Let's be honest

[fudgeripple2000]

Football is an entertainment business. Judging by the empty seats it is not entertaining and not a very good business. I heard estimates of 11k empty seats. Soldier field is the 5th most expensive stadium that has a fan index rate of $557.18 (4 tickets ((avg price)) two small beers, four hot dogs, program, and two adult caps). That means that there is roughly 2750 units that can be associated with that index. So with that loss last night the bears potentially lost over 1 million in ticket sales and revenue from vendors. Now I know a lot of those empty seats are from ticket holders. But this is a trend you don't want starting. Vendors feel it, restaurants and bars feel it, the economy feels it.

 

So who is to blame? Well to reference Bill Parcells. It's the chef and the people buying the groceries.

 

The Chef (trestman and coordinators) looks as though he has lost the team. He can't control his coordinators. I wonder if the team was coached by Parcells, bellichek, Harbaugh or any of that ilk. Would Kromer have dared to talk to reporters like that. Can we keep trestman as the coach and fire all his coordinators as their merits obviously deserve?

 

The Grocery buyers: This is the front office. They bought the groceries, they approved the contracts. This is on them. And this "system" that Emery eludes to as dealing with the Kromer situation is faulty at best. Did they really think that by letting Kromar put on those headphones for that game last night that Cutler was going to have a great night. By letting him coach, what does that tell Cutler. And worse, what does that tell Kromer.

 

Don't get me wrong, Cutler is very guilty of sucking. Trestman has shown with McCown that his system works and I can't fully damn Trestman for struggling with a quarterback that he inherited. As a guy that owns my own business and does the hiring and the firing. I know that you can't keep a person that costs you money and slows your business (Cutler) just because you are worried about paying unemployment (cutlers guaranteed contract). To grow you have to make tough decisions and to make those tough decisions the bears ownership needs to reflect and ask the question, "how did we make this be what it is?"

[Connorbear]

Football is an entertainment business. Judging by the empty seats it is not entertaining and not a very good business. I heard estimates of 11k empty seats. Soldier field is the 5th most expensive stadium that has a fan index rate of $557.18 (4 tickets ((avg price)) two small beers, four hot dogs, program, and two adult caps). That means that there is roughly 2750 units that can be associated with that index. So with that loss last night the bears potentially lost over 1 million in ticket sales and revenue from vendors. Now I know a lot of those empty seats are from ticket holders. But this is a trend you don't want starting. Vendors feel it, restaurants and bars feel it, the economy feels it.

 

So who is to blame? Well to reference Bill Parcells. It's the chef and the people buying the groceries.

 

The Chef (trestman and coordinators) looks as though he has lost the team. He can't control his coordinators. I wonder if the team was coached by Parcells, bellichek, Harbaugh or any of that ilk. Would Kromer have dared to talk to reporters like that. Can we keep trestman as the coach and fire all his coordinators as their merits obviously deserve?

 

The Grocery buyers: This is the front office. They bought the groceries, they approved the contracts. This is on them. And this "system" that Emery eludes to as dealing with the Kromer situation is faulty at best. Did they really think that by letting Kromar put on those headphones for that game last night that Cutler was going to have a great night. By letting him coach, what does that tell Cutler. And worse, what does that tell Kromer.

 

Don't get me wrong, Cutler is very guilty of sucking. Trestman has shown with McCown that his system works and I can't fully damn Trestman for struggling with a quarterback that he inherited. As a guy that owns my own business and does the hiring and the firing. I know that you can't keep a person that costs you money and slows your business (Cutler) just because you are worried about paying unemployment (cutlers guaranteed contract). To grow you have to make tough decisions and to make those tough decisions the bears ownership needs to reflect and ask the question, "how did we make this be what it is?"

 

The only point to make here is they didn't lose money on ticket sales. Those tickets were sold before the season.

 

Peace

[ASHKUM BEAR]

The only point to make here is they didn't lose money on ticket sales. Those tickets were sold before the season.

 

Peace

 

I looked at it as if the average person spends $20, that's a $200,000 loss in concessions.

[fudgeripple2000]

The only point to make here is they didn't lose money on ticket sales. Those tickets were sold before the season.

 

Peace

 

That is why I used the word potentially. Also what can't be measured is the loss in associated revenue in jersey sales, hotel occupancy... My point is that, sure the bears have a roughly 98% ticket renewal rate, but will that continue. My concern is that having 11k empty seats is a terrible trend to start. I live in the west so my drop in the bucket is small. My whole family is bears fans and because the "product" is not entertaining I won't buy the nfl sunday ticket. Again, my drop is nothing. But am I a drop in a potential flood?

[madlithuanian]

Well said!

 

Football is an entertainment business. Judging by the empty seats it is not entertaining and not a very good business. I heard estimates of 11k empty seats. Soldier field is the 5th most expensive stadium that has a fan index rate of $557.18 (4 tickets ((avg price)) two small beers, four hot dogs, program, and two adult caps). That means that there is roughly 2750 units that can be associated with that index. So with that loss last night the bears potentially lost over 1 million in ticket sales and revenue from vendors. Now I know a lot of those empty seats are from ticket holders. But this is a trend you don't want starting. Vendors feel it, restaurants and bars feel it, the economy feels it.

 

So who is to blame? Well to reference Bill Parcells. It's the chef and the people buying the groceries.

 

The Chef (trestman and coordinators) looks as though he has lost the team. He can't control his coordinators. I wonder if the team was coached by Parcells, bellichek, Harbaugh or any of that ilk. Would Kromer have dared to talk to reporters like that. Can we keep trestman as the coach and fire all his coordinators as their merits obviously deserve?

 

The Grocery buyers: This is the front office. They bought the groceries, they approved the contracts. This is on them. And this "system" that Emery eludes to as dealing with the Kromer situation is faulty at best. Did they really think that by letting Kromar put on those headphones for that game last night that Cutler was going to have a great night. By letting him coach, what does that tell Cutler. And worse, what does that tell Kromer.

 

Don't get me wrong, Cutler is very guilty of sucking. Trestman has shown with McCown that his system works and I can't fully damn Trestman for struggling with a quarterback that he inherited. As a guy that owns my own business and does the hiring and the firing. I know that you can't keep a person that costs you money and slows your business (Cutler) just because you are worried about paying unemployment (cutlers guaranteed contract). To grow you have to make tough decisions and to make those tough decisions the bears ownership needs to reflect and ask the question, "how did we make this be what it is?"