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Pleny of Good Seats Still Available
Word out of Minnesota yesterday was that there were still 11,000 unsold tickets for the Vikings game against the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday. That would be the Vikings PLAYOFF game against the Eagles! That would be the first Vikings playoff game in four years and the first HOME playoff game in eight years! If the remaining tickets aren’t sold by 4:30 p.m. on Friday, the Vikings will have the dubious distinction of having a playoff game ‘blacked out’ on TV in their own market. By way of comparison, Lambeau Field had less than 4,000 ”no-shows” for a meaningless, play-out-the-season game outside in cold weather against the winless Detroit Lions. I guess football fans in Minnesota just have too many other things to do on a late Sunday afternoon in January. Maybe commissioner Roger Goodell should step in a la Bud Selig and move the game to Green Bay. They’d probably still draw over 50,000 and the atmosphere would be much better, too.
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Five reasons the Vikings-Eagles game has yet to sell out:
1 — Season ticket holders were given a very limited window with which to order playoff tickets in the middle of Christmas shopping season.
2 — The crappies are really biting out on Lake Minnetonka. The 3:30PM start time interferes with the evening bite.
3 — Chili-ball, even with Adrian Peterson, is painful to watch and not very popular in the greater Twin Cities metro area.
4 — The Eagles are going to win regardless of how many people attend.
5 — NFL football is best viewed from one’s own couch…you can’t watch the game in HD if you are actually there.
The best thing for Packers fans about the Vikings making the playoffs is that it guarantees that Brad Childress will be around for a while longer.