are you blind? big picture!!! the price of the ticket goes into the steelers pocket not the city… only a certain tax, thats all, same with the pirates… I’m talkin about the money thats brought in by local business in realtion to the games both teams play. thats the money that stimulates the local economy… not what dan rooney puts in his pocket.
and 12 games and 720,000 was the max… if they dont make the playoffs thats 10 games and 600,000 tickets… when the pirates are still 81 at the minumum. if they pirates were ever good they would be over 2.5 million tickets sold plus they would sell 39,000 per play-off game and the max for baseball could be 11 home games. but as it is they still are gettin 1.94 mil.
i’ll give you another example… lets use the gateway clipper… the gateway clipper shuttles people from station SQ to the northside… they do it 10-12 times a year for steelers games… they do it 81 times a year for pirates games… where are they making more money from? even if they make 1/3 per pirate game than they do on one steelers game they are still makin money on the pirates…