Tampa Bay Buccaneers reduce ticket prices for 2012 Season – NFL News
Tampa Bay Buccaneers have announced reduced ticket prices for the 2012 National Football League season to boost attendances at the Raymond James Stadium.
The Bucs are announcing a reduction on 80% of the seats as they struggle to contain NFL blackouts on local television resulting due to the limited sold-out games.
The blackout policy dictates that games will not be shown live on local television if the home side has not sold out seats at their stadium completely 72-hours earlier depriving home fans of watching the games on TV.
With just two out of seven home games sold out by Tampa Bay Buccaneers this season the franchise is struggling like other teams across the NFL from selling stadium tickets. The depressed economic situation and lack of success by
Tampa Bay Buccaneers (they have not played a playoff since 2003) are contributing to lower attendances.
Ticket prices for children will be reduced from $ 17.50 to $ 15 while adult tickets will also be decreased from $ 35 to $ 30. Hefty discounts have also been announced for those wishing to purchase season tickets instead of for
single game entry. The discounts are enticing with a family of four can get around $ 1500 off on purchase of a season ticket instead of buying tickets for individual games.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Chairman Ed Glazer in his press release outlined the Bucs plans to provide better value to an increasing number of fans saying
"Listening to our fans, the overwhelming recommendation they made is more value and more options between the most affordable seats and the most exclusive," Bucs co-chairman Ed Glazer said in a press release.
"For 2012, we sought to make lower-level seats more accessible to a greater number of people while also giving more fans than ever the chance to become season-pass members through a completely overhauled pricing system intended
to offer something for everyone."
Tampa Bay will be hoping that their new incentives increase attendances at the Raymond James Stadium which has a capacity to seat 65,000 spectators and avoid situations like the ones in the 2010 season where Buccaneers failed to
sell out any of the 14 home fixtures which resulted in blackouts on local television.
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