Exactly it doesn't change the way tickets are distributed.
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Exactly it doesn't change the way tickets are distributed.
Starkiller
Super Freak
This is my Steelers lost dance (unless you can't see it).
Darth Madden
You Are A Tooooooy!!!
Whew... thank goodness. That was too close. Thank you Green Bay.
I lost the Sideshow contest but I did win $5 so I'm good.
I lost the Sideshow contest but I did win $5 so I'm good.
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As a Viking fan it pains me to say it but.....Congratulations Packers!
I'm glad for Rodgers, for sure. I was always a Favre fan, but his behavior over the last few years turned me off to the guy, and I'm glad to see Rodgers completely out of his shadow now.
Alright, Steelers lost. Just too many shots un the foot to overcome with the 3 turnovers. GB played the error free game, and gongrats to them and the cheese heads.
But here's something freaky. It was around Thursday that I knew the Steelers were going to lose, and here's why. My phone rings, and my wife answers and they hang up automatically, but here's what came up on my caller ID "Greenbay WI". I just saw it as a bad sign and tried to put it at the back of my mind, but it was like at that moment I knew.
Good season for the Steelers with everything they overcame, but better season for the Pack.
Is it August yet? I'm ready for some more football!!!
But here's something freaky. It was around Thursday that I knew the Steelers were going to lose, and here's why. My phone rings, and my wife answers and they hang up automatically, but here's what came up on my caller ID "Greenbay WI". I just saw it as a bad sign and tried to put it at the back of my mind, but it was like at that moment I knew.
Good season for the Steelers with everything they overcame, but better season for the Pack.
Is it August yet? I'm ready for some more football!!!
I'd do my Browns lost dance, but I'm too tired over the past couple seasons to do that again. I'll just come up with a Browns win dance and save myself 3 times the energy.
Fans would still pay that much for tickets. Some fans would sale kids to get the funds for them. Seriously.
Starkiller
Super Freak
Yeah but see the difference is people like us. m Just a bunch of likable young guys, playing football. Not dirty football like the Steelers. They paid the price for playing dirty all season.
That's your bias opinion, and it's not that people like the Browns, it's just they don't mind them because they're no threat what-so-ever. Much like people don't mind the Lions or NFC West. No threats.
And if making it all the way to the SB is the price for "playing dirty", then I hope they "play dirty" next season as well. (BTW, ya don't play for the Browns, so enough of the 'we' and 'us' BS.)
BadMoon
Demi G0D Overseer
ARLINGTON, Texas -- After a limited number of sections in temporary seating areas at Cowboys Stadium were not completed in time, 400 fans were left without seats at Super Bowl XLV on Sunday.
Two hours before the game, workers were frantically trying to fix the sections or get the fans "relocated to similar or better seats," valued at $800. The NFL found alternate seating for 850 of the 1,250 fans affected. The 400 who were not able to be seated were given a refund of triple face value -- $2,400.
"Incomplete installation of temporary seats in a limited number of sections made the seats unusable," the NFL said in a statement. "The safety of fans attending the Super Bowl was paramount in making the decision and the NFL, Dallas Cowboys and City of Arlington officials are in agreement with the resolution. We regret the situation and inconvenience that it may have caused. We will conduct a full review of this matter."
The NFL tried to placate those 400 fans, taking them inside the stadium to watch the game on monitors in the North Field Club behind the Pittsburgh bench. They also had the option of viewing the game from standing-room platforms in each corner of the stadium. Those fans will still get the triple refund.
The fans "watched game in club w/free food, soft drinks + merchandise," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello tweeted. "The other 850 were re-located to seats in equal or better locations. NFL + Cowboys staff and families gave up seats."
After saying all week that he expected Sunday's game to set an all-time Super Bowl attendance record with 105,000 fans seated inside the stadium, Dallas Cowboys owner/general manager Jerry Jones come up short as the announced attendance of 103,219 was just shy of the 103,985 mark set in Super Bowl XIV between the Los Angeles Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers at the Rose Bowl.
Based on the 850 seats that were forfeited by the NFL and Cowboys to make room for those who were relocated, NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy confirmed that the seating debacle was the reason the attendance record was not set.
"Yes," McCarthy said when asked if those seats would've been otherwise occupied had the displaced fans not been moved there. "But we've been focused on the safety and experience of our fans."
Instead, Jones will have to settle for the second-largest Super Bowl crowd.
