40.000 for opening night?

[runningback]

should be a great game Tonight!

[Ravi]

Just heard on cknw they already hit close to 36,000 so they might get 37,000 but i dout it, having again the Canucks stealing the headline today, does not help either.

How did the Canucks steal the headlines? Did they sign another fourth line winger or was it a third string netminder?

[leeinq]

So the total was 33,813, a far cry from what was suggested. Guess the quality of the team was not the only thing overblown...

[B.C.FAN]

So the total was 33,813, a far cry from what was suggested. Guess the quality of the team was not the only thing overblown...

The number of tickets announced as sold the day before the game is the number that will attend. In this case it was just under 34,000.

[chimpy]

i was not there but a friend of mine said it looked like a lot more tham 34,000 all though that is excellent, so maybe they do not include the walk up of that day.

[B.C.FAN]

i was not there but a friend of mine said it looked like a lot more tham 34,000 all though that is excellent, so maybe they do not include the walk up of that day.

No, it looked like just under 34,000. There is no appreciable walkup.

[firstdown45]

yeah they might hit 40,000, they might hit 50,000, they might hit 100,000, and mabey I'll get rich too

I'd be surprised if they exceed 30,000 again this season

[SammyGreene]

Lions need to stop these “we expect 40,000” statements three days before the game unless sales are hovering around that number. The media grasps onto this number then everybody wonders where the other 6,000 fans were.
The walk-up is simply not what it use to be because so many casual fans are now season ticket holders and that's a great thing.

It was probably the Lions largest crowd for a regular season opener since the late 1980s but that fact is lost when they throw out a number they had no chance of seeing.