Blackouts in the Oakland Colosseum?

[Candygirl73]

Originally Posted by chi3fs

was that you being funny, or are you really illiterate?

Talking about being illiterate...go read who responded and you will see that they are NOT a mod!

[Jimi18]

Originally Posted by chi3fs

sweet, you will all get to see our new toys. Our defense is swarming and aggressive. Moss will get his, fo'sho... Porter will get a couple also, but you will have NO running game at all...

Collins will get sacked at least 3 times... prolly throw 2 INTs... and we will recover a couple fumbles. Should be fun... plus you guys get to see your only home game this year. Sweet.

so.... you stil play with toys huh??? Only home game??? how did you know i am leaving chief country, to visit my Big bad Raiders!!!

only see it live, but i will be with the sea of black in kansa city as well, come Nov.

oh and We raider fans, can afford the sunday ticket... prolly not enough income going thru KC, to afford something like a sat. dish huh?

well alot of us raiders fans can afford the ticket, so it don't really matter...

you see.. Raider fans are just not in oakland, but World wide!!!

Your base in a few 50k or so, in the midwest....

As far as the black outs!!!! we will just have to see.

[chi3fs]

I will enjoy watching this board implode Sunday night... like last Thursday night... There are many, many whiners here... Its quite amusing watching you bitches suffer.

[Candygirl73]

Man just get rid of him already..........

[chi3fs]

Wow, the whining has begun already. Interesting. At least its in the smack forum. heh.

please grab one of these Turkey kleenex's to help out on Sunday nite.

[superbowl1]

Originally Posted by Candygirl73

Man just get rid of him already..........

Hi candygirl I noticed that you have a cure Autism link on your post how do you feel about one of your fans that has to post a pic of a boy with downs Syndrome and has to make fun of him frankly i am shocked at such a classless post

[XXXshogunXXX]

Originally Posted by cc_me

That is the angle he is taking. I don't think this is the first time one of these chief fans has stated that we our fans are fat. C'mon, get imaginative with your smack.

oh ****..hahhahaa, thats the funniest quote ive seen that's been gutted. Still not sure if you were being sarcastic. He was just talking about making the seats wider, and you thought he was telling fat jokes..hahahhahahahahahaha. you have to understand that even people in shape appreciate wider seats as opposed to keeping your shoulders in your own 1 ft space, like airplanes? plus itd prolly get rid of excessive seating. hahaha...i still cant get enough. you guys find reasons to move threads.

[Candygirl73]

Originally Posted by superbowl1

Hi candygirl I noticed that you have a cure Autism link on your post how do you feel about one of your fans that has to post a pic of a boy with downs Syndrome and has to make fun of him frankly i am shocked at such a classless post

Which fan is that?? And please don't even use autism as sarcasim with me. My son has autism and I won't f**kin' go there or play that!!! Please.

[dropKickMurphy]

Originally Posted by chi3fs

Im sure all of the blackouts for the Raiders Homegames are infuriating... I know if the Chiefs games were blackedout, i'd be pissed.

How many seats are in teh Colosseum? And have they thought of reducing the amount of seats there? Make the concourses wider, and give more spaces between seats, so that you guys can watch your games...

Is there any potential solutions for this crappy situation for you guys?

Here's a novel idea: Go down to the box office and buy tickets!

Originally Posted by R8RFOX

I dunno, it wasn't my doing. the county of Alameda and the city of Oakland screwed us with huge surcharges and poor marketing.

The only ones screwed by the county of Alameda and the city of Oakland were the people that pay taxes there. The local governments opened up their coffers to Al Davis to lure the Raiders back. Basically, the taxpayers took on all of the risk in this deal.The taxpayers funded the stadium expansion, the Raiders got a sweetheart lease that included the revenue from the luxury boxes, as well as a payment of $5.6 million/year from the taxpayers.

PSLs were supposed to be a way of shifting the cost from the taxpayers to the people who actually use the stadium. Sales of PSLs have fallen way short, and the taxpayers are left holding the bag for another $65 million. In addition, Al Davis sued the taxpayers for $1.1 billion (were awarded 34 million) for the stadium not being sold out.

It's clear that the city, county, and Al Davis all grossly overestimated the fan base in Oakland. Since the Raiders returned to Oakland, the number of games blacked out to the local TV market is second only to the Arizona Cardinals. Raider fans are fond of calling the Patriots fans "bandwagoners". But the fact is, the Patriots have sold out every game (pre, regular, and post season) for 12 straight years. If the Raider fans bought tickets like the fans in every other NFL city, their current financial mess would have been avoided.

The bigger question is why is Al Davis getting anything from the taxpayers in the first place? The team that he bought for $180,000 is currently worth $676 million. This is a business with a guaranteed revenue stream (network deals, etc) and a salary cap. It is virtually impossible for an NFL owner avoid making a ****load of $$$.

