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I just read that the Als are at 42,000 tickets sold for the Eastern Final. I wonder how many Argo fans will be travelling for that game?Hambone wrote:Tough to guess what they might get. In the past 6 years they've had 5 home playoff dates. 2 drew in the 50K range and the other 3 in the 30K range. Argos will probably help their draw.
argos are reserving a section. most likely Lori Bursey and the Friends Of the Argonauts will bring in a couple hundred.David wrote:I just read that the Als are at 42,000 tickets sold for the Eastern Final. I wonder how many Argo fans will be travelling for that game?Hambone wrote:Tough to guess what they might get. In the past 6 years they've had 5 home playoff dates. 2 drew in the 50K range and the other 3 in the 30K range. Argos will probably help their draw.
DH
The only times that the Als drew less than 50k for an East Final were in 2006 when they had a terrible second half of the season and likely lost the faith of many of their fans and in '08 in a Grey Cup hosting year against the Esks of all teams. They drew 36k in '06 and 38k in '08 as has been mentioned. Divisional semi-final games are notoriously difficult sells in almost every city and those are the only other occasions where the Als "only" drew in the 30k+ range at the Big Owe over the last decade.David wrote:I just read that the Als are at 42,000 tickets sold for the Eastern Final. I wonder how many Argo fans will be travelling for that game?Hambone wrote:Tough to guess what they might get. In the past 6 years they've had 5 home playoff dates. 2 drew in the 50K range and the other 3 in the 30K range. Argos will probably help their draw.
DH
Similar to what happened here in 2005. We started 11-0 amidst much handwringing that we won several games along the way that we could as easily have lost, before the bounces finally stopped going our way and we went a woeful 1-6 down the stretch. 12-6 was still good enough for first and to host the WF but the slow finish, coupled with the double whammy of hosting a sold out Grey Cup the following week, really slammed the brakes on ticket sales so we only drew 37,337, which wasn't even our best crowd for that year.Ravi wrote:The only times that the Als drew less than 50k for an East Final were in 2006 when they had a terrible second half of the season and likely lost the faith of many of their fans and in '08 in a Grey Cup hosting year against the Esks of all teams. They drew 36k in '06 and 38k in '08 as has been mentioned. Divisional semi-final games are notoriously difficult sells in almost every city and those are the only other occasions where the Als "only" drew in the 30k+ range at the Big Owe over the last decade.
I am sure that there will be a healthy contingent of Argo fans at the game on Sunday. The Toronto/Montreal rivalry in any sport still gets the juices flowing in both cities. BTW, this is the seventh time since 2002 that the Argos and Als have met in the East Final with the Als currently holding a 5-1 edge. Hopefully this is the Argos' year.
printers threw a hail mary at the end of the game to geroy, who was mauled in the endzone by 3 esks players while the ball was in the air (he would have caught it, i was in the front row right there). no call. geroy chased every ref off the field.sj-roc wrote: Similar to what happened here in 2005. We started 11-0 amidst much handwringing that we won several games along the way that we could as easily have lost, before the bounces finally stopped going our way and we went a woeful 1-6 down the stretch. 12-6 was still good enough for first and to host the WF but the slow finish, coupled with the double whammy of hosting a sold out Grey Cup the following week, really slammed the brakes on ticket sales so we only drew 37,337, which wasn't even our best crowd for that year.
We hosted four WFs in a row from 2004-2007 that all drew >50k except that one, and got over 41k for the one last year in spite of the looming sold out Grey Cup (that extra 4k presumably being the difference between the weak 2005 finish and the strong 2011 one).
From a time series of screen caps of the ticketmaster seating map, I've been tracking since late Sunday evening in seat-by-seat fashion the sale of tickets specifically in the upper bowl behind the Lions sideline. This is the $98 "coach's sideline" price point area: basically, six sections — half of 438, all of 439-443 and half of 444, roughly between the 20s — comprising 3280 seats or about 6% of capacity. I've also been tracking the status of singles and so far they're a fairly static collection of seats as per my expectation.dfootball wrote:owner David Braley says 37,000 tickets sold for Western Final. Sellout is 53,000 plus, Braley likes his chances.
from 1130 am sports twitter just know
acually i heard it creeping up on 38, on cknw today, could we hit hit 40,000 by tom.
if we do then we could hit 50,000 even by sunday morning.
nearly sold out lower bowl, extrapolation to kickoff Sunday of somewhat slow but steady sales I've seen in my tracking area, same final percentage of uptake in rest of upper bowl (this is prob the least reasonable assumption at the moment), and allowance for singles that likely won't sell,Rich Dhaliwal, even back when he was with CKNW, seems to always get first dibs on ticket sales. Team1040 who has the rights to broadcast the BC Lions games, always seems to be a bit behind. The tweet from 1130 was probably from Dhaliwal and it was early in the morning. I didn't hear anything from Team1040 all day on ticket sales updates. They kept referring to 36,000 which was yesterday's number.dfootball wrote:owner David Braley says 37,000 tickets sold for Western Final. Sellout is 53,000 plus, Braley likes his chances.
from 1130 am sports twitter just know
acually i heard it creeping up on 38, on cknw today, could we hit hit 40,000 by tom.
if we do then we could hit 50,000 even by sunday morning.
(ahem, look at the top of this page).J5V wrote:From the Alouettes website:
Over 42,000 tickets sold for East Final
November 13, 2012
