Taking home games away

[Mickie Lane]

I find that surprising he said that, I'm not sure how many, but NFL teams have people waiting in their 1000s to become ticket holders, and I think some have years to wait.

Because they only have about 8 home games a year, and half of them are against their division rivals, makes each one of those games huge for the fans. And let's not forget the population factor over there too.

I was lucky enough to buy tickets to the pats-giants game at MetLife stadium( and was happy to pay $500 a pop) I got the tickets through a ticket agent that sells the tickets of people who can't attend that match. There was 80000 people, easy to get to the game by train, people who can't get tickets to the game watch it in the stadium car parks and have BBQ, TVs and radios out there. It is crazy to see so many people willing to go to that extent to watch a game. When we got back to the city after the game, the sports bars were overflowing and they have about 30 Tv with every sport on them, it's a culture thing, and I would be amazed if that was the sport that became a Tv sport only.

AFL in Melbourne for a few teams is the closest we will see to that type of fan craziness, and as boogie said, broadcasting every game live has made it too easy for the fan to enjoy the game from the lounge chair, any sign of rain before a match back before it was shown live, would still get most people wanting to go and take a chance, it was almost a challenge or dare. Now you don't have to worry about carrying that umbrella, parkas for the kids, running through the muddy car park to get everyone to the car and driving home in the rain, because it doesn't rain in your lounge room, where drinks and snacks are a shout out away!

Hilarious.