Redskins lead league in attendance for 2007 (8th straight year)
 

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ATTENDANCE RECORD: For the sixth straight year, the NFL set a paid attendance record, led by the Washington Redskins.

Attendance surpassed 22 million for the second successive season, with 22,256,502 fans paying their way into games, an increase of 56,790 over 2006. The 2007 NFL regular-season total paid attendance of 17,345,205 and the average of 67,755 per game were both records. And 4,119,278 tickets were sold for 65 preseason games, an average of 63,374.

Twelve postseason games drew 792,019 fans, including 71,101 for the Super Bowl in Glendale, Ariz.

[B]The Redskins, who have the league's largest stadium, FedEx Field, led in regular-season home paid attendance for the eighth consecutive season. The Redskins drew 711,471, an NFL mark.[/B]

Three other teams topped 600,000 paid home attendance: the New York Giants (629,391), Kansas City Chiefs (622,541) and New York Jets (616,756). Eleven teams drew more than 1.1 million paid attendance home and away during the regular season, led by Washington (1,264,890). The others were the Giants (1,187,915), Jets (1,171,564), Miami Dolphins (1,156,762), Chiefs (1,145,938), New England Patriots (1,131,027), Buffalo Bills (1,129,052), Denver Broncos (1,120,996), Philadelphia Eagles (1,120,090), Green Bay Packers (1,112,753) and Carolina Panthers (1,100,147).

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Shocker!

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The year Dallas' new stadium is complete we'll lose this, unfortunately.

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[QUOTE=Daseal;435985]The year Dallas' new stadium is complete we'll lose this, unfortunately.[/QUOTE]

I am afraid you will be proven correct, what is their stadium going to hold?

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[QUOTE=Joe Ribbs BBQ;435992]I am afraid you will be proven correct, what is their stadium going to hold?[/QUOTE]

It will accommodate 80,000, with the possibility for expansion to 100,000.

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yea but how many of these fans are actually redskins diehards.

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[QUOTE=SeanTaylor21;435993]It will accommodate 80,000, with the possibility for expansion to 100,000.[/QUOTE]

well than with out the expansion, they dont have a chance at beating us in attendance..... although I would lose to them in attendance in exchange for beating them on the field twice a year !!!

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[quote=WaldSkins;435997]yea but how many of these fans are actually redskins diehards.[/quote]

I'd honestly rather not know that number....

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Our stadium is 10,000 seats larger than the next! Of course we should have the record! Thats an extra 80,000 sold tix.

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we also hold the record for highest increase in ticket sale percentage every year dont we? If im wrong please let me know.

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[QUOTE=Daseal;435985]The year Dallas' new stadium is complete we'll lose this, unfortunately.[/QUOTE]

At least they will be 0-1 in the first year of the stadium when they face the skins that year :D

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I don't care if we have only three fans to show up in our stadium. As long as the Redskins beat the Cowboys on the field, that's all that matters to me.

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[quote=skinsguy;436064][B]I don't care if we have only three fans to show up in our stadium.[/B] As long as the Redskins beat the Cowboys on the field, that's all that matters to me.[/quote]
Thats how loud it is lol.

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[QUOTE=Campbell17;436065]Thats how loud it is lol.[/QUOTE]


LOL! Please tell me you kid! Ahh....they really need to move the team back into the heart of DC!

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[QUOTE=chrisl4064;436015]we also hold the record for highest increase in ticket sale percentage every year dont we? If im wrong please let me know.[/QUOTE]

I'm pretty sure that is wrong. I think there has only been one major increase in ticket face values in the last several years.

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[quote=chrisl4064;436015]we also hold the record for highest increase in ticket sale percentage every year dont we? If im wrong please let me know.[/quote]

I just bought my 5th year of tickets today (Go Skins!). The price has increased once in five seasons.

Beer has gone from $7 to $7.50 to $8 in four years.

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[quote=chrisl4064;436015]we also hold the record for highest increase in ticket sale percentage every year dont we? If im wrong please let me know.[/quote]

If you are in the premium/club levels, then the price increases each and every year as well the fee for parking. I am a fan and willing to support OUR team, but there is a reason why we are the #2 most profitable sports franchise in the world!

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[QUOTE=CancunCantinaBartender;436097]If you are in the premium/club levels, then the price increases each and every year as well the fee for parking. I am a fan and willing to support OUR team, but there is a reason why we are the #2 most profitable sports franchise in the world![/QUOTE]

Wrong we have had one price in increase in 5 seasons. But we still have pretty expensive tickets. That's what we get for selling out games. Demand drives the price.

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I heard that the Dallas stadium was 100,00+ as planned. Never heard about the 80,000 with the option to expand to 100,000. With Dallas not being in the top 11 in the attendance stats Matty has given us, who knows if Dallas will beat us out if they do go for the big 100,000 enchilada. Knowing the Danny, he will find a way to stuff 15,000 more folks into Fedex anyway.

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[quote=GusFrerotte;436104]I heard that the Dallas stadium was 100,00+ as planned. Never heard about the 80,000 with the option to expand to 100,000. With Dallas not being in the top 11 in the attendance stats Matty has given us, who knows if Dallas will beat us out if they do go for the big 100,000 enchilada. Knowing the Danny, he will find a way to stuff 15,000 more folks into Fedex anyway.[/quote]


Gus - here is the link to the new stadium Dallas is building

[URL="http://stadium.dallascowboys.com/"]Dallas Cowboys New Stadium[/URL]
- 80,000 for football and the stadium can be expanded to 100,000 for (the site says 100,000 for the Super Bowl). It looks like they will not try and compact as many seats for regular season Cowboys games so fans are not on top of each other and have good views.

What I wish we had at Fed Ex is the high defninition mega screens that the Cowboys stadium is getting - each screen facing the sides will be 60 yards long - kind of makes the Fed Ex replay screens look dumpy - which I never liked to begin with anyway.

Maybe the Skins will build a new stadium in 15 years that is even better than the one Dallas is making now.

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The New Giants stadium will hold 87.000