re: More from WEEI Ainge

[Snoopy the Celtics Beagle <snoopy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

He has a point.  When I was at the phone company, they had Magic tickets as 
a "prize" for an internal promotion.  Several people went out of their way 
to win them.  I didn't bother.  When asked "why", I said because I didn't 
especially like seeing the Denver Nuggets get stomped on unless it was the 
Celtics doing the stomping.  They didn't have any clue as to the relative 
quality--or lack thereof--of the teams playing that night.

But there's a very high number of "corporate tickets" reserved at various 
events these days.  Often, the company gets them as part of a PR campaign, 
("Company X in partnership with Team Y for the good of the community"), or 
as a means to entertain visitors, or simply as a tax write off for 
"entertainment/business" expenses.

The Celtics have a reputation as the team of the Working Joe, yet more and 
more, I also see suited people in the stands.  Now, some of that may simply 
be people going straight from work with no time to change.  But even in 
Boston, someone's trying to "upscale" the place--particularly upscaling the 
ticket prices.

At 12:22 PM 10/22/03 -0400, Shawn Niles wrote:

>Well what I meant was a lot of seats are owned by companies now and they 
>use those seats to woo clients. So many times people wearing suits at 
>games are only there because of some perk at their job and they don't know 
>what to cheer and what to boo.
>
>
>>From: Tammo29@xxxxxxx
>>To: celtics@xxxxxxxx
>>Subject: re: More from WEEI Ainge
>>Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:45:06 EDT
>>
>> >>Most fans that go to games wear suits and don't know enough about the team
>>to realize what's really going on.>>
>>
>>
>>That's an interesting theory.  Suits=ignorance.  (;
>
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