Al Davis, or any other NFL owner, never needed any public subsidy. He could have...and should have...built the stadium himself, and kept his hands out of the taxpayers pockets. Bob Kraft, for example, privatly financed the construction of Gillette Stadium. He levereged his equity in the team to borrow the $$$. However, the revenues that the new stadium generates are more than enough to offset his costs. As a result, his team is one of 4 professional sports franchises in the world (along with the Redskins, Cowboys, and Manchester United) to be valued at over $1 billion.

There is absolutely no reason (other than the fact that local government officials are willing to hand him hundreds of millions of taxpayers dollars) thAt Al Davis couldn't have done the same thing. The current debt/value ratio for the Raiders is 8%...only the Packers are lower. By contrast, the Patriots debt/value ratio is 29%. The truth is, Al Davis does not want to touch the equity in the franchise. He would rather hit up the taxpayers, as well as sue anybody he can think of.

While the Oakland and Alameda county governments may have applied the lube to your rectum, it is dear old Uncle Al that has been ****ing the fans and taxpayers up the ass for decades.

[blitz75]

Originally Posted by chi3fs

Good take, hopefully it will work out for you guys... I know, as an NFL fan, its important to be able to see your team... if there is no coverage, how are new fans acquired? Seems like the more blackouts you have... the more blackouts you WILL have.

Arrowhead has 80K seats, doesnt the colloseum have lik 100K? or some ****? That would be hard for most teams to fill... which is why the seats should be reduced.

[sarcasm]And you do need larger seats for fat ass mods who move legitimate threads because in their mind, I called Raider fans fat... [which wasnt the case, heh.] Hey Mod, get up from your computer and move around a bit... You still want to be able to fit into your Warren Sapp game used jersey, right? [/sarcasm]

I think the coliseum is at 62 or 66k something like that. But as stated by another poster the 72hr rule needs to go we usually sell out on game day.

[dropKickMurphy]

Originally Posted by Candygirl73

Which fan is that?? And please don't even use autism as sarcasim with me. My son has autism and I won't f**kin' go there or play that!!! Please.

Candy, I don't think he was being sarcastic. He was referring to the fact that someone tried to poke fun at Chiefs fans another thread by posting a picture of a boy with Downs Syndrome. I'd recommend that you avoid opening that thread.

I generally appreciate sick humor as much as anyone. Personally, though, something like that goes beyond the bounds of trash talking. Anyone who would post something like that in a forum such as this is bound to end up hurting people whose families are affected.

My wife is a special needs teacher and I know the kind of strength it takes to be a parent of a special needs child. Best wishes to you and your son.

[Candygirl73]

Originally Posted by dropKickMurphy

Candy, I don't think he was being sarcastic. He was referring to the fact that someone tried to poke fun at Chiefs fans another thread by posting a picture of a boy with Downs Syndrome. I'd recommend that you avoid opening that thread.

I generally appreciate sick humor as much as anyone. Personally, though, something like that goes beyond the bounds of trash talking. Anyone who would post something like that in a forum such as this is bound to end up hurting people whose families are affected.

My wife is a special needs teacher and I know the kind of strength it takes to be a parent of a special needs child. Best wishes to you and your son.

Well thank you. I appreciate your thoughts. I don't mind clowning around but when it comes to that kind of stuff--I don't like it period! And I don't know which thread you are talking about, but I won't even check it out.

It takes special teachers to teach children with special needs. My upmost respect to your wife and you for showing class.

[Jimi18]

Originally Posted by dropKickMurphy

Candy, I don't think he was being sarcastic. He was referring to the fact that someone tried to poke fun at Chiefs fans another thread by posting a picture of a boy with Downs Syndrome. I'd recommend that you avoid opening that thread.

I generally appreciate sick humor as much as anyone. Personally, though, something like that goes beyond the bounds of trash talking. Anyone who would post something like that in a forum such as this is bound to end up hurting people whose families are affected.

My wife is a special needs teacher and I know the kind of strength it takes to be a parent of a special needs child. Best wishes to you and your son.

that was in a whole different forum as weel pal... espn msg troll bds, and it was not a raider fan,,, it was a bronco fan!

[superbowl1]

Originally Posted by jimi18

that was in a whole different forum as weel pal... espn msg troll bds, and it was not a raider fan,,, it was a bronco fan!

Um no it was in this forum and his name is Possessed and he sure talks like a raider fan and he is a hall of famer her and he has zero class

[Jimi18]

Originally Posted by superbowl1

Um no it was in this forum and his name is Possessed and he sure talks like a raider fan and he is a hall of famer her and he has zero class

I will not comment!