Golden State Warriors offer $100 monthly passes with no view of court - Americans are in fact this stupid, apparently

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Now watch it sell out.

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  Darren RovellESPN Senior Writer

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How badly do Golden State Warriors fans want to just get into the building for a home game?

We'll soon find out.

The team sent an email to its fans on Monday offering a monthly "In The Building Pass." The pass simply gets a fan into the team's Oracle Arena for every home game for $100 a month.


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The mobile pass does not include a seat, and with no access to the seating bowl, doesn't even include a view of the court itself. The team says fans who purchase the pass will have access to the arena's bars and restaurants and can watch on the televisions in the club areas. Fans do have a chance to receive one of the Warriors giveaways if they are one of the first 10,000 people into the arena.

Fans can purchase up to four "In The Building" passes, although each one must be connected to a name, and they are non-transferable. Warriors spokesperson Lisa Goodwin said the team plans to sell 200 passes each month, starting with November, and that the pass will automatically renew each month through April, as the offer is not being extended to the postseason.

There are currently 44,000 people on the Warriors season-ticket waiting list.

It is believed this is the first time a team has offered fans a ticket merely to get into the building without viewing access. The Dallas Cowboys, since 2009, have offered standing-room-only tickets to its games called Party Passes, but people in the first couple of rows can actually see the field.

The Warriors will play in front of a sold-out crowd for the 300th consecutive time on Tuesday night. The streak began on Dec. 18, 2012, in a game against the Hornets, who back then hailed from New Orleans.

Only three teams, the Oklahoma City Thunder (349 games), Miami Heat (385 games) and Dallas Mavericks (751 games) claim to have longer active sellout streaks.

 

[Zaragoza]

Not as stupid when Steve Kerr had the opportunity to call a timeout against the Clippers only to come away empty handed.

 

[Some JERK]

Holy shit they're actually selling "With us in spirit" tickets. I fucking love it.

 

[The Shadow]

Hey, it's Californians buying these tickets. Don't lump the rest of America in with those dumbshits.

 

[AF 802]

>scamming them libtards

wtf I love California now

 

[Fagnacious D]

at this point you may as well go to a bar.

 

[HomeAloneTwo]

Im already mad at the thought of heading to my $300 seats and seeing these douchebags sitting in them.

 

[YW 525]

I would like to see the holding tank for these ticket buyers. They're going to have to provide some means of keeping these people in a controlled space. Otherwise this is going to turn into a disaster at record pace.

You're going to attract a ton of low-rent people to your venue and then sell them alcohol in a high-pressure environment.

Do the Golden State Warriors have live webcams or CCTV of their venue? That's where the entertainment is going to be on game nights.

 

[Bassomatic]

Im already mad at the thought of heading to my $300 seats and seeing these douchebags sitting in them.

This is forsee being a big issue.

Yeah if you can't get in why not hit a local bar? I know this and many other venues have bars you can sit at and watch on TV but for cost wise it seems insane to spend 100 to go to a bar in a place drop 40+ on parking etc to watch TV.

Now I've had a company event in a STUFFED box, it had a bar with a TV instead of having my co workers screeching kids and what not I sat at the TV and watched. It was probably one of the lamer times I've seen a game, I would have paid to sit at my local pub and support them as well as enjoy more.

 

[TiggerNits]

The businessman side of me thinks this is genius, you realize that dead space in the building exists where people will not only pay you to go, but have to pay after they get there for services like food, drink and souvenirs. This is a pure-profit idea to increase revenue that is impressive, well, until .

The until here being that the physical security requirement just shot way the fuck up and the rate of incidence/probability of altercation will probably be higher by a factor of 4 given the locale. Because the people buying these passes in this area will most likely be Oakland as fuck and try to fuck some shit up while they're there. If this was somewhere like San Diego, San Antonio, Houston, or Irvine, this would be a minimal risk situation, lower crime rates and all. But the Bay Area is full of people who don't hold the property of others, especially those with more cash than them, in very high value.