[NU Sports] Northwestern Football at Wrigley Field

[Labbe John]

First, I apologize for kicking off this thread by misspelling the name  
of alma mater in the subject line.  I've fixed it for this message.

I've now had a chance to analyze the season ticket and Wrigley ticket  
prices a little more carefully.  Frankly, I had forgotten how much  
we'd been paying for season tickets recently, so this year's season  
ticket will be substantially less, freeing up some cash to blow on the  
Wrigley game (but not enough to pay for the best Wrigley tickets or  
anything comparable to my Ryan Field seats).

Season tickets the past two years have been $228 for 7 games, which  
breaks down as $28 for non-conference games and $36 for conference  
games (28*3+36*4=228).  This year, a season ticket (not including  
Wrigley) will be $164, which is the same per game price as the past  
two years, minus one non-conference game and the Illinois game  
(28*2+36*3=164).

So season ticket holders will save $64 this year before buying their  
Wrigley tickets.  But that's only enough money to buy the cheapest  
Wrigley seats.

Part of me would prefer to pay the normal $36 price for the Illinois  
game at Ryan Field and enjoy my normal prime seats that I've worked my  
way up to over 15 years as a season ticket holder.  But part of me  
thinks the Wrigley game will be a unique experience, and will  
undoubtedly draw a lot of publicity and excitement for the team.  So  
I'll probably end up blowing $100 per ticket for decent seats,  
although it remains to be seen what you'll get even for that princely  
sum, given that $100 only buys mid-level seats.  They're supposed to  
release a seating chart soon.





On Apr 23, 2010, at 1:45 PM, Herman Wang wrote:

> The price of season tickets has been discounted appropriately to  
> account for the fact that the Wrigley game isn't included.  It's  
> $164 for a standard season ticket now, for five Ryan Field games.   
> This is to allow season ticket holders who don't want to go to the  
> Wrigley game a way to opt out without eating the cost of the Wrigley  
> ticket.
>
> As an aside, to any season ticket holder who does not wish to go to  
> the Wrigley game, I'll gladly buy your allotment!
>
> Go 'Cats!
> Herman
>
>
> > Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:37:01 -0500
> > From: johnl at mac.com
> > To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> > Subject: [NU Sports] Northestern Football at Wrigley Field
> >
> > http://nusports.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/042310aag.html
> >
> > I'm surprised I'm apparently the first to comment on this. The  
> Wrigley Field game is official.
> >
> > But what's really interesting is how to get tickets.
> >
> > First, a ticket to NU Football at Wrigley Field will NOT be  
> included with a season ticket.
> >
> > Second, you MUST, however, be a season ticket holder in order to  
> buy a ticket to NU Football at Wrigley Field.
> >
> > Third, ticket prices will range from $50 to $150. That's kind of  
> steep, if you ask me. They say that tickets will be assigned by  
> priority points. But that's bogus. They'll first be assigned by the  
> amount you're willing to spend. And then by priority points. I have  
> excellent seats at Ryan Field. I'm not sure I'm willing to pay more  
> than $50 for NU Football at Wrigley Field, but that will relegate me  
> to the upper deck, endzone, I'm sure.
> >
> > Fourth, I saw in the Tribune "breaking news" report that NU will  
> control 30,000 of the 40,000 tickets. Not clear what that means.  
> Who's going to control the remaining tickets? Illinois? The Cubs,  
> maybe? 10,000 seats is more than the normal away-team allotment for  
> Ryan Field.
> >
> > At first I thought the requirement to purchase season tickets was  
> a brilliant marketing move until I saw that the Wrigley ticket isn't  
> included with the season ticket AND the price for the Wrigley ticket  
> is really high.
> >
> > It will take a while to process all of this information.
> >
> >
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