Most College Kids don't want to pay 400 dollar seats what's the point. Would rather pay the bill than paying expensive seats. Leslie really did screw up, of who to target as a Crowd. Always target the Middle School, High School, College Guys if you want a Louder crowd.
It was interesting to see just how amazing the Astros playoff crowd was. Minute Maid was insane. Hopefully that can pick up if we make it to the next round.
Golden State has loud crowds even before their recent success and they have 2 baseball teams (As, Giants) and NFL teams (Raiders, 49ers) all within the same vicinity. Boston, Cleveland, Toronto all have loud crowds as well. Distractions do play a role of course within the arena, but I really do think its just the way the arena is designed with the club seats. Ticket prices are high but as posted earlier in the thread they aren't nearly as high as other teams and the Rockets are somewhat in the middle of the pack for ticket prices. The thing I am actually worried about is if the Rockets do advance tonight to play the Warriors that there will be a ton of tickets bought by Warrior "fans" on the secondary market and their fans will be nullify what little home court advantage the Rockets may have had with the fans who do go.
Rockets bad home attendance has conditioned the team to just react to loud sounds. Doesn't matter who it's coming from.
Get used to it. The profile of buyers for the lower bowl changed from retail to corporate land. Because those seats are sold in bulk, it makes for more stable seat sales for the organization. That strategy actually helps up the Rockets purchase price. So, unless Tillman was willing to take a lower return based on his buy-in, we likely won’t see the 93/94 style crowds. Although, in 2009, the experience was pretty electric.
there’s so many GS fans in Houston, and a lot of the people I know who are Warrior fans were actually born here...it’s disgusting got a 65 win team staring u right in the face but u want to ride with those bums from the Bay...gross
it starts with identity team color city pride they say "THE CITY" on their jersey it's not some limited time "CLUTCH CITY" jersey with their icon bridge on it it also helps if the we had the real trophies At this point, I don't care if we switch to Landry's font. Give me red and yellow.
I will say this everytime it comes up, but I paid nearly $300 last year for SA Game 6 with intention to try and bring the some soul to it in the close out game. The crowd was in it at first, then.. we seen the product on the court, and it got bland really quickly. I went to a few games during the regular season. I will buy a ticket in the WCF, wasn't buying it sooner. And it will probably not be in the lower bowl.
Fixing the atmosphere has to be task #1 for Fertita this offseason. They tried to fix it with the red rowdies, but that's just a bandaid and honestly exacerbates the problem in my opinion. RR are annoying are are easy for most fans to disassociate with. What we need to do is just suck it up and let the blue collar crowd in the lower bowl, like the Summit days. If we had the fans who show up in the 400s in the lower bowl, TC would be ROCKING. That's the only way. Does Tillman want to win or make money? Time to oust the portions of the white collar crowd who don't show up. it's am embarrassment to this city. We're next to Miami as far as worst NBA fans. It's a joke.
just tune in saw the seat half empty!! i envy the (raptors) how there fans rock there arena even tho they are losing..
At this point, they should just adopt the same dark lighting as the Lakers to obscure all of the empty seats. The team isn't going to abandon long-term corporate accounts and the people with these tickets aren't going to show up on time.
