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...the Jaguars would get KILLED for this.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/201...game-pass/

Team is trash, can't even sell out the stadium.

Might as well call them the London Chiefs.

Why are they even a football team?

Such a garbage city for a football franchise


Just a few of the things that would be said if it was Jax.

With the fairly recent dump on the economy and games getting more expensive to go to, it's not a bad strategy.  Sports everywhere have seen a decline in fan attendance (Daytona Speedway is a good example).

Some people are just now recovering from the economic collapse that happened late in 2008.  That's one of the reasons I'm sure, that the NFL got rid of the "blackout" policy.

For many people, it's just not affordable to go to a game, race, etc. or get season tickets, especially those affected by the housing/banking collapse.

Soon enough though, a ticket to a game regardless of what city it is being played in is going to be a "hot commodity" once again.

Jacksonville was criticized, sometimes rightly so because of the inability to sellout the stadium to avoid a blackout.  Changes were made (the tarps) in order to reduce the stadium size.  However, that was just a "band-aid" that didn't really solve the problem.  As the team performance dwindled, so did interest in going to games.  Add on top of that the economy collapse.  At that point, it was no longer just a problem for Jacksonville, it was becoming a problem for many other NFL teams, thus the NFL dropped the "blackout rule".

Since Shad Khan bought the team, the problem has been solved a bit more creatively that isn't such an "eye-sore" on TV or at the game live.  The stadium upgrades and improvements made the "fan experience" both unique and much more pleasant.

I wouldn't be surprised to see more teams getting creative with both their venues and their ticket packages.

The stadium upgrades at EverBank also reduced the inventory the team had to deal with while increasing the premium seats.

What the Chiefs are doing is probably something that is going to be adopted league-wide eventually. NFL games in most markets have gotten way too expensive for the average fan to be able to bring a family to the games. What KC and NY are doing here is basically getting sponsors to subsidize a chunk of the season ticket inventory that otherwise wouldn't get sold. I would imagine a stadium like Arrowhead would be a difficult venue to sell out on a weekly basis.

As far as Jacksonville getting killed if they did something like this, they did. The Jags didn't do something with a sponsor to reduce the cost of season tickets, but they darn sure worked with a major sponsor to basically give away thousands of tickets to each game when they were working with Winn Dixie years ago. The team got roundly trashed, and rightly so. They had a difficult time getting people to take FREE tickets at the time.

Most teams have some sort of program to work with sponsors to sell their tickets. The Jags are certainly doing this, but for a team to sell season tickets? That's actually an interesting idea if it gets the unused inventory sold. For a team like the Jags that don't have PSLs or multi-year season ticket contracts to prevent yearly churn, having that kind of an arrangement would give them some level of stability with those lingering tickets that have been difficult to sell.

For the past two years the Jags have had upper level tickets on a season basis for 20 bucks a game. $200 for the season. Looks like this year the sections are only $171 bucks for the season. As I stated many times in many threads. The Jags have eliminated cost as a reason to not attend.

wow, that is soooo cheap. even the regular season ticket packages are cheap.