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Texas football sets all-time season ticket record

Excitement for the 2022 Texas football season is extremely high.

Excitement for the 2022 Texas football season is extremely high. Fans are chopping at the bit to pack Darrell K Royal Memorial Stadium and support the team.

The University of Texas announced on Friday season ticket sales for the upcoming year have surpassed the all-time record. The mark was previously set in 2019 at just over 63,000 seats.

Fans will be treated to a rare seven home games in 2022, including a premier nonconference matchup against the Alabama Crimson Tide.

Texas will also play host to Louisiana Monroe and UTSA, along with Big 12 Conference foes West Virginia, Iowa State, TCU and Baylor.

Limited season tickets are still available for purchase on the official school website.

Steve Sarkisian and the Longhorns are looking to get the program headed back in the right direction in front of a packed house this season.

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Memorial Stadium tradition to end for 2022

Nebraska’s athletic director announced the end of a Memorial Stadium tradition in 2022.

A Husker tradition at Memorial Stadium will not occur during the 2022 season. Nebraska Athletic Director Trev Alberts says fans will not be releasing red balloons from the stands after the first home touchdown in each game this year. He cited a helium shortage as the reason for the cancelation heading into the season.

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Various environmental groups have criticized the school in the past. While the school has had conversations about the impact of the balloon release, the helium shortage is the primary purpose of the cancelation. Alberts stated that any helium that the university acquires would be used only for medical purposes.

Look below for more comments from Albert’s regularly scheduled radio show regarding season tickets and the future of divisions.

Texas basketball sets record for season ticket sales

Texas basketball breaks season ticket record ahead of the 2021-22 season. Chris Beard is building something special.

This buzz around the Texas basketball program this year is real.

First-year head coach Chris Beard was the shot in the arm the Texas fan base needed. Just days before the season opener, the program is already reaching new heights.

The previous all-time season ticket record was just below 9,000 seats. On Nov. 5, Texas basketball surpassed that mark, announcing they sold the most season tickets in program history for the 2021-22 season.

It has been a rough stretch for Texas basketball, to say the least. With not having an NCAA tournament win since 2014, Texas fans are desperate for a winner.

Beard set a promise that his squad would be competitive from day one. To do so, he brought in one of the top transfer classes in the country. It includes five double-digit scorers from a year ago.

  • G Marcus Carr, Minnesota, 19.4 ppg
  • F Tre Mitchell, UMass, 18.8 ppg
  • G/F Timmy Allen, Utah, 17.2 ppg
  • F Dylan Disu, Vanderbilt, 15.0 ppg
  • F Christan Bishop, Creighton, 11.0 ppg

Along with key returners Andrew Jones, Courtney Ramey, Jase Febres and Brock Cunningham, this team has a great mix of talent and veteran leadership.

Texas will begin their season at home on Nov. 9 against Houston Baptist. It is the final year the Horns will play at the Erwin Center before moving into the brand new Moody Center next season.

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New Orleans Saints announce deadline for season ticket refunds

New Orleans Saints announce deadline for season ticket refunds

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The New Orleans Saints announced Thursday that they have received fewer than 120 messages from ticket holders requesting refunds in the wake of the city’s policy requiring proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 result for entry to Caesars Superdome and other indoor venues around town.

The team adds that those refund requests run against thousands of interested buyers looking to pick up season tickets should they become available, so they have chosen to reverse course and allow loyal fans the opportunity to visit home games. Any refunded tickets will be made immediately available to the Saints waiting list.

Season ticket refunds requests must be made by Tuesday, Aug. 24 at 4 p.m. CT, one day after New Orleans’ first home preseason game with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Season ticket holders are advised to contact their ticket representative.

In brighter news: the Saints have received clearance from the city to fill Caesars Superdome to its maximum capacity so long as health and safety protocols are followed. The team did so successfully with limited capacity during the 2020 season and is taking steps to safely bring fans together in 2021. Ochsner Health Systems is partnering with the Saints for on-site vaccination on game days. Stay tuned for additional updates.

