10 things about selling my preseason tickets on CP
 

10. Training camp starts in a couple of weeks and the football buzz is growing. How quickly we all forget that Andy & Alex have served us long suffering Chiefs fans with two of the most epic playoff collapses of all time. Yet, hope springs eternal, and now another season is about to begin. Joey Chuckles asked me for a "Ten Things" thread about selling pre-season tickets here on the CP. OK, for my own off season OTA, I'll serve it up.

9. For the past four or five years, I've just refused to go to pre-season games because I don't think its right for the NFL to charge regular season prices for pre-season games. Games one and four are the worst. In game one, teams are evaluating early cuts, so the scrubs play a lot. By game four the rosters are pretty much set except for third string backups and special teams players, and nobody wants to risk an injury right before the season begins. So I understand why people would turn their nose up at wanting to buy games one and four. As Spott said in the thread, why pay full price to have your soul ripped out in pre-season? I agree. Unfortunately, the NFL makes the rules, and as FlaChief58 said, no courtesy of a reach around. If you want the regular season, you have to pay pre-season prices. But there is a special circumstance here. The seats. The seats are awesome.

8. The last few years I've offered my fellow fans on the CP first crack at these seats. Some of you like Wazu and Scho63 have had the experience of sitting in these seats. You get to see a lot of stuff that other fans don't see, and especially a TV audience doesn't see. You can hear the players and coaches talking. You can see who's hurt and how bad. And like Rain Man said, you can check out the Cheerleaders. Hey guys, in hot weather they don't wear much. And when the game starts, they come right up the tunnel under the seats. You can see how many are legit, and how many are patched up with Bondo.

7. Simply Red and Pablo seem to have rape fantasies. Lone Wolf wants to be kicked in the nuts. Prison Bitch has a thing about the Boys Club of Raytown. NTTAWWT. Tell ya what fellas, next year I'll consider a rochambeau for them...

6. I guess the good news is, there's very little chance we'll see a Tyler Palko appearance in either game. And even though Mahomes is not technically a rookie, he'll probably play a bit more than somebody like (for example) Aaron Rodgers.

5. TLO is a low ballin' mofo. $50? That won't even get you a handie on Independence Avenue! Both sets of tickets sold for face value; one here on CP and the other on the NFL Exchange. If the CPer who bought the Texans game wants to talk about it afterwards, that's up to him. If he wants to remain anonymous so you pinheads don't skewer him, that's OK too. I just hope he has a great time and enjoys the experience.

4. Lewdog is right "F ME for offering tickets to the CP first." What was I thinking?? I been on the CP for around 15 years now. I like the CP because it's not looking through Chiefs Rose Colored glasses like Arrowhead Pride. And we have poop threads. And the Florida News thread. And the "Would you pork Kathy Bates" thread. I'm easily entertained. But as an editorial comment, it seems like a faction of this board gets its jollies by sharp shooting or finding fault with just about everything. We've lost a lot of members because of it. Can't we all be nicer to each other?

3. Dartgod is a very good mod. I don't think the mods get enough credit around here. They are underappreciated, and I'd like to give them a shout out for the service they provide all of us CPers. Thanks guys, appreciate you.

2. The Chiefs no longer provide a way to print out paper tickets from a PDF. They want everybody to show a code on a smart phone. But what if you're off the grid and don't have a smart phone? It's not easy. I think you should still be able to get actual tickets, either a traditional ticket or a PDF printout, but that's just me.

1. I don't know if I'll have any regular season games available this year or not, but if I do, I'll think about listing them here first. After this pre-season experience, I don't know if its worth putting up with the nattering nabobs of negativity. Because of my health -which is not real good- I don't do freezing cold weather very well any more. And as usual, we have a couple cold weather games on the schedule. We'll see when the time comes. Now, everybody hit the showers and enjoy the last couple weeks until we're all due in St. Joe!

Didn't the "emergency" thread give you hope for a kinder gentler chiefsplanet you long for? Your #9 "special circumstance" sales pitch is comical but your casino cash is impressive! So you don't think it's right for the NFL to charge regular season prices for pre-season games but It's OK when you do it.

They should at least sell game 4 tickets at half price.

Oh man, GB. It started smelling like football outside after reading this thread.........

