Redskins Offseason Thread

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by Giantone

Fed Ex was a a few miles from RFK the same place those same fans have always traveled to. The ticket buying fans have always known they would have to travel to a Redskin game. Now before everyone starts talking "New Stadium" you need to think PSL
For Met Life Stadium Giants and Jets....
"The one-time cost for the right to purchase season tickets ranges from $1,000 to $20,000 per seat, with more than half of the seats at least $5,000. The PSL does not include the price of the tickets.Jul 17, 2008"

I will tell you from experience these will wipe out many old time and long time ticket holders and bring in the corporate ticket people .If you think the game day experience cost was high before it will go through the roof now!

I don't have season tickets, but I agree with your PSL point. It's going to kill those who have had tickets for generations

[FrenchSkin]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

I don't have season tickets, but I agree with your PSL point. It's going to kill those who have had tickets for generations

Are we sure that simply opening a new stadium will suddenly create a market of people ready to spend a boatload of money to buy season tickets that they struggle to sell right now ?

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by FrenchSkin

Are we sure that simply opening a new stadium will suddenly create a market of people ready to spend a boatload of money to buy season tickets that they struggle to sell right now ?

When I was working(retired now)there were a few people at work that had season Redskin tickets .What they would do is buy them then sell off what they didn't want and would make enough to cover their total cost so they essentially would get their seats for free. That won't happen in a new stadium .The new owners of those seats will be companies that can write off the deduction(for now)

[FrenchSkin]

Originally Posted by Giantone

When I was working(retired now)there were a few people at work that had season Redskin tickets .What they would do is buy them then sell off what they didn't want and would make enough to cover their total cost so they essentially would get their seats for free. That won't happen in a new stadium .The new owners of those seats will be companies that can write off the deduction(for now)

Don't you think previous season ticket holder would get a right of first refusal to buy the same seats in the new stadium? Am I being too candid? ^^

To be sure I understood the bolded part: companies could deduct the price of the season tickets from the taxes they pay for a few years because it's a new stadium ? (Not a native english speaker, and all this season ticket system is really far from what exists in France, so I'm trying to hang in there).

[CrustyRedskin]

I miss the 80's.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by FrenchSkin

Don't you think previous season ticket holder would get a right of first refusal to buy the same seats in the new stadium? Am I being too candid? ^^

To be sure I understood the bolded part: companies could deduct the price of the season tickets from the taxes they pay for a few years because it's a new stadium ? (Not a native english speaker, and all this season ticket system is really far from what exists in France, so I'm trying to hang in there).

The current owners will get right of first refusal, along with a note that 20K is due for those 4 tickets (PSL) plus the cost of the tickets themselves. Basically paying a new basic car price simply for the right to annually buy Redskins tickets...

[FrenchSkin]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

The current owners will get right of first refusal, along with a note that 20K is due for those 4 tickets (PSL) plus the cost of the tickets themselves. Basically paying a new basic car price simply for the right to annually buy Redskins tickets...

Wow... this is just insane...

But for how long would this PSL thing be effective ? I mean at some point don't they run out of people willing to pay 20K to have the right to pay 4K/y and just have to sell the damn tickets?

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by FrenchSkin

Wow... this is just insane...

But for how long would this PSL thing be effective ? I mean at some point don't they run out of people willing to pay 20K to have the right to pay 4K/y and just have to sell the damn tickets?

Yes, that is when a company might come in and buy the seats becuase they can write off the tickets as an expense.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by FrenchSkin

Are we sure that simply opening a new stadium will suddenly create a market of people ready to spend a boatload of money to buy season tickets that they struggle to sell right now ?

It happened in NY, and I believe in Dallas too. In NY people paid PSL's, only to find that their seats were double booked for the NYG vs NYJets game. I don't know how that was eventually resolved, but seat licenses are a huge part of a new stadium revenue plan, and guys that have been putting together 6K a year for seats are not going to suddenly have the 22-25K minimum that PSLs will be.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

It happened in NY, and I believe in Dallas too. In NY people paid PSL's, only to find that their seats were double booked for the NYG vs NYJets game. I don't know how that was eventually resolved, but seat licenses are a huge part of a new stadium revenue plan, and guys that have been putting together 6K a year for seats are not going to suddenly have the 22-25K minimum that PSLs will be.

Baltimore had them all so.