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Originally Posted by MililaniBuckeye
How much are tickets to those games? Mobile and Boise don't exactly have cavernous stadiums. In fact, Boise's Bronco stadium holds only 30,000 while Mobile's Ladd-Peebles Stadium holds just over 40,600. The GMAC Bowl had 36,932 people in a 40,600-seat stadium, and the MPC Computer Bowl had 27,062 in a 30,000-seat stadium...having almost 10% of the seats empty for bowl games in venues that small hardly supports your case. And there probably ain't a whole lot else to do in Boise or Mobile (I've been to Mobile several times) that time of year. By the way, Ford Field (Motor City Bowl) seats 70,000 for football and had only 60,624 for this past game (which was their all-time high for that bowl), which is nowhere near 90% capacity.
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It only seats 70,000 for football when the game is the Super Bowl, because then the stadium is allowed to remove all the handicapped seating on the premise that the Super Bowl is a "private party". Normal capacity for a Lions game or for the bowl game is about 65,000.
I don't know what ticket prices are for most games....for the Motor City Bowl this year I think we paid $45 per ticket. It doesn't really matter - the point is that there's interest in the games. And yeah, the venues are small....but for the most part they are also thousands of miles from the (relatively small) fanbases.