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Anyone going to the national championship - BostonCard - 01-04-2019

With ticket prices this low ($150 or less on stubhub) I'm actually thinking of taking my son. When else will I get a chance to go the college football national title game? Was wondering if any other cardboarders were thinking of going.

BC

RE: Anyone going to the national championship - CompSci87 - 01-04-2019

(01-04-2019, 07:17 PM)BostonCard Wrote: With ticket prices this low ($150 or less on stubhub) I'm actually thinking of taking my son. When else will I get a chance to go the college football national title game? Was wondering if any other cardboarders were thinking of going.

I had vague thoughts of it, but I've been sick for the last few weeks and definitely don't want to sit in windy and freezing Levi's stadium for a few hours now.

RE: Anyone going to the national championship - Lsju98 - 01-04-2019

(01-04-2019, 07:17 PM)BostonCard Wrote: With ticket prices this low ($150 or less on stubhub) I'm actually thinking of taking my son. When else will I get a chance to go the college football national title game? Was wondering if any other cardboarders were thinking of going.

BC

Thought about it, but there’s no way I’m going back to that stadium...getting out of there was a nightmare some years back and it’s not worth giving up 3 hours of my life to make it 20 miles back up the peninsula

RE: Anyone going to the national championship - PAsportsfan - 01-04-2019

With prices this low I'm thinking about it. Have zero interest in the teams but it should be a great game. I'll wait until I get to Levi's to buy a ticket off Stubhub with instant delivery. Currently 8500 tickets available.

With rain Monday morning, I'll bundle up with a rain suit, hand warmers etc.

RE: Anyone going to the national championship - Phogge - 01-04-2019

I’d rather visit the dentist.

RE: Anyone going to the national championship - PVTree - 01-05-2019

I'm thinking about it too. Once in a lifetime opportunity to see the championship game.

RE: Anyone going to the national championship - OutsiderFan - 01-05-2019

I'm heartened to see there are a few Cal fans saying they are going with some groups of friends, on the Rivals board.

Give me a break with the whining about traffic. It's probably a once in a lifetime event for the Bay Area. If you have a passion for college football and are in the area you really should make an effort to go to the game on Monday.

RE: Anyone going to the national championship - Stanfan1 - 01-05-2019

I just bought three tickets yesterday on Stubhub and will be seating in section Section 231, Row 18, Seat 1,2 and 3.

yvonne - yvonne - 01-05-2019

We’re considering going now that the prices have dropped. The thing that’s giving us pause is the weather.

Also, I won’t sit in the 400 level no matter the price.

RE: Anyone going to the national championship - winflop - 01-06-2019

I'm with you yvonne on the 400 level.

Looks like the floor is stabilizing in the $120-150 range but I'm sure they will come down further in the hours before kickoff.

I'll be watching on TV.

RE: Anyone going to the national championship - Mick - 01-06-2019

(01-06-2019, 06:37 AM)winflop Wrote: I'm with you yvonne on the 400 level.

Looks like the floor is stabilizing in the $120-150 range but I'm sure they will come down further in the hours before kickoff.

I'll be watching on TV.

$170 is the current lowest price, at 6:13 a.m. Day of Game.

RE: Anyone going to the national championship - SF_Cardinal_Fan - 01-06-2019

As a San Franciscan, still upset that the 49er ownership vacated SF, I have chosen to be a martyr with no intention of ever setting foot within Levis Santa Clara Stadium.
And shame on Levi Strauss company, founded and based in SF, for selling out the city by supporting the 49ers move.
Several years ago I took all my 49ers gear (and Levis jeans) to SF's Ocean Beach and used it as a fuel for a bonfire.

RE: Anyone going to the national championship - Farm93 - 01-06-2019

(01-06-2019, 10:01 AM)SF_Cardinal_Fan Wrote: As a San Franciscan, still upset that the 49er ownership vacated SF, I have chosen to be a martyr with no intention of ever setting foot within Levis Santa Clara Stadium.
And shame on Levi Strauss company, founded and based in SF, for selling out the city by supporting the 49ers move.
Several years ago I took all my 49ers gear (and Levis jeans) to SF's Ocean Beach and used it as a fuel for a bonfire.

Football stadiums are a rather inefficient use of real estate. That same footprint can be used to become the home of a tech HQ, or a hospital, or any number of other ventures that brings in thousands of job opportunities, new housing and property tax revenue.

