http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...-see-post-draft-spike-in-season-ticket-sales/ Good to hear..If we can get a fast start, and Philbin demonstrates that his style is something special, maybe we can start turning this franchise around.
Lies I tell ya. Rise 6000 from what? If they were really on the rise, they would give us a total, not some random number.
It could be renewals.. I get calls every other day and bombared with emails to renew.. I even added the number they call me on my phone so I can ignore it the second it rings. They are desperate. I'm thinking they had 15-20K people in the same boat as me and that the 6000 number is just renewals. If the team was really selling new tickets the article would be Dolphins have 40K (or whatever the number is) season ticket holders and have seen 6000 new season ticket holders.....
It doesn't matter they will still show up late, and take until the 8 minute mark to get back into their seats after halftime....
The article explicitly stated 6,000 new tickets. You read it right? You didn't just read the title and dismiss it right?
I read it. I just don't believe it. For all you know, new season tickets could be people that didn't initially renew then renewed after their account was considered inactive. They can spin it however they want, if season ticket sales were high or they saw a high renewal rate, they would advertise the total season tickets sold, not this figure. I'm not worried, I'll go to the home games when I can for $10 a ticket when there are 20,000 open seats.
It also doesn't say the 6,000 new tickets are net either. Which means we could have lost 12,000 former season ticket-holders and picked up 6,000 new season ticket-holders. While I suspect this "information" was released in order to try to motivate people into buying season tickets, I bet we currently have less season ticket-holders now than we did last year at this time. That being said, I expect season ticket sales to grow considerably during and after Hard Knocks. Before the start of this season I'd be willing to bet we have more season ticket-holders than last year.
Man I wish I lived in Miami so I could have season tickets!!!!! Sounds like Miami is just about as fairweather as Indianapolis up here. They had a waiting list of about 10,000 to get season tickets going into last year. As of now I think there are about 10-15,000 season tickets available. Reminds me of rats jumping off a sinking ship.
It can always be worse. The Bengals made the playoffs last year and are still short on their season tickets sales. How do they respond? Mike Brown finally moved training camp from Georgetown, Kentucky back to their facilities at Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati (and at the University of Cincinnati's campus when they practice inside. The Bengals don't have their own indoor facility). They're even going to make several practices open to the public inside the stadium, much like Miami has done. To kick off training camp, they're holding a pep rally at the stadium - a meet & greet of sorts where fans can go into the club level to eat, meet the cheerleaders, play games, etc. The catch? Fans have to pay to attend. How backwards is that? Odd story as an aside to the Bengals lack of an indoor facility. Back in my high school days, our team was pretty good and usually went deep into the playoffs, which means playing into late November. Cincinnati is cold then, so we would travel to an indoor soccer facility to practice. We would usually take one field and one of the larger high schools in the area would have the other. One day our practice got cut short because...the Bengals drove 25 miles north of the city to practice at the same indoor facility.
All the fans needed was a draft that didn't immediately taste like refried *** and suddenly they're buying tickets again. They know there are a bunch of people out there think Ryan Tannehill is the new Blaine Gabbert, shouldn't have been drafted that high, etc. They don't care. They like the draft anyway.
seriously, I'd take Luck over three years of Manning right now without seeing Luck play..I really don't get that fanbase..They not only have Luck, but two tight ends that I was in love with in the draft, a perfect trio of skillsets to design an offense into a powerhouse.. Damn I hope Ireland's draft works out for us..
Colts fans are not smart football fans. They don't understand why Luck couldn't sit behind Peyton for 2 or 3 years and "groom". I hate the colts, their fans, the owner, I hope Luck busts just to laugh st the colts fans.
I'm getting tired of reading Dolphin-related stuff at PFT. As soon as I see "Posted by Mike Florio" I know the article is nothing more than skewed, opinionated, slanderous conjecture. What's worse is PFF deletes well-informed posts that specifically discredit this hack's articles. I posted yesterday that the 6k new tickets have little to nothing to do with Tannehill, himself, and that it's instead about the change in the organization post-Parcells where we've become more accessible to the fans & media and more concerned about the fans' opinion; fans are excited the team appears headed in the right direction after the offseason moves Miami has made, which includes finally using a 1st round pick on a QB and thus instilling hope for the future; and that the organization has actually given fans more reason to support it, none of which foolishly stems from the expectation of Tannehill turning the team around in 2012. But PFT removed it.
That's the Cubans in Miami who show up late....to everything! Don't lump everyone in. Please save me the aggravation of having to defend the people here in S Fl.
Its not this, not yet at least, I haven't renewed this year and if I purchased today I would be a renewal, not new. I renewed late a few years ago and got all bennies of renewal in June. Wish I could afford to renew this year, I bet my seats in the lower bowl will be hard to get in the coming years. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
### The Dolphins have discussed cutting capacity at Sun Life Stadium, but now are*re-evaluating that*because they’ve sold 6000 new season tickets, mostly since the draft. That's the most in*several years, team CEO Mike Dee