Arrowhead Club Level - FAIL

[Strongside]

I'm not sure what idiot at arrowhead keeps setting the club level prices where they are, but apparently they aren't getting the picture. I realize this has been discussed here before, but it's outrageous that we started to see the CL almost completely empty 3 years ago and that it's not been fixed. It's been hard to find data on ticket prices, but I found some.

In 2008, just four years ago, these were the prices listed on the Chiefs website.

In continuation of the Chiefs long-standing policy, the taxpayers of Jackson County, Missouri will receive a pre-sale opportunity to purchase single-game tickets for Chiefs home games during the upcoming 2008 season on Tuesday, July 22nd and Wednesday July 23rd, beginning at 10:00 AM. Tickets may be purchased in person at the Arrowhead box office or at participating Kansas City Ticketmaster Ticket Centers. Ticket prices for Chiefs home games begin at $105-115 (club level) and range downward to $81-94 (field level) and $41-83 (upper level).

As you can see, the most expensive ticket in the stadium was $115. Compare that to the current price of $270 and take into consideration that we've had a deep economic shitstorm since then and it's easy to see that these prices are just way off. Granted, the stadium has undergone a renovation but the view from these seats didn't change and, if I'm not mistaken, neither did the inclusiveness of the club level seating. A lot of those seats may be reserved for corporate sales...if this is the case, then that strategy isn't working, should be ditched and the prices lowered to suit the general public. Another common misconception is that the seats are empty because the fans that hold those tickets can go up into the suites, which isn't true. I've sat in the CL several times and have never had access to a suite.

Mark Donovan addressed the 'yellow seats' a couple of years ago but, as we saw last year and yesterday, whatever their solution was, didn't work.

Here's what Donovan said:

"We've seen the yellow seats," Donovan acknowledged on 810 WHB Tuesday morning.
For all those who have sent in an email asking the question, here's your answer: "We think we mis-priced those," he said. "What we're doing this year is we're going to roll out a new pricing plan for the end zones and corner of the club level and those prices will go down."

I'm not sure if the prices actually did go down or not, but the fact is that the seats remain empty. It's an eyesore on TV and it's a damn shame when you're at the games and Arrowhead looks like a shell of it's former self.

The ticket prices don't match the product on the field or the struggling economy...parking is damn near $30, which is insane as well...and it needs to be fixed.

[Bambi]

The Jets have slashed ticket prices this season and now the place is packed with excitement. I don't understand the "businessmen" in Kansas City.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Strongside

He needs to sell the team to whoever runs Sporting KC...same with the Royals.

He needs to sell the team to Mark Cuban. He actually gives a shit.

[Strongside]

Originally Posted by frazod

He needs to sell the team to Mark Cuban. He actually gives a shit.

Cuban would be AWESOME as an owner of any NFL team.

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by Strongside

He needs to sell the team to whoever runs Sporting KC...same with the Royals.

They'll never do that. These teams all make tons of money as long as they stay cheap on payroll. What I don't get is why they can't see how much more they can make if they actually weren't working against their own fans.

Just look around the NFL and MLB. It's happening everywhere.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Strongside

Cuban would be AWESOME as an owner of any NFL team.

With our luck, he'll end up buying the Broncos.

[Strongside]

Originally Posted by Wickedson

They'll never do that. These teams all make tons of money as long as they stay cheap on payroll. What I don't get is why they can't see how much more they can make if they actually weren't working against their own fans.

Just look around the NFL and MLB. It's happening everywhere.

Or just take the common sense approach and put a ****ing winner on the field. Look at Sporting KC...that stadium is a perfect reminder of how great this town can be when the team actually gives a shit about winning. It's crazy in Livestrong.

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by Strongside

Or just take the common sense approach and put a ****ing winner on the field. Look at Sporting KC...that stadium is a perfect reminder of how great this town can be when the team actually gives a shit about winning. It's crazy in Livestrong.

The only winning team that I can think of that doesn't continually sell out and make money hand over fist is the Tampa Bay Rays. Then again they've never won it all so I suppose there is some thought that they can move up from where they are if they are ever able to do that.

Yankees, Patriots, Packers, Lakers, Celtics, Heat, Steelers..... It's not because they are old legendary franchises that they have so much more than everyone else...it's because they win.

The Chiefs will never be those teams but there's no excuse they aren't miles beyond where they are.

Being a "fan" is getting tougher and tougher, I admit.

[dirk digler]

Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58

I think he mis-spoke.

They don't have access to the suites, but they do have access to the bar areas in the club level.

The one time I've sat there, the public areas were packed.

Yep. I went twice last year with my brother who got lucky and got tickets to his company suite and seats in the gold seats. We didn't bother sitting in the gold seats we stayed in the suite. The public bar areas were packed all game long since there is a ton of TV's around.

[New World Order]

Originally Posted by Bump

they are seriously $270 just to sit in the mid section? JFC

Do they not realize that this is Kansas City! The midwest! Sort of blue collar ya know?

It's not Manhattan, NY.

They are always empty when they show it on TV. Dumbasses.

So that is why, always wondered why that section is empty.

[Strongside]

There were literally THREE people in one of the end-zone sections yesterday.

[qabbaan]

Are these seats belonging to people who just hang out inside the suite? Or are they separate tickets?

Are they blocks sold to companies that may just go unused sometimes?

I doubt the chiefs would let a whole tier go unsold. I am guessing those tickets are paid for but not being used or being used by people who just soak up the AC inside.

[1ChiefsDan]

Originally Posted by frazod

With our luck, he'll end up buying the Broncos.

You shut your whore mouth!

[Strongside]

Originally Posted by qabbaan

Are these seats belonging to people who just hang out inside the suite? Or are they separate tickets?

Are they blocks sold to companies that may just go unused sometimes?

I doubt the chiefs would let a whole tier go unsold. I am guessing those tickets are paid for but not being used or being used by people who just soak up the AC inside.

I don't know for sure. The times I've sat there, I didn't have access to the suites. I was in a suite once and didn't have access to the seats, but I've heard some say that they did, so I don't know.

If people just aren't going outside because they're afraid that their money might blow away or that the noise might damage the starch on their suits, then the Chiefs just need to sell separate tickets. It's idiotic to display your stadium as half-empty as ours is all because your wine and cheese crowd wants to stay indoors.

It wouldn't make sense to me, though, if the Chiefs are allowing fans to go into suites. We'd have to be the only team in the league doing that since other teams premium and club levels are packed every game. If fans in NYC and Dallas are paying for a club level ticket and staying out in the seats then I don't see what would make KC fans do it in MASS NUMBERS.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by denverdanchiefsfan

You shut your whore mouth!

[1ChiefsDan]

Originally Posted by frazod

****, I already have to listen to the town talk about another SB win because of the win last night. I hope someone removes his head from his broken neck because they are even worse at backup qb than we are.