That's why the Boston, New York, Washington DC, and soon LA teams play outside of their own town. If your town's football team opts to play outside of the actual town then your town is probably doing OK. Think of it as a compliment.

Could you imagine if Levi's could afford to make garments in SF? Would probably mean SF was not doing well.
Same is more or less true for football stadiums. If you can plop a massive new football stadium in the center of the city, then that city may have a few issues. Either the real estate is super cheap, or the city will give tax incentives and/or property to the billionaire owner.

RE: Anyone going to the national championship - SF_Cardinal_Fan - 01-06-2019

(01-06-2019, 10:21 AM)Farm93 Wrote:
(01-06-2019, 10:01 AM)SF_Cardinal_Fan Wrote: As a San Franciscan, still upset that the 49er ownership vacated SF, I have chosen to be a martyr with no intention of ever setting foot within Levis Santa Clara Stadium.
And shame on Levi Strauss company, founded and based in SF, for selling out the city by supporting the 49ers move.
Several years ago I took all my 49ers gear (and Levis jeans) to SF's Ocean Beach and used it as a fuel for a bonfire.
Football stadiums are a rather inefficient use of real estate. That same footprint can be used to become the home of a tech HQ, or a hospital, or any number of other ventures that brings in thousands of job opportunities, new housing and property tax revenue.

That's why the Boston, New York, Washington DC, and soon LA teams play outside of their own town. If your town's football team opts to play outside of the actual town then your town is probably doing OK. Think of it as a compliment.

Could you imagine if Levi's could afford to make garments in SF? Would probably mean SF was not doing well.
Same is more or less true for football stadiums. If you can plop a massive new football stadium in the center of the city, then that city may have a few issues. Either the real estate is super cheap, or the city will give tax incentives and/or property to the billionaire owner.

Stanford graduate Peter Magowan made a new SF stadium happen for the Giants. For nearly 20 years now that ballpark has been a great asset for SF.
Candlestick Park was a good sense location for a football stadium. Jed York could have remodeled Candlestick or had a new stadium built at that site. But York wanted a shorter game day commute from his Los Altos home, so he chose Santa Clara . Now for the coming decades millions of people will be uncomfortable from sun exposure , inconvenienced by lack of parking , challenging egress issues etc...

RE: Anyone going to the national championship - OutsiderFan - 01-06-2019

(01-06-2019, 10:41 AM)SF_Cardinal_Fan Wrote:
(01-06-2019, 10:21 AM)Farm93 Wrote:
(01-06-2019, 10:01 AM)SF_Cardinal_Fan Wrote: As a San Franciscan, still upset that the 49er ownership vacated SF, I have chosen to be a martyr with no intention of ever setting foot within Levis Santa Clara Stadium.
And shame on Levi Strauss company, founded and based in SF, for selling out the city by supporting the 49ers move.
Several years ago I took all my 49ers gear (and Levis jeans) to SF's Ocean Beach and used it as a fuel for a bonfire.
Football stadiums are a rather inefficient use of real estate. That same footprint can be used to become the home of a tech HQ, or a hospital, or any number of other ventures that brings in thousands of job opportunities, new housing and property tax revenue.

That's why the Boston, New York, Washington DC, and soon LA teams play outside of their own town. If your town's football team opts to play outside of the actual town then your town is probably doing OK. Think of it as a compliment.

Could you imagine if Levi's could afford to make garments in SF? Would probably mean SF was not doing well.
Same is more or less true for football stadiums. If you can plop a massive new football stadium in the center of the city, then that city may have a few issues. Either the real estate is super cheap, or the city will give tax incentives and/or property to the billionaire owner.

Stanford graduate Peter Magowan made a new SF stadium happen for the Giants. For nearly 20 years now that ballpark has been a great asset for SF.
Candlestick Park was a good sense location for a football stadium. Jed York could have remodeled Candlestick or had a new stadium built at that site. But York wanted a shorter game day commute from his Los Altos home, so he chose Santa Clara . Now for the coming decades millions of people will be uncomfortable from sun exposure , inconvenienced by lack of parking , challenging egress issues etc...

AT&T Park is a far, far different animal than a football stadium. It is used by its primary resident 80+ times per year, from April to October. That stadium is one of a handful of examples of a large stadium actually impacting a local economy. I studied stadium financing in grad school and the greatest takeaway for me was that in the vast majority of cases a new stadium doesn't create new spending as much as displace it form what place to another. AT&T Park served as an anchor that revitalized an economically dead area. Soon after its building, there was a construction boom around its area, including Mission Bay, that also led to the Chase Center opening next year.