I didn't know you were selling your preseason tickets. Had I known I would have put in a bid. Where were you doing this?

Congrats on selling the tickets George!

I figured someone would snag them at full price eventually.

The general public isn’t nearly as snarky and cynical about the Chiefs as the typical CP poster

Well, he wasn't asking for bids. He was asking for full price. I both understand why he'd ask for such a thing and why many people would scoff at it. It is what it is.

When you can buy a ticket to either of these pre-season games at ARROWHEAD for under $10 on StubHub why would anybody want to pay face value whatever the "special circumstance" is?

As George mentioned in the OP, you're not buying tickets to the game, you're buying tickets to sit directly behind the Chiefs bench, have some level of interaction with the players, etc. It's not for me, mind you, but if I had a 5-year-old kid or something and wanted to get him into the game of football, I can't think of a better way than meeting players up close like that.

Again, I understand why many people would just say "**** that," but I also understand why, in the right circumstances, paying face value would be more than worth it for someone.

You can’t buy the kind of seats he has for $10. Dude paid full price so he’s asking what he paid for. Why should he subsidize someone? You want him to pay for a beer and a dog while he’s at it? He’s not making a nickel of profit and he’s offering seats that 99% of fans will never get to sit in.

I would have bought game 4, the Denver game. :D

The smell of football as August begins is truly one of the greatest things each year. My mood instantly is boosted, big time.

When the cool air starts moving in, that's when it's real.

Lonewolf will be along shortly to say you are kidding, right?

Hey George..out of curiosity, how many seats do you have? I would absolutely pay for your seats if you don’t want to attend one of the December games.

Until last year I used to have three. Then I started having to give away a $100+ ticket three or four times a year, which was costing me stupid money. So I cut down to two. The guy who sits next to me has my old third ticket, and sometimes its available, but not often.

Out of respect for Dartgod, LoneWolf will be refraining from any commentary based off of Gblowfish’s top ten list.

Thank you for your service in writing this. You are a good man.

I get it dude. I'm glad he sold them but why bitch about the NFL charging regular season prices for pre-seaon games? This has been going on for the last four decades now.

very sexy

Considering the location of those seats, there will always be a demand for them.

Do you sell to rival fans or no? All money is green right?

For those who have never been to Arrowhead or want to take a kid to their first game. George's preseason game seats are one hell of a way to do it right and have a cool experience.

Blowfish deserves to be in the CP Ring of Honor.

George -

You do realize you could sell those seats for an obscene profit on Stubhub anytime you want, correct?

If you can find one sap to buy preseason tickets for full price, then that's what they are worth. Blowfish should be commended for getting full price for his preseason tickets when someone could sit just a few rows up or a section or two over and pay nothing or next to nothing. He's put in the work here promoting them and found a way around the NFL's policy of pickpocketing STHs through the anus

Yeah, that hasn't really been my style. But more as these games get monetized by the Chiefs, the more tempting it is to scalp. I haven't been into buying season tickets as a commodity. It may get to that point sometime, but I'm not quite there yet.

If the seats list on the NFL ticket exchange, they're open game to anybody. I hope a Chiefs fan bought the Green Bay game, but Packer fans travel like crazy, so who knows?

I'm glad that you got your money out of them George. I didn't think that you would. Like you said, games 1 and 4 are a hard sell.....most years. I went to game 4 last year. That's the one I wanted to see. But that was because I wanted to see Mahomes start. I watched the entire first half, then left shortly into the 3rd quarter. There just wasn't anything worth watching once Mahomes went to the bench. This year, I have no desire to go to preseason game 4 even if the tickets were free. That's nothing against you or the location of the tickets. It has to do with the fact that most everyone on the field for that game will be cut the next day.

I'll second that.

I would've bought them, but not only do I never call in sick, I've decided to work 24 hour shifts 7 days a week as personal test of will.

I made the list!

**** yeah!!

You say one "sap". What if somebody is just rich and they don't care about the money? Throwing a few hundred bucks to get the "best" seats is nothing to them. Doesn't mean they are a sucker or a sap.

Having sat next to/near George in that row more than once, I can attest to the fact that it's an experience different from any other in the stadium. After all, there are only so many places where Marcus Peters and Todd Haley would remind you to shut the **** up.

