Catching Up With The Steelers Ticket Market
Virtually since the final moment of Super Bowl XL, the market for Steelers tickets for the 2006 season began to heat up. Here's an overview of recent developments that you might have missed that could give you a leg up in securing your seats to Steelers home and away games for the 2006 season.
3/28/2006. Steelers owner Dan Rooney proposed a rule that would prevent teams from making fans buy tickets to other games if they want to purchase tickets to a specific high-profile contest. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
The verdict: The San Diego Chargers and Cincinnati Bengals had these types of ticket policies last year, but that did not prevent large number of Steelers fans from getting tickets.
Ticket markets are very liquid. Fans have access to more seats to more games than ever before. This practice merely takes $50-$100 that would have gone directly to a ticket broker and puts it in the pocket of NFL owners. Sad to say, but this is a bit of grandstanding by the Rooney's who have the luxury of selling out every game, no matter who's playing.
3/27/2006. The NFL announced that the Miami Dolphins will participate in the nationally televised season opener on September 7, 2006 at 8:30 PM at Heinz Field. (SI.com)
The Verdict: Tickets for this one are already widely available.
3/17/2006. The Pittsburgh Steelers announced plans to add 700 additional club-level seats at Heinz Field. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
The verdict: This adds 7,000 premium seats to Pittsburgh's inventory. Good news for all ticket buyers and especially good news for a few lucky people on the season ticket waiting list.
Coming soon:
A look at early season pricing.
Virtually since the final moment of Super Bowl XL, the market for Steelers tickets for the 2006 season began to heat up. Here's an overview of recent developments that you might have missed that could give you a leg up in securing your seats to Steelers home and away games for the 2006 season.
3/28/2006. Steelers owner Dan Rooney proposed a rule that would prevent teams from making fans buy tickets to other games if they want to purchase tickets to a specific high-profile contest. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
The verdict: The San Diego Chargers and Cincinnati Bengals had these types of ticket policies last year, but that did not prevent large number of Steelers fans from getting tickets.
Ticket markets are very liquid. Fans have access to more seats to more games than ever before. This practice merely takes $50-$100 that would have gone directly to a ticket broker and puts it in the pocket of NFL owners. Sad to say, but this is a bit of grandstanding by the Rooney's who have the luxury of selling out every game, no matter who's playing.
3/27/2006. The NFL announced that the Miami Dolphins will participate in the nationally televised season opener on September 7, 2006 at 8:30 PM at Heinz Field. (SI.com)
The Verdict: Tickets for this one are already widely available.
3/17/2006. The Pittsburgh Steelers announced plans to add 700 additional club-level seats at Heinz Field. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
The verdict: This adds 7,000 premium seats to Pittsburgh's inventory. Good news for all ticket buyers and especially good news for a few lucky people on the season ticket waiting list.
Coming soon:
A look at early season pricing.
posted by Sully at Wednesday, March 29, 2006
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