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Did you give up your season tickets in the past few years
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Gave up mine about 6 years back. When you lose the band member, you lose the nation.
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Some of these stories are depressing. I bet there’s hundreds if not thousands like this.
Good things always get ruined.
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Got rid of mine after 2019. Too much of a shit show bringing my 3 kids. Had been thinking about it for a few years though and now I’m very happy I’m not paying to see them play. Would love to renew once they are fun to watch though. Fingers crossed
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Had season tickets for close to 20yrs, gave them up in '05. Live too far away now, but would probably go in with some buddies and share tickets if the product was worth a shit....
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Race does it again!huskyhooligan said:GrundleStiltzkin said:huskyhooligan said:I still have mine but I have premium stall access as a result. Little perk Jen threw my way.
Also I have no life.
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yvbfehuskyhooligan said:GrundleStiltzkin said:huskyhooligan said:I still have mine but I have premium stall access as a result. Little perk Jen threw my way.
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Had them for a few years after I graduated. So that would be Sark years after enduring Willingham. Stopped going to the games when it felt like I cared more about the team then the team itself or the AD. It became more of a chore to go to the game and drop all this money when I could just stay home and get shitfaced watching them lose. But I've graduated to getting shitfaced and not watching them at all this season. As Race said, it's better for my mental health.
Then you have typical UW fuckup stuff like game day presentation, tradition, etc. The Greatest Setting is sofa king lame it's laughable. It's what a loser program does when they can't win, so of course we do it. How about you put a championship team in the greatest setting and do your best to keep it there?
I found that it was pretty fun to go to away games. BYU, Cal, Illinois, Stanford. I'd love to go to a big time away game like MICHIGAN if the team was ready. They only won the Illinois game, so actually maybe it wasn't so fun.
As I've gotten older my ties to the program get weaker and weaker. None of my friends give a shit, it's an NFL world. It's really just held together by the commiseration, rabidness, and fervor of people here. God hates Washington football, nobody ever went broke better against Washington football, etc.
Imagine having standards for UW football and being made to feel like the enemy. -
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I don’t specifically remember if I dropped them after suddenly senior day or come from ahead loss to Hawaii. Was that the same season?
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I gave up mine in 2012. I was having a kid and and was cutting some costs in life because I bought my house in 2008 and my mortgage was crazy big. Affordable enough when my wife and I were working full time but tight when she only worked a couple days a week. In 2013 my friends bought an extra ticket and more often than not I was gifted that ticket. I saw the whole 2013 season and went to 3-5 games a year until 2019. Now they offer and I say no. Not sure I'll ever go back. The games are late which means my buzzed hour drive north is at 11 or 12 on Saturday nights. Risky to be sure. To get Saturday off at the grocery store I'm forced to work Sundays and bagging groceries AND being hung over is shit. The product is shit, the atmosphere is shit and I find I have more fun watching the home games at home or the away games with those same guys who gave me the tickets at their homes. A drastic philosophical sea change in the AD would need to take place for me to think of ponying up again. It's not that they don't spend money, It's that they spend time and money on things that don't really move the needle or on support staff that seem under qualified for the jobs they are being asked to do. I'm just over it all.
