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To: tejek who wrote (321848)	1/19/2007 8:24:10 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1574761

They're expensive to the average citizen of Seattle because they sell their tickets as season tickets. Less people can afford season tickets than a ticket for one game. That's probably true, but its entirely irrelevant to my point, and it doesn't support your earlier statement. I suspect there is cap on ticket prices put on by the gov't agency that helped build the stadium but that's a guess. I suspect there isn't, but that's also just a guess. I think its more likely that they think people will get pissed if they raise prices to fast. Or perhaps they sell out but don't have a huge backlog of potential season ticket holders, and they think its better to have a short waiting list, then to risk not selling out and having a game blacked out. It seems to me that if second and third tier cities like Jacksonville and Green Bay and even Charlotte can fill a stadium Green Bay has a ton of football tradition. Most cities its size could not support a team. And perhaps Green Bay couldn't without revenue sharing (they sell out and have a big back log for tickets, but they wouldn't get much TV revenue, if it wasn't shared) Jacksonville and Charlotte are decent sized cities. Jacksonville is the 13th biggest city in the US. Both Jacksonville and Charlotte are bigger then Seattle. en.wikipedia.org You could probably get enough people to fill stadiums in a few more cities, but I'm not sure about getting enough to increase demand enough so that each team doesn't have to get a smaller share of TV money. Also quality would probably go down. The league already doesn't have enough quality QBs.