If you’re looking a fresh reason to appreciate Capitals’ owner Ted Leonsis and the atmosphere his vision has created at Verizon Center, take a glance at A1 of today’s Washington Post.
The heart of the sordid matter: tickets to the most coveted game in town, by the thousands, are bypassing the names on the team’s waiting list and ending up in the greedy hands of the region’s ticket brokers. With a waiting list for general admission Redskins tickets at FedEx Field of 160,000 names, the team’s internal controls on ticket distribution are such that a single ticket broker, ASC Ticket of Gaithersburg, was able to sell “at least 5,000 [tickets] for nearly $600,000 during the 2007 and 2008 seasons.”
Redskins’ spokespersons — but not team owner Daniel Snyder — are responding to the startling news, offering assurances that responsible individuals within the team’s ticket office have been discovered and disciplined. (Contrast this PR initiative with the reliable accessibility Mr. Leonsis showcases when matters sizable and trifling befall his club.)
The upshot of this scandal, beyond making dupes of the Burgundy and Gold supportng patiently waiting on the ducats buy list, is its direct contribution to aiding and abetting a hostile home environment for the host team.
Today’s Post expose leads with:
“One night last fall, thousands of fans walked into FedEx Field carrying gold towels. From the opening kickoff, it was clear that they were not part of the Washington Redskins burgundy-and-gold. The towel-waving throng cheered for the Pittsburgh Steelers so loudly on some downs the Redskins couldn’t hear quarterback Jason Campbell call the signals.
“Redskins players and many others were puzzled that Steeler fans were able to get their hands on so many coveted tickets.”
Could Susan O’Malley be working for the Redskins?
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Good Blog,
You gotta wonder if Susan O’Malley was working the tickets sales when all you could see was Steelers fans that night at Fed Ex.
Check out my blog on the subject
http://www.turnersportsdesk.com/2009/09/We-met-the-enemy-and-it-was-us.aspx
I’ve listened to 106.7 The Fan talk about this all day long and just when I thought I couldn’t dislike Dan Snyder more, he surprises us with yet another slash into the Redskins’ dynasty… Bit by destroyed bit, he’s turning the entire organization into a farce… Owning a team cannot be run like a business as much as he wishes it could. Snyder has to realize that he cannot buy success in this field.. I use to be such a huge Skins fan and it has pained me to watch this team become what it is today. I feel for the players and the fans because it seems as if Snyder has no respect for either..
The Redskins are the Bizarro Capitals.
This is absolutely outrageous, especially the story on the front page today about the 73-year-old woman who has been sued by The Great Satan …wait wait,I mean Redskins General Counsel.
Are the Redskins purposely trying to alienate their fanbase? This is completely antithetical to how you cultivate a fanbase. I guess when you can easily fill your stadium with tens of thousands of devoted fans, you don’t care. But seriously, the Redskins seem to go out of their way to make themselves the most unlikeable franchise in the D.C. Metro area, if not professional sports. It’s amazing to me just how tone-deaf this organization really is towards the public in general.
First, build a crap stadium, locate it in the middle of a residential neighborhood, then add Armageddon-like traffic. Make the gameday experience as painful and as difficult as possible.
Next, charge your fans for practice.
Finally, sue your most loyal and paying customers. Even if you’re technically able to do it on contract theory, do it anyway! Th
What do you get? The Washington Redskins!
Our beloved Caps would never do this (Nate Ewell said so in today’s article). DC United wouldn’t. The Nats, Wizards, wouldn’t either. The Freedom, the Mystics, the Bayhawks, the softball teams. They’d never do such a thing. Sure, they’re all capable of doing this. But they know better.
Too bad the ‘Skins don’t.
The season ticket waiting list is a fraud. The entire Redskins organization is a fraud.
The “mausoleum of greed” (thanks Steve Czaban) that is now known as Fed Ex field reeks from top to bottom.
The only way to save this village is to destroy it. The Redskins must go 0-16 in front of an empty stadium (think Detroit Lions times 10) to purge themselves of the stain that is Dan Snyder and his cronies.
If you buy a ticket to a game at that outhouse you are part of the problem, and you get what you deserve.
Don’t know if this happened to other Caps season ticket holders, but somehow my name ended up on their contact list, offering to sell me club seats at special rates for the season, even though I have never bought any Redskins tickets. Totally sold out? Bogus.
Needless to say those ticket offer flyers went right into the “circular file”. One thing I won’t be is a enabler for Lil’ Danny.
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