Vikings tickets: 14,000 remaining, great seats available
Posted on December 30th, 2008 – 2:30 PMBy Michael Rand
We received an update about an hour ago indicating there are still 14,000 tickets remaining for Sunday’s playoff game between the Vikings and Eagles. While the economy surely isn’t helping, the press release sent by the Vikings made it sound as though tough times aren’t exactly crushing the other three home venues. At least that’s how we read things from the release:
Minnesota Vikings fans rallied on Monday to purchase more than 6,000 tickets to the NFC Wild Card Playoff matchup with the Philadelphia Eagles this Sunday, January 4, at 3:30 p.m. The NFL playoffs open this weekend with host teams Arizona, Miami and San Diego all receiving fan support to sell remaining tickets for their games. “Our fans have a proud tradition of giving us a strong home field advantage,” said Steve LaCroix, Vikings Vice President of Sales and Marketing/Chief Marketing Officer. “We still have a long way to go, but we are confident our fans will join together and exceed the support teams are enjoying in other NFL cities facing the same challenges.”
Indeed, the Vikings had 20,000 available as of around this time yesterday. That means they sold 6,000 or so in the past 24 hours. The Dolphins sold out by mid-day Monday — burning through about 25,000 available tickets in a flash. San Diego sold 17,000 tickets Monday, according to the team. Ticket sales were not as brisk in Arizona, but the club reported having about 8,000 left to sell at the end of Monday.
That leads us to one of two conclusions: 1) Minnesotans, known to be frugal, are pinching pennies more than their warm-weather brethren. OR 2) Despite a 10-6 record, a division title and the No. 3 seed in the playoffs (and with victories over the top two seeds during the regular season, regardless of what you think of the circumstances), a great amount of fan apathy exists with this team.
On the first point: Plenty of $30 tickets (the cheapest option) remain. But it’s not just the nosebleed seats that are available Sunday. A quick Ticketmaster search found that one cannot get a pair of the most expensive $160 seats. [Update: Thanks to Hockeydad, who noted in the comments that he was able to find a pair of $160 tickets. We tried a couple times earlier before putting up this post but had no success. A few minutes ago, after seeing his comment, we tried again and we were, indeed, able to find two tickets in Section 134, Row 12. In fact, in a different row we could find 10 such tickets together. Not sure what the glitch was earlier, but thanks to Hockeydad for setting things straight.] But the next-priciest tickets, at $120, are readily available. In fact, just for fun we kept increasing the number at that price we could find together. We got all the way to 16 tickets in the same row — Section 105, Row 36, in the corner of the end zone. That would run someone about $2K, but still. That’s a lot of prime tickets, and an indication that even people buying tickets aren’t always going for the best available seats.
On the second point: The rabid-ness of fans certainly doesn’t match 1998 or even 2000. Not even close. Folks are still skeptical about Brad Childress and still lukewarm about the brand of football being offered. But there is enough chatter about the team, and enough people watching on TV, to suggest that only part of it is attributable to the team itself. Part of it, we’re guessing, is that people don’t enjoy going to the Metrodome — not just for the building, but for the atmosphere. It’s loud, it’s aggressive, and it can be a hassle. Why go when you can watch on TV, we’ve heard countless times.
It remains to be seen, though, whether that will be an option Sunday. We’re guessing that despite the obstacles mentioned, enough people will buy tickets by 3:30 p.m. Friday — our projected time by which the Vikings would have to sell out to avoid a blackout, factoring in the 72-hour before kickoff rule plus the 24-hour extension that will likely be granted — to avoid the first NFL playoff blackout in any market since 2002. It might take a bailout by Fox for the final few thousand, but by then it would be worth the network’s dime to not lose local ad revenue.
We’re interested to hear your thoughts on why you think tickets sales are dragging, what will ultimately happen Sunday and what this means for the Vikings in 2009 and beyond.
216 Responses to "Vikings tickets: 14,000 remaining, great seats available"
I have decided to take this news as a compliment. We Minnesotans, smartest folk in the union, realize the game is a lot more fun to watch at home than in person.
Contrary to popular belief there is not strong support for the Vikings in the metro area. The outstate fans are better but this is humilating. We only really sell out about half our games when you account for TV bailouts. Don’t think that other fans are delighting in our embarassing situation.
I checked ticketmaster right after the game on sunday for tickets and all I could get were nosebleed tickets way up in tne corner of the field for $80 plus fees. I don’t think that is a bargain at all and will stay home rather than a drive there for a few hours and cost of parking, etc. This has nothing to be do with being frugal but being sensible. cut the cost in half and I would consider this. I disagree there are good seats left! Good luck Vikes - will cheer from my home tv in South Dakota.
Wendy
Are Minnesotans the worst fans in the country? You betcha. And to think that some want to give the $750,000,000 Vikings to build a new 80,000 seat stadium. If I owned the team I would follow the Lakers to LA. This area doesn’t deserve a franchise. How can Green Bay sell out all their games and we can’t even sell out playoff games?
Terrel Owens is good - but he is not someone most people can root for. The Vikes are good, but with Childress - it’s just tough to root for the Vikes. He simply does not generate a lot of excitement and enthusiasm for fans.
I don’t like the Metrodome. If we had a new stadium I would go. At least that way it would be easier to get around.
Did I take a wrong turn somewhere? What blog is this?
ITS NOT THE ECONOMY, WE (THE VIKINGS FAN) HAVE BEEN HERE MANY MANY TIMES. WE ARE NERVOUS AND ARE EXPECTING THE NORMAL VIKING MELT DOWN IN THE PLAYOFFS. T-JACK HAS PLAYED VERY WELL IN THE LAST 3 WEEKS..BUT THE PLAYING FIELD HAS CHANGED..AS THE ONLY GAME AT 3:30PM ON SUNDAY..T-JACK WILL FOLD UNDER THE LIGHTS AND NOT HANDLE THE PRESSURE ON NATIONAL TV..DONT GET ME WRONG..I LOVE THE VIKINGS BUT UNTIL THEY (VIKINGS) WIN THE BIG ONE, WE WILL ALWAYS EXPECT THE WORSE AND HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL NEXT YEAR.
At $30 per ticket for a family of 4 from out of state it costs $120 for tickets and $60 for food. Now that doesn’t account for gas or possible hotel stay if you don’t want to drive 3 hours after the game.
At $12/hr wages that amounts to 2 days take-home pay just for food and tickets.
I think I’ll stay home and save my money for necessities.
Since moving to Minneapolis several years ago, I’ve found Vikings fans to be the biggest fair-weather fans in the NFL. Even though they are finally in the playoffs for the first time in how long, the team will be playing to an empty stadium since their fans can’t muster enough energy to get there. I’m not at all suprised that the Metrodome will probably not sell enough tickets to even get the playoff game on television. Go Eagles.
Since moving to Minneapolis several years ago, I’ve found Vikings fans to be the biggest fair-weather fans in the NFL. Even though they are finally in the playoffs for the first time in how long, the team will be playing to an empty stadium since their fans can’t muster enough energy to get there. I’m not at all suprised that the Metrodome will probably not sell enough tickets to even get the playoff game on television. Go Eagles.
hey wendy stubbs - you sound like a real boring chick! and yes, you are frugal!
I swore off this team after they choked vs the Skins last year. What a disgrace that was. They can leave town tonight for all I care.
This market is over saturated, plain and simple. The Vikings compete with the Twins, the Wolves, the Wild, and the Gophers for the sports fan’s dollar. If the Vikes were the only game in town, this game would have sold out in a heart beat. As for me, I’m saving my money to pay for my season tickets in the new TCF Bank stadium. Like many fans, I’ve made my choice with my meager earnings in an extremely over-saturated market. It is that simple.
It can’t help that the geniuses in the state decided to shut down part of 494. I mean c’mon, there’s a game this weekend.
