Redskins to Restrict Large Tailgate Parties

[MTK]

Redskins to Restrict Large Tailgate Parties

The Washington Redskins will restrict large tailgate parties in the FedEx Field parking lots this season, limiting tailgates using more than one parking space to "the back" of parking lots, according to a release from the team. The team also said that drivers of all vehicles will be directed to specific areas of the lots instead of being allowed to choose their own.

[Trample the Elderly]

S**tty decision to make in a bad economy.

[jgalecpa]

I have to say, The Daniel is an idiot.

After 15 years of being on the waiting list, and then having season tickets for the last nine, paying over $17,000 in total to see some really mediocre football, I just had lunch with my brother today and told him I wouldn't be renewing my tickets for the 2011 year.

Just cements my decision.

I'm still a fan, but with the HD TV I could by for the cost of every single game I went to, I'll be watching from home.

J-Dawg.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by jgalecpa

I have to say, The Daniel is an idiot.

After 15 years of being on the waiting list, and then having season tickets for the last nine, paying over $17,000 in total to see some really mediocre football, I just had lunch with my brother today and told him I wouldn't be renewing my tickets for the 2011 year.

Just cements my decision.

I'm still a fan, but with the HD TV I could by for the cost of every single game I went to, I'll be watching from home.

J-Dawg.

Whats the big deal here. If you want a big tailgate party and need several spaces you have to use the back of the lots. If you want to use one spot and tailgate then you can park toward the front. I get there early enough that its not an issue but when you have people tail gating taking up several spots and then people driving around and cannot use those spots then it leads to longer lines getting into the parking area.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by firstdown

Whats the big deal here. If you want a big tailgate party and need several spaces you have to use the back of the lots. If you want to use one spot and tailgate then you can park toward the front. I get there early enough that its not an issue but when you have people tail gating taking up several spots and then people driving around and cannot use those spots then it leads to longer lines getting into the parking area.

Agreed. If this your reason for giving up season tickets, then maybe tailgating is more important than seeing the game live in the first place.

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Agreed. If this your reason for giving up season tickets, then maybe tailgating is more important than seeing the game live in the first place.

Agreed agreed. You are only supposed to get one spot per car. Those who take two cars and do a tailgate in between on a third space make an impossible lot even harder. the backs of the lots have plenty of green space room to have larger tailgates. I see no problem. Now the tossing of the cash lots is interesting. I guess the crap with the buses became too much of a headache.

[saden1]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Agreed. If this your reason for giving up season tickets, then maybe tailgating is more important than seeing the game live in the first place.

It's a matter or principle for some. I know plenty of people who didn't renew their season tickets and won't go to Seahawks games because they don't allow tailgating at all anymore.

[jgalecpa]

Originally Posted by jgalecpa

After 15 years of being on the waiting list, and then having season tickets for the last nine, paying over $17,000 in total to see some really mediocre football, I just had lunch with my brother today and told him I wouldn't be renewing my tickets for the 2011 year.

J-Dawg.

Sorry but my timing wasn't clear.

I had already decided that I wouldn't be renewing.

I have only tailgated once or twice so this isn't an issue for me personally.

It is just representative of the Daniel doing anything and everything to make an extra buck off the team, which is of course is his right.

When Fedex opened it had 78,000 seats. Now it is 90,000 but the building isn't any bigger.

In business schools, we always teach that there are three major elements of any thing you spend money on:

1. Product
2. Price and
3. Service

The general rule is you can get two out of three but not usually all three.

For years, it seems the Redskins are not delivering any of the three to their fans that pay to go to the stadium.

The product is not great. Haven't had a HOME playoff game in how many years?

Price: Not just the tickets, but the start to finish price for a day at the field is ridiculous.

Service: Escalators that don't work, lines everywhere. Pat down searches to make sure you don't smuggle in peanuts.

It just aint fun.

It just aint worth it.

Not to me.

Maybe to you

But not to me.

J-Dawg

[SkinDogg]

Originally Posted by jgalecpa

Sorry but my timing wasn't clear.

1. When Fedex opened it had 78,000 seats. Now it is 90,000 but the building isn't any bigger.

2. The product is not great. Haven't had a HOME playoff game in how many years?

3. Service: Pat down searches to make sure you don't smuggle in peanuts.

J-Dawg

1. ...or any louder

2. ...SEVENTEEN YEARS and five months. Or January 12, 1992 to be exact, championship game - Redskins 41, Lions 10. Yeah I was at this game.

