Ticket sales for Thursday v. Chivas - Cheap seats are sold-out

[OKTerrific]

The $25 "spectator" seats are sold out, and the $35 range puts you in section 412, row 5. There are going to be a LOT of people at this game.

Is it thursday yet?

[Cweedchop]

I fear, as is the case occasionally at RFK, that we will be the away team in our own house.

Only in America.

[The Cold Sea]

I fear, as is the case occasionally at RFK, that we will be the away team in our own house.

Only in America.

Meh, hasn't hurt the Nats any against El Tri. :cool:

[dsheon]

I've been checking Ticketmaster for best available two tix and to my surprise some seats in 209 opened up today. Before today, the best available were upper 300 level seats on the quiet side.

[EdTheRed]

I fear, as is the case occasionally at RFK, that we will be the away team in our own house.

Only in America.

I think it's gonna be more like one of the old Auburn-Alabama football games - 50/50...but then, I'm an optimist.

$45 seats are coming up in 306, row 6...other than whatever $45 seats are left, the lower bowl appears to be sold out without a single walk-up ticket sold yet.

[Riz]

I fear, as is the case occasionally at RFK, that we will be the away team in our own house.

Only in America.
A great woman once said -

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Truer words were never spoken.

[EdTheRed]

A great woman once said -

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Truer words were never spoken.

You sayin' I'm insecure? Huh? Huh? Is dat what you're sayin'? Whaddaya think you're better than me?


;)

[wrightcor]

I have my seats in the quiet 210 section. I think DCU may have held those seats and gave season ticket holders in those sections a chance to buy like me before opening them up. Hopefully I will be seated by a majority of DCU supporters. Either way I can't wait until Thursday.

[Knave]

It's hard for MLS to compete fan-wise in tournaments like this. For MLS this tournament is for the hardcore fans because they're the only ones that understand it and, indeed, know about it. But for Chivas fans this is a very rare opportunity to root for their team in person.

[nobletea]

Should be interesting. If this were a qualifier, the standard logic would be that the more advanced sales there are, the more US support will show. That hasn't always worked out however, and the walk ups are usually the deciding factor it seems.

Ticketmaster is an extremely crude tool for judging ticket sales.

Hopefully we can muster enough of a voice to keep the guys fighting.

I think the crowd involvement will be very high, and marginally not in our favor.

[OKTerrific]

Ticketmaster is an extremely crude tool for judging ticket sales.


Generally I agree, but when youre in the upper deck at RFK for a United game, that's a lot of tickets.

[Cweedchop]

A great woman once said -

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Truer words were never spoken.

Touche`..

Riz, you are like the bestest mod EVAR. :D

[liverbird]

A great woman once said -

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Truer words were never spoken.

http://www.usconstitution.com/eleanor-2520roosevelt.jpg

She also is reputed to have said "Americans love speed. Hot, nasty speed"

[roadkit]

I have my seats in the quiet 210 section. I think DCU may have held those seats and gave season ticket holders in those sections a chance to buy like me before opening them up. Hopefully I will be seated by a majority of DCU supporters. Either way I can't wait until Thursday.

Same here. RFK will be rocking, that's for sure.

[CHICO13]

I think the crowd involvement will be very high, and marginally not in our favor.

I disagree. Even though we may be outnumbered they won't be organized or cohesive. When the supporters sections bring it hard they're hard to beat. The drumming and the singing and the bouncing of the stands should overpower any tepid kind of support the individual Chivas fans can muster.

[Cweedchop]

Touche`..

Riz, you are like the bestest mod EVAR. :D


Power corrupts. :D

[mcontento]

It's hard for MLS to compete fan-wise in tournaments like this. For MLS this tournament is for the hardcore fans because they're the only ones that understand it and, indeed, know about it. But for Chivas fans this is a very rare opportunity to root for their team in person.


Except its been on the radio and today at least (I've been out of town a few days) there was a 1/3 page add at the bottom of page 3 of the sports section (which is great placement), and I've had people only moderately interested in United and soccer in general ask me about the game so I'm going to assume that this is a "known game" for sports fans across DC.

[EdTheRed]

I disagree. Even though we may be outnumbered they won't be organized or cohesive. When the supporters sections bring it hard they're hard to beat. The drumming and the singing and the bouncing of the stands should overpower any tepid kind of support the individual Chivas fans can muster.

A foolish man once said: "Bring 'em on!"

I care not how many or how few Chivas supporters will be at RFK on Thursday, for I know I shall be well and truly surrounded by my brothers and sisters.

A poet once wrote:
"Go, tell the Spartans, thou who passest by,
That here obedient to their laws we lie"

With apologies to The Bard and Ireland (for Sunday is the Feast of Patrick, and yet I am inserting him into a quintessentially English speech), I believe Nobletea needs a little motivational speech:


Nobletea: O that we now had here
But one ten thousand of those men in the suburbs
That watch at home to-day!

EdTheRed: What's he that wishes so?
My cousin Nobletea? No, my fair cousin:
If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
To do United loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Diablo, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my jersey wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires:
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from the suburbs:
God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more, methinks, would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Nobletea, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his parking shall be paid
And bucks for bus fare put into his purse:
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is called the feast of Patrick:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Padraig.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Patrick:'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say 'These wounds I had on Patrick's day.'
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Gomito the king, Moreno and Emilio,
Olsen and Boswell, Erpen and Perkins,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Patrick Padraig shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in suburbs now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Patrick's day.

[CHICO13]

A foolish man once said: "Bring 'em on!"

I care not how many or how few Chivas supporters will be at RFK on Thursday, for I know I shall be well and truly surrounded by my brothers and sisters.

A poet once wrote:
"Go, tell the Spartans, thou who passest by,
That here obedient to their laws we lie"

With apologies to The Bard and Ireland (for Sunday is the Feast of Patrick, and yet I am inserting him into a quintessentially English speech), I believe Nobletea needs a little motivational speech:


Nobletea: O that we now had here
But one ten thousand of those men in the suburbs
That watch at home to-day!

EdTheRed: What's he that wishes so?
My cousin Nobletea? No, my fair cousin:
If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
To do United loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Diablo, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my jersey wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires:
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from the suburbs:
God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more, methinks, would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Nobletea, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his parking shall be paid
And bucks for bus fare put into his purse:
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is called the feast of Patrick:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Padraig.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Patrick:'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say 'These wounds I had on Patrick's day.'
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Gomito the king, Moreno and Emilio,
Olsen and Boswell, Erpen and Perkins,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Patrick Padraig shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in suburbs now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Patrick's day.

http://www.popmatters.com/images/film_art/3/300-1.jpg

[Bootsy Collins]

With apologies to The Bard and Ireland (for Sunday is the Feast of Patrick, and yet I am inserting him into a quintessentially English speech), I believe Nobletea needs a little motivational speech:


The St. Crispin's day soliloquy is pretty much my favorite thing in all of stage drama.

And just to keep these sorts of thoughts going, we're playing Chivas on the Ides of March. I just hope it's them that need to beware.