politics into the one area people wanted to escape that stuff from is having an effect?  I don't mind what peeps think but they were too little, too late in removing it from what we really love... football.

@"Al (The Lochstar) Heurung" said: Could it be the blowback to the the NFL/Goodell's idiocy in handling, take a knee on-purpose injection of politics into the one area people wanted to escape that stuff from is having an effect?  I don't mind what peeps think but they were too little, too late in removing it from what we really love... football.

@"Tom Moore" said: The stadium announced crowd was 71,000, and there were no more than 30,000 in the stadium.  The NFL has a problem if they can't fill a new stadium like Atlanta's who had a 7-4 record coming in

Its Atlanta....they are notorious for being horrible pro team fans. Its always been this way.

@"Bolstad79" said:

@"Al (The Lochstar) Heurung" said: Could it be the blowback to the the NFL/Goodell's idiocy in handling, take a knee on-purpose injection of politics into the one area people wanted to escape that stuff from is having an effect?  I don't mind what peeps think but they were too little, too late in removing it from what we really love... football.

No, it's been this way for along time.

@"Geoff Nichols" said: Its similar to Pittsburgh, New York, and LA. You have a strong team or new stadium and corporate sponsors buy up seats. When it comes to game day you have the casual fans and then the corporations who don't use their seats half the time.

The teams and NFL don't care since they're selling the tickets. But it would be nice to fill the building. MN is a bit better since the PSL's didn't out price the casual fan. 

@"BStads" said:

@"Tom Moore" said: The stadium announced crowd was 71,000, and there were no more than 30,000 in the stadium.  The NFL has a problem if they can't fill a new stadium like Atlanta's who had a 7-4 record coming in

I was in attendance and I would say it was much more than 30k. Granted, there were a lot of empty seats, but not more than 50 percent empty. 

@"Tom Moore" said:

@"Geoff Nichols" said: Its similar to Pittsburgh, New York, and LA. You have a strong team or new stadium and corporate sponsors buy up seats. When it comes to game day you have the casual fans and then the corporations who don't use their seats half the time.

The teams and NFL don't care since they're selling the tickets. But it would be nice to fill the building. MN is a bit better since the PSL's didn't out price the casual fan. 

except the teams do care.  They don't want dead stadiums

A friend of mine paid $60 a seat for the game today. Not too bad for seats at a new stadium. 

@"NodakViking" said:

@"Bolstad79" said:

@"Al (The Lochstar) Heurung" said: Could it be the blowback to the the NFL/Goodell's idiocy in handling, take a knee on-purpose injection of politics into the one area people wanted to escape that stuff from is having an effect?  I don't mind what peeps think but they were too little, too late in removing it from what we really love... football.

No, it's been this way for along time.

I've been to may Vikings games and never seen it 50% empty, not even 30%.  I've seen 50% packer Jerseys but never empty seats to that degree even when sponsors bought up the last few thousand.

@"Vikergirl" said: Their fans are fickle. $1.6 billion on that building. The crowd was more excited for the SEC  championship game there. 

@"StickyBun" said: Its Atlanta....they are notorious for being horrible pro team fans. Its always been this way.

This is 1 and 1a...it's SEC country, so everything takes a back seat to college ball...

GeorgiaVike was trying to get me to Co e down for the game last spring and he guaranteed that there would be cheap seats available.  He said Atlanta fans are pretty crappy about supporting their team by showing up.  I said he was nuts with the new stadium and superbowl appearance.....guess he knew better than me.