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Bears' ticket prices on the rise

Without any fanfare, the Chicago Bears have significantly raised single-game ticket prices.

Chicago media received an annual email about single-game tickets going on sale this Friday, but the range of prices seemed skewed compared to the past, with no explanation. Last year, the cheapest ticket for both season-ticket holders and single-game purchasers was $74 for 400-level seats. This season, that price jumped to $101 for single games, as compared to $76 for season-ticket holders.



According to a chart on the Bears' website, every single-game ticket will be $25 more expensive than a season ticket, from the "cheap" seats in the 400 level to the pricey club seats, which go up to $410 for single-game purchases. Season tickets have been increased between $2 and $10 for non-premium seats.



Last season, the Bears' average non-premium ticket price was listed at $101.55, fifth highest in football, according to the Team Marketing Report, which produces the annual Fan Cost Index survey (fancostexperience.com) before the beginning of each season. The NFL average was $77.36.



Bears vice president of sales and marketing Chris Hibbs said this price increase is to benefit the team's strong season-ticket base. Given the team's popularity, it's doubtful it will affect many purchases.



"Our focus has been around adding benefits and amenities for our season-ticket holders," Hibbs wrote in an e-mail. "They should be paying less for their tickets than what the general public pays. We're very lucky to have a vast majority of Soldier Field filled with our loyal season ticket holders, so the quantity of tickets available in the public on-sale is limited to a few thousand per game. But we feel it's important that the public has an opportunity. The reality is we could sell them all as season tickets if we wanted."



Most teams, regardless of what sport, offer discounts for season-ticket holders. In Chicago, the White Sox use dynamic pricing for single-game tickets, often with large increases from the season-ticket prices. Just this season, the Cubs increased prices of single-game tickets by a couple dollars to similarly "reward" season-ticket holders. The Blackhawks and Bulls have cheaper ticket prices for season-ticket holders.



Despite being in the second largest NFL market, and hosting a fervent fanbase, the renovated Soldier Field has the smallest seating capacity (around 61,500) in the NFL, creating an even greater demand.



Despite the sport's overwhelming popularity, NFL attendance has declined in recent years, 4.5 percent since 2007, according to a Wall Street Journal story. The Bears' average has dipped by 13 fans in the same time. They drew an average of 62,145 last year, 101 percent of capacity. The Bears drew 62,195 in 2010 and 62,250 in 2009, 62,034 in 2008 and 62,158 in 2007.



In 2007, the Bears' average ticket was $84.89, compared to $67.11 for the league.


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Good. They should double the prices next year too.

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Good. They should double the prices next year too.

I agree they should be priced at what the market is willing to pay. If they have no problems selling out this year, they should raise prices again next year. Fuck the scalpers.

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Football games are so much better in front of your own TV.

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Yeah its finally gotten to the point where it doesn't make financial sense for me to go to a Bears game unless I get the tix for free. Rather sit on the couch and have beers that don't cost 8 bucks a pop.

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I think it's good to go to a game every other year or so. I've got three kids, they've each been to a game. My job as a dad is done as far as sporting events go.

The game is MUCH better at home - unless you like battling traffic, paying ridiculous prices for parking, walking alot, being in the company of a bunch of foul mouthed drunks - that are usually football stupid. ...and of course, not have any idea what's going on in any of the other games.

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Football games are so much better in front of your own TV.


Yeah, until you join the CSFMB chat room.

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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
Good. They should double the prices next year too.

I agree they should be priced at what the market is willing to pay. If they have no problems selling out this year, they should raise prices again next year. Fuck the scalpers.

Exactly. Why should scalpers get rich off the Bears product? That's just stupid.

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being in the company of a bunch of foul mouthed drunks - that are usually football stupid. ...and of course, not have any idea what's going on in any of the other games.

Sounds like a CSFMB outing.

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Normally I'd bitch, but quite honestly I haven't been to a sporting even in 12-15 years. About the only thing I still need to do is see the Hawks and then I'm done. My family was never interested in paying the prices 20 years ago, let alone now.

So if people wanna pay, I'm all for that.

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I'm curious as to what the $150 seats I was sat in 6 years ago cost now. $250?

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Where were they? First game in the remodeled Soldier Field. Sat in the lower level near the 10 yard line, about 8-10 rows off the field. I think the tickets were like $80. They are now $153.

http://www.chicagobears.com/tickets/SeatingChart.asp

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4th highest ticket prices in the league.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8345872/average-nfl-ticket-price-jumps-25-percent


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Football games are so much better in front of your own TV.

ding ding ding. Once in my lifetime was enough for going to an actual Bears game.

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And they probably sold out every game very quickly.

I'd say they aren't high enough.

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The place is a shit hole! A new shit hole, but still terrible for $450 Mill!!!! Said it when it was built and many others now jumping on the wagon.

Forget what it looks like (Spaceship landing), the bathrooms are too small, the vending sucks, the video replay screens are poorly designed, etc etc etc...could go on and on with the cheapest materials used.

Bottom line is that the stadium was built as the largest portion of funding that took care of many others....Mayor Daley for the Park, Jerry R for The Cell, Ryan for Kankakee, Money to U of I...

So even though $600 Mill was funded from the ISFA about $450 mill went to the bullshit renovation....

Yes, Jerry drove the whole the project, but at the same time the McCaskeys needed Jerry because they don't make political donations of significance to get any favors! Maybe George is doing so now, so next time they dont need to go begging to Jerry!

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