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Yesterday in the Dome was the first game it felt like the Ditka/Haslett years again
Posted on 9/18/17 at 6:37 am
Posted on 9/18/17 at 6:37 am
Disclaimer: I remember when Mora was let go but Ditka/Haslett were my early Saints years so that's all i can base it on. But, it was flat inside that place. Everyone was predicting the play calling. No one seemed to care (especially the team).
I hate this feeling.
I hate this feeling.
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Posted on 9/18/17 at 7:01 am to geauxtigers87
spot on....you are exactly right..... 
Posted on 9/18/17 at 7:05 am to saintsman40
Saints need to do something similar to Denver and strip season tickets away from people selling them and not attending games.
look, i get capitalism and i get that we have a bad team, but every home game last year and so fat this year has been at least 1/3 opposing fans if not more. we barely have a home field advantage.
look, i get capitalism and i get that we have a bad team, but every home game last year and so fat this year has been at least 1/3 opposing fans if not more. we barely have a home field advantage.
Posted on 9/18/17 at 7:55 am to Zach Lee To Amp Hill
Back when the team was winning, people would sell their tickets, and they would get bought by other locals wanting to go to the games. When they're not winning, it's not worth the money, so locals don't go. If the locals don't buy, then the price goes down. When the price goes down, especially below face value, it becomes affordable for opposing fans to fly down and go to the game.
The Patriots win consistently. Foxboro is sold out for the next eleventy billion years or so, and prices for the Patriots' product (home games) are sky high, because no one who has them wants to sell them. For some Patriots fans, including the ones in the seats next to me yesterday, this was their only chance to ever see Brady, Gronk, etc in the flesh.
So if you want the tickets to be sold to Saints fans, capitalism says to make changes and improve the product on the field, for the home town fans who buy the tickets. Get rid of the current people selling their tickets, and you will only replace them with another crop of people who will do the exact same thing, until the team improves again.
The Patriots win consistently. Foxboro is sold out for the next eleventy billion years or so, and prices for the Patriots' product (home games) are sky high, because no one who has them wants to sell them. For some Patriots fans, including the ones in the seats next to me yesterday, this was their only chance to ever see Brady, Gronk, etc in the flesh.
So if you want the tickets to be sold to Saints fans, capitalism says to make changes and improve the product on the field, for the home town fans who buy the tickets. Get rid of the current people selling their tickets, and you will only replace them with another crop of people who will do the exact same thing, until the team improves again.
Posted on 9/18/17 at 7:57 am to Zach Lee To Amp Hill
The Saints won't have to worry about stripping tickets away because people will stop renewing soon enough.
Posted on 9/18/17 at 8:01 am to touchdownjeebus
i'm considering not renewing next year and i've had tickets since 2005 and always said i'd never give them up but it's a chore to go to the dome to watch bullshite.
Posted on 9/18/17 at 8:42 am to geauxtigers87
quote:Actually, Mora quite mid season and walked out on the team...but yea...I get your point. Things are getting bad, and quick.
remember when Mora
Posted on 9/18/17 at 8:47 am to JazzyJeff
Posted on 9/18/17 at 11:30 am to Zach Lee To Amp Hill
I'm not sure we won't renew because we love our seats, but i just don't know if the cost justifies the product now when I can sit on the sofa and watch it and not deal with obnoxious fans
Posted on 9/18/17 at 2:53 pm to Zach Lee To Amp Hill
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i'm considering not renewing next year and i've had tickets since 2005 and always said i'd never give them up but it's a chore to go to the dome to watch bullshite.
Been having mine since 2004 and felt the same way after the game.
Getting a parking ticket in a spot that we had been parking in for the past 11 years seems like the final nail in the coffin.
I don't want to completely give up my tickets though but I'm thinking about calling a couple friends and seeing if they want to split the tickets 4 ways.
Posted on 9/18/17 at 2:54 pm to geauxtigers87
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the Ditka/Haslett years again
Definitely were years in the wilderness. Depressing
Posted on 9/18/17 at 3:07 pm to Zach Lee To Amp Hill
quote:Don't be mad when you get referred to as a bandwagonner though. If we start to see this, I would bet it will be those who bought around the 2006 time frame who are not used to what it had been like to be a Saints fan and support them no matter what.
i'm considering not renewing next year and i've had tickets since 2005 and always said i'd never give them up but it's a chore to go to the dome to watch bull shite.
Posted on 9/18/17 at 3:30 pm to geauxtigers87
its been like that the last 2 years.
Posted on 9/18/17 at 7:18 pm to geauxtigers87
I still feel like we are all overreacting a bit here. If we went back to the off season, circa May, after the bulk of off season moves were made; How would you feel if I told you that after 1 half of football in the coming season, we would have lost: Delvin Breaux, Willie Snead, Terron Armstead, Zach Strief, and Nick Fairley for unexpected reasons? I'd think we were fked. At a certain point, you have to start being realistic. For the last 2 off-seasons, it's hard to strongly disagree with anything the saints have done personnel wise. At this point, we just have the buckle up and hope for some improved play from the rookies; that's all that matters until we get all the starters that are coming back. Let's see how this season plays out; I'm pretty sure it'll be obvious by the end of the year, what needs to be done.
This post was edited on 9/18/17 at 8:38 pm
Posted on 9/18/17 at 7:37 pm to NOSHAU
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Don't be mad when you get referred to as a bandwagonner though. If we start to see this, I would bet it will be those who bought around the 2006 time frame who are not used to what it had been like to be a Saints fan and support them no matter what.
I bought season tickets in 2007 and sold them in 2011. I have no regrets. I got to go to the NFCCG and witness some great games. The cost of those tickets werent worth it every year and in 2010 I couldnt get face value for the seats. I went to games way before that when the Dome was completely empty at no cost because you could pick your tickets off the windshields back then. I supported them. Im not a bandwagon fan. I had hope in the Mora years, the Ditka years and the Haslett years. I had hope this year. Its all gone. They will have to play winning football for me to have hope again and I dont trust them.
When it comes to season tickets you are throwing money away in my opinion. The product on the field is not worth the money 90% of the time speaking as a Saints fan. I wouldnt blame anyone for giving them up. The tickets are too expensive, the beer and food is over priced, the parking is over priced. It would cost me $500 minimum for me and my family to attend a game. Screw that. Its not worth it anymore.
Posted on 9/18/17 at 7:57 pm to Pendulum
as bad as things have been starting out, the Saints still haven't turned the ball over. But when you lose both games by double digits I guess it hardly matters.
no turnovers forced on defense either. Two opportunities blown in the Minn. game and then two yesterday that didn't stand because of penalties.
I guess we are due for a few breaks in the coming weeks.
shoot.. even in the lost 2012 season the Saints collected more turnovers than most people would think. I think that year they finished #12 in takeaways which helped them to a middle of the road record (7-9) in a year that could have way worse considering what happened.
no turnovers forced on defense either. Two opportunities blown in the Minn. game and then two yesterday that didn't stand because of penalties.
I guess we are due for a few breaks in the coming weeks.
shoot.. even in the lost 2012 season the Saints collected more turnovers than most people would think. I think that year they finished #12 in takeaways which helped them to a middle of the road record (7-9) in a year that could have way worse considering what happened.
Posted on 9/18/17 at 9:51 pm to NOSHAU
quote:
Don't be mad when you get referred to as a bandwagonner though. If we start to see this, I would bet it will be those who bought around the 2006 time frame who are not used to what it had been like to be a Saints fan and support them no matter what.
I mean I bought my tickets when I was 21. It's not like I was rich af. There wasn't much hope in 2005 even before Katrina.
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