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Browns have a 10,000 fan wait list for season tickets

Fans have to pay $100 just to get added to the list

Looking for Cleveland Browns season tickets? Get in line and be prepared to wait…

A report from Crain’s Kevin Kleps lays out the significant interest in the newly successful Browns. Per Kleps, the Browns are going to hit the 10,000 mark on their official wait list for season tickets to see the team play at FirstEnergy Stadium.

Not only is the queue huge, but fans must pay a $100 retainer just to get their name added to the bottom of the list. That doesn’t even include the price of the tickets.

It’s a radical change for the Browns, who notched the franchise’s first postseason win in over 25 years following the successful 2020 season. The arrow is pointing up for the Browns, and fans want desperately to be a part of it.

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Trevor Lawrence, Urban Meyer behind a rise in new, young Jags season ticket holders

This offseason has seen Jacksonville receive eight times as many season-ticket deposits as it had in recent years.

This offseason in Jacksonville, the theme has been culture change. By bringing in Urban Meyer, a legendary college coach giving the NFL a shot for the first time, it went in an aggressive and different direction. Earlier during draft week, owner Shad Khan discussed this.

“You don’t want to have too much hyperbole, but it is transformational,” Khan said. “It gives us the opportunity for sustainable and longterm success. That’s what really eluded us. Three years ago, I thought, ‘Okay, we really turned the corner.’ We were even a Super Bowl darling. We even got off to a 3-1 start. That was September of 2018. And then obviously it’s been a downhill ride. This feels like we have definitely turned the corner.”

Now, with former Clemson quarterback and first-overall pick Trevor Lawrence officially on board, there’s a lot of excitement around the team. According to NFL Network’s Judy Battista, the franchise has seen a rise in season ticket purchases this offseason. With spikes in December, when the team secured the first pick, and again in mid-January when it hired Meyer, Battista reports the team has seen eight times the number of new deposits than it has the last few seasons.

More than 50% of those deposit holders are completely new (they had never purchased a ticket of any kind and didn’t appear in the team’s database), and they are on average 10 years younger than the current season ticket base.

It seems this new regime is not only attracting new fans but also attracting younger fans. That’s certainly a positive trend for one of the NFL’s smaller market teams. Though Jacksonville has sold well relative to its on-field success in the past, there’s never been this level of excitement around the franchise.

The Jaguars have been an afterthought in this league for a long time, but those days appear to have come to an end.

Packers president: Over 80 percent of season ticket holders opted out of 2020

A vast majority of season ticket holders decided to opt out of Packers tickets for the 2020 season, according to Mark Murphy.

The vast majority of season ticket holders weren’t comfortable going to games at Lambeau Field during the 2020 NFL season.

Green Bay Packers president Mark Murphy revealed that, given the opportunity, over 80 percent of season ticket holders decided to opt out of tickets for this season, a factor that contributed to the Packers beginning the season with at least two home games without fans.

“We had sent a survey out to all our season ticket holders. and just over 80 percent of them opted out of their season tickets this year,” Murphy told Larry McCarren of Packers.com. “In my mind, the fact that that high a percentage of our fans were not comfortable coming to games was a factor that weighed into my thinking,”

In July, the Packers asked season ticket holders to opt in or opt out of tickets in 2020. The decision did not affect ticket-holding status in future years and gave ticket holders an opportunity to receive a full refund for 2020 or have this year’s payment credited to the 2021 season.

The majority opted out.

The questionnaire mentioned the possibility of no fans or significantly reduced capacity at games, plus all the various new protocols in place to help combat the spread of the coronavirus.

The Packers announced they won’t have fans at games against the Detroit Lions (Sept. 20) and Atlanta Falcons (Oct. 5). Murphy said the team will reevaluate the situation before the team’s third home game, which is scheduled for Nov. 1.

“It was a tough decision. Here in Green Bay, we know how much our home games mean to the local economy and the local community,” Murphy said. “At the end of the day, in my mind, the most important thing was protecting the health and safety of our community and our fans.”

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Lions still planning on at least some fans in Ford Field

Lions still planning on at least some fans in Ford Field if local COVID-19 restrictions still allow it

In a letter to the team’s season ticket holders, the Detroit Lions indicated they do expect to have at least some fans in the seats for Lions home games in 2020.

