Sick/desperate/cheap Hawkeye fans

ripvdub · 04-01-2008, 08:37 PM

This thread on Hawkeye report starts nice enough, then a bunch of morons start chyming in on how they use their dead parents name to get better football tix.

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Maybe its more of the fact that they are proud about it.

keepngoal · 04-01-2008, 08:41 PM

I will some day. What the problem?

My dads only regret was not taking on his dads name for season tix. He bought 8 every year JTS was open until 1985.

-keep

clone2011 · 04-01-2008, 08:44 PM

Fans of probably ALL collegiate and NFL teams do this. The teams refuse to allow tickets to be handed off to blood relatives w/o penalty (losing prime seats, starting over w/ donation levels, etc.), so fans one-up them by going through the loophole.

And face it--as long as the university/pro team gets their money, they won't waste the time to make people stop.

SouthernHawk · 04-01-2008, 08:48 PM

Honestly, there's no problem with this. It's been going on for ages - in the pro and collegiate ranks.

ajsp · 04-01-2008, 09:03 PM

I am fairly certain that the packers allow their season tickets to be passed down in wills to family members. I am pretty sure that many fights have broken out as to who the deceased left the season tickets to

ajk4st8 · 04-01-2008, 09:05 PM

The title of your thread did not narrow it down much.

ripvdub · 04-01-2008, 09:08 PM

Sorry, finally posted the link to it. But just because it happens all the time theres nothing wrong with it? So if 10,000 families want to own all the tickets to Iowa football for all of eternity, thats ok as long as your one of those 10,000 families huh?

What about the people that helped "fund" JTS that got 50 yardline tix forever but now have to donate? I believe they finally have to donate again to keep their tickets.

clone2011 · 04-01-2008, 09:09 PM

If that's what the Packers do, it's a rare occurrence w/ respect to the rest of the sporting world. Packers fans are also known for putting their child's name on the waiting list for tickets the day that they're born because that's how hard it is to acquire new season tickets. According to their website, the current waiting list is 57000 names long with an average wait of 30 years.

I can't think of another team that would be able to "sniff their jock" in this regard.

istatefan · 04-01-2008, 09:42 PM

The Packers season ticket waiting list is notorious for the long wait time to be eligible to actually purchase season tickets. From what I've read, many fans do indeed put their children, sometimes at birth, on the waiting list, in hope that some day those children will be eligible. I've heard rumors, or maybe stories, that the waiting list position is passed along in wills, as well. Not sure how true that is.

I signed up for the waiting list (hey, it's the cool thing to do

) a few years ago. In 2005, I received the yearly postcard stating that I was 68000-something or other. This past year (2007), I was in the 64000s. I'm feeling kind of panicked about coming up with the money for season tickets in the next "few" years ... Or not.

keepngoal · 04-01-2008, 09:44 PM

Originally Posted by ripvdub

What about the people that helped "fund" JTS that got 50 yardline tix forever but now have to donate? I believe they finally have to donate again to keep their tickets.

one section took ISU to court over it and won.. they still get the deal promised to them. other sections caved.

-keep