Dolphins Increase Ticket Prices, Ogling

Hmmmm...$5/cheer cam...$5/cheer cam...it's a wash!

We're well into the NFL offseason now, which means football fans can look forward to at least one of several things: being gouged by season ticket price inflation, increased odds of being killed by a favorite player (he's free, and he's bored), and a self-absorbed Brett Favre refusing to die already.

For Miamians, we get option A (drunken manslaughter is so last offseason). Yesterday, the Dolphins announced a new ticket pricing structure configured by Harvard and MIT professors -- no, really -- that increases the cost of 56 percent of season-ticket seats, mainly those near the 50-yard line or with some measure of shade.

Despite discounting or freezing prices on the other 44 percent of seats, and despite the fact that the increase works out to only $5 per ticket on average, the Dolphins' move didn't go over well with commenters.

"With unemployment hitting 12% in Florida, this is a slap in the face of the working families."

"They're lucky they even get the support they do get after providing us with such an inferior product for so many years."

"I will get the Sunday Ticket [and] enjoy my AC, no lines in the bathroom, no one peeing on me." 

And so on. Apparently people don't consider the presence of Marc Anthony a price to pay for leaving a hot game burned and covered in someone else's urine (how does this happen?), but maybe they also missed the fine print: under the current plan, every season ticketholder is getting those awesome boob goggles.

Yeah, that's right! Dolphins GameDayVision is coming down from the suites and luxury boxes and will be available one to every pair of season tickets purchased. Let he who wouldn't pay another $5 a game for a cheerleader cam anyway leave the first angry comment.

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