I am a season ticket holder and I did not buy the playoff tickets for 3 reasons:
1. The dome is the worst venue in professional sports.
2. Ticket prices were $115 for uper deck tickets.
3. I only got 2 days to make my decision on playoff tickets.
hey conehead - you are the disgrace. i swore off you the moment i read your stupid comment in this blog. why do cheesehead tools like yourself sit around reading a minneapolis newpaper website all day? don’t have anything newsworthy happening in drunken’ sconnie land? loser!
It’s all about supply and demand. Lower the prices to $15-$80 and this will sell out in minutes. All the revenue goes to the league anyways.
It’s truly pathetic that we can’t sell this thing out. So many fans have unrealistic expectations and continually think back to the “glory days” of the late 90’s and how these teams don’t measure up. While that may be true, this is PLAYOFF FOOTBALL! Wake up, people!
If we can’t sell out a home playoff game, how is an owner (or the state) supposed to invest any money into a new stadium (where there no doubt will be no $30 seats). Truly, truly pathetic.
football guy is not a season ticket holder. he just wants to throw that into his rant on here for the “dramatic” effect he thinks it creates. get back to work football guy……
AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!11!!!1!
AVers have attacked. Retreat! Retreat!
Brandon: it’s the lead story in the sports section. Add to that the amount of people snowed in at home/bored at work, and there you go.
This game will sell out. I have been to 17 or 18 games at Lambeau Field starting before the Fav-re era. The first game we went to in 1989 we bought tickets AT THE GATE! Stub hub had tickets for less than face value for Packers games after they went in the toilet this year. Contrary to popular belief, every team in the league has their share of “fair weather fans.” Just go to any other major newspaper website in the nation and read the same griping!
Oh yea, I will be at the Dome on Sunday. Go Vikes!
Since moving to Minnesota 33 years ago, I have found Patriots fans to be the biggest toolboxes in the NFL. They will not be in the playoffs for the first time in how long, since their coach didn’t cheat enough to get there. I’m surprised that a Patriots fan found the time to comment in between ogling stuck-together Tom Brady cologne ads.
/feeding the sharks
Ive had season tickets for six years now and I really wish I could afford to go to this game. However I happen to be a construction worker and I am barely working through this crap economy. Sometimes you just have to have priorities. (like eating.)
Since moving to Minnesota 33 years ago, I have found Patriots fans to be the biggest toolboxes in the NFL. They will not be in the playoffs for the first time in how long, since their coach didn’t cheat enough to get there. I’m surprised that a Patriots fan found the time to comment in between ogling stuck-together Tom Brady cologne ads.
/feeding the sharks
LOUD NOISES! LOUD NOISES!
This has just become a contest of one-uppmanship on who has the biggest reason for not buying tickets.
We need the regulars back in to level the [redacted] mood with sarcasm and shaincoe jokes.
Brilliantly executed, Clarence.
If I could find a decent job, I’d be there….but, since I have to feed 6 people on odd jobs at the moment, I guess I’m stuck watching on TV….err, listening on the radio.
I’ve had 2 season tickets since the dome was built in ‘81. They are good seats. We pay $125 per seat during the season - that includes preseason games. That pricetag seems to move up exponentially year in and year out.
Then I get the mailing from the Vikings a couple weeks ago for playoff tickets, and they want 160+ per ticket. 320+ bucks to just get in the door to watch a stinkin’ football game? No thanks. I’ll watch it on TV. The greed of the NFL is palpable. It’s not about being a fair-weather fan - it’s about being sensible with your wallet.
I defy any of you knuckleheads who will surely call me a fair-weather fan to compare how much money you have put into the MN Vikings coffers since 1980, then we’ll compare how much I have, and we’ll see who the fair-weather fan is…
And que P3…
I hate the metrodome. I go to Kansas City and Milwaukee to watch my beloved Twins. I go to Green Bay (outside, big concourses) to watch the Vikes and be insulted by the most self-righteous people in the world. I will quit going to Kansas City and Milwaukee when the new open-air with large concourses stadium opens in 2010. I love the purple, but refuse to go to more than one game a year because of the stadium. One trip to the concessions and a stop at the bathroom costs me a quarter and a half of football. At home I miss one commercial. Build a new stadium and I will buy season tickets just like next year at the Gopher stadium. Besides that I’m sick of going to Green Bay and putting up with classless people. We need a NFL stadium in Minnesota that we can be proud of. Pawlenty needs to step up with some type of plan or the Vikings are gone. The fans are rabid here! They just hate the metrodome! Go Vikes!!!
I am snowed in, just blew out sidewalk and driveway, tonight the city snowplow will plug me in again (I swear he sits in his truck, a block away, until I am done, then comes by to do me in again), I will blow snow again tomorrow morning, be done in time for Gopher Basketball at 11 a.m. and Gopher Football at 5 p.m. After that??? I don’t know. I won’t worry about anything beyond tomorrow until day after tomorrow. Happy New Year Everyone!!!!!!!!
#1 reason I refuse to ever buy Vikes tickets; all the hillbilly, drunk fans that can’t complete a single sentence without using a four letter word. Yeah, that sure is a family friendly venue that I desire to take my 7 year old son to. No thanks. I will gladly continue to buy my season tickets to the Wild where the fans have some class.
It’s the brand of football. Period. The tenative nature of Childress’s approach to the game and that attitude rubbing off on the players has created a product that is almost unwatchable. I’m a die hard viking fan of over 30 years and I’ve been compelled to turn the game off at times out of disgust. The last series before the end of the first half on Sunday was one such time. Most fans that I talk to feel the same way. I guarantee that if the vikes were a dominant force and and entertaining team to watch, they’d sell out every game without issue. Just like they did in 1998 through 2000 (even though they never even made it to a SB during that time).
By the way. Even though I shut the game off at times in digust, I usually turn it back on in 5 or 10 minutes after cooling down.
I haven’t been able to walk away from the Vikes, but Childress approach to the game makes it extremely difficult to watch.
Anybody who buys from ticket master is a fool. You can get tickets on the plaza from scalpers for under face value. Viking tickets have been a buyers market for years. The demand simply isn’t strong enough. Are we the worst fanbase in the NFL? Probably not but this one looks pretty bad and is getting national attention.
The number one problem why people don’t buy tickets is they don’t know how to effectively use ticketmaster! Seriously, I am not joking. Clowns that post on here that it costs $160 to sit in the upper deck have no clue. If you just go with the best available, then yes you will get something like that. When they see a ticket in the upper level for $160, they immediately assume that all upper level tickets are expensive. My favorite seat is upper level endzone, I am DEAD SERIOUS. I have sat everywhere in the dome. $50 a piece for this game in the 10th row. Can see all the plays develop and holes open. Get to the game, SKOL VIKES!!!
If it wasn’t for the late time on Sunday I probably would of went. When I got to drive 5 hours and the way the traffic is down town it would be to late getting home for work in the morning.
Fox will buy up the tickets if it cost them less then 150K. Otherwise enjoy the sunday afternoon movie. I will enjoy the Vikes Win at the Dome. If you don’t like the dome then don’t go but don’t bitch about a blackout either. It is what it is. With the economy people are saving money and this state had the chance years ago to build a new stadium and chose not to.
BFE2008, thanks for proving my point.
I have tickets and I am sure the game will sell out. I just hope it doesn’t sell out before the blackout deadline. Let the people who support the team enjoy the team. The fairweather fans can watch the highlights on the news.
