Thanks Clutch. That is one sneaky mofo! And I thought we'd found another one of his Bi-uid's. Like jamcracker and BobRainey. ------------------ I am Jack's utter lack of surprise. www.clutchtown.com
what about BobbRainey, the extra b version ------------------ CUT Tino These Heaves are just getting Ridiculous!
I agree. ------------------ "Break off the block like Maurice Green" --- Steve Francis President of the Moochie Norris fan club.
pretty funny jampartner. ------------------ Good night everyone, Canadian or American. Just remember that we're all bound together by basketball, the internet and the mullet. (My attempts at trying to sooth over an international incident).
Only game I missed was the Miami game and boy Im glad I missed it ------------------ President of the Steve Francis, Jamal Crawford,Larry Hughes, and Charles Woodson fan club.
Good Lord! I had no idea "everyone" would cause such a stir. Ok, everyone who could go but doesn't is to blame. How's that? ------------------ Me fail English? That's unpossible.
my bad Jeff, give me a 24 flight and i can be there ------------------ CUT Tino These Heaves are just getting Ridiculous!
Well I go to every game that the Rockets play in G.S. but thats not in Houston is it. ------------------ "We need to fockass".....Dream back in the day
The Comets are a novelty. They also only play for 3 months out of the year. They are not a valid comparison. The city and only the city is to blame. This is not a problem that just started with the Rockets. The Astros have also always had poor attendance despite having the 2nd best winning percentage in MLB throughout the 90s. And the Oilers, I mean the Titans, I mean...well, that's really all that needs to be said about them and fan support. ------------------ "My hair's too long and you can't pronounce my name My favorite songs, everybody says are lame"
Well, obviously marketing doesn't ever work. That's why companies NEVER use it. Man, I know that you think Houston sucks and that the fans are the worst and that is fine, but the Rockets aren't doing everything they can to help. The thing with the Comets is that the fans actually feel like they are part of the game. Rockets fans do not. Whether that is because they don't care or are jaded or there are too many corporate people at the games is really of little consequence. What matters is that it is both the responsibility of the fans to show up and the team to make it worth showing up in the first place. We are in it together. If you believe that ALL the blame belongs to anyone in ANY situation, you are fooling yourself. There is plenty of blame to go around. ------------------ Me fail English? That's unpossible.
You a big Larry Hughes fan too? ------------------ President of the Steve Francis, Jamal Crawford,Larry Hughes, and Charles Woodson fan club.
I agree with Jeff. I believe that sports teams are out of touch with how fans want to be entertained. Every team plays it safe. Everyone does what everyone else does. Plus, they give fan entertainment initiatives no budget. I'm sure the marketing and promotion staff of the Rockets are creative people with great ideas. But without a budget beyond buying Clutch a motorcycle (which was probably donated, anyway), what changes can they make. I tell you: I would much rather be entertained with a college band during timeouts than listen to canned MTV music. A bass drum and tuba will get me cheering D-FENSE, D-FENSE more often than a digital voice will. They need to quit trying to be a Las Vegas act, and get back to the fundamentals of cheering on basketball players. [This message has been edited by heypartner (edited February 14, 2001).]
The excuses I can think of not to show up are endless. And like everyone knows, Rockets marketing hasn't stretched it's arms out to the community to help fill the seats. The reason why I was able to go to quite a bit of Rocket games during the 1993 season, was because my place of employment back then would buy 200 tickets a game and sell them for half the price to all it's employees. I was making $6/hr back then and I went to as much as I could. Nowadays I make 4 times that much but my employer stopped that program 5 years ago when the ticket prices seems to have went over their heads. I could still probably go if I didn't have 4 times as many mouths to feed. If Rockets marketing wants to put people on the seats, it's simple. There are over a hundred companies, hospitals, and other institutions around Houston that they can broker a deal to sell the tickets at a bargain price, then these institutions would sell them to their employees for more discounts, and you'll see a packed Compaq every night. ------------------
Come on guys!! Tickets are too expensive?? If you really wanted to go, the $10 tickets are not too expensive for anyone but possibly welfare-supported people. What?? Those seats aren't good enough?? Well I'll tell ya what, if you were a real fan that would not matter! Whooaa...are you calling me a heypocrite cause I don't go to all the games?? Just as soon as the Rockets start having games on during the day when I'm not in school or at work...I'll go to every damn one of them!! (and be happy about sitting in the nosebleed seats) ------------------ "Excuse me while I whip this out!" Cleavon Little in Blazing Saddles
Is the problem really that the $10 seats aren't being filled, or is it the more expensive seats that aren't being sold that is the problem? (I'm actually asking. I don't know). ------------------ Houston Sports Board The Anti-Bud Adams Page
The $10 seats are always sold out on the day of the game. You must buy $10 seats in advance. They always sell out first. On the day of the game, the cheapest box office seat I've found are the $26.50's.
The Lower Prom center 3 sections on both sides are sold out to season-ticket holders year in and year out. They don't fill them as much, but the tickets are pre-sold, or the Rockets subscription personnel are flat-out lying to customers. That would be a crime, if they are lying about inavailability of season tickets in lower prom center. A crime that would get me to go grassroots like Jeff to expose it.
