Just to watch 24 people toss around a ball, sickening. That money could do so much more good.
22 people.
Seriously, fuck sports so much. Big waste of money and encourages toxic tribalism mentality. I’ll never understand the appeal.
I mean why watch someone else compete when you can just play the game yourself and have a lot more fun doing so?
(Everything I said applies to eSports as well.)
The land of the CTE.
Born and raised in this country and here’s a whole side of the culture I am only peripherally aware of.
College ball parking spots going for $2500. Mind boggling. They could have built a light rail and had no parking at the stadium, but that would be unAmerican.
EDIT: Oh, I guess these are ticket prices that include a parking spot for one game? That’s even more insane. I thought it was season pass parking spots, like people rent parking spots in NYC.
I don’t know where you are getting parking spots from. From looking at the place on google maps, it doesn’t look like they have anywhere near enough parking to fill that stadium up. That said, from some quick searching, tickets to random games seem to be in the neighborhood of $200, not $2000 - I wonder if this is some other even that just happened to be at their stadium? Even season tickets don’t appear to be this much money.
Regardless, I doubt the price includes anything to do with parking.
Also seeing that this is gaining traction, just gonna leave this billboard here:
Thanks for the comm to block.
It blows my mind that this isn’t even for a professional league. College sports in the US are bonkers.
It’s part of USA identity it seems…college sports and fuck yeah we have the greatest military mentality.
I have USA coworkers. There’s a mix of the above types, amongst a few older guys that have aged out of the propaganda and are like “Dude American is not #1, we are #1 at being behind the times on major things that define a civilized country”.
And that interaction amongst them is interesting to watch with some popcorn :)
And the players get none of the money are are severely punished if anyone does anything to help them financially.
College sports should pay its own bill and players or it should exist.
That’s actually changed. They can pay college athletes now. UT’s quarterback gets over 5 million a year because of his family name (he’s actually a mediocre quarterback according to the numbers).
That’s no longer true, but it’s also breaking college sports to a degree - https://thenilstandard.com/guides/how-college-athletes-get-paid
To be honest, it needed to be broken. The previous system was terrible.
Are sports actually that enjoyable? Like I can get a lot of drugs for that much.
Yes, just saw a game and splurged for premium seating it was so fun. I watch football all weekend every weekend during season. I gamble on it, also watch a lot of baseball it’s a big part of my life
I enjoy the experience of watching a game live. If you’ve never been to live professional sporting event in the states, the stadiums/arenas work really hard to make sure you’re entertained between the action on the field/court/rink. It’s fun once or twice a year, but I would never pay those prices even for pro.
I also like watching live sports on TV. That’s not all I like and I’m not a big SPORTS! guy, but I do enjoy watching my teams and I get excited for opening day in March and the first game of the regular season in September. I dont really follow college sports, and I gave up on the NBA a decade ago, and hockey doesn’t get enough OTA coverage for me to really follow it. My favorite is MLB. NFL is cool after all the Nationalism and Propaganda is over (I skip halftime shows too).
I’ve done lots of drugs in my life. There’s a time and place for those (college). I’m an adult now, so I don’t fuck around with much other than some beers here and there. Drugs have a way of becoming not a special activity and just a habit that needs feeding, at least for me and many others I’ve known (some who refuse to admit it).
The live sporting events that I’ve enjoyed most were when I volunteered to work at them, but they weren’t in stadiums(skiing, running, mountain biking). I don’t drink anymore, but getting stoned and watching nature documentaries has not gotten old, or taking some shrooms and going for a trail run is really fun.
Glad you still enjoy those things. I won’t stop you or try to take it away from you.
I really like minor league ball games – less expensive but still good ball games. And a real americana feel to me.
I have yet to see a sport that would be worth paying even 1/8th that price, even if i made 2x the money
And the stadium was likely built with taxpayer money.
UT’s stadium upgrades were paid for through ticket sales and donations
Wow lucky. A baseball field here was repaired by taxpayer dollars under the guise that it will be paid for by FEMA; then they don’t know when that payment will happen, only a portion will be paid compared to the final cost. Oh yeah and the lame baseball team is going to another city. Cool, not that I care since I only went to one game in 20 years. And there’s a shortage in city funds to fix infrastructure. Go figure
Dont even get me started. I use an example of how the Eden Project cost half of what my local arena cost when providing a guest lecture at my university. Eden took an old mine and converted it into a facility that educates and acts as venue and has brought in 1.5 Bn quid to the economy since it opened in 2001.
Ah, that’s for the Longhorns’ stadium. Makes sense.
Just so people are aware, these prices are all on the resale market literally the day before this game, which was one of the most anticipated games in the history of Texas football. The original ticket prices are nowhere near this high. The entire season sold out before the season even started, but you can still buy tickets to several future games in the $200-$300 range
(Btw, this game was amazing. Beating the #1 team at home at the last second after losing to them 2 years in a row…chef’s kiss)
Is this the per seat pricing or set of two? I know the Michigan v OSU tickets are up in the hundreds but this exceeds NFL conference champ pricing
This is per seat. And you’ll see similar prices for the Game if both Michigan and OSU are top 5 when it happens, like this game was.
Maybe worthwhile and cheap rental property assuming the stadium has a dome.
Because of cropping, my brain read the team name as Chungusorns.
The answer is to stop buying them.
The people who can comfortably afford these tickets don’t even watch the games.
I don’t go to these type of events. Can anyone explain me if there is an actual difference between a 1k, 3k or 7k ticket which all seem to be in a similar non centralized area.
Maybe that section is close enough to smell matthew mcconaughey
What will it take for regular people to stop acting like they’re temporarily embarrassed millionaires so they stop encouraging this shit?