Thanks, Minnesota, for not buying up all the tickets 
Thousands of fans are driving from Philly to come support the Eagles. I’m coming in my friend’s big, absurd (but totally cool) Eagle-green-van…
But I don’t say that in dislike. I like the Vikings and everything your team is doing. Being an Eagle fan, I have great respect for Coach Childress and I’ve been rooting all year for the Vikes ((as a number 2, behind Philly :-)). So unfortunately we’ve gotta meet now. If you win I’ll support you all the way, but, for now, be on the lookout: tons of Eagles fans are coming west to visit your city for this game…
Gee, maybe fans lack of enthusiasm has something to do with the Vikings only beating 4 teams with a winning record this season, plus a couple that went 8-8. I’m a lifelong Viking fan, and I know the routine. Limp into the playoffs (let’s face it we barely beat the Giants backups), face a team we should beat in the first round, and than go home the first weekend in Janurary. Every year I hope “this is the year”, but let’s face reality, with this coaching staff and their play calling and clock management, a stud running back who suddenly can’t hang onto the ball, and an in-over-his-head QB, it sure seems like we’re in for more of the same ole Vikings. I certainly hope not. SKOL
Last 10 years fans got tired to see the same old Vikes. It has been so many ups and dows and of course fans are shaky with this game. I do not blame anyone. That’s called the REALITY. It is a good waik-up call the entire Vikes organization. 1998 is still so many millions of fans memory and it is not easy to forgot that season. But, as of today great Vikes fans will fill the Metrodome no matter what. I really do not care who’s our coach. Just make it happen and take Vikes to Superbowl. Fans are waiting and this is overdue last 10 years. It is time to Vikes to play in Superbowl.
GO KESSLER
GO VIKES
Sean/NC
Beg to differ with Rand. I did two ticketmaster searches for a pair of the $160 tickets and both times came up with great seats - one set in the 4th row of the UL on the 50 yd line, and the other in the LL at about the 35.
It’s the Dome. It’s not fun to see a game there. I would rather watch the games on TV.
I just bought a pair of tickets through RazorGator.com. I could get the exact seats I wanted. It appears some people are snatching up tickets and then selling them on the secondary market.
Everton — Enjoy your last place WILD. At least you won’t have to worry about spending playoff money this year.
The Vikings need to be back outside, the hefty bag sucks. Bring back the Minnesota home field advantage, Bravo to the Twins and Gophers for figuring that out.
A couple of points: First, I really doubt the game won’t be soldout. If there truly are 1000’s of tickets left in a few days, then let the ripping begin. (I’ll be there right with you)
Secondly, I think the real measure of fair-weather fans would be if the TV ratings for the game dropped along with stadium attendance. In the relatively few times that the Vikings have struggled to sellout games over the years, the TV ratings never drop. Not selling out the stadium is bad, but if everyone is still at home watching the game, then they aren’t fair-weather fans. It means they don’t feel seeing the event in person is worth it, which speaks to a number of things - but probably most of all the venue.
MIKE — Right idea. Sellout the game on game day. True fans will be in the dome. An if there is a lot of Eagle Fans great for the local economy. Hotels, bars, restaurants and stores should enjoy the uptick in sales.
GO VIKES
I’ve seen a couple of Vikings games at the Dome over the years, and I must say that I like it better on TV. Its not just the stadium, its the fans, the food prices, etc. Just doesn’t make sense to me, I’m not much of a football expert, so having the commentary really helps me follow the game.
That being said, this is a playoff game, they don’t seem to happen here often, so I sprung for two nosebleeds. The $30/ticket is deceiving thought, since after ticketmaster takes their pound of flesh, the total was $81.67, making it a markup of over 21%. I hate ticketmaster.
move this team to Omaha …. were football rules.. MinnihoHo is a soccer state
Huge Packer fan here…been to many games at Lambeau/County Stadium in Milwaukee as well as Tampa Bay, Chicago, Detroit, Dallas, St. Louis, San Fran and many others.
After visiting the Metrodump as I like to call it I’ll never go back to the crap hole the Minnesotans call a stadium.
Move the team to LA at least there they may sell out for a playoff game…simply pathetic Minnesota!
there must be a T-Wolves game on Sunday that everyone is going to instead. hahaha
Ah to be able to go to a Vikings game, or even watch them on television. Here in Southern Illinois we are cursed with having to watch the Rams play (play???) I envy those of you who get to watch my Vikings weekly. The weather here will be chilly–in the low 50’s–and we don’t have any snow yet but I’m still a Minnesotan at heart.
No! Because people in Minnesota are lazy, fat and poor! Its better the watch the game on TV? Are you kidding me? It’s ridiculous that we cannot even sell out a playoff game.
CHRIS — I have to agree TICKETRAPER sucks. Not sure if the vikes ticket office charges a fee or not.
Maybe so BFE2008, but at least the Wild have only been around for 8 years now, how long have the Vikes gone without a Superbowl win??
I’ll watch the Wild without fail even if they do end up finishing in last.
We plan to come from Montana! Skol Vikes!! I was raised in Minn. but don’t admit it- there is too many fair weather wimps there anymore. We used to watch Eller, Page, Marshall & Larson at old Met stadium when it was -35. Even the L.A. Rams fans would show up. All the way to the bowl Vikes!! Montanan’s love you.
Here’s a little food for thought…haw can a tiny city like Green Bay sellout every game since the 70’s and the Viqueens cant even sell out for a Playoff game?
Wait I think I know why…because all the Viqueen faithful know deep down their team is going to get crushed by the Eagles…
That piece of crap horn at the Metrodump wont be sounding off this weekend that’s for sure!
Can you say one and done Viqueens fans?
again, for me, I don’t enjoy trying to explain to my 7 year old what a Mother F’ing P-word of a coach means. Really guys? Really? You think that Chilly can hear you swear at him from the upper deck?
Sorry but my lack of ticket purchasing has zero to do with the team but rather the fans.
I am not drinking [redacted] merlot!
Mother F’ing P-word of a coach means
Everton, I just thought that was ond of Childress’ nicknames.
Minnesota was at one time a state of men now you have a state of Girliemen and home to Al “Gobber” Franken…
Their politics reflect the mental State of the people here.. they would rather drink Starbucks amd play with their Weii..
HAHA, maybe so
Oh God, I’m infected. I meant to say “one”…ONE!
Well lets see EVERTON– NorthStars started in 1967 and LEFT the GREAT STATE OF HOCKEY without ever winning a CUP!! An have existed for Eight Years and have only played 7 seasons. I will take the Vikes having won their division 15 times and have been to the Superbowl 4 times and lost over the history of a team/sport that left the state and only got to the cup twice.
The fanbase is weak and obnoxious. I agree with those who will not pay money to be around a bunch of drunk, foul-mouthed complainers. I will watch or read about it in the paper. They simply aren’t worth the effort/expense when you consider what you get for your money.
Umm…..BFE, wasn’t talking about the North Stars. The two teams have no bearing on one another.
hey pecker becker - at least we don’t wear a big chunk of rubber cheese on our heads !!!!!
and to be clear, I am a Vikes fan even though they continually let me down. But seriously, the conduct of a majority, not everyone, but a majority of the fans at the dome is dispicable.
hell if the Vikes played the game in Lincoln, Nebraska they would have a sell out and all you in MinnieHo can still watch it on TV,,
/Deadspin’d, front-page style
45% of season ticket holders choose not to buy playoff tickets. That says a lot in and of itself. I wouldn’t call the season ticket holders “fair weather fans,” so obviously there are other reasons. High prices, crappy stadium, or team without a chance of beating the Eagles, take your pick.
I’d be curious how ticked sales would be if the game wasn’t at the lousiest of the four times possible this weekend. I live about 300 miles away, I have season tickets, I have tickets for the game Sunday and I plan on attending but I sure won’t enjoy the ride home (although a Viking victory would sure help in that department). I need to be at work by 7:30 Monday and we’re talking winter driving here. Nobody better call me a “fair-weather fan” if the score is lopsided and I try to beat the traffic.
I meant “ticket” sales in my previous comment. I’m not “ticked.” yet…
3:30pm is a lousy start time?
NFL.com: Next game: vs. Philadelphia Eagles, Jan 4 4:30pm ET
I have been to three games this year and I am five hours away. I wish I could go, but I have to work. Glad I have a job though! The Metrodome is got to go the venue sucks. I was at the Bear’s game. There was no room to move around inside the dome almost to the point it is unsafe. I felt unsafe, especially if there was an emergency and you really had to get out of there. You miss to much of the game that you pay dearly for when you have to go to the bathroom. There is no radio or video of the game while your waiting to go to the bathroom. The list goes on and on. The Dome has to go. Build a new one and they will come.
