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 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
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.
I've said it before, 72 and 18 were very similar teams...hopefully the 19 team is one game better than the 73 team...
@"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.@"StickyBun" said:What about wages?@"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.
@"vikingknights" said:Average yearly incomes are at least 10 times greater today than in 1965.@"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:What about wages?@"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.Keep in mind I'm not arguing that NFL tickets aren't expensive, they are. But in the context of of what people would have thought 47 years ago, they'd have thought that prices on everything today would be incredibly crazy high. Its all perspective.
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?
@"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?? ;)
@"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.
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