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Dolphins Patriots sellout..expect 20,000 pat fans,

Discussion in 'Miami Dolphins Forum' started by djphinfan, Nov 28, 2012.

  1. djphinfan

    djphinfan Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    http://miamiherald.typepad.com/dolp...he-stadium-sh.html#comment-form#storylink=cpy

    Unfortunately for the Dolphins, about 20,000 of those seats will be filled by Patriots fans. The Dolphins expect their fans will fill approximately 50,000 of the seats while the rest will go to New England fans.

    Let's face it, the weather is beautiful in South Florida this time of year so some Pats fans have obviously made a long weekend out of this game. And, of course, their team is really, really good."


    Sucks man....well, at least the players won't have to see the empty seats when they come out of the tunnel..

    Maybe the pats fans will inspire them to play well.
     
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  2. TotoreMexico

    TotoreMexico Your retarded

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  3. Killer Bees

    Killer Bees Bringin' the Ruckus

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    well i'll be there, and i'll make sure to be a lot louder than any of those damn patsy fans.
     
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  4. padre31

    padre31 Premium Member Luxury Box

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    A sort of mini vacation out of the NE cold, cannot really blame them tbh

    Hopefully our guys take offense at this and play an inspired game.
     
  5. Bumrush

    Bumrush Stable Genius Club Member

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    The last two games have felt like preseason games at JRS. Half empty with an apathetic crowd.

    Football is dying in Miami. No different than Cane games.
     
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  6. cdz12250

    cdz12250 Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    In these days of 90 inch HD 3D LCD screens, surround sound hi-fi, massage chairs and kegerators, you're going to get some attrition.
     
  7. FinNasty

    FinNasty Alabama don’t want this... Staff Member Club Member

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    You've been to my house???
     
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  8. cdz12250

    cdz12250 Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    No, but the man cave of our dreams is probably the same.
     
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  9. CrunchTime

    CrunchTime Administrator Retired Administrator

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    No one thought the Dolphins had a chance in 2004 on a Monday Night in December when the Dolphins stunned the eventual Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots 29-28 as the Dolphins defense intercepted Tom Brady twice in the final 2 minutes .And thats with AJ Feeley at QB.

    Anything is possible in the NFL. Fans may regret their decision not to attend the game on yet another classic upset game aginst the Pats.
     
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  10. schmolioot

    schmolioot Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Football is not dying in Miami. People still care about the Dolphins. The Sunday games still are the highest rated program of the week in South Florida (the Thursday night blip was a fluke).

    People just aren't willing to spend the money on a mediocre product right now until some real results come in.

    I'm a season ticket holder but I must admit, if these tickets hadn't been in my family for 33 years I doubt I would buy them now.

    The Dolphins just need to play better and win more. Then the place will be filled again. The renovations theyw ant could actually help with this too. JRS is just way too big for this market and always has been. You eliminate 10,000-12,000 seats from the joint and make it a 61-63,000 seat stadium and it will sell out easily most of the time
     
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  11. vizi0n

    vizi0n Boom.. Club Member

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    Anyone watch that video of the Jest going to their locker room at half? Silly New York fans make me happy :)
     
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  12. djphinfan

    djphinfan Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    "31st in average attendance and averaging 74.2% of capacity which is dead last and 8% below the next team. in an area that has 4.3 million people."
     
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  13. Stringer Bell

    Stringer Bell Post Hard, Post Often Club Member

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    There are a lot of worse teams that get better attendance. Winning would help a little bit, but the reality is that the stadium isn't very alluring to the casual fan.
     
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  14. Paul 13

    Paul 13 Chaotic Neutral & Unstable Genius Staff Member

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    which is more important to filling the stadium, the product on the field, or the product in the stands?
     
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  15. PSG

    PSG Clear Eyes. Full Hearts.

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    Ive been saying it for a year, and every time I do you all laugh at me.
    But I wont be surprised if the Dolphins end up being the team that moves to L.A.
    Crappy stadium, apathetic (at best) fanbase and a pathetic product on the field. Its the perfect recipe for relocation.
     
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  16. djphinfan

    djphinfan Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    noone should be laughing.
     
  17. RGF

    RGF THE FINSTER Club Member

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    Pats win afc east with a win...probably why their fans are swarming in...I say lets piss them all off and win.
     
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  18. Berezo

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    They can clinch this with a win? lol...wow
     
  19. Berezo

    Berezo Well-Known Member

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    Wouldn't the Jags or some other team be first in line to move on? I don't think Miami has "Exhausted all of its resources" like the NFL says you need to do before you move your franchise.
     
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  20. schmolioot

    schmolioot Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    This is complete hogwash. Even if the stadium were loaded with incredible amenities, the fans still would not show up if the team wasn't winning (see Miami Marlins)

    This is a relatively new phenomenon for the Fins. It wasn't that long ago that you couldn't get a ticket for Fins games, and the stadium was routinely at 90-95% capcity during the Jimmy-Wanny-Saban years. This decline only started during 1-15 and has bottomoed out now since we've sucked for so long.
     
