With the way the economy is at the present moment, you are seeing many people give up their season tickets to their favorite sports teams.
The Detroit Pistons reported that over half of their season ticket holders decided not to renew for the upcoming season. It seems to me that for the most part, teams aren't being proactive in finding ways to get more people at their games, and are staying stagnant with their ticket prices.
I have no problem watching more games at home these days.
I mean HDTV is such a better product than what we had just a few years ago.
Sports franchises need to make more of a concerted effort to try and show people that they realize that in today's world, its not as
economically feasible to go to a sporting event, and are willing to work with the fans.
For instance, the teams need to have agreements set it place with advertisers (ex: food and drink companies) or other retailers
(ex: sports apparel shops) where if people buy items from these
companies, that they get free or reduced prices for tickets.
The people who run these teams know that they make an unbelieveably good return on investment on concessions during a game, so the more people they have at their games the more moolah they make.
Have you seen a reduction in prices for sporting events where you live?
Please let me know.