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
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....
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.
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.
Had them since 07, and if it wasn't for the fact I met one of my best friends who happened to be sitting next to me and is as hardcore fan as I was (we always say the odds of that happening were astronomical) who got his tickets the same year we did, along with a two other people sitting below us that we tailgate with, went to the PAC-12 CCG/Rose Bowl with, etc that I would be more inclined at this point to turn them in and just cherry pick the ones I want to go to on the 2ndary market.
Nostalgically, seeing how empty the stadium is most Saturdays is sad and depressing. I have likened it to working at the old GM on a factory assembly line for 40 years before it went bankrupt in 2008 and going thru 2003-2007 seeing it was inevitable what was going to happen.
I am that 40 year guy w/ Husky Football. I have ran out of hope we can consistently be anything more than a jag team in a jag conference. CP gave me hope, but he left 4 years earlier than I thought he would b/c of burnout.
I went to the Michigan game, and would 10000% rather take my money I spend on season tickets, parking, game day, etc and go watch a Red River, Iron Bowl, LSU night game, Penn State White Out, Michigan/Ohio State, etc and experience that atmosphere than the "Greatest Setting" where half the stadium dresses as empty seats 3 out of every 4 games five minutes before kick off.
And here's the kicker to all this. I PRAY PRAY PRAY we have been on the phone with the Big-10 to get a seat at their table when they eventually expand to 16 or 18 teams (which is inevitable). The good news is b/c of media market and University Reputation, I think we do. Bad news is once it happens as it pertains to the football arms race in that conference, I have no belief our AD or Univ. Administration (or even our serious fan base as there's simply not enough of us left) has the conviction or stones to try and compete, so our ceiling at best becomes 2/3 under Wolverines/Ohio State/Penn State/Wisconsin/SC (assuming they join unless they go indy) along with Iowa, Michigan State, Nebraska, etc.
In the end, it feels like we have become the Minnesota of CFB on the west coast......
Had them since 07, and if it wasn't for the fact I met one of my best friends who happened to be sitting next to me and is as hardcore fan as I was (we always say the odds of that happening were astronomical) who got his tickets the same year we did, along with a two other people sitting below us that we tailgate with, went to the PAC-12 CCG/Rose Bowl with, etc that I would be more inclined at this point to turn them in and just cherry pick the ones I want to go to on the 2ndary market.
Nostalgically, seeing how empty the stadium is most Saturdays is sad and depressing. I have likened it to working at the old GM on a factory assembly line for 40 years before it went bankrupt in 2008 and going thru 2003-2007 seeing it was inevitable what was going to happen.
I am that 40 year guy w/ Husky Football. I have ran out of hope we can consistently be anything more than a jag team in a jag conference. CP gave me hope, but he left 4 years earlier than I thought he would b/c of burnout.
I went to the Michigan game, and would 10000% rather take my money I spend on season tickets, parking, game day, etc and go watch a Red River, Iron Bowl, LSU night game, Penn State White Out, Michigan/Ohio State, etc and experience that atmosphere than the "Greatest Setting" where half the stadium dresses as empty seats 3 out of every 4 games five minutes before kick off.
And here's the kicker to all this. I PRAY PRAY PRAY we have been on the phone with the Big-10 to get a seat at their table when they eventually expand to 16 or 18 teams (which is inevitable). The good news is b/c of media market and University Reputation, I think we do. Bad news is once it happens as it pertains to the football arms race in that conference, I have no belief our AD or Univ. Administration (or even our serious fan base as there's simply not enough of us left) has the conviction or stones to try and compete, so our ceiling at best becomes 2/3 under Wolverines/Ohio State/Penn State/Wisconsin/SC (assuming they join unless they go indy) along with Iowa, Michigan State, Nebraska, etc.
In the end, it feels like we have become the Minnesota of CFB on the west coast......
I think I’d be happy to be Minnesota at this point. He hasn’t been what they expected but P.J. Fleck was a hot commodity when they brought him in. They’re still trying.
I moved back to the area in 2002 from Austin. Fall of 2002 through 2005 I was gifted tickets here and there. Finally got a ticket and Tyee pass in 2006. the original guys I used to go in with are no longer part of it due to divorces. the tailgate has morphed into about 9 vehicles of us all. The last few years, I have been more amped for the tailgate than the games. I can watch the game in the parking lot. We eat like kings and there is way too much food and beer/booze. We have power, satellite TV, 80K BTU heater, and we can enclose the canopies to make a sweat lodge if we wanted to. I bought an extra E1 pass so we could have way more room and have a bigger party and that is what I look forward to now.
Next year? I think I am going to ditch the tickets and just buy two E1 passes on Craigslist and buy the tickets on Gametime if we decide to go in. I will spend my money on doing kick ass food and leaning back in a comfy chair watching the game on TV in E1.
Never had season tickets. Want to every single game as a student, then left to learn how to blow up Baze and his people. I'd catch a game here and there during the War on Terror if I was in town, but since Ty and Sark were there that actually seemed worse than the terrorists I was fighting in Iraq. Now I no longer care at all. Watched one game this year. Montana. Laughed the entire 4th quarter. Haven't watched since.
Never had season tickets. Want to every single game as a student, then left to learn how to blow up Baze and his people. I'd catch a game here and there during the War on Terror if I was in town, but since Ty and Sark were there that actually seemed worse than the terrorists I was fighting in Iraq. Now I no longer care at all. Watched one game this year. Montana. Laughed the entire 4th quarter. Haven't watched since.
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Good things always get ruined.
Point and case, my life.
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.
Not finished before. Now finished properly!
Nostalgically, seeing how empty the stadium is most Saturdays is sad and depressing. I have likened it to working at the old GM on a factory assembly line for 40 years before it went bankrupt in 2008 and going thru 2003-2007 seeing it was inevitable what was going to happen.
I am that 40 year guy w/ Husky Football. I have ran out of hope we can consistently be anything more than a jag team in a jag conference. CP gave me hope, but he left 4 years earlier than I thought he would b/c of burnout.
I went to the Michigan game, and would 10000% rather take my money I spend on season tickets, parking, game day, etc and go watch a Red River, Iron Bowl, LSU night game, Penn State White Out, Michigan/Ohio State, etc and experience that atmosphere than the "Greatest Setting" where half the stadium dresses as empty seats 3 out of every 4 games five minutes before kick off.
And here's the kicker to all this. I PRAY PRAY PRAY we have been on the phone with the Big-10 to get a seat at their table when they eventually expand to 16 or 18 teams (which is inevitable). The good news is b/c of media market and University Reputation, I think we do. Bad news is once it happens as it pertains to the football arms race in that conference, I have no belief our AD or Univ. Administration (or even our serious fan base as there's simply not enough of us left) has the conviction or stones to try and compete, so our ceiling at best becomes 2/3 under Wolverines/Ohio State/Penn State/Wisconsin/SC (assuming they join unless they go indy) along with Iowa, Michigan State, Nebraska, etc.
In the end, it feels like we have become the Minnesota of CFB on the west coast......
Of course you cake eating peter puffer rower.
Next year? I think I am going to ditch the tickets and just buy two E1 passes on Craigslist and buy the tickets on Gametime if we decide to go in. I will spend my money on doing kick ass food and leaning back in a comfy chair watching the game on TV in E1.
That must have been a lot of M80's.