Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Top 10 reasons why NFL season ticket sales have dropped for three straight years

For the third straight year, NFL season ticket sales have dropped, along with overall attendance. What's causing the soft gate at America's favorite sport?

10) With near double-digit unemployment, people are really making the wrong choices

9) An ever-increasing number of NFL fans are too obese to leave the house, let alone fit in a seat

8) Perhaps the pricing of the Jets' PSLs at "Six Figures And Your Eternal Soul" might have been a reach

7) Unlike MLB fans, the NFL customer has never bought into that whole "Have to see all of the new parks" nonsense

6) Jacksonville alone more or less prevents the league from winning on this measure

5) The allure of terrible regular season blowouts in heavily populated foreign cities just isn't bringing in the foreigners anymore

4) Now that every single football fan in America has a fantasy team, no one wants to be away from a computer during a game

3) Everyone already has a foam finger, hat with straws and crippling debt

2) Most people don't have long lines at their home bathroom, double digit prices for beverages, obstructed views, high parking fees and rich, annoying fans of the opposing team

1) If you are at the stadium, you miss all of the hi-larious pre-game braying jackassery, and the unspeakably trenchant play by play and color commentary

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