rljmb23
Love Chicago Sports
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So I have been a Hawks fan since the early nineties (band wagon guy when they made their last Stanley Cup run) and have hung on throughout the "dark" years here on the West side. During lets say the 2000-2005 seasons (including the lockout year) I attended nearly 30 some odd games here and there, never spending more than $45 on a ticket.
As I was starting my family through the 2006-07 seasons I was only able to attend a game, while attempting to watch away games as I could. Through a major promotion at work, and some wise saving the wife and I were seriously talking about getting 300 level season tickets for around $650 bucks a seat. This was a fantastic price and knowing that Toews and Kane were on the way to stardom I thought that this could be a chance to see greatness in the making.
When we contacted the ticket sales person for the season tickets we were going to get a better price on the seats if we were able to get another couple to come in and we buy 4 seats together (if I remember correctly it was like $585 per seat at that point). So as w waited on that other couple the opportunity had passed us up for that season and we decided to just go ahead and put our deposit ($100) towards next seasons seats.
So we waited and it turns out the Hawks make their crazy run last season only to fall to Detroit in the Western Conference Finals. The same seats that we were looking at now had a price of $1275 per seat with no chance of additional discounts for the next seat, and Mr. Ticket Sales person gave us a whole 2 hr window to decide (the year before we had nearly 2 weeks).
Long story short, I probably couldn't have afforded the seats this year anyways with the increase, but man oh man it would have been nice to be able to enjoy these past couple seasons in the Madhouse. Just another example of when opportunity knocks, don't ask anyone, just jump into it and ask questions later, you just might be apart of history.
As I was starting my family through the 2006-07 seasons I was only able to attend a game, while attempting to watch away games as I could. Through a major promotion at work, and some wise saving the wife and I were seriously talking about getting 300 level season tickets for around $650 bucks a seat. This was a fantastic price and knowing that Toews and Kane were on the way to stardom I thought that this could be a chance to see greatness in the making.
When we contacted the ticket sales person for the season tickets we were going to get a better price on the seats if we were able to get another couple to come in and we buy 4 seats together (if I remember correctly it was like $585 per seat at that point). So as w waited on that other couple the opportunity had passed us up for that season and we decided to just go ahead and put our deposit ($100) towards next seasons seats.
So we waited and it turns out the Hawks make their crazy run last season only to fall to Detroit in the Western Conference Finals. The same seats that we were looking at now had a price of $1275 per seat with no chance of additional discounts for the next seat, and Mr. Ticket Sales person gave us a whole 2 hr window to decide (the year before we had nearly 2 weeks).
Long story short, I probably couldn't have afforded the seats this year anyways with the increase, but man oh man it would have been nice to be able to enjoy these past couple seasons in the Madhouse. Just another example of when opportunity knocks, don't ask anyone, just jump into it and ask questions later, you just might be apart of history.
