Steelers are hot ticket in town

Steelers Notebook: Steelers are hot ticket in town

Thursday, October 06, 2005
By Ed Bouchette, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A growing number of teams around the NFL are trying to either keep Steelers fans out of their stadiums or take advantage of them by making them purchase additional tickets to other games if they want to see the one involving their favorite team.

The Ravens have required fans to purchase a ticket to one other game if they want to buy tickets to see the Steelers play in Baltimore. They've been joined in that practice by five other teams on the Steelers' schedule this season, and San Diego went one more. The Chargers required anyone who wanted to buy a ticket to Monday night's Steelers game to purchase tickets to two other games in San Diego as well.

Four other teams required the purchase of one additional game in order to buy a ticket to see the Steelers play: Houston, Minnesota, Indianapolis and Cincinnati.

Steelers fans traditionally turn out in droves at certain road games.

They filled nearly half Texas Stadium last year to watch the Steelers play the Cowboys. They have had a good showing in San Diego through the years.

"Whether I was in Cleveland, Kansas City or Washington, your home crowd is a tangible asset to your effort," Chargers coach Marty Schottenheimer said.

Does it change if half of the home crowd turns out to be Steelers fans?

"I think it does," Schottenheimer said. "But I don't think we sell many tickets to people outside the city anymore. I'm kidding, of course."

Chargers always make Raiders fans buy 2 additional game tickets as well.


Didnt know the Steeler bandwagon was as big. Guess they need to catch the regular season games cause its choke city come playoffs.

Raiders Don't Even Sell Out Their Home Games. They Are Always Blacked Out In Oakland. Last Week Was A Sell Out Because Of All The Cowboy Fans. Who Wants To Go See A Loser Evey Week? 3 Years Ago, Steelers And Raiders Were 6-10. Raiders Still Trying To Reach 500 And They Wont Do It Again This Year.

Tesco Vee said:

Chargers always make Raiders fans buy 2 additional game tickets as well.


Didnt know the Steeler bandwagon was as big. Guess they need to catch the regular season games cause its choke city come playoffs.

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Steeler fans are all over the US.

Most football team followed by other states than PA, forget where I heard this though

Steelers have a nice following, but nothing matches the following of the Packers. Vikings as well. Out west lots of Broncos fans everywhere, probably most popular team in Vegas and even Phoenix.

gijoe said:

Raiders Don't Even Sell Out Their Home Games. They Are Always Blacked Out In Oakland. Last Week Was A Sell Out Because Of All The Cowboy Fans. Who Wants To Go See A Loser Evey Week? 3 Years Ago, Steelers And Raiders Were 6-10. Raiders Still Trying To Reach 500 And They Wont Do It Again This Year.

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GI,
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The Chargers started this policy last year for the Raiders game. They only made them buy one extra ticket last year. I think that they are only making people buy two extra games for the Raiders game again this year, and not Pitts. I know people coming to town to see the game in San Diego and they told me they only had to buy one ticket.

Last year the Chargers lost the city's backing on buying all remaining unsold tickets. That was the original agreement between the city and the Chargers. Needless to say with the Chargers record before last year, there were about 5 home games a year that weren't getting sold out. They would sell out Denver and naturally the Raiders, and maybe one other big team from back east like the Giants.

With so many fights occuring at the Raider games, some genius came up with the idea that if they forced Raider fan to buy an extra game, it would cut down on the amount of Raider fans that would attend the game. It was a fact that there were almost as many Raider fans at the Chargers game than there were Charger fans. The fights at these games were epic, and even the players on the field during timeouts would look into the stands to watch these battles! Believe me, sometimes it was more exciting than the game!:lukesky