18,000 to 20,000 Eagles fans in New Orleans??? {just a rumor - merged}

[SaintBienville]

if they sold 20,000 Tickets to the game then all of our hotels would be full and if you go to expedia that just isn't the case.

 

[cajunrevenge]

Well you know if 20,000 fans were really coming to NO then it would be a good thing, they would still be outnumbered in the dome and it would be great for the local economy. We beat the Eagles on the road so lets not pretend we have to have 60,000 fans screaming to be able to beat them. As far as I am concerned bring 60,000 eagle fans down here, it will be great for the economy and it wont affect us winning in the least bit.

 

[Wombat]

Well..every team's games were sold out before the season, but many people sell their ducats online. Eagles fans are claiming they sent 5-10,000 to the first game. I just don't know whether this number came from. Sorry if you guys think this thread is meaningless but I just thought it was something that should be looked into. I just don't know how.

The Eagles game earlier this year had the fewest Eagle fans I'd ever seen in the dome. Maybe, maybe 2,000.

 

[domedog316]

The Eagles game earlier this year had the fewest Eagle fans I'd ever seen in the dome. Maybe, maybe 2,000.

gosh.....IF that.....there weren't alot at all....

they are truly scared....and tryin' to make up some kind of imagined advantage.....lol!

 

[boutrous]

gosh.....IF that.....there weren't alot at all....

they are truly scared....and tryin' to make up some kind of imagined advantage.....lol!

The dome seats 70,000 people. The Saints sold 68,000 season tickets and held 2000 for the opposing teams. They are obviously mistaken.

 

[dninc]

here is my response to a couple of horrible posts.

QUOTE(waitingtoolong @ Jan 10 2007, 01:26 PM)
Doesn't surprise me in the least. There is what? 250,000 total population in NO? They haven't come back yet to previous population numbers. Some think it might take years, if ever.

Anyway, surprising as it is to most Eagles fans, there are more non-football fans in the general population than fans. They will have trouble selling out that Dome in the best of times. When the Saints are their mediocre selves, it is almost impossible.

There was a reason the Saints were the #1 team earmarked to move to a new town before Katrina. As Katrina moves farther and farther into the rear-view mirror, support for the Saints will wane.

A town of 250k cannot support an NFL franchise. Green Bay is an anamoly that gets most of its support from Milwaukee. Plus, there is little else to do with oneself in cheese country.






Did you dig your information out of your rear end? The Saints fans are the most loyal fans in the NFL. We had 48k season tickets before Brees was even a thought and long before Bush was drafted. We sold out the dome for the year long before the season started. I don't understand why so many think the fan support has not been there for the Saints. Before Katrina hit we sold out 48 straight home games and I promise you it wasn't because the product was that good. It is because we love our football.

New Orleans is a small market and it is a poor market, I can't argue that. What you fail to realize is that the Saints have fans in more than just New Orleans. They have a huge fanbase all across Louisiana extending from Pensacola to Houston. We have fans in Ms and Alabama and I don't mean we have a guy there that goes to the game, I'm talking hundreds of thousands of fans.

Louisiana not having a lot of football fans? Tiger Stadium holds over 90k people and is packed every Saturday night, Louisiana has 3 high school teams ranked in the top 25 in the country and Louisiana has more NFL players than any state per capita. We love our football and the entire city comes unglued everytime the Saints do good. These are not bandwagon fans, these are fans that pour their heart and soul into a team that has a track record of being a laughing stock in the NFL with an owner that has had a very bad history.

The reason the Saints were mentioned as a front runner to move to L.A. is because of the lack of business support. Louisiana does not have a bunch of fortune 500 companies and has struggled in the past to compete with the rest of the league in advertising and suite sales. Tom Benson wanted a new stadium and didn't get it so he was wanting to move. Paul Tagliabue was against this and came to New Orleans after the storm and brought a team of marketing and sales people with him, Benson changed his tune and then suddenly the business support has been there, the television ratings are through the roof and suite sales are above the league average. Please don't come up with the lack of fan support because you have no clue what you are talking about. The Saints fan base has more sold more tickets per win than any franchise in the history of the NFL.



