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July 16th, 2009 – 5:18 PM by Judd Zulgad
Minneapolis Star & Tribune
You might have noticed on the previous blog that it won’t be possible to buy tickets to the Chicago or Green Bay games at the Metrodome when Vikings’ single-game tickets go on sale Monday morning.
The reason is because for the time being the Vikings are only going to offer tickets to those games to fans who buy season tickets. This is a change from past years when what often happened was fans who wanted to buy Chicago or Green Bay tickets also had to buy tickets to another less-attractive game. The Packers game at the Dome, for instance, often was coupled with a preseason matchup.
“They are part of the full-season package,” said Steve LaCroix, Vikings vice president of sales and marketing and chief marketing officer. “We will continue to gauge fan interest and get the sales process underway. We continue to renew season-ticket orders. That process has taken longer than in the past years. We are actively working through our renewal transactions and will re-address those two games down the road.”
So what gives?
Well, certainly part of the reason for going in this direction has to be the fact the Vikings are waiting to see if Brett Favre ends his retirement to play in Minnesota. As we found out Wednesday, that could take another two weeks. However, if Favre does return, that Oct. 5 Monday night game against the Packers at the Dome is going to be one of the hottest tickets ever for a Vikings home game. The Nov. 29 game against the Bears also isn’t going to be easy to get into.
Perhaps the Vikings are hoping that because most fans expect Favre to return they will simply decide to buy season tickets now in order to make sure they can attend the two games against Minnesota’s NFC North rivals.
Minneapolis Star & Tribune
You might have noticed on the previous blog that it won’t be possible to buy tickets to the Chicago or Green Bay games at the Metrodome when Vikings’ single-game tickets go on sale Monday morning.
The reason is because for the time being the Vikings are only going to offer tickets to those games to fans who buy season tickets. This is a change from past years when what often happened was fans who wanted to buy Chicago or Green Bay tickets also had to buy tickets to another less-attractive game. The Packers game at the Dome, for instance, often was coupled with a preseason matchup.
“They are part of the full-season package,” said Steve LaCroix, Vikings vice president of sales and marketing and chief marketing officer. “We will continue to gauge fan interest and get the sales process underway. We continue to renew season-ticket orders. That process has taken longer than in the past years. We are actively working through our renewal transactions and will re-address those two games down the road.”
So what gives?
Well, certainly part of the reason for going in this direction has to be the fact the Vikings are waiting to see if Brett Favre ends his retirement to play in Minnesota. As we found out Wednesday, that could take another two weeks. However, if Favre does return, that Oct. 5 Monday night game against the Packers at the Dome is going to be one of the hottest tickets ever for a Vikings home game. The Nov. 29 game against the Bears also isn’t going to be easy to get into.
Perhaps the Vikings are hoping that because most fans expect Favre to return they will simply decide to buy season tickets now in order to make sure they can attend the two games against Minnesota’s NFC North rivals.
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Purple and gay. They wear those gay horns too.
I would like to see this community shun the homophobic slurs as well, ban it and delete the comments. It's not funny and it's not appropriate.
