Have you ever seen a professional sporting event this empty?

[patscorpio]

first year I was working at the TD Garden, think it was 06-07, we had a 1 pm sunday Bruins game and the pats played the Colts at 1 also(Both teams were undefeated at the time I think)....they said that there was 2200 paying customers in the arena and halfway through the first period opened the arena up to the public....that may not be as bad as those pics, but Boston is a sports town, a hockey town and it was crazy to see that little of people in the arena.

it used to be like that during that period (05-07) when the celtics were in the dumps....the college i went to grad school for stayed giving us discounts for the tickets..like 15 bucks for lower level seats..i didnt even like the celtics ..but a deal is a deal ..it made it easy when i wanted to take a female out on a date or something lol

 

[Miggs]

If you lived in the actual city of Detroit, could you think of too many reasons to make the 30+(depending on where you coming from...45 for me) drive to watch the Pistons playing the Suns in below freezing weather?

I have made that drive from downtown Detroit out to The Palace...never again...Didnt realize it was THAT far from the bridge...

 

[Yuzo Lightheart]

the nba consolidating all these teams into super teams kind of tips off the direction we are starting to go to in sports for the future. the economy is not really looking too good either and wont be for a while, which compounds the problem. the nfl being an exception, as football is america's most loved sport, but all other sports face some big problems right now and going forward.

for example its just hard for me to envision certain nba teams being able to exist and actually make any real money, same in baseball, and i dont really follow nhl like that but probably these problems are systemic across all tier 2 sports. organizations really at risk are the wnba and boxing

and just in my experience.... little kids dont even fukk with sports like that like 80's and 90's babies did....

like we were more heavy into it because thats all the entertainment we really had but today theres so much other things that kids are into. so fast forward that culture 15-20 years later and you have a situation where the people of a certain age group who are supposed to be putting all this money into following sports dgaf about it at that point

 

[Ice Cold]

He said a 1pm Boston BRUINS hockey game AND the PATS were playing the Colts AS WELL at 1pm...

my reading Comprehension lost #TakesL

 

[Poppa_Dock]

they should let the ppl in the top fill the bottom so it doesn't look so fukking flabby

 

[Ku$h Parker]

The LA Sports Arena(Clippers)would be a Graveyard at times

 

[dabestkeptsecret]

I never understand why when its this bad they just dont let teh tickets go for extra cheap and fill the stadium with people who aren't rich. run a promotion for urban kids or something.

its better than empty seats and they'd be happy to be there​

Before the nets moved from the meadowlands I could get some good ass seats for 30 bucks. shyt one time I went to the game and didn't spend a dime. Not even for parking.

 

[Harry B]

If you lived in the actual city of Detroit, could you think of too many reasons to make the 30+(depending on where you coming from...45 for me) drive to watch the Pistons playing the Suns in below freezing weather?

lol it's indoors

Russians do these travels to watch soccer outside when it's the snowing and almost all their teams are weak.

And I doubt Detroit Red Wings have Joe Buddens status games.

In fact Red Wings are #4 in the NHL in attendance and last in the NBA, they average sold out in the NHL

To put in relation the difference between between the Pistons/Bobcats is the same as Celtics/Bobcats

 

[mannyrs13]

Miami always has been bad for attendance. The marlins messed up by building their stadium so far down south. Most of their fans were coming from up north. Sure the first season might get some decent attendance off the lure of the new stadium but not much. The heat also been having attendance and financial problems. Arena still got plenty on it to be paid off. They got lucky they drafted Wade cuz he been a franchise player and lured free agents over. Most of the people in South Florida are transplants so its either go to the games to see their home teams or when international soccer comes here. Besides its atleast 45 min to the Marlins and Heat games, maybe 30 at most to Dolphins and Panthers. Altho I should check out the marlins stadium one time next season atleast. Aint nobody tryna drive that far. Even worse if they live farther. For people that work a 9 to 5, and then deal with rush hour going home and then on 95 south, to see the pistons or wizards on a tuesday night, aint even worth it. miami too poor to be spending so much on sporting events. maybe once in a while.

 

[BLAZO da GAWD]

how do these teams pay salaries with such putrid attendance? isn't ticket sales a huge part of revenue? someone school me breh

 

[tremonthustler1]

it used to be like that during that period (05-07) when the celtics were in the dumps....the college i went to grad school for stayed giving us discounts for the tickets..like 15 bucks for lower level seats..i didnt even like the celtics ..but a deal is a deal ..it made it easy when i wanted to take a female out on a date or something lol

YES!

I used to get $10 tickets every week to see the Celtics when they had Ratliff, Telfair, Jefferson, Green, Gomes. Little did I know I was watching the 2007-08 T'wolves

 

[mannyrs13]

I think most of the money is season ticket sales and luxury boxes. I know the Heat and Marlins and many other teams have their stadiums paid off with taxpayer money. They use it as a way to say its gonna improve the community and bring business to it. Usually most stadiums are in bad neighborhoods I believe. Build a few restaurants and shops nearby and profit. Plus merchandise sales brings in some profit. And marketing depending. I know the yankees I think own YES network so they can sell ad time to other companies. And teams sell ad space in their stadiums. Most stadiums are corporate sponsored. I have no idea how the marlins managed to increase their payroll so much this year. Maybe thats why they traded nearly the whole damn team. They were trolling the players all season, then at the end saying yeah your check coming in the mail next week. the next day, "ask your new team, maybe they'll pay you cuz you don't play for us no more."

 

[Smokebreak]

Did they have problems getting people to the Palace when they were winning?

Did you NOT read what i wrote or what?

 

[ltheghost]

Cause the palace of Auburn Hills is a fukking hike from Detroit especially when you add up traffic, and is only worth driving in the freezing weather when the team is making an effort to ball.

@ Bill Davidson moving the Pistons outta the D.

That drive up I-75N in December after a snow storm? Naw I'm straight on that. Especially to see these damn pistons.

 

[alpo]

Miami always has been bad for attendance. The marlins messed up by building their stadium so far down south. Most of their fans were coming from up north. Sure the first season might get some decent attendance off the lure of the new stadium but not much. The heat also been having attendance and financial problems. Arena still got plenty on it to be paid off. They got lucky they drafted Wade cuz he been a franchise player and lured free agents over. Most of the people in South Florida are transplants so its either go to the games to see their home teams or when international soccer comes here. Besides its atleast 45 min to the Marlins and Heat games, maybe 30 at most to Dolphins and Panthers. Altho I should check out the marlins stadium one time next season atleast. Aint nobody tryna drive that far. Even worse if they live farther. For people that work a 9 to 5, and then deal with rush hour going home and then on 95 south, to see the pistons or wizards on a tuesday night, aint even worth it. miami too poor to be spending so much on sporting events. maybe once in a while.