Recent content by obersts001

For those of you who don't follow the Ticket Drops thread, all price categories including GA are now available for 9/23. Still only singles available for 9/24.

Take the train, no doubt. There are buses from Port Atrocity (41st and 8th) but it's midweek and you will be traveling during rush hour so the traffic getting out of the city can be nightmarish. The train for the Giants game this past weekend seemed to be a better way to get there, and that...

You're assuming that the Cowboys aren't sold out in advance. Dallas has a season ticket waiting list this year for the first time in several years, even though the capacity in the new stadium is 15,000 more than Texas Stadium. FYI, George Strait plays the first event in the new stadium in...

It's not silly at all. Look at the secondary market ticket prices to get into opening day at the new Mets and Yankees ballparks. Look at the way that the Arizona Cardinals went from 35k fans per game to a season ticket waiting list when they opened their stadium in Glendale. People want to go...

Not sure where you got the daily costs of each tour, but do off days count on your cost estimates? It's hard to break the cost structure down to a single per-day or per-show cost at this point because we don't know how long the tour lasts, and you'd have to amortize the fixed costs over the...

It might be a high operating profit, but the fixed costs on this tour are a beast. I wouldn't be surprised to find that the operating costs + overhead for the 2009 leg alone is over $100 million.

No offense to U2, but the opportunity to check out the new Cowboys Stadium is likely half the draw for a lot of those people.

Whether the Jets still qualify as an NFL team is questionable.

The Linc has it tougher than all of the other stadiums listed because it hosts a college football team as well. With that said, there are two early fall weekends where there are no football games scheduled and they could have hosted the tour: 9/12-13, and 10/3-4. I don't think anyone could...

It depends on the act. If you're Fall Out Boy or My Chemical Romance, your average fan is something like 17 years old. Having those fans take the day off and sit out in front of a venue for hours to "earn" a spot on the rail shows that you reward dedication. If you're Springsteen, your average...

It's a free country, but karma's a bitch.

They're rehearsing "The Wanderer" as an encore. Johnny Cash's ghost will appear in 30-foot-tall hologram form. It will be followed by "Wake Up Dead Man", thus showing that Pop-era irony is back in fashion.

You can still buy pairs at every price level for Gillette 2, including $32.50 seats that are in section 319 that are likely better seats than the $52.50s in section 203. No GA though.

In the US on the last tour, if your ticket came through as a bomb shelter ticket, you could take one other person with you.

201 is technically behind the stage while 328 is not. Whether the cheap seats behind the stage prove to be a bargain or a ripoff is one of the great pre-tour mysteries.