THE BLEACHER REPORT recently took a swipe at the greedy NFL and how 15 teams are raping fans by charging them for a Personal Sect License. (For example, the Giants just announced that they would charge some fans upwards of $20,000 for the right to specific seats.)
The NFL leads all other leagues by far. Greed is good. Greed will take you far. It is, after all, morally wrong to let a sucker keep his money.
Bigger stadiums, bigger jets, bigger television contracts, and bigger payrolls.
The only thing able to slay the NFL behemoth is itself. The potentially fatal weapon it wields against itself is greed.If regular fans, the building blocks of franchises for years, are priced out of the market, the NFL will begin to shrivel and shrink.
Kill the fan, and you kill the goose that laid the golden egg. You kill the goose with greed.
Fans will be disgusted. Children, future customers, will no longer be able to attend over-priced games, at least, certainly not see a season’s worth of games.
In the short term, the NFL will reap millions, as fans still fill stadiums. But in the long run, in a depressing economic climate, how much can the league squeeze from the fans until they say no more?
We just can’t afford it anymore. We just don’t enjoy it anymore.
Outstanding points. The NFL is immensely popular – probably the most popular sport in the country. But they can’t continue to suck every last penny out of their fans without one day reaping what they sow. With the economy the way it is, fans are going to start turning their backs to going to stadiums and if the league answers by blacking out games, then fans might start turning their backs period.
