Sit or stand,Late arrivals,Empty Seats etc.

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Three pages of complaints about early starting times, sitting or standing, old people complaining, students not in their seats, open Season Ticket holders seats etc.

Yep, and it's not here it's on the Badger site! Nice to see that whining is universal.

http://buckyville.yuku.com/topic/22559/t/How-to-get-the-old-people-to-the-game-on-time.html?page=1

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Three pages of complaints about early starting times, sitting or standing, old people complaining, students not in their seats, open Season Ticket holders seats etc.

Yep, and it's not here it's on the Badger site! Nice to see that whining is universal.

http://buckyville.yuku.com/topic/22559/t/How-to-get-the-old-people-to-the-game-on-time.html?page=1

The site is blocked where I am. I'm guessing it is because folks in Wisc. have such a hard time with reading and writing that it gets too difficult to monitor.

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The site is blocked where I am. I'm guessing it is because folks in Wisc. have such a hard time with reading and writing that it gets too difficult to monitor.

My Officescan software always shows a virus threat when I go to Buckyville, that site is infested.

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My Officescan software always shows a virus threat when I go to Buckyville, that site is infested.

Gotta love Yuku.

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Bucky full of viruses!

They get into all the topics over three pages but here's Page One, at least what prints out:

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09/28/09 11:51 AM
As the students being late to the game has been rehashed many times over and there is a thread that is currently sitting at 6 pages how do we get the old people to the game on time. Around me in section D it was about 2/3 full at kick-off.

Discuss.

And they yell at you if you stand up on 3rd down as well...

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09/28/09 11:57 AM
I don't know the answer, I'm just asking that's all.
I sat immediately adjacent to a large block of seats (30 or so in total) that were empty for almost the entire 1st period.

In defense of those people, I missed the Wofford game entirely because those damn bars near the stadium and their "cold beers." Bastards.

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09/28/09 12:30 PM
I don't really care how late the geezers in section C come to the game. More room to spread out. It's taken me 10 years to teach the people in my row that arrive late and leave early for every single game, that I won't move during a play. I sit on the end of the row. After the play is over I'll get out of the way and let you arrive late second quarter or leave during a tie game.

I've also been thinking about making a t-shirt with a message on back to teach the revolving M&I Bank customers that sit in the seats behind me:

No I won't sit down on third down defensive plays.
Stop tapping me on the shoulder.
Stand up and cheer on defensive 3rd and 4th downs
The game is televised if you'd like to see the game without getting off your fat ass
If you have to puke, please remove yourself from the seats and go to the bathroom


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09/28/09 12:35 PM
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FMichigan wrote:
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I don't really care how late the geezers in section C come to the game. More room to spread out. It's taken me 10 years to teach the people in my row that arrive late and leave early for every single game, that I won't move during a play. I sit on the end of the row. After the play is over I'll get out of the way and let you arrive late second quarter or leave during a tie game.

I've also been thinking about making a t-shirt with a message on back to teach the revolving M&I Bank customers that sit in the seats behind me:

No I won't sit down on third down defensive plays.
Stop tapping me on the shoulder.
Stand up and cheer on defensive 3rd and 4th downs
The game is televised if you'd like to see the game without getting off your fat ass
If you have to puke, please remove yourself from the seats and go to the bathroom



+1

Awesome.
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09/28/09 1:36 PM

"Things are looking up for us beer geeks."

There's a block of 8 seats behind us owned by a seemingly well-to-do family from the Chicago area; they've yet to show up for a game. In fact, during the last three or four season they only came to a couple of games. My guess is that unless the Badgers are contending for the Rose Bowl, it's not worth their time to make the trip. In fact, quite a few seats around us have been empty so far.

My feeling has always been that as pretty big percentage of season ticket-holders are luke-warm fans. I just don't see the passion in many of them that you find to be so evident in SEC or Texas universities' fans. They like the game-day atmosphere, the band, the tailgating; but their devotion to the Badgers often seems to be lacking.

Come to think of it, maybe a lot of the kids in the student section are a lot like some of our season ticket-holdeers.


