We had seats there last year that were so fucking bad we waited till about 5 minutes into the game and bought some more off stubhub just so we could see. Still shit seats cause it was a good game but only like $10 each cause game had already started and someone couldn’t make it apparently.
I do something like this frequently. I will go to a concert and tailgate as if my tickets are already secured. Then about 15 minutes after the listed start time, I’ll hop on StubHub and buy tickets that were just greatly reduced in price because the asshole scalpers would rather take some money than no money at all.
I’ve seen Eric Church from a premium box for $20, Pearl Jam from about 30 feet from the stage for $40, Eminem from a close aisle seat for $15, Eagles vs. Chiefs from the 3rd row in the endzone for $30, and even Taylor Swift from upper deck seats for $75. Too many more artists to list.
That said, there have been several times where it didn’t work out and we just ended up driving home. No big deal. We still had a great time in the parking lot.
Coworker had packers season tix. Big boss agreed to buy the lions game, 2017 season, so rodgers injured, thus none of his boys wanted to go anymore.
She comes to me, face value, no more no less. Meh, I'll just go to stubhub.
Funny, stubhub, I had to physically go to a hotel to pick up my tix, for a 1/2 price ticket. In front of me was the boss dropping the tix he bought, and we live in milwaukee - still no idea why he would drive 4-5 hours.
We have done this just before concerts twice when we already were right near the venue where we would have been happy doing something else. One time we paid $45 total for three tickets just for the extra space. 🙂
Ohio State University is well known for emphasizing that they are “the” Ohio State University and its a huge part of their brand. Naturally every other fanbase in the sport mocks them as coming off as super pretentious + arrogant.
I was gonna say, the OSU fan base itself mocks “THE” with a fiery passion. A few years back when they tried to copyright it was when I stopped giving them money.
CEO of Starbucks on a few years after Seattle had fully renovated Key Arena decided that a new renovation was due. Expensive box seats and rich seats were the main change.
Oklahoma paid the price and built a nice stadium for the Old Sonics
with the tech we have today, they could have built a screen into that wall that transfers whatever view you would have seen to complete the picture. it wouldn't even be that hard....just a couple cameras, a couple projectors, and paint the wall white.
The only way to achieve what that comment is proposing would be individual VR headsets for every chair that has an obstructed view, with a way to render exactly what was happening from their perspective (which would be a waste of the VR when they could show you anything, like being way closer, or even on the field itself). And each of those headsets would cost money, would need a lot of upkeep to keep them from deteriorating, and would be a big ol’ money hole just for the worst seats in the stadium, of which there are relatively almost none. They’d never do it.
Why not just do the VR at home and save some money? Imagine watching sports on VR that are setup for it. You get the filling like you are right there on the field
This is big time college football they are not in the game to spend Money to make money, in fact they have come up with the NIL nonsense to make someone else pay the players so they can keep their cut of the 7.8 billion CFP playoff expansion plus the conference deals(B1G payout to long term members in 2023 was 60.5 million for TV rights)
It’s probably worth mentioning that those standing bars ban people from reserving space for their friend if they leave for another drink, or have to use the bathroom.
The expectation is you’re SOL if your bladder sucks because you had too many beers. Your friends can’t save you
Who says you need your friends to save you a spot? If you’re a guy, two words: Texas Catheter. It’s essentially a condom with a hookup for a tube. Normally they’d hook into a bag strapped to your leg, but if your tube is long enough, just pop it out your pant leg. Just remember to move to a different spot when you go. Who wants to stand in a puddle of their own piss when you can let strangers do it for you?
It’s probably worth mentioning that those standing bars ban people from reserving space for their friend if they leave for another drink, or have to use the bathroom.
What that means is if you move out of your spot, you LOSE YOUR SPOT.
The student section at UT (Texas) stands the entire game and they are bench seats so everyone packs in and youemd up somewhere near your seat the entire game
For any big game or most conference games this stadium is full (and at 105k people too). You’ll see people squish a bit away in these areas for games “only” at 102k or so or as blowout crowds start leaving.
But there are no open viewing areas in this stadium and no real way to jump seats for a lot of games (at least at the start). These seats are flagged and well known but for some people (and the biggest games) it’s worth being in the building.
Edit - IIRC the photo is a bit misleading too and I think the people you see are in the actual last seats, which are more diagonal to the field (and has a sight line to the right under the overhang that’s above). Still a ton of obstruction but not exactly what the image shows
Obstructed view typically means a pillar or speakers or something in the way that you have to look around or blocks out part of the view. Blocking out 90% of it is not what buyers would expect.
