Fire Marshal 1, NFL 0, Fans -1250

[brudgers]

If someone bought tickets on the secondary (or third-ary) market that far out paces the face price, then you take your chances. Tough. The offered compensation seems adequate to me.

The NFL offered nominal compensation while the fans were under duress as a way to preclude paying fair damages.

 

[Yikes]

Guys, I've seen questionably safe facilities utilized under political pressure... they simply pay some firefighters to stand there on a "fire watch" to provide the veneer of respectability to the situatin, and to reduce the "live at 5" response time by emergency personnel. Without a doubt, there were already such safety personnel present at the game anyway.

Clearly, this option was not available to them, so it must have been much more serious than a merely questionable safety matter.

 

[Yankee]

The NFL offered nominal compensation while the fans were under duress as a way to preclude paying fair damages.

Seems like 3 times $900 would pay for someone's travel and hotel for one trip and one night. You think they deserve "pain and suffering"?

 

[High Desert]

Seems like 3 times $900 would pay for someone's travel and hotel for one trip and one night. You think they deserve "pain and suffering"?

Only if they were Steeler fans!

 

[brudgers]

Seems like 3 times $900 would pay for someone's travel and hotel for one trip and one night. You think they deserve "pain and suffering"?

First, $900 of that is just refunding the face value of the ticket.

Second, although the $1800 would probably cover transportation and one night's hotel accommodations under normal circumstances, the SuperBowl week is not normal circumstances. Hotels not only charge significantly higher rates but also typically have three or four or five night minimum stays - restaurants and other services also charge more because of scarcity.

In addition, many people will take vacation from work resulting in lost wages, pay for boarding of pets, and incur other expenses back home based on the reasonable expectation that a ticket will get them into the game.

Finally, the NFL is well aware that SuperBowl tickets cost more than face value and their basing the refund on face value is disingenuous.

Do they deserve pain and suffering - how the hell should I know. What I do know is that people who feel that the NFL's offer was insufficient have legitimate access to the courts and there is nothing wrong with their availing themselves of the judicial processes.

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[FredK]

Seems to me it would be pretty hard to convince a judge what one paid a scalper for tickets without a receipt of some kind. And I don't remember the last time I saw a guy selling tickets with a register.

 

[Yankee]

Agreed to the lack of receipt. Also the "vacation" time surrounding the super bowl game is not part of the investment lost. It is/was still available to those who planned it. If they let their several hours of missing the game "in person" ruin their 4 or 5 or 6 days, that is their own fault.

 

[brudgers]

Seems to me it would be pretty hard to convince a judge what one paid a scalper for tickets without a receipt of some kind. And I don't remember the last time I saw a guy selling tickets with a register.

http://www.stubhub.com/

 

[brudgers]

Agreed to the lack of receipt. Also the "vacation" time surrounding the super bowl game is not part of the investment lost. It is/was still available to those who planned it. If they let their several hours of missing the game "in person" ruin their 4 or 5 or 6 days, that is their own fault.

If it costs the NFL more money to solve the problem, that is there fault as well.