Marcus told me to STFU, Todd Haley was non-verbal -he said he may have waved...that's his story and he's sticking to it!

No one can live off the grid anymore.

Enjoy your 15 seconds of FAME

So glad that both MP and TH are gone. Who needs their ringside abuse.

Best seats are Club Level going for both of these games under $50 each on Stubhub

The day is coming when you will just wave your hand at the gate for admission thanks to the RFID chip you'll have implanted. :D

Club level are not even in the discussion of best seats. That’s why their market value is under $50.

10 things about selling my preseason tickets on CP
 

You should 10 X face value price on your regular season tickets if you put them up for sale.

The Mahomes Era has begun.

You & I both know where those $10 tickets at Arrowhead are right?

What’s wrong with club level seats? Easy access to drinks, excellent view of the field, and less probability of running into a drunk redneck looking for a fight.

I love Club Level seats.

you're a vagina

Also - if you're going to throw me under the bus - I'll go ahead and say - had they been mine, I'd have given them away to a CP'er in a heartbeat. I'll be honest I've been wanting to say that since you started this thread, but held back.

Nothing. Club level are generally very good seats. I’d be happy to watch a game there and have. But the best seats in club are inferior to lower level front row mid field. I’ve sat both places and it’s a dramatically different experience.

It's pre-season. Sure you can pay face value if you want and money is no object. To each his/her own.

It's pre-season. Who cares?

I would take upper level seats over anything lower bowl. 200/Club first, 300/upper second, top row under either scoreboard is my personal favorites :thumb: :arrow:

We had x3 Section 103 Row 1 tix from about '88-'10.
No matter, the tix are hard as a mug to get rid of... and eating the price on those pre-season tix are a joke.

You should never hold back

Yup. Club level is fine if it's December and you want to be able to avoid the cold and you're more interested in Boulevard Wheat than Kingdom Ale (hand raised in that respect admittedly), but it's a completely neutered Arrowhead experience otherwise. Not what the best elements of the stadium are all about.

You wanna fight him too?

Tell ya what, SR. Pick out two CPers who really need money, and Paypal them $340 each. Do it in a heartbeat.

Then I'll be impressed.

And I didn't bring up rape. You did.

Carry on.

Not quite the same thing now is it?

Can we please stop talking about GeorgeBlowjobs tix or his cat?

George if these morons don't appreciate what you contribute to this board then quite simply, **** them. I think it is very thoughtful for you to offer ANY Chiefs tickets to this boards members. I wish I lived closer to Kansas City so that I might take part in said offers. Thank you as always for your top 10! :clap:

How long have you been a NFL season ticket holder? My first year was 1984 with the San Diego Chargers. Back then it was $18 per ticket per game on the 30 yard line 18 rows up from the field at Jack Murphy Stadium. So it was $180 for ten games (two pre-season and the eight regular season games) times two for a total of $360 for the pair. I also had Los Angeles Raiders season tickets in the end zone at the coliseum for $15 each in the early 90's. A pair of those were $300 for all ten games.

Glad to see George getting back in shape for the season.

For my family it started with my dad. He bought two season tickets in 1967, and my sister and I were in the kid's Huddle Club. He kept his seats until the new stadium opened, then lucked out and got the good seat location in 1972 when Arrowhead opened. He retired in 1993 and I took over the seats. When I took them over, they were $16.50 each. This year they're $150 each.

If you happen to be selling your tickets to any games this season, I call first dibs!

First dibs should go to the guy who paid full price for the preseason game.

I take it that's you?

Were you in attendance for the Derrick Thomas 7 sack game vs. the SEAHAWKS?

Of course. Thanks for reminding me. You know we lost, right?

Yep. I know. But what a performance. Number 8 was in his grasp to end the game but Kreig found Skansi in the end zone for the win with no time remaining. Insane

No. It wasn't me. I was just saying that if someone was willing to pay full price for a preseason ticket, they should get dibs before anyone else. That's all. I stated earlier in the thread that I had no desire to go to preseason game 1 or 4 even if the tickets were free. They're just not worth watching in my opinion.

The Green Bay game is on the Thursday leading into Labor Day weekend. I'll bet a lot of Packer fans come to Arrowhead for that game.