Cincinnati Bengals aim higher fans attendance thru tickets price cut for 2012 – NFL News
The Cincinnati Bengals are aiming to find a permanent solution to their problem of attracting spectators according to the seating capacity at the Paul Browns Stadium with next season in their mid.
The team management on Thursday announced to have cut the ticket price for the season 2012 to fill the seating facility at the stadium throughout the season.
A 20-dollar reduction is announced by the team for seats on the top rows in some sections of the upper deck. It is expected that it will help the side to motivate more people to attend the Bengals home games to back their team.
It had been very difficult for the team management to fill the stadium upto its just over 65,000 seating arrangement in 2011. The trend worried the team management.
The Bengals players were seen even more worried about the issue and they along with their coach went on to appeal their fans to turn up at the stadium to show their support to the side.
In addition to praising those who attended the games they said that the fans attendance mattered most in their good performance and wins at their home ground.
However, people apparently being unhappy with their performance on the field, preferred staying away from the games. The trend was repeated for many games.
The Bengals performance issue affecting the fans attendance can be true given the fact that their last game with increased prospects of making it to playoff stood out to be a sellout.
A special help may have come from the incentives announced by the Bengals just before their last game of the season against the visiting Baltimore Ravens.
They included provision of free-of-cost refreshments for the potential tickets buyers at the ticket office at the Paul Brown Stadium.
In addition, free tickets were offered to the seasonal pass holders, which were seen to benefiting only a certain number of people rather than the whole lot.
The incentives seem to have worked well into the Bengals efforts attracting more people to fill the 65,000 seats for their last game of the season.
This however has not proved enough for the team management in their long-term aim for maintaining a hundred per cent attendance throughout the season, and they have come out with a long-term solution to it.
Again, certain quarters believed that the latest announcement of ticket price cut will not cater to all fans. According to them the cut has focused a certain section of the seating facility and might leave out the majority of people who are apparently unhappy
with their team’s performance. The Bengals can face same problem next year.
According to them if the Bengals are able to improve the level of their game it will automatically attract their fans to back the side on their home ground.
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