QUOTE(Luke65 @ Jan 10 2007, 02:35 PM)
They did sell out. But reported prices were really low, something like 8$ for nosebleeds. Plus people outside the area bought tickets and gave em away to help the city.






The cheapest tickets were $15 a piece and there were only several thousand of these available. If you would, please let me know where these people have been giving tickets away because they are going for a minimum of $500 a pair for any big game. I certainly have not seen anyone giving tickets away. I do know that there were over 20k extra ticket requests from our season ticket holders just for the playoff game and I do know there are thousands on the waiting list for season tickets next year. If you would like to compare our average ticket price to the average ticket price of the rest of the league you would see that we are right in the middle.

As far as 20k tickets being sold to Eagles fans, it isn't happening. I would be very shocked if there were more than 5k Eagle fans in the Superdome Saturday.

Man you are pretty damn good at making sense, i can't believe eagle fans dig the littlest thing out of whatever sewerage they find info from and then blow it up, it's almost laughable, i personally wouldn't have sat and explained this to them, but im glad you did go and set them straight, the apparently think New Orleans is a Peon compared to them because they are a bustling city right now and New Orleans is still on it's knees trying to get up, i wish people get off the city and look at us as another fan cheering for a team we love, unfortunately those people use anything from Katrina as fuel to get us started, thats why i try to stay away from those goof ball sites until they gain some knowledge of whats going on before they gather nutball information to blow up.

Im willing to bet half that board was surprised that a Saint fan came and gave them all the facts and was on point enough to silence them up with all that garbage they were talkin there.

 

[longtime lurker]

20k Eagles fans?!?!?

 

[RobG]

20,000 Eagles fans....what a joke....I've read that ticket brokers are reporting that 60+% of sales have been from LA and MS while only 2% from Penn. Let's see 2% of let's say 25,000 fans trying to sell their tickets would be about 500 tickets.....that doesn't quite equal 20,000 Iggles fans.

 

[Joe OKC]

Well you know if 20,000 fans were really coming to NO then it would be a good thing, they would still be outnumbered in the dome and it would be great for the local economy. .

I agree... I'll put the number at 7.5

 

[derick76]

I'd welcome 20,000 eagles fans to the city, but as for tickets there won't be but about 2000 plus whatever Eagles fans bought tickets online. 2000 not 20,000 is the number.

 

[CargoJon]

20,000 Eagles fans....what a joke....I've read that ticket brokers are reporting that 60+% of sales have been from LA and MS while only 2% from Penn. Let's see 2% of let's say 25,000 fans trying to sell their tickets would be about 500 tickets.....that doesn't quite equal 20,000 Iggles fans.

Well, we can't also assume that all fans from PA are coming to root for the Eagles. Wife and I will decked out in the Black and Gold So that 2% number might be even lower....

I fly in tomorrow night, I'm looking forward to my first visit to NOLA and seeing the dome! In fact, this time tomorrow I'll be there :bier:

 

[marccooper]

By eagles fans they mean people whos football team's mascot is the Eagles, people who like a band called the Eagles, people who are patriotic about a country thats nation bird is an eagle, and people who would enjoy seeing an eagle fly overhead while driving through a national forest.

Seriously, 20k tickets is almost 1/3 capacity. If 1/3 of people sold their tickets and Eagles fans had bought all those tickets already, supply and demand trends would have become
evident to ticket sellers and tickets would be going for $1000 minimum now.

Oh BTW I heard another rumor. Donovan McNabb is fully recovered and will be a suprise start for the Eagles, completely throwing off Gibbs' game plan. He has been working out at Terrell Owens' private home gym and has recovered much more quickly than expected. He has worked so closely with Owens that he is considering taking snaps at WR in another formation destined to throw off the Saints.

 

[Polamalus_Angel]

The Eagles game earlier this year had the fewest Eagle fans I'd ever seen in the dome. Maybe, maybe 2,000.

Yea that 20,000 figure seems grossly inaccurate.

 

[dd]

Eagle Fans,
Don't worry about getting tickets. Just get a flight and hotel and show up at the dome 30 minutes before the game and you should be able to get a ticket for under $100.
Bagdad Ali