Curious Hair wrote:
spanky wrote:
The ticket policy in Nashville is even worse than I thought.
I knew that they prohibited Chicago area fans from buying games vs. the Blackhawks down there......but I just tried to buy tickets for a game vs. NYR, and I was prohibited from doing that also!
Stupid......and there are a LOT of tickets available
Nashville is home to the league's most sensitive twats. One person from the other team's city shows up to a game and they act as if the mere presence of visiting fans is a referendum on their entire existence. I wish it were.
Needs its own thread.
Below from today's trib. Now this makes me really want to attend a game in Nashville. I need to figure out a way around this. Any ideas?
From
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/ro ... olumn.htmlQuote:
Predators wonks are at it again, Blackhawks fans
By Steve Rosenbloom
Those Nashville Predators are just so cute. Cute, cute, cute.
I’m not talking about the Predators players who will face the scorching Blackhawks at the United Center on Tuesday night. Those Predators aren’t the power they were last season, they’re trying hang on to the last wild-card playoff spot, and they’re still looking for a spike from the Ryan Johansen-for-Seth Jones trade.
But forget that. I was talking about Predators management’s cute little attempt to keep Hawks fans out of their building. Again.
Hawks fans seem to travel to Predators games from Chicago as easily Predators fans do from the Grand Ole Opry. That scares Predators management. Still and again. The obsession remains.
So, you Hawks fans thinking about heading to Nashville for the game next Tuesday in Bridgestone Arena, the Predators continue to institute last season’s measures known as “keeping the red out.’’
Here’s the event info note that appears on the team’s website for the Hawks game:
“To better serve Nashville Predators fans, a restricted sales area has been implemented for this Nashville Predator game at the Bridgestone Arena. Sales will be restricted to residents of the Nashville Predators television viewing area – Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. Residency will be based on credit card billing address. Orders by residents outside the viewing area will be cancelled without notice and refunds given.’’
Further, if Hawks fans think they can get around this amateurish policy on the secondary market, the Predators are enforcing credit card rules that require the original purchaser to produce the credit card used for purchase and a photo ID with a matching name before being allowed into the arena.
Oh, and maybe a DNA swab, and if not, then soon.
No such measures apply to other Predators games that I could find. Just the Hawks and their fans. The red menace on the ice and in the stands scaring all those yellow-sweatered Predators fans, you big meanies, you.
If you wanted to make a federal case out of this childish act, I wonder if you could sue the Predators for discrimination. There must be a litigious barrister Hawks fan who's keen on the law and keen to stick it to the Predators.
The Predators are the franchise, remember, that yammers on about its great home-ice advantage -- Smashville, they call it -- but here’s the thing:
If your home support is that great, you don’t have to worry about Hawks fans getting in.
Truth is, the Predators are back to protecting themselves against their fans’ lack of interest in spending cash money on tickets. Predators management seems to believe empty seats are better than red sweaters.
During the Stanley Cup playoffs last spring, the Predators hit new highs on the Amateur-O-Meter when they allowed a car covered in Hawks logos to be placed outside the arena so fans could take a swing at it with a sledgehammer.
That must be more amusing for Predators fans, such as they are, than watching their team lose another playoff series to the Hawks.
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