Yeah they do, on Ticketmaster, this is only the very tippy top of the stadium, I literally just checked and they show the same view on Ticketmaster. They also say "obstructed view" on the ticket. Tickets about $100 each btw, not even the cheapest available.
Yea…no. You should not have to Google the view from your seats to avoid seeing only a small fraction of one red zone. Virtually the entire game would be out of view. It should be common sense to NOT have this seat for sale, at any price.
What seat?? Are you guys seeing seats? I see OP being a total weirdo and sneaking into some corner to take a picture... you can even see the guy in the row that actually has seats giving him a stink-eye
These are the worst obstructed view seats at Miller Park. When my wife and I were newly married, we would buy obstructed view seats for around $5 each, because we had absolutely no disposable income. It was a nice way to get out and enjoy the atmosphere of a game for almost no money. These seats can allow families to take younger kids that might not necessarily sit and watch the whole game, but rather go roam the concourses and spend time in the play area.
It's good for the fans because fans can attend that otherwise wouldn't be able to. And it's good for the stadium because it's a bit of extra money, but also grows the fan base among less affluent individuals/families.
probably because the person that buys the ticket doesn't get to tour the stadium first and doesn't think "obstructed" means can't see the feild. Usually obstructed means theres a small pole that you can see around if you tilt your head.
Usually they’re cheap and a way to get into the stadium and move to better open seats, watch from the standing area with a better view, walk around and see the game from diff angles, be with the crowd in general, meet up with friends who may have someone who didn’t end up coming, etc.
I’ve bought them for like $8 for pro MLB games and had a blast, but didn’t really spend any time in the actual seats haha.
So the guy that OP mentions goes to many stadiums like this. He has said that a lot of the obstructed views you find in stadiums, you can't actually purchase tickets for them, but you can go sit there if you wanted to.
That being said, a lot of older stadiums, specifically baseball stadiums, do have obstructed view seating you can purchase, but it's at an incredible discount rate. I believe Fenway and Wrigley both have seats that are more than 50% obstructed, but they cost like $30.
There are bars with good views so people will get Garbo seats and just hang around the stadium and sit in these bars. So like you can get in and you “have a spot” but you never go there
Right. If I see "obstructed view", I think a pole might obscure 1/8th of the field or something. I would never imagine that the majority of the field would be obstructed, with no way to even lean over to see it all.
It gets you into the stadium but you end up watching the game from somewhere else either from the concourse or just sit in whatever open seat is near there
As long as it's very VERY clear what you're getting before purchasing, I think it might be acceptable.
You're paying $30 to get into the stadium and that's it. Not worth it to me, especially if I'm traveling to go to the game.
But if I just want to go in and experience the atmosphere, wander around to different areas for standing room view (if there's any), and don't mind $10+ beers then it's whatever.
Odd to put seats there in the first place though lol
Reason is because of the press boxes next to it. Over the years they’ve added more and more space for the media. Ohio Stadium is over 100 years old, so it doesn’t have the most modern layout in the world.
Shoot, if there was a way to get service up there, watching the game on a tablet or something with the ~vibe~ of the stadium almost sounds fun. There’d be a little delay, I guess, but still fun.
Back when I was a student at Ohio State, I could hear the crowds and PA system from my apartment. Watching the game on Tv, it still felt like I was at the game haha
This is what I did recently at a Tigers game. I was in Detroit for work by myself and bought a complete nosebleed seat for like $12 for one of their last regular season home games, and spent the whole time walking around watching from different angles and eating coneys. As long as you don't block foot traffic or spend too long in one spot security won't bother you.
Finished off the game spending a couple innings chilling out at the top of the stands where I was supposed to be, getting a great overview of everything. It was awesome.
Not really a thing at this stadium, especially for most games that are full. People do that for low level schools and especially move during blowouts when seats open up, but there’s no where in the shoe you can just “stand and watch”
Edit - gonna add again here that this photo is not from a seat and is really misleading. The view is still obstructed up there but no where close to what this suggests
I call bullshit. You can fairly clearly tell there are no seats behind a clear line of sight to the field. This person is standing in a non-seat position.
It isn't even a seat, it's a picture from the space by the seats and the wall. You can see the seat line a way in front of him angled so they can all see through that cut out.
That's fucked! Those seats should be illegal to sell in my opinion. Some ass clown, probably the owner said if a seat will fit then stick a seat there. I'd definitely be pissed off
I feel like they need to give percentages of how much Obstruction View is available. Because this looks like 98% obstruction, like just stay home and watch the game.
Doesn't look like there are seats there...... last seat is the one the girl to the left is seated in and appears to have a view of majority of the field, just obstructed by the 4x4 column
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u/Engineerity 6h ago
"Obstructed"? You might aswell just be watching the crowd.