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09/28/09 1:43 PM
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Back when I had a season ticket I was one of "those" people. I would virtually always get to the game on time. I hate being late for the start of sporting events (although I am often a few minutes late for early UW hoops starts due to my schedule). On the other side of the game I virtually always left early. I gave up my season ticket (I had one with a friend who had a block of 8) when I left a Michigan State game at halftime with the score tied at 14. During the game I got a call from a friend of mine asking me where I was watching the game. I told him in the stadium. He and a handful of friends were just leaving and going to watch the second half at Coaches. I left the game to watch at Coaches with them. As I was walking out my thoughts were along the lines of I really don't need this ticket since I leave virtually every game early and if a 14-14 halftime with a Big 10 opponent can't keep me what's the point. I've been to one game since.

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09/28/09 1:51 PM

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Wow! I've often fantacized that if I ever won the lottery one of the first thing's I'd do is make a big contribution to the UW AD so I could buy good season tickets (no, not in one of those boxes--that's for wimps), and fly in for every home game. Seven weekends a year in Madison. If I had the $$$ I'd do it now, actually. That people who actually can get to the games prefer to go to a bar to watch on television is unfathomable to me.
These ARE the good old days!
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09/28/09 1:56 PM

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Ol Badger wrote:
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Wow! I've often fantacized that if I ever won the lottery one of the first thing's I'd do is make a big contribution to the UW AD so I could buy good season tickets (no, not in one of those boxes--that's for wimps), and fly in for every home game. Seven weekends a year in Madison. If I had the $$$ I'd do it now, actually. That people who actually can get to the games prefer to go to a bar to watch on television is unfathomable to me.
Amen.

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09/28/09 2:23 PM
Ol Badger wrote:
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Wow! I've often fantacized that if I ever won the lottery one of the first thing's I'd do is make a big contribution to the UW AD so I could buy good season tickets (no, not in one of those boxes--that's for wimps), and fly in for every home game. Seven weekends a year in Madison. If I had the $$$ I'd do it now, actually. That people who actually can get to the games prefer to go to a bar to watch on television is unfathomable to me.

The secret that most people don't know or want to know is that you can go to every game and sit between the 30s for under $25 per ticket for just about every game of the year. The first four have been like that, Purdue should be the same. Only Michigan and Iowa might be more expensive. If you really wanted to do this, you could for waaaay less than a big donation or season tickets. Actual prices and seat locations, along with the time purchased, for a pair of tickets for the last 4 games:

Northern Ill - $25 Section D Row 38 - 530pm
Fresno State - $15 Section F Row 25 - 1040am
Wofford - $5 Section T Row 29 - 1045am
Michigan State - $25 Section U row 31 - 1045am


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09/28/09 2:33 PM

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badgerhockey1 wrote:
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The secret that most people don't know or want to know is that you can go to every game and sit between the 30s for under $25 per ticket for just about every game of the year.


Alas, the big cost for me would be flying to Madison and getting a hotel room. That's why I need to start buying lottery tickets each week, lol.
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09/28/09 2:48 PM

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Ol Badger wrote: Alas, the big cost for me would be flying to Madison and getting a hotel room. That's why I need to start buying lottery tickets each week, lol. You could probably find a Buckyvillain willing to put you up each weekend you came to town. So start working on your pilot's license!



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09/28/09 2:55 PM
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Ol Badger wrote: Alas, the big cost for me would be flying to Madison and getting a hotel room. That's why I need to start buying lottery tickets each week, lol. You could probably find a Buckyvillain willing to put you up each weekend you came to town. So start working on your pilot's license!



I'm game, as long as OB doesn't mind sleeping on a couch (It is very comfy).


Beers brewed with fresh hops as opposed to the pellet variety do have a unique taste. Not sure about the 24-hour thing. I do know that if you get your malt into your beer within seven hours of killing your barley, flying unicorns will come down from the sky and take you directly to heaven.

