well I wouldn't say that. The tax payers of Houston have build MMP, Toyota Center and BBVA stadium and we can't watch those three teams play unless we are at the games, live outside Houston or have Comcast so that is a strong statement. I will find a way to watch the games but refuse to spend money on tickets if the CSN deal is still not done
Very valid point. I moved to Denver like 6yr ago, so I don't have to deal with that 1st hand. I can imagine how frustrating that is.
Probably 90% of the games will be registered as 'sell out'; but because of the way corporations and businesses get tickets 'booked' for people who only attend half the game/don't turn up at all, it won't look like a 'sell out' crowd every night. This makes me disappointed that until the playoffs (or a few big big regular season games) there won't be a 'Championship team' type atmosphere. I really loved watching that kind of atmosphere vs the Thunder last season from a television view point. It's as exciting as I can get watching overseas haha!
The city doesn't owe the Rockets anything. We paid the way for them to make killer profits every year.
Better not be no empty arena like every other year, I hate it!! Whoever is giving those companies the expensive seats, give em to the real fans for cheaper and let those employees have the ones all the way up top. If you're not going to show up in near courtside, there's no changing you!
Its all about interest/buzz. Right now, they have it. Hell, even without Dwight, they're coming off a year that they were expected to be awful, and ended up being the youngest team with the most buzz. With Howard, and the excitement created by last year, this team has momentum... haven't really had that since the first T-mac year. Houston can certainly support a sports team with your above referenced fanaticism... and then some: Ask the fans of the Rockets from 97-99... all sellouts, all passionate/raucous fans, and this was after the team had already won the two titles and was clearly getting older/past their prime. Ask the fans of the Astros from 2004-2006... again, multiple 3 million fans/year and the BEST playoff enviornment that Houston has ever seen (yes, better than the mid 90's Rockets... better than the Texans). With T-mac/Yao, while the fans certainly were there, but they never had a deep playoff run to enhance the passion. Also, minus the first year, each had an injury every single year after that... which dampened the fan enthusiasm. This team is a deep playoff run away from not only having the type of fandom referenced above... but flat-out owning the city again.
I think the 1st few games will sell out, and then go into a lull. If this team proves to be as great as we hope the bandwagon will grow and there will be close to a full house every night. Not a good hoops town unless we're winning, then we can be as loud as anybody. I'm hoping all those expensive seat no shows actually show up this year now that the rockets are an attraction.
My friends bought 2 sets of season tickets as a gamble we got Dwight and it paid off. I am sure they can now sell those for a profit this year and upcoming ones.
They're doing there best to fill it that's for sure. I was bidding on a job with the Houston Rockets before last season and one of the reasons we lost the bid was our corporate office wouldn't commit to season tickets like some of my competitor would. They felt it should be about who provided the better service and not who would spend the most money back with them. I was pretty bummed. Could have gotten a huge sale and had company tickets!
Barring 2 massive injuries, every single game will be sold out. Hopefully live attendance will be solid, esp for nationally televised games Better question is how many season tickets will be sold? Not sure what their typical %age of tickets being season tickets is...but if it was 25% of the building before, I'd expect that to go up to 35 or 40..
I bet like 14k tickets per game will be sold with full or partial ticket packages. around 4k per game for individual sale with an easy sellout for premier games and weekends/holidays. Maybe a few promos to sell out the lotto teams on Wednesday nights
Houston can get behind a good basketball team even though we are clearly a football city. A team as young, exciting, marketable, and uber talented as this one will definitely get people going to the games.
To be fair, I think the TC are almost always sold out right? Its just people don't come to the games.
Sold out Games 2 x San Antonio (rival + top team 2 x Dallas (we all hate dallas) 1 x Miamai 1 x Brooklyn 1 x Indiana 1 x New York 2 x OKC 2 x LAC 2 x LAL 2 x NO (lots of NO fans in houston) 2 x GSW 1 x Memphis 3 Other Random Sell outs lTotal 22