“#1 reason I refuse to ever buy Vikes tickets; all the hillbilly, drunk fans that can’t complete a single sentence without using a four letter word. Yeah, that sure is a family friendly venue that I desire to take my 7 year old son to.”
He’s gonna learn those words someday, he might as well learn them now.
A few thoughts:
1. I’d rather watch it at home than at the stadium, that doesn’t mean I am any less of a fan. You can be a fan without attending games. To say you don’t like the team if you don’t go to the game is the most idiotic thing a person can say.
2. What is wrong with being a fair-weather fan? Really, it’s entertainment and we all choose what we spend out entertainment money on. I’m realistic. The Vikings are up and down, so why should I spend my hard-earned money on tickets, parking, over-priced beers and food when I can watch from home? It’s might right to go or not go or cheer or not cheer.
3. Football is much better on TV. You have the announcers (even though they sometime suck), replays, can have your own food and beverage at your disposal, and you can sit in your own comfortable chair without annoying morons next to you.
4. If you don’t like what I say, have a big tall glass of shut up juice!
5. SKOL VIKINGS!!!!!
Does anyone think Ziggy has the stones to ask for a publicly funded stadium again this year when they can’t even sell out their first home playoff game in 8 years?
Question 2: If the Vikes don’t sell out, and get crushed by the Eagles, does Zygmut finally realize he needs to cut Childress loose to get the fans bleeding purple again?
The answers are Yes and No…too bad they should be No and Yes.
Response to Everton: 3:30 is a relatively lousy start time if you’re driving home 300 miles this time of year to get to work Monday. Saturday would have been great, the earlier Sunday time would have made things much easier. Considering the Vikings’ strong out-of-town fan base I doubt I’m the only one who feels this way.
I started buying season tickets the day after we drafted Randy Moss. When he was on the team, I couldn’t stand watching on TV. He was always down field and wide open. You couldn’t see that on TV until Johnson/Cunningham/George/Culpepper etc. launched it. Now, with AD, you don’t need to be in the stadium to see the whole picture. With the current team, I prefer to watch on TV.
I have had season tickets for 6 years. To buy a play off ticket for my $50.00 seat would have cost me $147.00 per seat. I think this is to much money to watch a game from the Metrodome, the building is not user friendly. The Prime time games are hard to watch being that they have so many side features, skits and commotion going on between plays. I love football but I don’t think the Metrodome is going to work for football much longer and I don’t think the folks of Minnesota will pay for another stadium. I hope footballs stays in Minnesota but I think it will be a up hill battle.
Guitar- Fair enough point. I understand what you are saying.
What does SKOL stand for?
I bought tickest monday morning for 50.00 per seat, on the 10 yard line second level 16 rows up on the vikings side of the field those are great seats for the money and it is way more fun to be at the game then watching at home.
Skol is a Danish word for salute or toast
It is just so hard to root for these guys much less spend hundreds of dollars to watch them in a horrible stadium with thousands of sloppy drunks. End of story. End of blog. Final word on the matter!
Skol Vikings, let’s win this game,
Skol Vikings, honor your name,
Go get that first down,
Then get a touchdown.
Rock ‘em . . . Sock ‘em
Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Go Vikings, run up the score,
You’ll hear us yell for more. . .
V-I-K-I-N-G-S
Skol, Vikings, let’s go
I tried looking for tickets and for 2 tickets at best available was offered sec 223 row 16 for $180. Not a bargain, so I don’t understand why anyone would want them.
“Here’s a little food for thought…haw can a tiny city like Green Bay sellout every game since the 70’s and the Viqueens cant even sell out for a Playoff game?”
There nothing to ****ing do in Green Bay, that’s why.
Fans aren’t buying into Childress’s system. Boring football and the offense stinks. QB play has been pitiful since the Childress regime arrived. Just a really unimaginative and unproductive offense (other than Peterson). Teams stack the line against Peterson. Without him they would shut down the passing with no problem. Offense always looks out of sync and I am always amazed when they complete a pass. This coaching staff stinks and they should be gone. I’m glad they have a defense but sad they lost their offense to get it.
kydoty you must be a great parent. Do you let your little ones drink beer too? I mean someday they might turn 21. Solid parenting suggestion, I’ll make sure to take everything you say under advisement.
Let’s stop spending all of this energy and emotion debating the question of whether the Vikings game will sell out. By the time we have recovered from our New years eve fun, even in the face of hard economic times, all of these remaining tickets will be gone. Having tickets left this far ahead of a playoff game is not unusual. I will be there and by the time pre-game warm-ups conclude, each of those blue seats in the dome will have a warm body. Three days ago we didn’t even know if the Vikes would be in the playoffs, let’s try to relax. I like to watch football in the dome, I think it’s great. What is all the negative noise about? By the way, it would be good form for all of us to leave the dome, regardless of who wins, under the legal limit. Finally, let’s stop bashing the team, coach and everyone else who defends the team. Lot’s of fans in other NFL cities will be watching the Vikes on TV Sunday rather than their own team.
“Here’s a little food for thought…haw can a tiny city like Green Bay sellout every game since the 70’s and the Viqueens cant even sell out for a Playoff game?”
I wonder, does the NBA, NHL, or MLB teams there in Green Bay sell out all the time too?
This blackout is nothing new to the Vikings. I remember there were plenty of games (regular season) blacked out in the 90s. Fortunately, I live in TX (recently moved to TX) and will be enjoying the game and food in the comfort of my home.
GO VIKINGS!!!!!
Philly, you guys suck!!!
I bought 2 80.00 tickets today about noon at the Metrodome-no lines yet. Great seats. I think we win this game. Feels about right. I think the players like their coach, better then some fans and I think Chillies time has come. Look for some air under the ball from our side and heavy pressure on Mr. McKnob and co. Oh Chillie wasn’t I supposed to tell the plan?
Fans need to ante up! There is no way with the economy being the way it is that FOX is going to pay for say 2,000 tickets remaining. That in itself would eat up all the local advertising dollars they are getting. Time to stand up and support the team instead of leaving it in the hands of corporations to avoid the blackout!
Really i think it has to do with that nobody figured that the Vikings would make the playoffs and since they just made it in it was too short notice to go out and buy tickets since it is right after xmas. I dont have the money to buy a ticket now after xmas. . . . . . .do you????????
“kydoty you must be a great parent. Do you let your little ones drink beer too? I mean someday they might turn 21. Solid parenting suggestion, I’ll make sure to take everything you say under advisement.”
I don’t have kids, but I don’t need them to know that you can’t protect them from everything.
And your beer analogy is terrible because you’re trying to compare alcohol to a couple of f-bombs.
You are all a disgrace for not selling this game out. What kind of fans are you? We don’t need your excuses why you aren’t going to the game….the game will sell out, and it will be by real fans. For the first time in my life I am embarrased to be a Vikings fan
D-O
LOSERS! LOSERS! LOSERS! Not the team…The FANS!!! This is the WORST team in the playoffs…Yes the worst. Scr3w your 10-6 record….YOUR TEAM SUXS!! Why does this continue to be a recurring story in MN. It’s been this way since the 80s. Stadium doesn’t sell out…Fans b1tch about offensive predictability. BTW…I’ve lived in LA, and the average LA person does not give a rip about pro football. If Mr Noodle moves his team to LA, he’s in for a big surprise because if you think the economy is hurting n MN, it’s worse in LA.
GO EAGLES!!!
Yep, good chance the Vikes will lose to the birds on Sunday. SO WHAT!!! Wife and I are still going to travel over from SD to see the game. We are VIKINGS fans. They are our team. They are Division CHAMPS! They are in the playoffs, unlike most other teams. GO VIKES !!!!!!