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badgerhockey1 wrote:
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Ol Badger wrote:
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Wow! I've often fantacized that if I ever won the lottery one of the first thing's I'd do is make a big contribution to the UW AD so I could buy good season tickets (no, not in one of those boxes--that's for wimps), and fly in for every home game. Seven weekends a year in Madison. If I had the $$$ I'd do it now, actually. That people who actually can get to the games prefer to go to a bar to watch on television is unfathomable to me.

The secret that most people don't know or want to know is that you can go to every game and sit between the 30s for under $25 per ticket for just about every game of the year. The first four have been like that, Purdue should be the same. Only Michigan and Iowa might be more expensive. If you really wanted to do this, you could for waaaay less than a big donation or season tickets. Actual prices and seat locations, along with the time purchased, for a pair of tickets for the last 4 games:

Northern Ill - $25 Section D Row 38 - 530pm
Fresno State - $15 Section F Row 25 - 1040am
Wofford - $5 Section T Row 29 - 1045am
Michigan State - $25 Section U row 31 - 1045am


Where exactly do you purchase these tickets?

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09/28/09 3:33 PM


"I now read the Declaration every Fourth of July. It is the most stunning, eloquent, "*&^@#*&^@#*&^@#*&^@# You" in the history of the written word."

Isn't it remarkable how different a bunch of (generally) reasonable, very intelligent people of rather similar backgrounds can approach the same situation? I first got season tickets for the 1993 season, and have had them ever since. Up in BB, row 7. I believe you could count on one hand the number of home games I have missed in the time frame. It has to be a really big deal. (Brother in law's wedding when Davenport beat Indiana in mid 90's, in Vegas (ironically) when we lost to UNLV a few years ago, firm golf outing in Florida for Schabert to Evans. Can't think of any others offhand.)

Unless the weather is really bad, why anyone would leave early while the game is contested, or worse sit in a goddam bar to watch the game blows my mind. You can go to 7 games a year, and sit in a bar 365 days. I am early to every game and stay to the final whistle (okay, not that 60 point Indiana debacle). With all that, at age 50, I have earned the right to sit in the stadium, thank you very much. But I never have a problem with people standing for big plays.

Mind you, I am not judging people who do it differently than I do, I just don't understand.

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Shot of Wiskie wrote: in Vegas (ironically) when we lost to UNLV a few years ago, firm golf outing in Florida for Schabert to Evans.
Talk about differing ends of the spectrum. Two in one season? Well, at least you stayed dry that year.


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09/28/09 3:52 PM
I have had tickets (with Shot) since '93, and last weekend was the first home game I voluntarily skipped in that entire time that didn't involve me being out of town. (Just wanted to save a few bucks and spend the day more productively.)

Here's what I have learned in that 17 years: people will do what they want, so why worry about it?
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I very, very seldom leave basketball games early. I am often a few minutes late to the 6:00 starts because of travel, but I can count on one hand the number of games I've left early in the last 10 years no matter the score. To echo Fran - to each his own.


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09/28/09 4:01 PM
The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking.

Ditto to what shot said. (and I also got my season tickets in '93 when I move back to the state). Bars are for away games.
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09/28/09 4:14 PM
Like Bud, I can't imagine leaving a basketball game early. In part that's just my preference for the sport, but another factor is that the games are shorter, and the conditions at basketball games are just about always 71 degrees with no threat of rain. That said, I rarely have left CR early, although I gave up on the Fifth Quarter some time in the mid 90s. Seen one...

I did leave the Wofford game this year very late in the third quarter, but had a great reason -- I was with my HS senior son and my wife, neither of whom cares a whit about football, and it being a beautiful day and the Badgers having the game well in hand, we decided a campus tour for my son would be much more attractive -- and it was. Ended with an ice cream on the Terrace.
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09/28/09 4:32 PM
I have a guest room with your name on the door. It is even walking distance to the legendary Avenue Bar.

edit: I'll get to the game when I'm good and ready. Sometimes the coffee works a little slower in the morning. Know what I mean? I'm not gonna sit there all game squeezing it in.
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Man Wisconsis really does suck.

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Man Wisconsin really does suck.

And they seem to be flocking over here in droves today.....