Hey not everyone can afford or have time to attend actual home games. Just like when we see anything wrong with the team, we're going to talk about it. As fans, we have that right. And we don't have to attend games to see how dead the TC can look at certain times. With that said, I agree 100% with the thread starter. I don't think I've seen many Rocket games where at tip-off, every seat was filled or at least the majority. It always damn near empty when the game starts. And we've have a good team! Yao + T-Mac should equal a sellout every night. Out of all the elite teams in the NBA, we probably have the worst crowd.
The people who own the tickets live 30 light years from Toyota Center and don't bother coming downtown after working all day. They just want to get home to the Woodlands, Kingwood, Sweetwater, Pearland, etc...
our home court crowd is weak plain and simple. besides the rowdies noone really cares. i have always been disappointed with our home court crowd. once i was actually at the game yelling and being a rockets fan and 2 blue collar workers in front of me turned around and gave me a shut up look so i got louder. if you arent gonna be a fan get the hell out of the kitchen!
Don't know what you all are complaining about...I was at the game and it looked pretty full to me...Attendance was 18,280....I think capacity is around 18,300...can't complain much about that...maybe it's just how it looks on TV?
I think it may be a little bit the actual physical set up of the Toyota Center. The middle lower bowl of the Toyota center are considered club seats. They are barred off from the rest of the sections by a railing on the sides, and they are protected from the back by the club itself. To get into this section you MUST have a club seat ticket. The majority of these seats are corporate tickets. Houston has just about more Fortune 500 companies than any city in the nation buying blocks of those tickets and giving them out. Sometimes they don't get used, other times the people are in the club itself Due to the actual set up of the Toyota Center, NOBODY can sneak in and fill up those seats if they don't already have a club ticket...or if they do, they make it very hard. Those same seats at Compaq center were NOT barred off, they were open to the back concourse and people could sneak into that section and fill in. That's why they don't fill up.
It's just that the seats that show up on camera are always half empty even during sellouts. This comes up every year. Like many others have said, those seats that show up on camera are the club seats and the TC has too many activities to keep the corporate fatcats distracted from actually sitting in their seats and watching the game.
Maybe 5 years ago it was. In the latest 2007 rankings, Houston is 6th: 2007 RANKING LAST YEAR 1. Las Vegas 2 2. San Antonio 12 3. Miami 14 4. Mesa, AZ 10 5. Los Angeles 3 6. Houston 5 7. Dallas 4 8. El Paso 8 9. Detroit 15 10. San Jose 24 http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/02-08-2007/0004523813&EDATE=
10 bucks is all it takes.... if you can't afford it or don't have the time, fine, don't complain about it, there are plenty people out there that can, and bicker about it cause "i get a better view on TV". I'm not trying to blast you if your cheap, but the fact that people complain and give excuses like that really doesn't need to make the same thread every freaking year. I have a NIGHT work schedule in which if a game falls on a day I switch with someone and work when I am suppose to be off, hell I've used vacation time to attend a game, ask anybody that knows me and they'll tell you if only we had more fans like me and The_Yoyo
These threads always make my head hurt.. It's always the same type of people b****ing, the ones that DON'T go to games and only watch the games on TV or the internet (for whatever lame excuse they give).. If you have a problem with Toyota Center and live in Houston do something about it and go to a game and cheer your ass off, don't cry about it on the internet..
If only I lived in Houston I swear I would be a season ticket holder and go to every game. Everytime the Rocks come to Portland im there. and even Portland has a full crowd for the most part with a mediocore team.
Maybe, but you probably wouldn't have season tickets where those empty seats are. My father's company has season tickets there and it's something like 43 thousand dollars a year for their four seats. Yeah.
I am a die hard Rockets fan and always will be, but having lived in Phoenix and Dallas these past few years, I can say two things: 1) Nothing comes close to the fans and arena atmosphere in Phoenix. You'd think you were seriously at a college game or playoff game no matter when you go in the regular season. There are tons of corporate tycoons there too, but they all seem to show up for the game. 2) I don't fault the Houston arena for appearing to be empty, because as stated by several others, it's just people who have tickets and don't show up or are somewhere else in the arena. They said last night, that it was a sell out, as was the game over the weekend, so one would thing, that tickets are getting sold. My issue is the lack of crowd noise. I swear, if you start screaming or yelling, clappining or cheering, everyone looks at you like you're an idiot. I usually sit center court, upper deck and honestly I have been asked to "quiet down" several times. Yesterday, as the Rockets lets the Spurs go on an 8 point run around the 6 min mark in the 4th, the crowd wasn't making the impact that they should be. The night before I was at the game in Dallas, and although the arena was realtively somber during the game, once the 4th quarter came, it was LOUD. So for those of us that do attend games, let's step up the noise and then who really cares about the empty seats!!! Go Rockets!
well I'm a season ticket holder , I'm pretty sick of seeing these threads because I try to do my part at the games which includes showing up and getting loud, I also feel about the same way that dave 2000 does about this whole subject ps dave what section are your seats in
That's probably the best explantion. Also as someone mentioned, the sides that appear on camera are all blocked off, unlike most stadiums, doesn't allow spill over. I remember in Summit, hell even up here at AAC I'd always move up to those seats as the game went on, if there was something open.
I'm not from Houston, but I know that Rockets are one of the NBA's biggest draws on the road...I think out of the last 5 or 6 years they've been in top 5 or top 10 in road attendance. People on the road usually come out to watch their local teams play the Rockets, I know even in Atlanta.....people will come if the players on the Rockets' side are healthy. This year so far Houston - 17th in home attendance (avg.) / 26th in total home attendance Houston - 6th in road attendance (avg.)/ 1st in total road attendance (with most of those games being sellouts, but all three were the Lakers, Jazz, and Mavs) Last Season Houston - 21st in home attendance (avg.) Houston - 5th in road attendance (avg.) ... in front of us the Lakers, Miami, Cleveland, and Phoenix (by less than 400 people). 05-06 Houston - 29th in home attendance (avg.) Houston - 17th in road attendance (avg.)...remember this is an injury bug season (both Yao and T-Mac) out for most of the season and the Rockets only winning 35 games. 04-05 Houston - 23rd in home attendance (avg.) Houston - 4th in road attendance (avg.) 03-04 Houston - 22nd in home attendance (avg.) Houston - 4th in road attendance (avg.) http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/attendance?sort=away_avg&year=2005&seasonType=2/ http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/attendance?year=2008 Houston draws on the road, that is a fact. And for the most part, this includes places like Milwaukee, Atlanta, Memphis, Toronto, and Charlotte. With the possiblity of these poor teams or below average fan bases coming out to watch Rocket games more so than people in Houston. Rockets do have good team with two superstars, so obviously that would draw people.