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  21. schmolioot

    schmolioot Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    I'll laugh.

    It's not going to happen ever.

    The stadium is fine for the real purpose of getting new stadiums, making it's owner money. Steven Ross gets 100% of parking, concessions and ticket sales (minus what goes to NFL revenue sharing). It's the beauty of a privately built stadium. In any new stadium all that stuff would be shared to some extent with the public entity that gave you the money.

    As far as apathetic fanbases, many other cities suffer the same and this is nothing all that new for So. Fla and yet we have managed not to lose a team yet (unless you count MLS, which I don't)

    Look up San Diego's attendance and stadium situation before you start worrying about the Dolphins. The Raiders too. California has two teams within 400 miles of LA that both need new stadiums, yet you're worried that the Dolphins are going to schlep across the country for what, having a bad attendance drop one year?

    You can stop worrying.
     
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  22. djphinfan

    djphinfan Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Ding ding ding ding ding, we have a winner.
     
  23. djphinfan

    djphinfan Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Has nothing to do with amenities..

    Do you understand what makes a great building.?... It doesn't have anything to do with the fans...

    The building sucks..pathetic..culture cancer.
     
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  24. schmolioot

    schmolioot Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    What could a stadium possibly have that would make someone who is not inclined to go to a football game show up and buy a ticket?
     
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  25. PhinGeneral

    PhinGeneral PC Texas A&M, Bro Club Member

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    Not that I disagree about the size of the stadium, but a big part of the renovations is to attract more Super Bowls and the NFL has basically come out and said they tend to frown on potential Super Bowl host stadiums that seat less than 70-72,000.
     
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  26. HardKoreXXX

    HardKoreXXX Insensitive to the Touch

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    You guys have it wrong. These Pats fans aren't flying down for the game; They live here.
     
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  27. schmolioot

    schmolioot Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Any building, to be effective in the way you think it should be effective, needs fans.

    So I'm asking you, seriously, how does moving the seats closer induce somebody who would not otherwise buy a ticket to go to the game?

    I'm seriously asking because we had no problem finding 73,000 fans in the mid 90's Marino heyday, through JJ and Wanny years, and even into Saban's tenure.
     
  28. schmolioot

    schmolioot Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Then the stadium should be fine as is for the Super Bowl.

    This whole Super Bowl thing is simply Roger Gooddell extortion on behalf of one of his 32 bosses.

    The same guy who gave a Super Bowl to an outdoor stadium in New Jersey where it is highly likely to snow has they balls to complain that it rained ONCE in the 12 times times Miami has had a SB?

    Extortion.
     
  29. Anonymous

    Anonymous Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Don't forget Jacksonville, too.
     
  30. PhinGeneral

    PhinGeneral PC Texas A&M, Bro Club Member

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    It absolutely is. But that tends to be the NFL way.
     
  31. Stringer Bell

    Stringer Bell Post Hard, Post Often Club Member

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    Product in the stands.
     
  32. Mcduffie81

    Mcduffie81 Wildcat Club Member

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    You nailed it right on the head. No one seems to understand that.
     
  33. Bpk

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    Dude, if you are as loud in person as your font is large I don;t think anyone will hear ya!

    Make it large and loud brotha!!!

    Just joking you. :) Have fun at the game. Ask the Pats fans what it's like to have Justin Bieber at QB.
     
  34. Stringer Bell

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  35. Bpk

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    That's the problem in Florida... and here in LA too. Way too many people in these places are transplants who have loyalties elsewhere.

    It's like the Marines won't let you join if your nationality is not American, because your loyalty could lie with the homeland... the Phins shouldn't allow anyone to be a fan who isn;t a Florida local.

    Wait, that means *I* can't be a fan. lol.
     
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  36. Stringer Bell

    Stringer Bell Post Hard, Post Often Club Member

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    Its not extortion, its maximizing revenue. The NFL makes their SB money from selling luxury suites and boxes to corporations. These corporations aren't spending millions on a suite that doesn't have the amenities they're accustomed to. Fans sitting in stands at a SB aren't the NFLs concernm, those people would sit through almost anything.
     
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  37. Bpk

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    Simple solution.

    Concessions at the stadium are given this directive:
    When you see anyone in Patriots or Redsox regalia, you are to serve them last month's fish in their fish taco.

    Voila. No more "foreign" fans.
     
  38. Bpk

    Bpk Premium Member Luxury Box

    The start of basketball is not a coincidence, timingwise.

    When it costs $4321.56 for a family of four to see a game, you gotta choose your sport.

    Heat >>>>> Dolphins
     
  39. Bpk

    Bpk Premium Member Luxury Box

    You forgot bj's. Plentiful bj's.
     
  40. Bpk

    Bpk Premium Member Luxury Box

    Was that the jim Bates, Orange uni's game?
     
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