Most fans in Boston are fair-weather... the same people who were "HUGE" bruins fans are now getting back into the Celtics since they have a change to make a serious run. These same people were the ones who wrote them off and trashed them all year long.
I've had no problem selling the first 3 home games for WELL above face value. Demand has spiked recently because of the bruins CHOKE JOB and the red sox being a giant bag of suck
BTW the Fenway sellout streak is the biggest joke in sports...
http://articles.boston.com/2012-05-04/news/31575397_1_sellout-ticket-office-fewer-tickets
I think in every city, the majority of fans are fair weather.
And I think every team fudges the numbers the same way the Red Sox do. For instance I lived in Dallas from 2004-2006, and went to many Mavs games (including the one where they gave everyone a free plane ticket!). Many games were farrrr from sold out (I often walked up and bought tickets minutes before tip off no problem, and saw many empty seats inside).
Yet they claim to have the longest sell-out streak in the NBA right now.--Dallas closed out its 33-game home schedule Friday against the Golden State Warriors with another sellout. The Mavs have now sold out 432 consecutive regular-season games at American Airlines Center, which is an NBA-best sellout streak. The streak began on Dec. 15, 2001 and Dallas has sold out an additional 58 playoff games during that stretch.
See, the Mavs fudge the numbers the same way.
Also been to WWE matches where they claimed it was a sellout, but saw large bunches of available seats. In fact, for a while they claimed Wrestlemania III set attendance records with 91,173,
but some claim it was a made up number:Wallask: Finally, last question here. They often mention the attendance of WrestleMania III was 93,173 and they’ve really hammered that number for years. However you reported in the Observer many years back, that the real attendance was closer to 78,000 or so. Could you talk a little bit about that?
Meltzer: Sure. I remember — it’s funny, because at that time in ’87, I was getting all the gates of all the WWF shows from WWE. And they would say like, “Blah, blah, blah, blah” and they gave me the gate of $1,599,000. And I said, “What was the real attendance?” And I just remember it’s funny because they just said there were 2,300 freebies. But I was never actually told 93,173, and it was sort of like, well, what was the real number. And just kind of the subject was changed. So, I just figured 93,173 was probably the real number. Nobody else had ever questioned it. It wasn’t like anybody came up with a, you know — like now, now every year at WrestleMania they announce a number and six weeks later I get the real number, and it’s 8,000, 10,000, 12,000 different. They make up the number to have the record for the building, even though usually they don’t have the record for the building because they got the big stage. For a football game, you actually can get more people for a football game than you can for a WrestleMania, than if you have a Final Four or something like that at some of these indoor stadiums, where you don’t have the big screens or anything. You draw out far, far more people.
So ya, I would take just about any attendance streak or record, not just Red Sox ones, with a grain of salt.
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