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Very tired of the loser logic on here all year. Goes like this: I am a loser but I can pretend to be smart if I start ranting about how bad the Vikes are because in the end they will not win the Superbowl (since only 1 team can the odds of this being true are very good). So only if the Vikes win the Superbowl will I be wrong! I am so proud of my great football analysis and knowing how stupid everyone else is. I can rant and cry all year because in the end I most likely will be able to say “I TOLD YOU SO!” God I am soooo smart
You guys all suck. I can’t believe there are so many tickets available for a playoff game. Better for us. Watch the Philly news and all thats on are EAGLES fans buying all your tickets! We lived in the worst stadium in the NFL for over 30 years and never had any problems selling playoff tickets. So stop the excuses about your stadium and face the fact that you just don’t want to waste your time watching your team lose. Pathetic fans! The only fans that I have any respect for are the ones that truly can’t afford to go and have to feed their families first. For the rest of you enjoy all the EAGLES FANS THAT WILL BE ON YOUR DOOR STEP COME SATURDAY. YOU’LL BE SORRY FOR NOT BUYING YOUR TEAMS TICKETS! FLY-EAGLES-FLY ON THE ROAD TO VICTORY!!!!!!!!!
They lost my support when they had the sex party on that boat. Sure I think it’s great to fly in hookers from Atlanta but dangle your weiner in front of a teenage girl who is trying to make some money on a mom and pop charter boat? Did I mention how much of my interest the Vikings lost when they ran over the traffic cop and drove through St Peter at a hundred and ten? Where do I sign up to give them money?
this makes me sick. people complain about the stadium being too loud–its a great advantage. if you had an outdoor stadium noone would go cuz its too cold. we drive 6 hours from iowa to these games and havent missed in 7 years. you guys suck up there you had to have our hawk fans come up to the dome where we have smoked you every time!
LMAO! good one Rufus.
I wouldn’t walk across the street to watch a Brad Childress coached team! He and his entire offensive staff are pathetic. Dumbest play calling/clock management in the NFL. CHILDRESS MUST BE FIRED!!!
I live in Moorhead and thought of going to the game, but then for me and my brother to go it would cost 170 for two tickets, plus gas, plus food. How are two college kids suppose to afford that for seats 27 rows up in the upper deck?! Not to mention that 7 fumble debacle to the falcon’s two weeks ago didn’t help, on top of the fact that I am driving 3.5 hours one way to watch childress and t jack ultimately ruled out our going to the game.
Okay I just bought two tickets on the 30 yardline. Were actually pretty reasonable if you shop around. Only 50 bucks a piece. Now go and trounce the Eagles!!!!!!
okay heres my question.why are season holders selling their tickets to green bay when the green bay team comes to minn to play. i heard that the pack will pay what the cost of the season tickets are!but i was appalled when i went to the game and seen more packer fans there than viking fans there.if your such good fans why dont you back them in the game when the pack is here?
I can’t believe all the wining …… get out there and support your team you losers…..I was buying eagle season tickets when 5 win season was considered good…you guys suck…this team doesn’t deserve you, you bunch of babies..I’ll be there in green supporting my team
and another question why do you packer fans think you can come to our stadiumn and cut down the fans the team and our arena.i have been in wisc and you are all cut throats.you will never give another team nice words.everyone is horrible but you. well your just like everyone else your crap stinks also.sorry if your offended but thats the truth.look beyond its not only you
move them down to iowa city and it would sell out too. that would be great.
My first job was at the Old Met peddling pop, popcorn, candy, peanuts, etc as a kid. When it got cold during the last half of the Vikings seasons we sold hot chocolate. I remember the Old Met continually sold out the 49,900 seats it had even when the temps dropped below zero. Some of the great playoff clashes of all time occured at the Old Met - many years against the Rams & Cowboys. The Minnesota winter weather was aHUGE advantage to the Vikings during those years.
I remember when the know-it-all politicians forced the closure of the Met so they could ’spruce up’ downtown Mpls with a new stadium! I remember seeing hundreds of thousands of signatures on the countless “Save The Met” petitions that circulated around the Met’s parking lot for a couple of years before it was closed. Everybody can thank our greedy, shortsighted, dumbf*ck politicians of the 70’s for what we have now. And yeah - if you’re a former greedy, shortsighted, dumbf*ck politician from the 70’s who contributed to this Dome fiasco and are reading this, please choke on your chili dog as you LISTEN to the game on the radio on sunday!
Regardless of what you think of Childress or TJack, I am SHOCKED that there are this many tickets left for a playoff game. I live in NY and I would be at every game if i lived in MN. You don’t know how lucky you are. Now I realize the economy is a huge factor and watching it at home is better in some ways but C’MON!
Hey philly rocks….you’re right you philly fans are true blue that’s why you were crying about firing your coach and your qb at the end of the season. After the Vikes win you will be whining again. Listen you goof, I’ve been to your city and it sucks but thats really not breaking news to the rest of the nation. Skol Vikes!
Hey Philly Rocks, Philly fans are the biggest piece of $HIT fans in the country bar none. NY fans look like choir boys next to you ignorant A$$HOLES. I’ve been to games at the old Vet, enjoy throwing things and cursing at children and fans of opposing teams?? because that’s what I saw. So beforew you start talking $hit look in your own back yard. The only thing that $hithole city of yours has going for it is the cheesesteak. City of brotherly love my A$$!
hey seattlegopher….crall back under your rock……you loser
L.A. Here we come!
TWO WORDS:
PLAY OUTSIDE
3 WORDS:
BLAME BUSH VOTERS
hey philly fan……”crawl” back to the slums of philly you came from. Oh wait that’s the whole city.
hey tommy.. you use such large words, did you learn that at Licken Crick High School
seatllegroper….you have an IQ of a shrub
yeah tom do you know how to spell crawl?
What’s the matter. did you get your ass kicked at the VET. Just wait for this weekend when there will be more EAGLES FANS than Vickings fans! It will bring back old memories of getting your ass kicked at the Vet! You such a loser. And for your information for the few that hate Mcnabb there are thousands that love him. Waht sucks is you wish you had our coach and QB!!!
seattlegroper……i bet you just learned to walk upright
Hey Philly Rocks…….you can bet he got his ass kicked at the Vet and a few other places
No rocks….I thought I made it clear. What “sucks” is your city and your fans. Do they call you rocks because that’s what you have in your head? You need to pay attention. You know…. follow the bouncing ball. PA school system strikes again.
I am sorry but I do not see this game being bailed out by FOX. Here is the issue of the 16K left a lot are in the $120/ticket sections and at that price Fox can’t buy many at all. For the entire revenue they are getting about 300K for the game (national + local; as noted in earlier article in ST; they could buy about 3K at those steep prices. So, because the season ticket holders bailed on those seats without a Wilf backed bailout I just do not see it happening this time. I am seeing thousands of tickets in the secondary market also and they are now dropping below face value on the cheap seats and that will not help either. Go Vikes!
Seattlegopher? What’s that? Freakin girl! You have a bigger *ussy than your mother!
hey groper….take your webbed hoof and flush yourself down your toilet, you do no what a toilet is?
I am SO tired of being told I am not a good fan because I watch the vikings (if I watch - hint, hint) on TV, like they have trained me to do for decades.
I thought I was a good fan by doing that BECAUSE that is where the team really gets its money.
So stop knocking me for watching the vikings - any way I choose.
And did you NOT hear the boos, we do not care for this so-called coach. We do not care for this so-called quaterback.
PLease hear the FANS.
If you want our support, we need a REAL Team.
We all know they have one game to play - PERIOD.
It is not a good team. It is not our team.
We have to BOO sooner because the team is only around a year or two,.
We also have to Cheer sooner (when truly deserved) for the same reason.
Just don’t pick on the fans, Im sure the owner backed the conservates the last 8 years - this is the result of the policies he VOTED for - we have no Money.
This is coming from an Eagles’ fan. I was at the last game between the Eagles and Vikings during last year’s regular season. I am also going to this game because the tickets are so cheap and plentiful. I disagree with a lot of things that have been said about the Metrodome. I have been to a few football stadiums that are way worse and more uncomfortable than the Metrodome (while baseball is another story). I would put the Superdome and Texas Stadium below it. Also, someone said something about have loud, non child friendly fans. I have to say, at least from where I was sitting, it was the complete opposite. You would faint at an Eagles home game. It had to be the fewest cuss words I have heard during an entire football game, as well as the best treatment I have gotten being a fan of the away team. There is no reason that there should be so many tickets remaining that are so cheap. Not to mention it is a PLAYOFF game and you can see Adrian Peterson play.
what the redacted?
