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NFL Stadiums vs NCAA Stadiums?

Today, there are a lot of college stadiums that are larger than the NFL Stadiums. Wouldn't it make more sense to have renovations on some of the NFL Stadiums? I mean there are some teams that literally have a 10 year waiting list for season tickets...more space means more fans, more money, more Super Bowls, and those season holders to be might get their tickets quicker if we had some stadiums like Beaver Stadium, Michigan Stadium, Ohio Stadium, Neyland Stadium, and Texas Memorial Stadium which all are the top five biggest football stadiums in the country currently....I'm sure there would be some happy Steelers fans out there if the stadium was put from 64,450 to 105,000+ I'm sure money is a concern for sure though...Comments?

Remember that Monday Night Football game between the Steelers and the Jags where the field was all tore up and 9 total points were scored because college AND high school games had been played that same week on the field?

You could never repair a field in time for a Sunday noon game from a College game that would start on Saturday. You couldnt even really have the field in good condition for a MNF game.

The same in reverse would be true for college. Think any top 10 team wants to risk losing because of a bum field because they played a Thursday night NFL game on it? Not to mention you probably would lose more revenue in beer sales. Then, you would have the NCAA snooping into the few colleges that might allow it, looking for the most minor violation so they could ignore what is going on at USC.

Not to mention, what about the NFL teams now that cannot sell out to save their lives? Vikings almost had their playoff game blacked out, Detroit didn't get blacked out because of the commisioner feeling that Detroit had enough bad with the failings of the Big 3 automakers andjob loss, or they would have. New Orleans never sold out till they had Brees, and Jacksonville has to cover seats for televised games so the stadium doesn't look so empty.

Then with our economy, teams that usually sell out aren't moving the season tickets. For example, I was able to upgrade from an upper tier 40 yard line season tickets, all the way to lower tier "Club 50" season tickets with the Chiefs. Any KC fan will know that was impossible to do 5 years ago. Would Green Bay, with its small market, be able to fill up a stadium with 40k more people?

NFL tickets are also cheaper than college tickets for the most part. (An OU ticket costs me about 150-250 dollars per ticket, as an upgraded season ticket holder, season tickets for KC cost about 1500 with parking, but I get a discount through work on those)

The NFL does not make its money on ticket sales, but on television rights and revenue, and the sale of merchandise. Just like going into Europe, they are hoping it will catch so they get more TV and merchandise money.

Lets say an NFL stadium sits 75,000 and average ticket prices are 50 bucks...thats not even a half a million dollars per game, or if you figure in parking at 25 bucks per car, you might push to get 500,000 per game. In the scope of the NFL, that is what, two rookie salaries at the minimum? So by going bigger, you end up spending 10 million to make maybe 2 million and risk not selling out the stadium. Better to sell out 60,000 seats than have 80,000 seats with 15,000 of them empty.

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