It's shockingly expensive to attend a game at BDS
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Glassed in areas in the North and South EZ. Ticket comes with food and non-alcoholic drink.
The food isn’t exactly Commander’s Palace, but it’s several cuts above standard stadium concession fare.
In addition to your outdoor seat, the zones also come with access to a nicely-appointed and air conditioned area where you can still view the game (the same area where all the food is) and if you’re the season ticket holder, a locker where you can keep liquor and preferred mixers. I guess you could keep beer, but it would take up a lot of space and there’s no way to keep it cold.
Between the tickets themselves and the TP donation for the Zones, you do pay a lot for all that.
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I have been to a few games with Zone tickets - absolutely worth the extra $$$ in the heat of September
The bbq was pretty good...I was amazed at how they kept the food coming...the fans sitting there were all very polite and respective of each other...especially this old dude who didn't want to stand up all the time...(moi). I could look at the screen just behind and to the side and see the play if needed...overall a fantastic experience.
LOL!!! Well Brother....I am as close to 90 as I am 50. And I was watching Bama football in 1961
Had zone tickets for a UT/Bama game a few years ago and it was a cold, night game. Hot chocolate and hot food was nice and we went in to warm up during half time. I was given the tickets by a friend who is a corporate business man from B'ham, but I know they aren't cheap seats.
Amen. Your seat. You choose to sit, stand, yell or chill.
The fans' job is to make noise. Saban literally stated this, himself, a few weeks ago.
If something precludes a person from doing their job in the stadium, perhaps the best seat for them isn't in the stadium...
That's perfectly fair - it's anyone's prerogative to sit down on the job - be that an actual job, a social contract, whatever...
And it's not hypocritical as long as you don't whine about being made to stand up, the noise, etc.
We had season tickets for years but living in N.C. meant two nights for a hotel. Add gas, food, tickets and lodging and we're up to about $750+ for a weekend. Hard to do on a retired fixed income. We just have a good time watching the big screen with family and friends. Roll Tide.
There’s no way to make season tickets pay off on a financial basis.
Kind of like a new car, the numbers just don’t work, and never will.
You’re paying for something that can’t be replicated any other way — the emotional experience of being in the stadium, the feeling of financially supporting the team (never mind that you could have gotten into the stadium cheaper), or the smell and feeling of being the first to both own and drive that car.
At BDS, it’s the cool bracing air, being with like-minded fans who you get to know over the years of being seated near one another, etc. Yeah, I know being out in the weather and your neighbors in the stadium aren’t always positive. But the potential for positive justifies the financial trade off, at least in the mind of someone trying to justify it.
Then comes a point when those emotional intangibles no longer outweigh the tangible — and expensive — shortcomings. I confess that I’m about there.
And I’ve been gradually increasing the financial commitment since 1988, and emotionally all in since about 1963 or so.
Personally, I quite enjoy standing and cheering our team after every big play, singing the fight song after every score, screaming my head off while the opposing team has the ball, feeling that rush when the noise causes the other team to get a false start or delay penalty or have to call a timeout, and singing Rammer Jammer at the end of the game.
Fans are a part of the game and can have an effect - albeit a relatively small one - on the outcome of the game.
If you want to sit on your hands and not actually participate, well - as I said - that's your prerogative.
There's an older couple that sits right in front of us at just about every game. They don't really cheer and miss quite a few plays because they rarely stand. And he spends a fair portion of the game covering his ears because of the volume of my wife and myself. However, to their credit, I've never seen or heard them complain about it.
Personally, I don't understand the draw of being a "lazy fan" at the ballgame. If my age, attitude, or other circumstances were to prevent me from actively participating in the game as a fan, I'd just stop going.
Of course, I'll probably die before that happens...
No reason you cant make as much noise sitting (and using the seat you paid for) as standing
Some people just like to go in person. Rather presumptuous to tell people to stay home if they aren't up to standing and screaming for three hours.
Old school Bama fans that attended games are kinda like the folks who would dress up and go out and watch a civil war battle. They were there to be entertained, fully expecting "their team" to win the battle. Their presence was not for support but to be entertained.
New school Bama fans believe they have a job to do: stand up, yell, dance, etc. They accept they play a small part in the outcome of the game by making noise.
Me personally? I've done both and I fully support each group's purpose in attending games.
New school Bama fans believe they have a job to do: stand up, yell, dance, etc. They accept they play a small part in the outcome of the game by making noise.
Me personally? I've done both and I fully support each group's purpose in attending games.
"I don't understand the draw..."
"...perhaps the best seat for them isn't in the stadium."
The only thing you could logically say - which would still be technically incorrect, as it's merely an implication - that I've told anyone to do on this subject is to not whine about it...
We "upgraded" to the Champions Club for the ULM game this year.
The unlimited, much-higher-quality food and beverages plus the air-conditioned bathrooms really starts to loosen the purse-strings a bit...
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