Come on guys, I thought we were just becoming freinds. I could do things for you like make sure your helmets are fastened securely before you leave your homes. You know….give you that “special” attention you need.
wouldn’t that be hard to do with a webbed hoof?
Lots of PMS on this comment board today and tonight. Wow!!!!!!!!!! I’m gonna go blow snow.
people are now blaming politics wow. our government is set up lazze fair that means that the govt is supposed to have little to nothing to do with the economy!!! these things are natural. it is a known fact that things cant be prosperous all of the time!!! its the natural way of things!
I hope drdon doesn’t have a boyfreind named snow.
that was good
seattle and philly…that did not take long to make a comment on my hobby.
I said snow, not Snow. DUH!!!!!!!!
blowin a guy named snow
ty
your hobby is blowing guys?
that one heck of a hobby you got goin
There’s no debate on the state of the Dome, it’s likely the worst venue in the NFL. So what? Think like the Mets fans & Shea, it may be a dump but it’s our dump. Too loud? It’s the NFL in America people, it’s supposed to be loud. To many drunks? Probably, but that’s a reflection on society not the Dome or the Vikes. Hey I’m not sold on Childress either and I get as frustrated as the next guy watching the guys cough it up 7 times in a game they otherwise dominate. But this is my team and I’ll be there.
I’ve never lived in Minnesota but I’ve bled purple and gold for 45 years plus and taken crap from Packer fans for just as long. The Metro Dome ain’t pretty but it’s where Minnesota Viking fans live. Minnesotans…You Are Viking Country! That’s the way the rest of the NFL world views you. Look, there are Viking fans in damn near every sports bar from Long Island to the Golden Gate and many of them dream of spending one afternoon with 60000 like minded brethren in purple yelling for the Vikes.
If times are tough and you can’t make it I feel for you, I’ve been there. If travel expenses and missing Monday at work is beyond your means that’s understandable. However, if you can afford it and travel is reasonable, but would rather stay home and watch TV because you get a better view then by all means do just that. I’ll be driving up from Dayton (airfare is ridiculous, we all have are limits) and I’d rather party and scream like hell with 6 guys who feel the same way as I do than 14000 who’d rather watch it on their TV because the stadium is to loud or they think they get a better view…give me a break.
I’m a born and raised vikings fan. I now live out of state, but still cheer just as hard as ever. I find it unbelievable that the game is not sold out. I guess it’s true; we are the worst fans in the country. I watched the game against Atlanta, and couldn’t believe how quiet the crowd was. Talk about lame. Ziggi out to move to LA. I’d still cheer for them, and their fan-base wouldn’t be filled with boring, quiet, complaining, fair-weather fans.
All Minnesoatans, aside from Paul Allen, know the team stinks. They will get rolled by Philly.
Really you couldn’t believe how quiet the fans were against Atlanta? Did you watch the game? The Vikes S%$# themselves and the fans are supposed to cheer? Have you ever been to a live game? For that matter were you cheering on any of the countless Viking fumbles and mistakes in that game? Get real. GO VIKES!
The Vikings have a talented roster no doubt. And if the Vikings do get through the Eagles the fan interest will increase two-fold. That being said I don’t have faith in this coaching staff. Brad is not a teacher and the offensive scheme’s are bland and predictable. That should be the first oreder of business. Fire the offensive game plan. And the defense is run by over half the league so beating it without the starting middle linebacker and nose tackle shouldn’t be a problem for the Eagles. I love the Vikings and always will but I have no faith in Brad or Darrell as quality coaches. We have the best running back in football, go get a coach to match.
Hey Philly,
Ok I will give you what we all know, that the Eagles will probably beat the Vikings. But dont act like your city is better. Really? Your city is 2nd only to Detroit as being the scumpool of the US. Your airport sucks, your city smells like horse****, and your women are not anywhere close to being in the same league as our hottie Scandanavian women. In addition, Phily is the only big city where I saw one of your scumbag citizens push an elderly woman down because she wasnt walking fast enough. So you enjoy your playoff victory. Your city should be where we empty our trash to.
My brother from out of state asked me before the season if I thought the Vikes would make the playoffs. My reply ws if there is a more boring brand of offense in the league I’m not aware of it. Boring, TJack-hopeless, stupid stadium fake noise, over $100 for anything decent. I’m not going even though I have the dough and my kids are begging.
Minnesota fans are crazy….. We are Philly fans and traveling a little over 800 miles to watch this game. Maybe the fans should suppoprt their team a lil better, more likely to put a better product on the field w/ a lil better support…
The Eagles win when they run for 130+ yards they have lost all but one game when they didn’t. Good luck running for even 90 yards in this game. Eagle fans better hope McNabb is 100% healthy because he will get knocked around alot in this game and we all know what happens when he gets jumpy in the pocket…..INT. This sets up for a lopsided Vikes win.
80 + for tickets!! Your CRAZY.. Not worth the price.
I’d rather stay home and sink the money I would have spent on 5 tickets parking and food into necessities like a good HD TV Widescreen and some new Lazyboys.
Purplehelmet
Next time your brother asks you a question just answer it. Nobody wants to here somebody whine like a girl. I’m just saying it was a direct question not an invitation for you to bitch and moan. I’m sure those kids of yours really want to go to the game with dad. You sound like quite the ray of sunshine. So did you think they would make the playoffs? GO VIKES!
Just went to ticketmaster.com to get tix. So, they have you re-type those two scrambled words before you check out. The words that came up on my order? “Violent Apathy.” You can’t make this stuff up.
Here is why I have no interest in going to the game:
It is the insanity of the pricing. For $240 (not including the Ticketmaster fees that are associated with the order), I can get a pair of decent seats to the game. Then figure anywhere from $20-$50 to park in decent proximity to the Dome. Yeah, I can park in the ABC Ramps and take the light rail but then have to deal with the craziness that is the line waiting to load up on the trains after the game. With tickets and parking alone, I’m pushing $300. THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS.
That doesn’t factor in a beer or two at the game, maybe a dog, maybe a pretzel, the 80+ miles to drive to and from the Dome. Doesn’t take into account waiting for 15 minutes to take a wee. And my BIGGEST PEEVE, the idiots who don’t know how to walk through a concourse. Groups of morons just parking in the middle of the walkway blocking EVERYONE from getting around.
All this for three hundred plus dollars to give to the NFL? NO.THANK.YOU! I’d rather take a chance that I can lay on my comfortable couch and catch the game in HD on the 46 in. Sharp in my living room.
Why doesn’t Goodell (sp?) take the money from all the fines he imposed this year and lower some ticket prices. There’s a crazy and outlandish idea, but a great crazy and outlandish idea.
Some of you may call me fair-weather. Some may call me a bandwagoner. Call me whatever. But I’ll be that fair-weather bandwagoner with $300 extra in his pocket.
Viking fans are going to wake up to the fact that upwards of 20,000 of those fans will be Eagles fans who bought up the remaining tickets. The Viking PR hack is kidding himself when he thinks Viking fans are buying this tix. I once saw Eagles fans fill up half of Pro Player Stadium for a Dolphins game. It was like an Eagles home game. Expect the same this Sunday.
That all would be a moot point if I was up close to see the Jared Allen Calf Rope Sack Celebration live. That in itself is almost worth $300 to me.
Dear Vikings, get me two on-field passes and I’ll donate $300 to charity.
How in the …. did I forget about the whole kickoff, commercial, incomplete pass, incomplete pass, incomplete pass, challenge, commercial, punt, commercial, three and out, punt, commercial, long TD, extra point, commercial, kickoff, commercial, etc etc etc. I was at the Atlanta/Vikings game. I’d rather be kicked in the seeds to possibly go through that again.
