Skins sell ticket straight to scalpers

We eventually found other companies to replace the ones we lost. It might have taken a little bit of time and in the end some of the new deals were not as sweet as the old ones we lost. But overall we are fine. Here in Houston, like Washington DC, there is money. The recession did not hit as hard as other parts of the country like Detroit. The Redskins will find people to buy their seats and if they don't maybe they are charging more than the market is willing to pay.

I agree, the Skins had so many other options besides suing that I just cant understand why they chose to fight these people and lose even when they "won".

New article in the Post about how the Redskins are not making Grandma pay her judgement. The he said/ she said between Donovon and Grandma are quite funny.

The Redskins say that their decision to not collect from Grandma has nothing to do with the recent string of articles. If you believe that...I have some club seats to sell you.

Let's get one thing straight here that is being ignored by many.

The "waiting list", 160,000 strong or completely fairyland fake, is irrelevant.

They, as I understand it, are suing over club-level ticket contracts. These tickets have not ever been sold out in the history of the stadium. There is no magical group of eager patrons just waiting for the opportunity to buy these. In fact all these recent stories about the team marketing tickets that would seem to contradict the idea of a giant waiting list are in fact them trying to sell the club-level tickets. So we need to back off the the theory that they could just easily go find others to buy the tickets. The breach of contract represents a real loss in revenue for the team.

I also think CRedskinsRule is almost totally right. The only thing he has wrong is that he is being too nice. The WaPo has a long standing and documented feud with the team. In fact a large part of the feud involves the loss of their block of tickets since they were abusing them (and the team just didn't like their coverage). In essence the piece was a total hatchet job in every conceivable way as CRR pointed out. Are there threads of interests within the article? Maybe, but they weren't explored in a complete or balanced fashion at all.

I am not necessarily defending the team actions as nice but they sure are legally suitable, financially reasonable and all-in-all they way business operates in this country.

New article in the Post about how the Redskins are not making Grandma pay her judgement. The he said/ she said between Donovon and Grandma are quite funny.

The Redskins say that their decision to not collect from Grandma has nothing to do with the recent string of articles. If you believe that...I have some club seats to sell you.


lol. They have just come to the decision to let this person off the hook. And they never worry about PR...

Another question here is why in the hell would you ever sign a 10-year contract for tickets? Are people really that desperate to go to every game? Pick up a few tickets per year on StubHub if you really want to go, or just get a good HDTV. Wow! And I think the suits attempting to collect the entire contract, without regards to actual damages (i.e. less whatever money is collected through re-sale) is bad business, and of questionable legality, but seriously people, don't sign a 10-year contract! That is just dumb.

This was not at all a shocking revelation. The Redskins have been doing this for years. I don't buy for one second that they had no knowledge of this practice. It is just like Watergate, follow the money. You will see at the top is Dan Snyder pulling the strings. What is funny about this whole incident is that it brings me back to a time when Snyder was attempting to buy the team and apparently the NFL Didn't want Snyder's partner Milstein buying the team because of how he ran the NY Rangers into the ground with all kinds of bad financing. Now fast forward ten years later and Dan is accepting money from car dealerships like Eastern Motors and selling tickets on the secondary market and suing the fans for non-payment of long term contracts during a recession.
Yeah Dan is probably near the bottom when it comes to team ownership and structure.