FUCK YOU BILL WIRTZ!
Can I swear on here?
BJ gave me the keys, so I'm gonna take this bad blog for a quick spin..........
You guys are lucky. REALLY LUCKY! In fact, you don't know how lucky. I'm gonna tell you why.
I live in Chicago. *WHISPERS - I'm a Blackhawks fan. *WHISPER OVER* We suck. Perpetually. We've made the playoffs once in the last 10 years. No big feat in a league where like 80% of the teams make the playoffs.
The above has nothing to do with why you are lucky. I just wanted to get it off my chest.
Here's why you are lucky. You can watch your home games on TV. That's right. I'll say it again. You can watch your home games on TV. I can't. Ever. Unless of course, we make it to the semi-finals. Way to give us hope Wirtz.
Bill Wirtz (AKA Dollar Bill, Scotch Farts, He of the bulbous nose), who owns the Hawks, will not allow home games to be televised locally. It is a vicisous, convoluted, circular arguement that is provided by Scotch Farts. His line is that it's not fair to our season ticket holders for the games to be on TV. They pay for tickets and to show the games on TV cheapens that fact. Basically, he's saying that if you want to see a home Hawks game, pay up.
I assure you, Dollar Bill, does not need the money. He owns the largest liquour distributorship in the midwest. Which , of course, has exclusive rights to the United Center liquor sales. Oh yeah, he owns 60% or so of the United Center itself. He also owns the concession service, not to mention all the parking lots near the place. Did I also mention that we have like the 4th highest ticket prices in the entire NHL. I could go on and on.
I apologize if it seems I am rambling. I probably am. It's been a long time since my bitching had an audience
(at least one that doesn't live it as I do). That's part of the problem. Dollar Bill has killed NHL hockey in this town. Seriously. This has nothing to do with the lockout. It was dead even before then. We routinely sell only 10,000 tickets to a place that holds 20,000. There are 8 million potential fans in the metro Chicago area and the best you can get is 10,000? C'mon. I can actually hear every word in the National Anthem. That would never have happened 20 years ago.
Where am I going with this you ask. Well, it all comes full circle. You need to get fans back in the seats. It's unrealistic to think that average folks in this day and age can afford to go to more than a few games a year.
Cheapest ticket $25. Parking $18. Hot Dog $3. Beer $6 (crappy) and $7(imported, but still kinda crappy). Right there for one person is $52. Take your family of 4, now its's $150. Part of getting fans back is generating interest. Wouldn't a good way to do that be airing your games on TV?
It seems like such a small thing to do. Yet it's not even an option. Which brings me to how I really feel about the whole thing. To know that, just read the title of this post.
BJ gave me the keys, so I'm gonna take this bad blog for a quick spin..........
You guys are lucky. REALLY LUCKY! In fact, you don't know how lucky. I'm gonna tell you why.
I live in Chicago. *WHISPERS - I'm a Blackhawks fan. *WHISPER OVER* We suck. Perpetually. We've made the playoffs once in the last 10 years. No big feat in a league where like 80% of the teams make the playoffs.
The above has nothing to do with why you are lucky. I just wanted to get it off my chest.
Here's why you are lucky. You can watch your home games on TV. That's right. I'll say it again. You can watch your home games on TV. I can't. Ever. Unless of course, we make it to the semi-finals. Way to give us hope Wirtz.
Bill Wirtz (AKA Dollar Bill, Scotch Farts, He of the bulbous nose), who owns the Hawks, will not allow home games to be televised locally. It is a vicisous, convoluted, circular arguement that is provided by Scotch Farts. His line is that it's not fair to our season ticket holders for the games to be on TV. They pay for tickets and to show the games on TV cheapens that fact. Basically, he's saying that if you want to see a home Hawks game, pay up.
I assure you, Dollar Bill, does not need the money. He owns the largest liquour distributorship in the midwest. Which , of course, has exclusive rights to the United Center liquor sales. Oh yeah, he owns 60% or so of the United Center itself. He also owns the concession service, not to mention all the parking lots near the place. Did I also mention that we have like the 4th highest ticket prices in the entire NHL. I could go on and on.
I apologize if it seems I am rambling. I probably am. It's been a long time since my bitching had an audience
(at least one that doesn't live it as I do). That's part of the problem. Dollar Bill has killed NHL hockey in this town. Seriously. This has nothing to do with the lockout. It was dead even before then. We routinely sell only 10,000 tickets to a place that holds 20,000. There are 8 million potential fans in the metro Chicago area and the best you can get is 10,000? C'mon. I can actually hear every word in the National Anthem. That would never have happened 20 years ago.
Where am I going with this you ask. Well, it all comes full circle. You need to get fans back in the seats. It's unrealistic to think that average folks in this day and age can afford to go to more than a few games a year.
Cheapest ticket $25. Parking $18. Hot Dog $3. Beer $6 (crappy) and $7(imported, but still kinda crappy). Right there for one person is $52. Take your family of 4, now its's $150. Part of getting fans back is generating interest. Wouldn't a good way to do that be airing your games on TV?
It seems like such a small thing to do. Yet it's not even an option. Which brings me to how I really feel about the whole thing. To know that, just read the title of this post.
posted by Future Grump at 3:00 PM
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