Friday’s letter to Season Ticket Members (STMs) offered optimism that local regulations will permit fans to attend Ford Field events despite the current COVID-19 pandemic. That optimism is hedged with uncertainty, however.

From the letter, which was also distributed to the Lions media,

The organization is preparing to host fans at all eight regular season home games, but there is still uncertainty surrounding how many fans, if any, will be allowed to attend games during the 2020 season or under what conditions.

Despite these uncertainties, the Lions intend to offer STMs an opportunity to purchase tickets on a multi-game plan basis. Once it has been established how many fans can be accommodated, a final determination will be made regarding how to fairly allocate seating options among the Lions’ STMs. Currently, the team is not planning an on-sale opportunity for single-game buyers.

The last sentence there effectively rules out any non-season ticket holders from having the chance to purchase tickets for any Lions home game.

STMs were also given the opportunity to opt-out of their tickets in 2020 without penalty.

Additionally, the Lions are providing STMs an opportunity to opt-out of the 2020 season with incentives to defer 2020 payments to the purchase of 2021 season ticket memberships. All STMs will retain their current 2020 seat location(s) for the 2021 season as well as current account seniority, regardless of whether they opt-out or elect to purchase tickets for the 2020 season. 

Some of the benefits include a price freeze guarantee on ticket prices and food/beverage credits.

The city of Detroit and the state of Michigan have yet to formally rule out fans from attending Lions games.

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Wisconsin announces an ’85 percent renewal rate for football tickets’

UWBadgers insider Andy Baggot wrote today that 85 percent of Badger football season ticket holders renewed their tickets for this…

UWBadgers insider Andy Baggot wrote today that 85 percent of Badger football season ticket holders renewed their tickets for this season’s six-game home schedule.

“For a program that’s had a renewal rate of 93 percent or better every year since the late 1990s, that number would typically qualify as a disappointment,” the article reads. “But when you consider the extraordinary circumstances affecting this process, the number is enough to coax superlatives from the normally understated [Paul] Chryst.”

Baggot continues to quote head coach Paul Chryst‘s comment of “that’s amazing” when referring to the recently-released renewal rate.

After seeing the Major League Baseball season struggle to start–yet alone start with fans,–the NBA season recently release their plan to continue their season in late July without fans and European soccer leagues resume play in empty stadiums, this news is great for those thinking about fan attendance in the fall and about whether they will be able to attend Badger football games.

Even Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez chimed in, saying “Our culture that we have throughout our athletic department runs through our fans…There’s a trust and a loyalty and a belief.”

Assistant athletic director for ticket operations Brian Moore did tell UWBadgers.com, additionally, that if the Badgers are unable to play games in Camp Randall this season–or if spectators aren’t allowed to attend the games–that tickets will be refunded in full, saying “We’re not in the business of losing people, so we wanted to be as flexible as we could.”

More and more will become clear as September approaches, but news coming out now is pointing towards a high likelihood of football in Madison this fall.

Sixers, StubHub announce season ticket refund policy amid pandemic

The Philadelphia 76ers have announced their season ticket refund policy.

The 2019-20 season is currently on hold due to the global coronavirus pandemic and there is no guarantee that the regular season will even resume whenever basketball does return. In light of that scenario, the Philadelphia 76ers, as well as StubHub, are announcing their refund policy for season tickets purchased for the season.

According to the Inquirer.com’s Keith Pompey, the Sixers have announced that any tickets purchased during the season can roll over to the 2020-21 season or they can request a refund. This offers fans the opportunity to keep their tickets and have a guarantee of seats for next season or to just get their money back.

StubHub, on the other hand, has a policy that anyone who purchased tickets through their site that they must wait until the official cancellation announcement of the season before they can request a refund of any kind.

To StubHub’s policy, there probably will be no regular-season games to finish up the season. The NBA will most likely just scrap those games and go straight to the playoffs whether that will be in Orlando at Disney World or on The Strip in Las Vegas. [lawrence-related id=30466,30460,30447]