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    For those who complain it cost too much to take family to games...........

    If you go online like vivid tickets here are the kind of deals you can get.

    MSU vs Louisiana Superdome $51
    Southern Starkville $26
    KSU Starkville $6
    Kentucky Starkville $21
    Auburn Auburn $37
    Tenn Knoxville $34
    LSU Starkville $49
    Texas A&M College Station $38
    Alabama Starkville $62
    Arkansas Fayetteville $35
    Abilene Starkville $6
    Ole Miss Starkville $43

    You could take a family of 4 to KSU or Abilene games for a total of $24 dollars. pack a cooler with sandwiches/snacks and drinks with gas you probably have less than $100 for the day.

    Side note:

    What's interesting you could buy season tickets home and away for $407...

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    Playing teams like Southern MS and Abilene are a joke now and the lack of interest shows in the available ticket prices and availability. Louisiana at home is another joke and will be an 11 AM KO next year or whenever we play them again. KSU is a weak sister in the Big 12 and will bring virtually no one to DWS. There is al$o a lot more expense to bringing a family of 4 to a college game than just ticket prices. TV, crummy kickoff times, donations to buy season tickets with no tax write offs, and a bad team from the previous year ( example: UM) are hurting attendance nationwide at most schools.

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    Just left the Vivid site and G - 10 yard line seats are going for $160 and 40 - 50 yard line are going for $350+. Those $51 seats must be high in the endzone and if you have ever been in the Superdome those are not good seats. I don't know about others but if I'm going to take the time and expense of travel to go to a game I damn well better have a good seat. I'm sure not going to mortgage the trailer just to see us play the Ragin Cajuns. I would feel perfectly fine seating on the sofa at home with my favorite brew in hand.

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    i am going to keep buying my tickets. To me I am going and it is easier to already have your seats.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TaleofTwoDogs View Post
    Just left the Vivid site and G - 10 yard line seats are going for $160 and 40 - 50 yard line are going for $350+. Those $51 seats must be high in the endzone and if you have ever been in the Superdome those are not good seats. I don't know about others but if I'm going to take the time and expense of travel to go to a game I damn well better have a good seat. I'm sure not going to mortgage the trailer just to see us play the Ragin Cajuns. I would feel perfectly fine seating on the sofa at home with my favorite brew in hand.
    I'm with you... check out the ridiculousness that is this shit I stumbled across last week:

    https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/al...400-price-tag/
    "It is not courage to resist TUSK; It is courage to accept TUSK."

    No.


    Easy there buddy. Tusk is...well Tusk is Tusk. Tireddawg 12.20.17

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    Quote Originally Posted by 99jc View Post
    If you go online like vivid tickets here are the kind of deals you can get.

    MSU vs Louisiana Superdome $51
    Southern Starkville $26
    KSU Starkville $6
    Kentucky Starkville $21
    Auburn Auburn $37
    Tenn Knoxville $34
    LSU Starkville $49
    Texas A&M College Station $38
    Alabama Starkville $62
    Arkansas Fayetteville $35
    Abilene Starkville $6
    Ole Miss Starkville $43

    You could take a family of 4 to KSU or Abilene games for a total of $24 dollars. pack a cooler with sandwiches/snacks and drinks with gas you probably have less than $100 for the day.

    Side note:

    What's interesting you could buy season tickets home and away for $407...
    Are these seats worth a damn?

    Probably better seats on the couch...

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    Quote Originally Posted by TUSK View Post
    I'm with you... check out the ridiculousness that is this shit I stumbled across last week:

    https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/al...400-price-tag/
    So you can either sit in the nose bleeds for $40-100 each or the lower level starts at $400. Or you could buy a brand new TV, beer, and steak, be a lot more comfortable. You could also take a halftime dump and flip to other games when Bama gets up 50 on Duke.

    I basically go to games to see my friends. I sometimes get a ticket ahead of time like I did UF last year (17 you Mullen) but mostly just get an extra from someone there.

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    And how much is a hotel room in New Orleans Labor Day Weekend?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 99jc View Post
    If you go online like vivid tickets here are the kind of deals you can get.

    MSU vs Louisiana Superdome $51
    Southern Starkville $26
    KSU Starkville $6
    Kentucky Starkville $21
    Auburn Auburn $37
    Tenn Knoxville $34
    LSU Starkville $49
    Texas A&M College Station $38
    Alabama Starkville $62
    Arkansas Fayetteville $35
    Abilene Starkville $6
    Ole Miss Starkville $43

    You could take a family of 4 to KSU or Abilene games for a total of $24 dollars. pack a cooler with sandwiches/snacks and drinks with gas you probably have less than $100 for the day.

    Side note:

    What's interesting you could buy season tickets home and away for $407...
    Where are the seats is the more important question

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    Quote Originally Posted by Goldendawg View Post
    Playing teams like Southern MS and Abilene are a joke now and the lack of interest shows in the available ticket prices and availability. Louisiana at home is another joke and will be an 11 AM KO next year or whenever we play them again. KSU is a weak sister in the Big 12 and will bring virtually no one to DWS. There is al$o a lot more expense to bringing a family of 4 to a college game than just ticket prices. TV, crummy kickoff times, donations to buy season tickets with no tax write offs, and a bad team from the previous year ( example: UM) are hurting attendance nationwide at most schools.
    USM will be better than KSU this year. I do agree though I think FBS teams need to just stop playing FCS schools altogether. Play them in a spring game but thats it. I understand some of those FCS teams need those games for the money but for the consumer its usually a snooze. And some weeks, usually week 1 and the week before rivalry week the schedule is slam packed with FBS vs FCS games

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    I think tickets should be $20 non conference and $40 for sec games but I digress.