YOU PEOPLE ARE AN EMBARRASSMENT TO THE NFL. YOU ONLY SUPPORT YOUR TEAM IF THEY WIN???? WTF?? WE DIDN’T HAVE THE BEST SEASON EITHER BUT I’M FORKING OUT THE DOUGH FOR A TRIP TO THE GAME (AND I HAVE TO PAY FOR AN AIRLINE TICKET TOO). WHAT A BUNCH OF CHEAP B*ST*RDS! GO EAGLES!!!
Metro, please go back to your state of cheese and chill out.
About 90% of the people here just came to complain. Some about the stadium situation - which you cite as a reason for not buying tickets, but won’t support building a new one and probably wouldn’t buy tickets even if it was the greatest stadium in the land. i have two season tickets, i’ll be there and i suppose i may be one of the few in the metro that gets to watch.
When there is as much or more green/gold in the dome for a packers game (Childres or not), when 20 other teams would rather be in the Vikings shoes in the playoffs and we complain that the team is not exciting enough, and when the out-of-state have more fans at the Cardinals Games than home fans, and when the noise level in the dome for the Atlanta game is a kin to a funeral, then the answer is the belly-aching home fans. Not all fans, mind you, but a very vocal number that, even if the Vikes win Sunday, they will not give credit to the team or the coaches because the Eagles were the sixth seed, or played in consistently, or some other poor excuse. True, Childress is not a fan favorite (including me) for many reasons, but get out and support the Williams Wall, AP, Jared Allen, Kleinsasser, Hutchinson, Birk, Berrian, Greenway, Taylor, Kluwe, Longwell, Shiancoe, Jackson, Frerotte and WINNFIELD. This is the team that we all support, bleed purple for, and throw the remote at the TV. Stop using Childress as an excuse not to attend the game. There are 40 other reasons to attend!
Mr. Eagles, thanks for spending your money in our state. I’m glad you get to see McNabb’s first game of many at the dome as he’ll lead the Vikes to many playoff games to come. Very sorry to see your caplock key is broken.
These comments are funny. I’ve never seen more fair weather fans in my life or more lame excuses why fans won’t attend the games. The bottom line is that this is the playoffs and true fans will show their support no matter where and when the team plays. If Minnesota can’t sell out a home playoff game, then the NFL should revoke the Vikings charter and let the owners move the team to a place where they will get support.
I decided to take my two sons this weekend, they may not get a chance for a home playoff game for many years after this. It will be my first game at the dome since the 1998 season. The funny thing then was that it was easy to get tickets in August because the bandwagon was empty. Obviously it was different a after the 98 season. But now the bandwagon is empty again so I look forward to being rewarded with 51-10 drubbing They even stopped playing Skol Vikings for fieldgoals back then.
Please - what I would give for a chance to see this game live! Give me a day’s drive from my upstate NY doorstep and I am there - Buff, NY - been there. Including the NFC Champ game 41-0 blowout at the meadowlands - and this game is not a sellout? Very weak
Hey Philly Fan can you even fit on the plane to come here. Im sorry but to come to a Minnesota paper board you must.
1.Your 32 and still live in your parents basement
2. You have run out of porn sites to to look at so you come here.
3. Its called switching hands.
For all who want a new stadium, check out the cowboys web site and go to new stadium. You will see that to sit between the fortys it will cost you a cool 150.000 grand for a thirty years lease on your seay then the yearly tickets start a four grand a year. All seats have a seat tax on them the lowest being three grand.All new stadiums have seat taxes plus ticket price. New york are going to have them the packers have had them for years. So you bulid ziggy a new stadium the firt thing thast happens is your taxes go up which he doesnt care
. Then he slaps a big time seat tax on everyone. For those reasons a new stadium makes no sense.
With our fanbase a new stadium would never work. Our fans won’t even pony up $80 for a playoff game (I won’t either). Sometimes I fell it is best for everyone if this team just leaves town asap.
NOW HEAR THIS….EAGLES IS COMING TO MN. NOT!!!!! Dude it’s called “caps lock”. RETARD.
I’m appalled.
It does not matter whether you like Childress, or whether you like the play calling at times, or any other issue we have had in recent seasons. I do not care for Childress or the play calling much either. You are VIKING FANS, and the Vikings need support. If I could make it from Arizona to Minneapolis for the game I would be there. We do not want 14000 Eagle fans filling up those seats, and piss on moving the vikings to L.A. I would no longer be a “Minnesota Viking” fan. AAAHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
relax
You must have feel on your head as a baby. There would be nothing good about the Vikings leaving MN other than GB fans wouldn’t come on this site acting like they’re Viking fans.
I would give anything to be at that game!! Unfortunately, I live in the southwest and cant afford to make the trip. So, I’m asking everyone in Minnesota to go for me. Please fill the seats with purple!! It would be so embarrassing to Minnesota to have so many Eagle fans in the stands!! We have a great team! Lets support them!
We are small group of Minnesotans living and working in Northern California. We are chartering a jet to attend the game. Real fans do this to see a playoff game. I have not seen the Vikings in a playoff game since they beat the Rams in the NFC championship game at the Met, and this trip means a lot to all of us, win or lose.
For the amount of money it will cost to go to a game it is hardly worth it when you have drunks spilling beer on you in the 1st quarter, and then again in the 3rd quarter. When you are at home, you can get up and grab a beer/coke for yourself during a commercial break without shelling out 5/8 bucks a piece. If you’re at the dome, those frequent TV breaks get to be quite boring. Why wouldn’t you stay at home and watch the game?
Relax,
I think it better that you leave town, better yet the country. Why must people like you make me hate? SKOL Vikings.
I’m appalled.
It does not matter whether you like Childress, or the play calling at times, or any other issues we have had in recent seasons. I do not like Childress or the play calling all that much either. You are MINNESOTA VIKING fans, and the Vikings need support. If I could make it from Arizona to Minneapolis for the game, I would be there. We do not want 14000 Eagle fans filling up those seats, and piss on the Vikings moving to L.A. I would no longer be a “MINNESOTA VIKING” fan.
AAAHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Josh~ That’s bullsh*t! When I lived in MN I went to Vikings games all the time! I’ve never had any drunk spill a beer on me. Plus, there is nothing boring about a playoff game - even commercials! Your excuses for being a cheap a** are lame!
Let Franken’s lawyers count the tickets sold to date…betcha it’ll be a sell-out before midnight.
Metro, I’m with just about everything you said. It is getting painful to watch games on TV with all the commercials. The last two games have been brutal at home and they suck all the energy out of the stadium when you’re there. The crowds in the tiny concourses are terrible (people are drunk and/or idiots). I will say that you can park 3 blocks from the Dome for $10 bucks, so that might be a stretch unless you want to tailgate across the street from the Plaza. Frankly, I just think that there are lots of other things we’d rather spend our cash on here, especially when things are tight. I’m dropping $100 for a New Years Party after getting through my Christmas shopping. I’ve been to the Dome probably 10 times this fall for Vikings and Gophers games (not counting a couple September Twins games). It’s pretty tough to justify another couple hundred bucks right about now. I think the Vikes have as good of a shot as anyone in the NFC they’ve played with or beaten 4 of the other 5 teams. It’s gonna be fun down there on Sunday, playoff games are unlike anything else. I was there in ‘98.
ToddScott - Thanks for the laugh. Best part of my day so far.
To all, if you’re interested in buying tickets, just go down to the dome and get them on the street. Avoid the fees. My guess is you can get in the door for $15 maybe less. Brokers are freaking out about how bad it could be for them.
Eagles fans - welcome to the city. Spend a lot of money. We appreciate it. After the game check out highway 494 at Lyndale Avenue.
Who is making all these negative comments about the Vikings?, Eagle fans infiltrating the tribune trying to trash the vikings, and create more controversy. Possibly.
