Zelda Von Yitz
09-19-2005, 08:16 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050920/ap_on_sp_fo_ne/fbn_saints_home_opener
An exerpt:
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Jambalaya and pulled pork were served in the parking lot, New Orleans wore its home black jerseys and giant white letters in one end zone read "SAINTS."
But the NFL's only homeless team was more than 1,000 miles from its flood-devastated city for this hastily arranged Monday night matchup, and when wide receiver Joe Horn caught the Saints' first touchdown, the crowd fell mostly silent.
Cheers were saved for the "visiting" New York Giants. The Big Easy, the Meadowlands is not.
On a night when New Orleans played its first home game at Giants Stadium in front of a scattering of Saints fans, a preponderance of Giants faithful and several thousand empty seats, football shared the spotlight with a massive fund-raising effort organized by the NFL.
Just as an aside: last Tuesday, I was at a local mall and a gent was interested in purchasing tix for today's game -- he was quoted a price of $155 each for the lower deck tickets.
$155?! How come Ticketmaster gets to mark tickets up more than twice as much as what they sell for face value?
(If I go to a Giants game, I usually go to the Giants ticket office inside the stadium the Wednesday before the game -- there are usually 20 pairs of tix left and they're all sold at the face value price.)
It makes you wonder why come such a markup is in effect. I've never heard of tickets priced that highly via Ticketmaster for a Giants game.
An exerpt:
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Jambalaya and pulled pork were served in the parking lot, New Orleans wore its home black jerseys and giant white letters in one end zone read "SAINTS."
But the NFL's only homeless team was more than 1,000 miles from its flood-devastated city for this hastily arranged Monday night matchup, and when wide receiver Joe Horn caught the Saints' first touchdown, the crowd fell mostly silent.
Cheers were saved for the "visiting" New York Giants. The Big Easy, the Meadowlands is not.
On a night when New Orleans played its first home game at Giants Stadium in front of a scattering of Saints fans, a preponderance of Giants faithful and several thousand empty seats, football shared the spotlight with a massive fund-raising effort organized by the NFL.
Just as an aside: last Tuesday, I was at a local mall and a gent was interested in purchasing tix for today's game -- he was quoted a price of $155 each for the lower deck tickets.
$155?! How come Ticketmaster gets to mark tickets up more than twice as much as what they sell for face value?
(If I go to a Giants game, I usually go to the Giants ticket office inside the stadium the Wednesday before the game -- there are usually 20 pairs of tix left and they're all sold at the face value price.)
It makes you wonder why come such a markup is in effect. I've never heard of tickets priced that highly via Ticketmaster for a Giants game.