{"id":24194,"date":"2014-02-08T11:49:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T16:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24194"},"modified":"2014-05-09T14:10:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T19:10:02","slug":"new-viking-stadium-seat-licenses-a-good-reason-to-watch-the-game-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/02\/08\/new-viking-stadium-seat-licenses-a-good-reason-to-watch-the-game-on-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"New Viking stadium “seat licenses” a good reason to watch the game on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Perhaps I misunderstand the economic argument here, but I’d always had a pretty basic notion about buying season tickets or individual game tickets for most professional sports. You either bought a season ticket package for x<\/em> number of games (up to the full season of home games) or you bought a single ticket for a particular game. Over the years, I’ve bought tickets to individual Viking games in Buffalo and Detroit where the purchase was simple and straightforward … I paid the fee and received a ticket. Nice and simple. Apparently that sort of stone-age arrangement is long in the past: at least in Minnesota, you need to buy a “seat license” in order to then buy season tickets. The Daily Norseman<\/em>‘s Ted Glover<\/a> explains:<\/p>\n

In an effort to raise $100 million of their portion of money for the new stadium, the Vikings released their ‘stadium builder’s plan’ for folks that want season tickets.<\/p>\n

What’s a stadium builder’s plan? Well, it’s a one time fee that allows to you get season tickets … and you’ll also have to pay for those. Basically, the better the seat, the more cabbage you’re going to have to cough up. For example, if you want a season ticket in the ‘Valhalla Club’, your one time seat license fee will be $9,500, plus the cost of season tickets.<\/p>\n

Damn, son.<\/p>\n

The Vikings will have SBL’s for approximately 75% of the seats in the stadium, and the farther away you get from the field, the cheaper they are. The cheapest SBL is $500, and you have two payment options, 3 years with no interest, or 8 years with an as yet TBD interest charge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the one hand, I approve of the idea that the fans should pay more of the cost of building a new stadium rather than non-football fans among the state’s taxpayers. On the other hand, the prices seem incredibly steep for a mere “license”. You can<\/em> get a virtual look at what you’ll be licensing a tiny bit of:<\/p>\n

However, in an effort to relieve the sticker shock of said licenses, they released a virtual tour<\/a> of what the new stadium will look like. And it’s pretty damn cool.<\/p>\n

So, grab your checkbook. And your ankles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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