At about 4 p.m. in a concourse, a Steelers fan in a Troy Polamalu jersey was yelling obscenities into his cell phone at a stadium employee. He couldn't be seated because his seats were in an area near the seats that didn't meet code.
"We spent $3,000 on tickets," his friend said. "After parking and $10 beers, it's $3,000. I just want to sit."
Said Jennifer Dunfee, a friend in their party who flew in from Colorado for the game: "We've spent over an hour trying to figure out how to get up there.
The NFL closed four of the 10 entrance points into the stadium Sunday because of lingering ice on the roof of the stadium. On Friday, six people were injured by ice falling onto the sidewalk outside of the structure. NFL officials worked with the Arlington Fire Department to direct fans safely into the stadium. Safe corridors were established around any potential fall zones.
In addition, the Arlington Police Department requested additional officers to the East Plaza ticket offices after the crowd started to become unruly after ticket scanners weren't functioning. [bold]There were chants of "Jerry Sucks!" and "NFL Sucks!"[/bold]
Steve and Dawn Novak traveled from Rochester, N.Y., to find that their $800 seats could be exchanged for three times face value, or else for a $350 standing-room-only ticket. They said the NFL would not reimburse the difference in value. They decided to take a loss on the ticket but attend the game after coming all that way. She is a Packers fan and he is a Steelers fan, and they were both angry about the experience.
"We said one of us was going to be happy at the end of the day and we were wrong," Steve Novak said.
Dallas resident Brian Shake said it generally takes 15 minutes to wait at the gate. He said he waited in line for an hour and 20 minutes on Sunday.
"It was just so long," Shake said. "Problem was, you didn't know if you were in the right line or not. Everywhere you looked, there were just fences and screens and you couldn't get in anywhere."
His wife Kathy Shake called it "frustrating."
"It was very confusing on how to get in as you snaked your way through security."
Paul Bryant, from Milwaukee, said he and his party waited at least 90 minutes in line to get into the stadium.
"Nobody knew where to go. ... They had 14 detectives, and there's got to be 20,000 people going through here. If you do the math, that isn't enough," Bryant said.
Stadium workers were covering the top corner sections of the upper deck behind one end zone two hours prior to kickoff. There were off-limits seats in the same upper-deck rows as seats that were deemed safe. Yellow police tape was used as a dividing line, with uniformed personnel also keeping folks away.
The fans affected were directed to the Party Plaza area, which is located outside the stadium for the Super Bowl.
The temporary-seating sections were erected in what is usually an open area. Fans can purchase $29 "Party Passes" to stand in the open areas during Cowboys games.
Tim MacMahon covers the Cowboys for ESPNDallas.com. Todd Archer of ESPNDallas.com, Jane McManus of ESPNNewYork.com, ESPN.com reporters Kevin Seifert and Liz Merrill and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Two hours before the game, workers were frantically trying to fix the sections or get the fans "relocated to similar or better seats," valued at $800. The NFL found alternate seating for 850 of the 1,250 fans affected. The 400 who were not able to be seated were given a refund of triple face value -- $2,400.
"Incomplete installation of temporary seats in a limited number of sections made the seats unusable," the NFL said in a statement. "The safety of fans attending the Super Bowl was paramount in making the decision and the NFL, Dallas Cowboys and City of Arlington officials are in agreement with the resolution. We regret the situation and inconvenience that it may have caused. We will conduct a full review of this matter."
The NFL tried to placate those 400 fans, taking them inside the stadium to watch the game on monitors in the North Field Club behind the Pittsburgh bench. They also had the option of viewing the game from standing-room platforms in each corner of the stadium. Those fans will still get the triple refund.
The fans "watched game in club w/free food, soft drinks + merchandise," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello tweeted. "The other 850 were re-located to seats in equal or better locations. NFL + Cowboys staff and families gave up seats."
After saying all week that he expected Sunday's game to set an all-time Super Bowl attendance record with 105,000 fans seated inside the stadium, Dallas Cowboys owner/general manager Jerry Jones come up short as the announced attendance of 103,219 was just shy of the 103,985 mark set in Super Bowl XIV between the Los Angeles Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers at the Rose Bowl.
Based on the 850 seats that were forfeited by the NFL and Cowboys to make room for those who were relocated, NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy confirmed that the seating debacle was the reason the attendance record was not set.
"Yes," McCarthy said when asked if those seats would've been otherwise occupied had the displaced fans not been moved there. "But we've been focused on the safety and experience of our fans."
