Quote from: bobby1 on January 31, 2015, 04:09:28 PM
Quote from: tikay on January 31, 2015, 09:36:39 AM
Bobby1 had a nightmare trip to Phoenix, to watch Tiger in the Golf & Seattle in the Super Bowl, took him 2 days to get there due to weather complications.
Arrived at the goilf course, it was tipping with rain, he said it was like Glastonbury in the mud, & Tiger shot 82.
Looks like the Patriots have Super Bowl in the bag, then.
It felt like 2 days but a 5 1/2 hour delay in Manchester left me missing all the connections from Philly to Phoenix so had to stay in a hotel at the airport Thursday night and got a 6.45 flight yesterday morning. Tiger teed of about 8 am so when I got here at 10.30 ish I could have caught the back end of his round if I had just dumped my stuff int the room and gone str8 to the course. Instead I just decided to get settled and in and set off to watch the afternoon tee times instead.
TBH it wasn't like golf should be, it looks great on TV with the atmosphere around the stadium holes and the crowd participation but outside those holes it just descended into which wag could outshout somehting borderline rude at a player/caddy/official.
I watched The Phill, Fowler, Mahan group where the crowd was quite respectful but later on when watching Ben Martin, Rob Streb and Goosen one guy started jibbing at Strebs caddy that if he was any good he would be playing the comp and not carrying the bag and why was he so slow, didn't he know everyone was getting wet'
It was raining hard, I'm covered in mud, its pisshead central and mi arse hurts and I've had 9 hours sleep in 2 nights so that was the cue for me to head off. It was good to see a great course and some great players and I've got a ticket for today when they are expecting between 200,000 and 250,000 people to attend. I'm deffo not in a rush to go tho, might just watch it on the TV and save the 130 bucks taxi fees and treat myself to some nice food in one of the nice looking resteraunts with the cash instead.
no need to answer if you don't want to
how much was your superbowl ticket? how did you get it?
whereabouts in the stadium?
plans for the day?
prediction?
enough questions?
Thought I would cut n paste it into the NFL thread Rich instead of taking up the golf thread.
how much was your superbowl ticket? how did you get it?I always book thru Stubhub.com as alongside Ticketmaster they are the two most reliable sites to buy tickets. Usually for decent matches that are likely to be sold out you would look to pay around 3 to 3 1/2 times the face value of the ticket. For the Seattle v Green Bay the other week I paid $670 for a ticket with a face value when I got it of $220 which if you can call paying 3 times the actual value good value, then that was pretty good. For the Dallas game earlier in the season think I paid around $370 for a ticket with a value of $120.
When I looked for the Super bowl the cheapest tickets at the time were $2400 but were thru sites called things like ticketcity or sportsticketsforU and other iffy sounding websites. I wasn't going to risk buying through sites I hadn't used before(this looks like it was the best thing I did in the end). In the end the cheapest tickets on Stubhub were $2600 but after picking a section behind one of the end zones I ended up paying $2870 for the ticket. Between the 40 yard lines on the Seahawk side were going for about $3700 to over $4200 then.
Usually for games in the future they will have the tickets at one of their ticket centres so they mail you an eticket which you just open and print off so it can take as little as 5 minutes after buying the seat to getting the ticket. For the SB tho almost all the tickets available are not actually sent to the original owner until SB week, so you are buying on trust a little as Stubhub etc don't have the tickets in their possesion when you buy them early. I had to buy early as the prices seemed sure to go up and you can't really book flights and hotels until you know you have a game ticket.
I started with the mindset I was going to have to over pay for everything so it was a case of just approaching it thinking I'm not going to get any value from buying but if you want to go you don't really have a choice. The worst value was the hotel, all the hotels are terribly priced. I've paid £2000 for 4 nights in a Holiday Inn, same nights in 3 weeks are under £600. The flights were £850 as I booked with the cheapest reputable firm I could find that wasn't thru an iffy third party. So in total it was about £4700 to get the ticket, hotel and flights.The Stubhub collection point was open on Saturday and Sunday to pick up tickets at a hotel near the ground.
I got back from the golf on Friday to find a missed call with the number not listed, later I checked my email and found a mail from Stub Hub telling me I had been chosen for a free upgrade. It didn't make any sense, why would they give free upgrades to such a huge event? I rang them to check it was real and not some iffy link to click thru and they confirmed I had an upgrade, so I agreed the offer in emails and went to pick up my ticket on Saturday morning.
When I got there it was a 45 minute queue just to get into the building and they had staff members walking the lines to answer any questions. I pulled a guy to one side and just told him the upgrade made me nervous that they didn't get the original ticket I had bought thru them and asked if that was true. He admitted that the upgrade offers were made to everyone they had sold to where they didn't get the ticket to fulfil the purchase. So technically I had come all the way to stay in Phoenix and didn't even have a ticket, even tho I had paid. He told me Stubhub had then bought replacement tickets for all the people that had happened to and taken the hit on the prices they paid. (Most of the other firms I have seen on TV here have just refunded the price paid and then made a contruibution or paid for the travel expenses)
Its never happened before and can only really happen in an event with such a small window to sell tickets, Stubhub are very safe to buy thru, the issue was with suppliers over selling ticket numbers and then not getting the extra tickets they had sold. When I got to the front the guy who seemd in charge took me to one side and was very apologetic and explained they had fulfilled every ticket they had sold. You also get tickets to their SB party and he gave me a merchandise voucher to go towards any purchases.
It sounds like I was very lucky to buy thru the best firm as they seem to have decided their reputation was worth preserving even if it cost them money. The ticket I have now has a face value of $880 dollars but there is one available on the Stunhub site 4 rows behind mine for $7900 as the prices have started to crash again with people that havent sold willing to take less and less.
whereabouts in the stadium?
Im now in somehing called the ring of honor in one of the sections sligtly behind and to the left of one of the end zones. Im actually in the front row of that section and there can be quite a difference between getting say row C and row M as that will be ten rows further back. Technically it is the Pats side of the ground but NFL games dont need segregation and I'm sure there will be loads of Seahwaks fans on that side too. The amount of Seattle to New Eng shirts and fans Ive seen in the airport, at the golf and especially at the ticket pick up hotel has been about 85% to 10% with Zona making up the bigger part of the remaining 5%.
I think the crowd will be more Seattle fans than Pats and as we know the Seattle crowd can make a big difference.
plans for the day?
prediction?
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