[Rhodes22-list] Rummy's Packers - and Robert's redskins

[Rob Lowe]

Robert,
Tickets since '37?  What's that put you, in your 50's?

Ah yes, games at RFK.  Nothing like them.  Seated in the metal bleachers
that were moved when they played baseball there (back when you actually
played more than one sport in a stadium).  Get them damn ol' Cowboys (or
Giants, or Eagles) in town and need a defensive stop.  People would be
stomping on the bleachers and that place would ROCK.  The whole damn stadium
would ROCK.  The ball is snapped and Chris Hanburger or Pat Fischer would
make the stop short of the first down.  Now THAT was football.  I'm getting
goose bumps just thinking about it.

Then "the house that Jack built" in Raljon (which, until then, was not a
"town") It's a made up "town" from Jack's two sons, Ralph and Jon.  While
Jack Kent Cook (now FedEx field once Snyder sold the naming rights) has more
bathrooms than RFK, it has a very sterile feel to it and doesn't have near
the same character.

My dad's tickets at FedEx were right in the first row, in one of the
endzones.  Went to a couple of preseason games and we were thinking, these
are pretty great seats (except when the action is on the other end).  We
came back for the first game and they had added six rows of "dream" seats in
front of us.  The "dream" seaters got free food and drink (except for beer)
and paid a bunch for their seats.  Damn Snyder, anything to make more money.

Rob (still a Redskin fan, but watch on TV now).


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Skinner" <robert at squirrelhaven.com>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Rummy's Packers - and Robert's redskins


> Couldn't agree more about the fan-milking (to put
> it politely).
>
> We have had Skins tickets since '37.  We used to
> have 6 tix on the 50-yard line in the mez at RFK
> stadium.  We could get popcorn or a hot dog
> without standing in the rain.
>
> When the owner built the new "Jack Kent Cook"
> stadium in "Raljon" Maryland, we were assigned 6
> seats up in the nosebleed section, one of which
> was behind a metal screen.
>
> It was so bad that the Washington Post sports
> section ran a picture taken from it on the front
> of the section.  I missed the runback of the
> kickoff on the first game because I couldn't see
> the endzone.
>
> We were offered seats at the same altitude as
> those which we had had at RFK - for three times
> the money.
>
> We kept 2 tickets (for sentimental reasons) for
> he rare occasion when we are in Washington and
> the weather is decent, but turned the other 4 in.
>
> We are shifting our loyalties gradually to the
> Patriots, and expect that we will let the last
> two Skins tix go in a year or so.
>
> Robert, disgusted ex-Redskin fan in Maine
>
> ------------------------------------------
>
> Rob Lowe wrote:
> >
> > The Redskins had a similar situation.  All the tickets sold were season
> > tickets and the waiting list was up to 100,000.  Now the owner, Dan
Snyder,
> > has raised ticket prices significantly.  My Dad, who has had tickets for
> > about 7 years now, finally threw in the towel and turned his in.  His
ticket
> > price went from $50 to $175 and parking went from $10 to $25 a game.
His 3
> > tickets cost him over $550 a game, and that was before beer ($8 for 16
> > ounces).  I friend of mine, who has been on the waiting list for 7 years
or
> > so, finally had his name come to the top of the list.  They are getting
the
> > tickets, but only for one year due to the cost.  I'm glad to see the
Packers
> > haven't run off their fans for the sake of money. - rob
> >
> > aka - Rob Redskin
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <R22RumRunner at aol.com>
> > To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 7:03 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Rummy's Packers
> >
> > > Slim,
> > > The other side to that story is that less than a thousand season
tickets
> > are
> > > turned in each year. You do the math.
> > >
> > > Rummy
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