There is no such economic engine created by Levi's Stadium, but that's usually the case with football stadiums in particular.

RE: Anyone going to the national championship - BostonCard - 01-06-2019

That area was going to revitalize anyways; with all the tech jobs, and a limited number of places to build new condos, with or without the stadium, SoMa (and later mission bay) was going to experience a construction boom.

Not an argument against AT&T park, which is probably the model of how you build a stadium, but I think it’s a heavy lift to ascribe the revival of SoMa and Mission Bay to it.

BC

(01-06-2019, 07:13 AM)Mick Wrote:
(01-06-2019, 06:37 AM)winflop Wrote: I'm with you yvonne on the 400 level.

Looks like the floor is stabilizing in the $120-150 range but I'm sure they will come down further in the hours before kickoff.

I'll be watching on TV.

$170 is the current lowest price, at 6:13 a.m. Day of Game.

Day of game is tomorrow. Unless you are here from the future.

BC

RE: yvonne - oldalum - 01-06-2019

(01-05-2019, 01:55 PM)yvonne Wrote: The thing that’s giving us pause is the weather.

At the Chicken Bowl vs. Maryland, the temperature was cold but it was amplified by the wind, which was just whipping through the stadium. After that game I vowed to attend no more cold weather games at that stadium.

Wind speeds in Santa Clara at game time are projected to be 6-9 mph (versus 20 mph now), but the stadium effect might increase that, I don't know.

RE: Anyone going to the national championship - Redrum - 01-06-2019

I can hardly wait for a report from my kid and her husband when they encounter Levis. I've tried to warn them about the cluster**** awaiting them but suspect they think it'll be like a game day in Tuscaloosa where crowds actually get into and out of the stadium and town in reasonable fashion.

RE: Anyone going to the national championship - Mick - 01-06-2019

(01-06-2019, 11:57 AM)BostonCard Wrote: That area was going to revitalize anyways; with all the tech jobs, and a limited number of places to build new condos, with or without the stadium, SoMa (and later mission bay) was going to experience a construction boom.

Not an argument against AT&T park, which is probably the model of how you build a stadium, but I think it’s a heavy lift to ascribe the revival of SoMa and Mission Bay to it.

BC

(01-06-2019, 07:13 AM)Mick Wrote:
(01-06-2019, 06:37 AM)winflop Wrote: I'm with you yvonne on the 400 level.

Looks like the floor is stabilizing in the $120-150 range but I'm sure they will come down further in the hours before kickoff.

I'll be watching on TV.

$170 is the current lowest price, at 6:13 a.m. Day of Game.

Day of game is tomorrow. Unless you are here from the future.

BC

Just got out of my modified DeLorean. Cheapest tickets still $170 on stubhub as of 5:49. Also, Alabama scores first. Won't say any more, wouldn't be prudent.

(01-06-2019, 10:21 AM)Farm93 Wrote: Football stadiums are a rather inefficient use of real estate. That same footprint can be used to become the home of a tech HQ, or a hospital, or any number of other ventures that brings in thousands of job opportunities, new housing and property tax revenue.

That's why the Boston, New York, Washington DC, and soon LA teams play outside of their own town. If your town's football team opts to play outside of the actual town then your town is probably doing OK. Think of it as a compliment.

Detroit, where I live and work, has over 100,000 unoccupied residences as residents have been fleeing the city since 1974, when peak population was 2.4 million people. Today, it is 678,000. Ergo, real estate is dirt cheap...so to speak.

Which means that Detroit is proud that it is the ONLY city in the United States in which all four major sports teams not only play within city limits, but downtown. Ford Field and Comerica Park are essentially across the street from each other, and the Red Wings and Pistons both play at the Gymnasium Named For the World's Worst Pizza.

Incidentally, I watched the Warriors play the Pistons last year. And by paying absolutely no attention to the seating chart, I bought tickets in literally the top row of the place. Can't tell you much about the game, but I can tell you which players were going bald.

RE: Anyone going to the national championship - Lsju98 - 01-07-2019

(01-05-2019, 10:04 AM)OutsiderFan Wrote: I'm heartened to see there are a few Cal fans saying they are going with some groups of friends, on the Rivals board.

Give me a break with the whining about traffic. It's probably a once in a lifetime event for the Bay Area. If you have a passion for college football and are in the area you really should make an effort to go to the game on Monday.

Not sure if you’re in the Bay Area, but if you are, talk to me on Tuesday!