    Looks like donations for the east side lower deck are fairly cheap. So I?m going to get 4 season tickets because I will want to be there this season. It?s as good of a home schedule as we have ever had.

    Also I recall in 2017, I paid approximately $100 a ticket off of stubhub for LSU, Bama and OM games in the lower east side.

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    Cheap seats, cheap food, gas, etc. for 4 and you'll easily spend $300 per game; 4 home games and that is $1200 after tax money.

    it ain't cheap and what family is going to pack a cooler with sandwiches? Can't bring cooler in game. We have just hard enough time just getting there some weekends. The other issue now is time demands. Anyone with families, it is a real challenge with time. I am probably going to make 3-4 games this year. Only was able to make 2 last year due to kids activities but I have a freshman there this fall and plan on making a few more but Friday night football and Sat band stuff is gonna push me even so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by R2Dawg View Post
    Cheap seats, cheap food, gas, etc. for 4 and you'll easily spend $300 per game; 4 home games and that is $1200 after tax money.

    it ain't cheap and what family is going to pack a cooler with sandwiches? Can't bring cooler in game. We have just hard enough time just getting there some weekends. The other issue now is time demands. Anyone with families, it is a real challenge with time. I am probably going to make 3-4 games this year. Only was able to make 2 last year due to kids activities but I have a freshman there this fall and plan on making a few more but Friday night football and Sat band stuff is gonna push me even so.
    Not condemning you personally but....
    most of the responses sum up many Americans. Lazy ass spoiled 17ers. They want 50 yard line seats and eat at restaurants instead of packing a lunch and enjoying a family day at a game no matter the location of the seats . You all need to live in a 3rd world country like I have and you would be ashamed of your spoiled rotten asses. All I am implying everyone who lives a 5 hour round trip drive can afford to go to a cheap game once a year instead of sitting on their fat rectal orifices in front of a 70" screen every week. You obviously get to the games you can.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 99jc View Post
    Not condemning you personally but....
    most of the responses sum up many Americans. Lazy ass spoiled 17ers. They want 50 yard line seats and eat at restaurants instead of packing a lunch and enjoying a family day at a game no matter the location of the seats . You all need to live in a 3rd world country like I have and you would be ashamed of your spoiled rotten asses. All I am implying everyone who lives a 5 hour round trip drive can afford to go to a cheap game once a year instead of sitting on their fat rectal orifices in front of a 70" screen every week. You obviously get to the games you can.
    I think you are taking it way too seriously bud. I understand wanting the best gameday atmospheres and sell outs, we do well at both.

    Fact is this, its a lot easier to sit at home and watch it especially since everything on TV or live streamed now. But winning will fix it all. If you win people will line up at the gate to get in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 99jc View Post
    Not condemning you personally but....
    most of the responses sum up many Americans. Lazy ass spoiled 17ers. They want 50 yard line seats and eat at restaurants instead of packing a lunch and enjoying a family day at a game no matter the location of the seats . You all need to live in a 3rd world country like I have and you would be ashamed of your spoiled rotten asses. All I am implying everyone who lives a 5 hour round trip drive can afford to go to a cheap game once a year instead of sitting on their fat rectal orifices in front of a 70" screen every week. You obviously get to the games you can.
    Quite possibly the most asinine post I've seen here in a long time...

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    Quote Originally Posted by 99jc View Post
    Not condemning you personally but....
    most of the responses sum up many Americans. Lazy ass spoiled 17ers. They want 50 yard line seats and eat at restaurants instead of packing a lunch and enjoying a family day at a game no matter the location of the seats . You all need to live in a 3rd world country like I have and you would be ashamed of your spoiled rotten asses. All I am implying everyone who lives a 5 hour round trip drive can afford to go to a cheap game once a year instead of sitting on their fat rectal orifices in front of a 70" screen every week. You obviously get to the games you can.
    What if I don't care how much it costs because I'd rather sit in my air conditioned house and watch it on TV?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 99jc View Post
    Not condemning you personally but....
    most of the responses sum up many Americans. Lazy ass spoiled 17ers. They want 50 yard line seats and eat at restaurants instead of packing a lunch and enjoying a family day at a game no matter the location of the seats . You all need to live in a 3rd world country like I have and you would be ashamed of your spoiled rotten asses. All I am implying everyone who lives a 5 hour round trip drive can afford to go to a cheap game once a year instead of sitting on their fat rectal orifices in front of a 70" screen every week. You obviously get to the games you can.
    Does that five hours include the time it takes me to get out of a parking lot?

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    Quote Originally Posted by HereComesTheSpiral View Post
    And how much is a hotel room in New Orleans Labor Day Weekend?
    Mine was 130 dollars a night on Canal Street.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 99jc View Post
    Not condemning you personally but....
    most of the responses sum up many Americans. Lazy ass spoiled 17ers. They want 50 yard line seats and eat at restaurants instead of packing a lunch and enjoying a family day at a game no matter the location of the seats . You all need to live in a 3rd world country like I have and you would be ashamed of your spoiled rotten asses. All I am implying everyone who lives a 5 hour round trip drive can afford to go to a cheap game once a year instead of sitting on their fat rectal orifices in front of a 70" screen every week. You obviously get to the games you can.
    Dam, this 99jc may need to re-evaluate the meds.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dawg2003 View Post
    What if I don't care how much it costs because I'd rather sit in my air conditioned house and watch it on TV?
    That's fine. Just make sure you're donating at least $100 to the bulldog club yearly. That's all it takes to be a member.

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