I have been a Vikings fan for 35 years, every since I was 5 years old and I have never lived in Minnesota. I have spent most of my life in Colorado, Nebraska and Iowa. I have seen the passionate Denver fans and the crazy Husker fans. YOU PEOPLE OF MINNESOTA ARE THE MOST PATHETIC FANS IN THE COUNTRY. I can’t believe the play off game hasn’t sold out. So what if the Vikings have broken our hearts over the years, you still have to support them. You still have to be excited about having the first play off game in 8 years. You won’t support a new stadium, but approve of a new stadium for the Gophers who haven’t done anything significant in years. You are going to lose the team. If the Vikes do move, I hope the NFL never grants another NFL team to Minnesota, you don’t deserve one. But, you probably don’t care. You people from Minnesota are terrible sports fans, hell you lost your hockey team several years ago. How does Minnesota lose a hockey team? I wish I could get up there and see the game, but I am 9 hours away and have to work on Monday…..I have an excuse. What are your excuses. Minnesotans suck….of course what else can you expect from a state where 50% of the voters vote for Al Franken, which is far worse than when you voted for Jesse Ventura. At least he was funny.
If every one of the idiots on here complaining about this game not being a sell out would buy a ticket we’d have this game sold out by now! I love hearing Packer and Philly fans rant about the great fans they are. Isn’t Philly the 1st stadium to have a court house in the basement of it’s stadium due to all the idiots fighting during the game? As for the Packers…sure you sell out games but you sure as hell don’t attend them. Look at your attendance figures in the 80’s and you’ll see that Lambeau was 80% full for some games but sold out. Nice fans in WI to throw money away and not attend the games.
Doesn’t matter if you watch at home or at the Belch Bubble. All that matters is the final score…and I have it right here: Vikings 23 Eagles 20 OT.
What a super finish!! And I know cuz I built a Craftsman Time Machine from Sears and I just came back from next Sunday night. So there you suck-wad Philly losers. VIKINGS ROCKKKKKK!!!
Wow…nice little threat by the Viking Organization. I have a home in Oro Valley, AZ and I’m currently writing this comment from San Diego, CA… where $$$$$ are taken for granted. I’m fricken proud of our MN state (with exception to the screwed up Franken votes) sorry, I shouldn’t throw politics into this. Anyway, I agree with several others. Hell, keep the tickets reasonably priced and I’ll go the games. But when it comes time to suck it up economicly, buy yourself a flat screen HD TV, and put on your Viking stuff, and have fun! I think our fans are just using common sense or should I say cents (ick bad pun, as if I were watching the news). Go Vikes, SKOL Vikes, Enjoy the Season! and most of all …. taken from Tice… MN is a tough FOOTBALL FOOTBALL organization! Vikings are great! Just don’t think 1998.
Same problem exists in San Diego. 20,000 tickets for sale:
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/weblogs/chargers/2008/dec/29/tickets-sale-6-pm/?chargers
I made the trip from Tucson to Glendale to watch the Vikings crush the Cardinals. You should have seen all of the Viking fans there, many in full Viking garb, including me and four other people I went with. You should have seen the camaraderie between all the Viking fans there. We were like one big happy purple family. Everyone of those fans would dearly love to fill up one of those 14000 empty seats. Maybe all you Viking trashers should move out of Minnesota for a while. Then you might really appreciate what you are missing.
I just bought 4 tickets on the lower deck for $300.00 and I can’t wait to be there. Stop pissing and moaning about the stadium. I have been to stadiums all over the NFL and they are not that much better than ours. They all take a long time to get in and out. I think Greenbay is the worst. What’s with the 12 inch steps and the crappy aluminum seats and absalutely nothing going on worth watching during breaks? We may not have a great stadium, but it is still the home of the Vikings. where ever they go, I go. Up yours fair weather fans and Greenbay SUCKS!!!!!!! Just imagine if Wisconsin had a Dentist, That guy would make a lot of cheese. Almost as much as all of the beer vendors. VIKINGS ROCK AND DESTROY THE EAGLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, PatriotsFan, evidently you’re just a young lad who does not remember football in New England before your bandwagon swelled. I’ve been in the Marine Corps for 22 years, stationed all over the States and the world, and every team has the same problem — people just don’t want to admit it. So, ask your fellow “diehard” fans how many games they went to in ‘91 when the Patriots were 1-16? My bet is you won’t find any…
Yes some do go support their team. I remember the games of the last 20 years and some i want to forget but THIS is my team and we are in the playoffs!!!! I am driving 4 hours and will be helping the dome ROCK!!!!! SKOL VIKINGS!!!!!!
Pitiful. what a town, what fans. And how hilarious will it be when the taxpayers agree to pay a ridiculous amount of money to build a brand new spanking stadium for a team they can’t be bothered to support?! Crazy.
PhillyFan, please do Minnesota fans a big favor and use a spell-checker before you post a comment. I find your posts hard to read when you use your hard-earned third grade grammar skills.
On a side note, Philly fans are notorious for being the lowest class of fans in the league. I find it hard to believe that anyone would be proud of that.
Dear Mr. Wilf:
Seems like a simple case of supply and demand to me. People, including those who have spent thousands on season tickets, are unwilling to shell out the $ the Vikings are asking. Retail prices are falling, car prices, airfare, gasoline … why then do NFL ticket rise?
I would pay $50 - $75 for upper deck sideline seats, not $160.
Just for the record, I’d like to note it’s possible to be a Vikings fan and also to have voted for Sen. Franken.
I just tried and found 2 good tickets for $50.00 each. If I wanted there are GREAT seats for $160.00 each. In state fans take the Vikes for granted -just like Northstars. Living near Seattle it would be great to have playoff tickets. Last year $80.00 for crappy seats, this year? ha,ha. The dome is a crap hole dump of a stadium - PLEASE MN, do the right thing and get a new stadium deal done. Still with all that, I’d be there because who knows when the next time will roll around? just ask a Patriots fan (Pukers, Raiders, Cowgirls - any of them douchebag teams), if they’d rather be wathcing their team play or planning on “next year”?
There are so many factors here, and I would argue that it has little to do with whether or not we are real fans. Money obviously is the largest factor. Fifty dollars is NOT cheap. The metro area is not that big. Many fans come from a ways away, and we all just spent a week traveling for our holidays. Not to mention the weather. Lastly, despite the noise factor. The dome is NOT great. The audio/video is terrible. the sight lines make it hard to see, parking is trash, food is brutally expensive. So yeah, we arent all rushing out to spend what tiny bit of money we may have. That doesnt mean we arent fans or that we dont deserve a team here in MN.
Wow, I cant believe what Im reading. If this game was in Philly it would have been sold out within hours. I know of 30+ Eagles fans myself that are coming, me included. And if you read the Eagles blogs there will be a lot more. Thanks Viks fans. Cant wait to turn the dome Midnight Green.
you guys are pathetic…peterson is 1 of the best running backs in the league & if his career is long enough, could be 1 of the best ever. that alone should be enough to get your butts into that stadium for a freakin’ playoff game! our fans are going to drown out your wet blanket fans in that stupid dome. go birds!
“okay heres my question.why are season holders selling their tickets to green bay when the green bay team comes to minn to play. i heard that the pack will pay what the cost of the season tickets are!but i was appalled when i went to the game and seen more packer fans there than viking fans there.if your such good fans why dont you back them in the game when the pack is here?”
I’ve been to Lambeau and witnessed the sea of purple and gold in those stands too. It happens everywhere, season ticket holders who are brokers are gonna sell to the highest bidder.
“Just for the record, I’d like to note it’s possible to be a Vikings fan and also to have voted for Sen. Franken.”
Thank you Jake for proving that Minnesota is a pathetic joke to the rest of the country. First jesse, now franken and this ticket fiasco! Wake up Minnesota!!
I’m an Eagles fan and first and am not going to comment on the Vikings Eagles Game becaus ethey are really closely matched teams so it should be a really good game. I dowant to Laugh at the Patriots and their bandwagon fans as mentioned above. I believe one thing Vikings and Eagles fans can agree on is that now that the Pats can not cheat in games they are done. Patriots are the Barry Bonds of Football.
It is sad when people feel they need to pony up their hard earned money for a new stadium. If the stadium sucks so bad, don’t go. Or let the owner build one. To spend tax dollars on it is absoutely ridiculous.