3. Fed Ex made my mom toss her bag of UTZ she forgot she had in her purse. She also had a pocket knife which she was able to keep. True story.

[jdlea]

Originally Posted by SkinDogg

2. ...SEVENTEEN YEARS and five months. Or January 12, 1992 to be exact, championship game - Redskins 41, Lions 10. Yeah I was at this game.

This is incorrect. The last time they won the division, in 1999, they hosted a game in the Wild Card round and beat the Lions 27-13 at home.

[roth74va]

Originally Posted by jgalecpa

Service: Escalators that don't work, lines everywhere. Pat down searches to make sure you don't smuggle in peanuts.

I cant believe people are so upset about this news. They arent doing away with tailgating, they are just moving it to the back of the lots to minimize the congestion. Its pretty annoying to get into the lots to see every-other-spot taken up by a group of drunks. Just move to the back, do your thing and have a good time. Most of you guys could use the extra 50 yard walk anyway.

AND.............what stadium are you going to? Ive never seen the escalators broken, and the searches are for guns.....not peanuts. Wake up!

[53Fan]

Originally Posted by roth74va

I cant believe people are so upset about this news. They arent doing away with tailgating, they are just moving it to the back of the lots to minimize the congestion. Its pretty annoying to get into the lots to see every-other-spot taken up by a group of drunks. Just move to the back, do your thing and have a good time. Most of you guys could use the extra 50 yard walk anyway.

AND.............what stadium are you going to? Ive never seen the escalators broken, and the searches are for guns.....not peanuts. Wake up!

I agree. Nice post.

[jgalecpa]

Originally Posted by roth74va

AND.............what stadium are you going to? Ive never seen the escalators broken, and the searches are for guns.....not peanuts. Wake up!

Really?

Look at the previous poster about the Mom who had her chips confiscated but not the knife.

I Have seats in Section 401. Top level, 50 yard line.

You have to take the large escalator up or risk a hip replacement 1/2 way up (I think they have a surgical unit there doing them as you go).

REGULARLY, sections of this three stage escalator are turned off and/or broken (it doesn't matter which one it is, it isn't working).

Last year while going up, the center stage of the escalator stopped abruptly while fully loaded. The lower stage kept going though, poring people into the stopped throng at the top. The 'security' people did nothing even though it was a significant crush hazard.

As I stated, this tailgating issue had no influence whatsoever on my decision to not renew, it was emblematic of the Daniels doing what he can to squeeze out a few more bucks, though.

[Miller101]

Originally Posted by roth74va

I cant believe people are so upset about this news. They arent doing away with tailgating, they are just moving it to the back of the lots to minimize the congestion. Its pretty annoying to get into the lots to see every-other-spot taken up by a group of drunks. Just move to the back, do your thing and have a good time. Most of you guys could use the extra 50 yard walk anyway.

AND.............what stadium are you going to? Ive never seen the escalators broken, and the searches are for guns.....not peanuts. Wake up!

Dude, I had a friend forget to leave her pepper spray in the car. She was all worried that she might get arrested. She almost walked the 15 minutes back to the car too drop it off. I talked her out of it. I told her, "Don't worry, they only care if you're sneaking in bottles of liquor or food and stuff like that". I was right.

And the big deal is why make it a big deal. Why not let people park where they want to. Why not let the die hard tailgaters, who get there at the crack of dawn, get the spot that they want? Why does there have to be a rule for every gosh dang thing that there is in this world? Let people have fun for once and chill out. Parking has always been first come/ first serve. Why change it now? Its bullshit! If anything Danny should shrink is high priced purple lots so more people could fit into the cheaper green and orange lots. Not rearrange parking for all of the die hard tailgaters! That is what is wrong with this! That is why people are so upset.

And trying to say that you're going to reduce the congestion by doing this is a form of horseshit to the finest degree! Newsflash! 50,000 cars, 500 buses, and 50 limos produce congestion. Most people know that! ITS CALLED DUH!

Ohhhh and the escalators were broken for just about every game I went to last year. Either that or just turned off.

[Pocket$ $traight]

If it makes getting in and out of the stadium more efficient than it is probably the right move. I can see how those who get there early and pick out their spots would be upset but they are definitely the minority.