NFL to charge people $200 to stand outside Super Bowl stadium By Chris Chase
For one-third the price of a regular ticket, NFL fans will be able to stand outside Cowboys Stadium and act like they are attending the Super Bowl XLV. The league announced on Wednesday that tickets to watch the game on large HD video screens on the east side of the stadium will cost $200.
They're calling it the "party plaza," because what's more of a party than spending two bills to go through a security line for the right to sit on a grassy knoll, pay $9 for a beer and watch a game that's freely available on television?
Tickets will first be offered to Cowboys season ticket holders who will have to buy in blocks of four. The $800 will cover four tickets to watch the game, four programs, four scarves and a parking pass. Scarves? For that price, they better be Burberry.
"We've never done this before," NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told ESPN Dallas of the league's plan to price-gouge folks who want to attend the Super Bowl without actually attending the Super Bowl.
Besides additional revenue, the biggest upside for the Cowboys is that those buying tickets to the party plaza will count toward the game's official attendance. Jerry Jones has expressed a desire to break the Super Bowl record for biggest crowd, which was set in 1980 when 103,985 attended the game at the Rose Bowl.
How people standing outside a stadium counts as attendance is beyond me. If you're standing next to an unplugged TV, does that mean you'll be tallied in the Nielsen ratings?
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It’s prediction time again for “Playbook” analysts Brian Baldinger, Joe Theismann and Brian Billick.
Although the Jets have won playoff road games against Peyton Manning and Tom Brady in consecutive weeks, the crew doesn’t see it happening a third time against Ben Roethlisberger and the Steelers in Pittsburgh. All three are taking the Steelers at home.
The crew is split on the Bears/Packers, who split their two meetings this season. Baldinger, who is alone on taking the home Bears, sees how they can have success against the explosive Packers.
“The Bears are set up to contain Aaron Rodgers,” Baldinger said. “They really don’t have to do a lot. They win with their front four. Speed at linebacker to take care of underneath (coverage) and chase Rodgers when he does break the pocket. The safeties generally play deep to take away the deep throws. The cornerbacks really redirect and re-route the receivers. That’s what they did in the first game, they limited the big plays and tackled very well. Really, I give the Packers credit because they stayed pretty patient (in the second) game even though they turned it over a couple of times. The defense kept it close and they won it in the fourth quarter.
“That’s the challenge, but I believe the Bears think that their defense is in place to be able to slow this offense down.”
Here are the picks for the conference championship games:
Packers at Bears Baldinger: Bears Theismann: Packers Billick: Packers
Jets at Steelers Baldinger: Steelers Theismann: Steelers Billick: Steelers
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"Besides additional revenue, the biggest upside for the Cowboys is that those buying tickets to the party plaza will count toward the game's official attendance."
"I think that team has to work on consistency with Sanchez before you can put them anywhere."
With that defense? Sanchez in his second year? They have plenty of tools on offense for Sanchez, as much as I hate the guy."
^this
The Jets D is pretty damn scary at the moment. Sanchez is coming along very good and with Greene and LT at RB and with a good WR. they have a very good chance of going back to the title game.
awwwww memories
Get ready to do a lot of hating....right now I'd put them back in the AFC title game... <_>
Last Saturday, ESPN's Bob Holtzman reported that the Pittsburgh Steelers were planning on using a trick play during the team's AFC divisional playoff game against the Baltimore Ravens. Mike Tomlin was not pleased and let Holtzman know it during a press conference this week.
"Two Steelers have told me, if they catch the Ravens in the right defense, they have a trick play ready to go today that they've never run before," Holtzman said in a live report before the game. He went on to suggest that the play was to involve wide receiver Antwaan Randle El(notes) throwing the ball.
It was an egregious breach of reporting etiquette. Beat writers and television reporters often see teams running gadget plays in practice and hear tidbits about game plans from players and it's understood that such information is off the record. Holtzman didn't follow protocol and it earned him a rebuke from Tomlin in the coach's Wednesday press conference.
Holtzman, whom ESPN should have sent elsewhere this week, set up the coach by asking, "what extra time and preparation does it take to prepare for a Rex Ryan defense?"
"It depends on whether or not you gave him my plays," Tomlin curtly responded before moving on to another question. The exchange begins at the 1:34 mark of the clip below.
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By Chris Chase
For one-third the price of a regular ticket, NFL fans will be able to stand outside Cowboys Stadium and act like they are attending the Super Bowl XLV. The league announced on Wednesday that tickets to watch the game on large HD video screens on the east side of the stadium will cost $200.
They're calling it the "party plaza," because what's more of a party than spending two bills to go through a security line for the right to sit on a grassy knoll, pay $9 for a beer and watch a game that's freely available on television?
Tickets will first be offered to Cowboys season ticket holders who will have to buy in blocks of four. The $800 will cover four tickets to watch the game, four programs, four scarves and a parking pass. Scarves? For that price, they better be Burberry.
"We've never done this before," NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told ESPN Dallas of the league's plan to price-gouge folks who want to attend the Super Bowl without actually attending the Super Bowl.
Besides additional revenue, the biggest upside for the Cowboys is that those buying tickets to the party plaza will count toward the game's official attendance. Jerry Jones has expressed a desire to break the Super Bowl record for biggest crowd, which was set in 1980 when 103,985 attended the game at the Rose Bowl.
How people standing outside a stadium counts as attendance is beyond me. If you're standing next to an unplugged TV, does that mean you'll be tallied in the Nielsen ratings?
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Although the Jets have won playoff road games against Peyton Manning and Tom Brady in consecutive weeks, the crew doesn’t see it happening a third time against Ben Roethlisberger and the Steelers in Pittsburgh. All three are taking the Steelers at home.
The crew is split on the Bears/Packers, who split their two meetings this season. Baldinger, who is alone on taking the home Bears, sees how they can have success against the explosive Packers.
“The Bears are set up to contain Aaron Rodgers,” Baldinger said. “They really don’t have to do a lot. They win with their front four. Speed at linebacker to take care of underneath (coverage) and chase Rodgers when he does break the pocket. The safeties generally play deep to take away the deep throws. The cornerbacks really redirect and re-route the receivers. That’s what they did in the first game, they limited the big plays and tackled very well. Really, I give the Packers credit because they stayed pretty patient (in the second) game even though they turned it over a couple of times. The defense kept it close and they won it in the fourth quarter.
“That’s the challenge, but I believe the Bears think that their defense is in place to be able to slow this offense down.”
Here are the picks for the conference championship games:
Packers at Bears
Baldinger: Bears
Theismann: Packers
Billick: Packers
Jets at Steelers
Baldinger: Steelers
Theismann: Steelers
Billick: Steelers
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This is like boosting your score lol
awwwww memories
"Two Steelers have told me, if they catch the Ravens in the right defense, they have a trick play ready to go today that they've never run before," Holtzman said in a live report before the game. He went on to suggest that the play was to involve wide receiver Antwaan Randle El(notes) throwing the ball.
It was an egregious breach of reporting etiquette. Beat writers and television reporters often see teams running gadget plays in practice and hear tidbits about game plans from players and it's understood that such information is off the record. Holtzman didn't follow protocol and it earned him a rebuke from Tomlin in the coach's Wednesday press conference.
Holtzman, whom ESPN should have sent elsewhere this week, set up the coach by asking, "what extra time and preparation does it take to prepare for a Rex Ryan defense?"
"It depends on whether or not you gave him my plays," Tomlin curtly responded before moving on to another question. The exchange begins at the 1:34 mark of the clip below.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Tomlin-takes-a-dig-at-ESPN-reporter-for-divulgin?urn=nfl-310130
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