Final pre-season game rant

Plus they want to get a lot of game action for the youngsters who are fighting to make the team. I would imagine most coaches want to give the young guys a fair chance to make the squad and its tough to do if they are putting all the vet starters in for three or four quarters. They'd never figure out who the quality backups are. Oh...and as long as people pay for the tickets this won't change anyways.

But wouldn't you agree that whoever is being held out of the final preseason game has a lock on the roster anyway? Hence, the scrubs who are playing tonight have virtually no chance of making the squad and are purely filler just so the coaches can field a team. Granted, there are a few exceptions with certain players who are fighting it out until the very end to make it past the final cuts. But by and large, this is as meaning less as it gets.

I agree with your final point though. As long as fans still show up for preseason games, and as long as the ratings are good, nothing will change.

these games are for weeding out talent...and with them we have found some diamonds in the rough. i do agree that they shouldn't charge full ticket price for the games.

The Reasons the preseason games suck, arent really who's on the feild in my opinion. Its the overall feeling of watching the game. When I watch the Skins' play preseason, I pretty much just sit and watch and if somthing good or bad happens, i'm just like "Cool, whatever its only preaseason."

When you watch a regular season game, your going nuts. I live and die by each first down and thats why I love watching football so much. Thats what In my opinon , makes the regular season differ from the preseason, just the feel of the game.

Its not quite the same thing but would you also say if the Star QB was taken out for the season or late in a season when a team is 4-9 playing for nothing should a team still charge full price for its games?

Yeah, but people dont ussually buy their tickets the day of the game, but time in advance. Ya know? I dont know , I was just saying why I perfer regular season , not for the players, but the feel.

Of course people are willing to pay full price for preseason, hence we are sold out for like the next 20 years already. That doesnt make it right though, or that we shouldnt get somethign else.

Who here has been to both homegames, did they give out anything free at teh game. At the fins game they gave everyone those car coffee cups, the 20 oz plastic cups. A nice free treat.
I think last year we got a free flag, not sure if it was preseason or regular though. Snyder has dimished on the free giveaways since he took over, or so i noticed

My preseason tickets would be on EBay ten minutes after I got them in the mail. Clearly I'm not going to spend that kind of money if they don't care if they win the game.

My point is that everyone on that waiting list would gladly pay full price for the pre-season games so the price is clearly fair-market. I'd bet teams could charge MORE for pre-season games and still sell their tickets. I am just a very capitalistic type guy and realize that they charge full price becasue they can. It does suck to have to buy the pre-season tickets at all but I would look at it like the price for everything was the price for the 8 games that matter. The other extra games are just sorta there. I am on the waiting list also but I just get scalped tickets to most games. If you do it right you can get tickets at face value or cheaper and never worry about the crap exhibitions.

Of course people are willing to pay full price for preseason, hence we are sold out for like the next 20 years already. That doesnt make it right though, or that we shouldnt get somethign else.

Who here has been to both homegames, did they give out anything free at teh game. At the fins game they gave everyone those car coffee cups, the 20 oz plastic cups. A nice free treat.
I think last year we got a free flag, not sure if it was preseason or regular though. Snyder has dimished on the free giveaways since he took over, or so i noticed
I've been to both games. Nothing free and the halftime entertainment has changed over the years, They make it so bad that everyone leaves their seats and goes an purchases product. Preseason should be half price or like it was 10 years ago it would be season ticket holders option to purchase.