400 fans sent home with no seats at SB

[earthsci]

NO I challenge any of the yahoos on here to describe just what they would have done to do it any better and if they are truly honest they will admit that they wouldn't have forseen it any more than it was.

I don't see a whole lot of people laughing but I can tell you my angle that I've posted in many other threads. If it had all been left up to me this definitely wouldn't have happen and I'll tell you why. The game wouldn't have been in Dallas. It would have been in Miami, Tampa, New Orleans, Sandy Eggo or Glendale. Stop putting the game in places that are begging to have weather interfere. Nature happens. Take the worse possible weather that you get at that part of the year and assume that it will happen. If so New York and Indy could be an even larger Charley Foxtrot than what we saw this year. Are you going to come back then and tell me that I couldn't have foreseen it and prevented it? BS. Ice Storms happen in Dallas in February. Usually, beautiful weather but Murphy's Law doesn't really give a flying hoot.

When the Super Bowl was here a couple of years ago we had tha worst kind of weather that the Valley has at that time of year, drizzly and mid-50's. People still had a great time. People could get to the parties, the NFL Experience went off without a hitch and the people from NY and New England still felt like they were in the tropics. No one got hurt by falling ice. Those seats weren't in finished in Dallas because the ice storm delayed the work. That won't happen in the warm weather cities.

 

[DemsMyBoys]

Those seats weren't in finished in Dallas because the ice storm delayed the work. That won't happen in the warm weather cities.

Is that what they're saying?

Then they (meaning Jerry Jones) is even stupider than I give him credit for. The fire marshalls and the inspectors would have seen my plans for all the extra seating months and months ago. I'd have had the supplies ready and the workers in the stadium the day after the Cowboy's last home game. It's not like the SB was a big secret.

 

[Dback Jon]

I'm not saying it was OK, I'm saying sometimes things happen that no one can forsee or control, it just does. It seems these days that alot of people are ready to raise hell. Does anyone really think that somebody purposely set out to screw this people? NO They spent alot of time and thought and still crap happens. It will happen next year too one way or another in a different area. Here in Nashville back in May when the flood hit, the Opryland hotel had to evacuate people at the last minute because the water rose faster than they were told it would. On TV that night were all the people bitching about having to be moved. It was disgraceful the way those people acted. Laughing about the misfortune of the organizers of the Super Bowl and the situation just makes the person doing it look juvenile. Would it have been OK for them to laugh at someone else and say it couldn't happen to someone more deserving? NO I challenge any of the yahoos on here to describe just what they would have done to do it any better and if they are truly honest they will admit that they wouldn't have forseen it any more than it was.

This screw up happened because Jerry was greedy. He wanted to break the Super Bowl attendance record, only for his only glory.

Had he not been greedy, no issues - yeah, there would be less tickets available, but no one would have had this happen.

 

[chickenhead]

All these folks will have great seats to watch the Cards hoist the Lombardi next year!

Seriously, though, one possible silver lining for some is that these two teams have as good a shot as anyone to get to the big game next year. Maybe they'll be going to the game hoping to see a repeat, or another shot at a 7th title.

 

[BurqueCardFan]

This screw up happened because Jerry was greedy. He wanted to break the Super Bowl attendance record, only for his only glory.

Had he not been greedy, no issues - yeah, there would be less tickets available, but no one would have had this happen.

Exactly, this happended because of Jerry Jones's ego. Those extra seats did not have to be put in and would not have been sold in the first place.

 

[john h]

After a limited number of sections in temporary seating areas at Cowboys Stadium were not completed in time, 400 fans were not able to attend Super Bowl XLV on Sunday. Two hours before the game, workers were frantically trying to fix the sections or get the fans "relocated to similar or better seats," valued at $800. The NFL found alternate seating for 850 of the 1,250 fans affected. The 400 who were not able to be seated were given a refund of triple face value -- $2,400.
http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nfl/news/story?id=6096112

They will also be given free tickets to next years Superbowl. Dallas is sure taking some heat on many facets of the Superbowl as is the NFL.

 

[john h]

That's definitely not funny for the 400 fans. Imagine you paid 2500 for your ticket plus room, airfare, rental car, food etc... Yet u only get 2400 in return? So your out well over a grand and no ballgame to boot. I would be freaking peeved. Certainly not funny IMO.

Only for people who hate Jerry Jones and Dallas. Hopefully they can sell their free tickets for next years game and recover some of their losses. We had a group of people stuck here in Litle Rock on the night before the game at the airport (snow). Most said they would rent a car and drive he 300 miles. They did not know the I-30 was backed up and moving at about 3 miles an hour. I wonder if they made it?

 

[Jersey Girl]

It goes beyond money.

As those were $800 seats, I'm guessing that wasn't your celebs, but mostly your real fans of Pittsburgh or Green Bay. How would you feel if you'd scraped your money together to go watch the Cards in the Super Bowl -- only to find you don't have a seat after all?

Imagine if the same scenario would have happened to 400 of us 2 years ago in Tampa...I would have stroked out from the anger after strangling someone from the NFL.

Seriously. I would have been livid.

Who gives two craps about next years SB if your team isnt in it? I know I wouldn't.

That's what I was thinking. It would REALLY suck if your team got knocked out in the NFC or AFC Division title game and then you got to watch the winning team play in the Super Bowl. Boooo.