Instead, Jones will have to settle for the second-largest Super Bowl crowd.
At about 4 p.m. in a concourse, a Steelers fan in a Troy Polamalu jersey was yelling obscenities into his cell phone at a stadium employee. He couldn't be seated because his seats were in an area near the seats that didn't meet code.
"We spent $3,000 on tickets," his friend said. "After parking and $10 beers, it's $3,000. I just want to sit."
Said Jennifer Dunfee, a friend in their party who flew in from Colorado for the game: "We've spent over an hour trying to figure out how to get up there.
The NFL closed four of the 10 entrance points into the stadium Sunday because of lingering ice on the roof of the stadium. On Friday, six people were injured by ice falling onto the sidewalk outside of the structure. NFL officials worked with the Arlington Fire Department to direct fans safely into the stadium. Safe corridors were established around any potential fall zones.
In addition, the Arlington Police Department requested additional officers to the East Plaza ticket offices after the crowd started to become unruly after ticket scanners weren't functioning. [bold]There were chants of "Jerry Sucks!" and "NFL Sucks!"[/bold]
Steve and Dawn Novak traveled from Rochester, N.Y., to find that their $800 seats could be exchanged for three times face value, or else for a $350 standing-room-only ticket. They said the NFL would not reimburse the difference in value. They decided to take a loss on the ticket but attend the game after coming all that way. She is a Packers fan and he is a Steelers fan, and they were both angry about the experience.
"We said one of us was going to be happy at the end of the day and we were wrong," Steve Novak said.
Dallas resident Brian Shake said it generally takes 15 minutes to wait at the gate. He said he waited in line for an hour and 20 minutes on Sunday.
"It was just so long," Shake said. "Problem was, you didn't know if you were in the right line or not. Everywhere you looked, there were just fences and screens and you couldn't get in anywhere."
His wife Kathy Shake called it "frustrating."
"It was very confusing on how to get in as you snaked your way through security."
Paul Bryant, from Milwaukee, said he and his party waited at least 90 minutes in line to get into the stadium.
"Nobody knew where to go. ... They had 14 detectives, and there's got to be 20,000 people going through here. If you do the math, that isn't enough," Bryant said.
Stadium workers were covering the top corner sections of the upper deck behind one end zone two hours prior to kickoff. There were off-limits seats in the same upper-deck rows as seats that were deemed safe. Yellow police tape was used as a dividing line, with uniformed personnel also keeping folks away.
The fans affected were directed to the Party Plaza area, which is located outside the stadium for the Super Bowl.
The temporary-seating sections were erected in what is usually an open area. Fans can purchase $29 "Party Passes" to stand in the open areas during Cowboys games.
Tim MacMahon covers the Cowboys for ESPNDallas.com. Todd Archer of ESPNDallas.com, Jane McManus of ESPNNewYork.com, ESPN.com reporters Kevin Seifert and Liz Merrill and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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The Saints might take exception to the NFC West part, lol.
Triple face value doesn't mean much when you might pay 5-10 times face value to begin with, and don't get to sit down at the game to top it all off. What a cluster____.
I saw all of the "super" flops on the Early Show. Those fans who didnt get seats were POed, and rightfully so. People are talking lawsuits and everything. That's what happens when JJ and the League are more concerned with setting an attendance record than they are about the fans themselves.
Something Sexy
Super Freak
Freaking crazy. Glad my Packers won, it has been a rocky nerve racking year. Woot!
BadMoon
Demi G0D Overseer
The best part --> there were chants of "Jerry Sucks!". 
ProgMatinee
circlesendwheretheybegin
happy about the overall outcome, but that game was a mess all the way around.
Hopefully, folks will get off Rodgers butt like they had to off Brees last year.
As far as not fearing the NFC West well I admit the last few years not so much. I do think the 49ers are actually close to getting things going in the right direction. I think harbaugh will do things right and find us a quaterback. The rest of the team is actually pretty decent with talent.
As far as not fearing the NFC West well I admit the last few years not so much. I do think the 49ers are actually close to getting things going in the right direction. I think harbaugh will do things right and find us a quaterback. The rest of the team is actually pretty decent with talent.
Yeah they didnt fear them a couple years ago and the NFC West was in the superbowl and if not for an insane "touchdown catch" would have won. Hell in the last 10 years the NFC west has represented the NFC as much as any other NFC conference.
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