Racing Louisville dropping ticket prices to five dollars to get people in the stadium is taking me tf out ππ
Okay but this is actually a good thing, and itβs how you build attendance!! Gotham did this with Mamdani like 3 months ago, offering 1,000 $5 tickets for the Boston game and they sold out instantly AND Gotham had the greatest attendance in Harrison theyβve had all season, as well as one of their biggest home game crowds in club history (I think top 5?). They also did 4,000 $15 tickets for Queens Classic, which had obviously incredible attendance. I was annoyed it took them so long to realize a $5 ticket deal would work.
This is how Spirit attendance grew to what it is today as well. Tickets were extremely low priced, staff was often just in front of the Navy Yard metro stop handing them out for free a couple hours before game time, there were tons of deals and bundles, and to this day your first game is free excluding fees.
People wonβt want to pay $30+ for a ticket to a game where the team isnβt great, they donβt know how the experience will be, and maybe theyβve never even heard of the team or the league. But $5? Thatβs how you get people in.
Totally agree, clearly itβs working most places.
But to sell $5 tickets to a home game (that you won) and it be still poorly attended, then blame fans and say that if attendance doesnβt improve youβll βhave to do somethingβ? And then just go ahead and do the exact same thing again and sell $5 tickets to your next home game and hope everyone will just have amnesia on that isβ¦ a choice
I donβt think anyone is disputing that Racing has something icky in the ownership, least of all me, but Iβm also not going to knock them for trying something like lower priced tickets.
Should the owner of the team have said what he did? Absolutely fucking not itβs clown shit and stupid. Are $5 tickets still good? Yes. Will the casual randoms on the street know what the owner said and weigh that in their decision making? Absolutely not. And the die hard already have their tickets so have no use for the $5 deal, this is to get new people in.
A breadth of teams in the league have major attendance issues, some of them on the lower end of the performance spectrum, some on the higher end. And building attendance isnβt a one game event, itβs a constant work in progress. NCC was on the potential move list not too long ago and was looking at a sale before they decided to try and grow attendance at home, and itβs worked after a few seasons.
Clown on the owner for what he said, clown on him for not investing in his roster, go wild because Iβm doing the exact same. But one thing Iβm not doing is saying that making games more affordable and introducing the team to the greater community is some kind of misstep or joke.
