What The Chiefs Think of Their Season Ticket Holders

[gblowfish]

Not much.

They like money a lot more than they like you!

Story on how they booted a 20-year STH out of his comfy rich **** suite:

http://fox4kc.com/2013/12/26/longtim...l-his-tickets/

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ever since Tom Lyons moved to the Kansas City metro more than 30 years ago, he’s been a Kansas City Chiefs’ fanatic. He’s stuck with them through their highs and lows.

“I was vested with the Chiefs,” Lyons said.

That was until this month, when he got the bad news.

“The only way I found out, I happened to call them to buy more tickets. (They said) You can’t buy more. You can’t even have yours,” he recalled.

This 20-year season ticket holder was suddenly ticketless. He was told that the suite he shared with another company on the 50-yard line and paid $41,000 for last year, had been sold four weeks earlier when the Chiefs were undefeated at 9-0.

“Everyone in that suite got booted and everyone in the suite next to us got booted,” Lyons said.

Lyons, the owner and CEO of a national travel agency, said he would have gladly tried to match any price offered for the suite if the Chiefs had just given him the opportunity. It’s an opportunity he believes he deserves after decades as a loyal fan.

“It’s easy to sell a suite when your team is 9-0, but what about when you are 2-14?” Lyons asked.

But he said the Chiefs’ sales office wouldn’t budge and instead offered him six bar stools in a different suite, higher up in the stadium and on the end zone.

“From a suite with leather seats to that?” Lyons said.

The Kansas City Chiefs’ ticket contract states that a Chiefs ticket is a renewable, but revocable license and it can be taken away at any time for nearly any reason. A spokesman for the Chiefs told FOX 4 Problem Solvers that suites are treated differently than regular season tickets. Once a suite contract is nearing an end, as it was in the case of Mr. Lyons’ suite, the suite is placed back on the open market.

The Chiefs wouldn’t say who the suite was sold to, except that it was a “longtime Chiefs fan.” While what happened to Mr. Lyons may be perfectly legal, Lyons said it’s tough staying loyal to a team that has shown no loyalty to him.

“If they can’t do anything for me, I’m looking for another NFL team, ” Lyons said. “They don’t even have to be good.”

The Chiefs tell Problem Solvers that it is still trying to find a way to win back Mr. Lyons’ support.

[kepp]

I'm sure it was legal to sell the suite, but when someone has dumped out that much money to you, you give them first dibs.

[WakkaWakka]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

“If they can’t do anything for me, I’m looking for another NFL team, ” Lyons said. “They don’t even have to be good.”

[ILChief]

Suites ruin football. Sit in tge stands or stay at home

[DaFace]

Hard to feel sympathy for someone who can afford a suite, but that's pretty shitty not to give him the opportunity to match.

[ct]

Originally Posted by ILChief

Suites ruin football. Sit in tge stands or stay at home

this

Originally Posted by DaFace

Hard to feel sympathy for someone who can afford a suite, but that's pretty shitty not to give him the opportunity to match.

and yet this too

[gblowfish]

I have a hard time feeling sorry for him too, after freezing my day living ASS off last week. But they should have given him a shot to renew before selling the suite out from under him. I'll bet it was a nepotism deal, or a sweetheart deal for a sponsor. You know more is going to come out about this when the Chiefs get into spin control. I just laugh every time a "fans vs money" thing comes up. The Chiefs always say "We have the best fans in the NFL," then take a giant crap on them.

[Dayze]

glad Jackson County tax payers et/al could hook up the Carls to make all the improvements for the fans.


LOL..I wonder what percentage of the fleecing went to the suites/upper scale fans / businesses, compared to the regular joe fans.

[TribalElder]

That is it, that does it, I'm not renewing my tickets

I do t have tickets so that will be easy

[Lex Luthor]

I'm not sure I understand the mentality that says "**** him, he's rich enough to afford a suite, so it's hard to feel sorry for him".

He has every right to tell the Chiefs to go **** themselves. The fact is that he did support the team during the horrible years, and they totally shit on him as soon as they got the opportunity.

It's a dick move. It sounds very Pioli-like.

[TimBone]

Is it not odd that he was trying to buy so late in the season? Maybe there's more to the story.

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by Brainiac

I'm not sure I understand the mentality that says "**** him, he's rich enough to afford a suite, so it's hard to feel sorry for him".

He has every right to tell the Chiefs to go **** themselves. The fact is that he did support the team during the horrible years, and they totally shit on him as soon as they got the opportunity.

It's a dick move. It sounds very Pioli-like.

My point is that it's hard to get on the side of the type of fan that has really hurt the Arrowhead experience in the last decade or so. The action itself is clearly shitty.

[tony1959]

I don't care if he's Bill Gates this was wrong period!

[alpha_omega]

I have a feeling there is more to this story.

[DeezNutz]

Originally Posted by DaFace

My point is that it's hard to get on the side of the type of fan that has really hurt the Arrowhead experience in the last decade or so. The action itself is clearly shitty.

This type of fan has always been present at Arrowhead and has nothing to do with the "experience" being any less successful.

For the past decade, the team has, largely, been a pile of shit, run by incompetent assholes; that's why Arrowhead has lost some of its luster.

The fans have nothing to do with it.