At the Super Bowl game this Sunday 400 people were denied access because seats were not completely installed in six sections. About 850 people were moved to "similar or better seats," but the 400 were left out. Fans denied seats are expected to get a refund of triple the cost ($800) of their ticket. They were also allowed in the stadium to watch the game on monitors or from standing platforms in each corner of the stadium. While I do sympathize with the people affected and feel that it does deserve to reported on, I do not believe the level of attention this article received is proportionate with the importance of the issue. At the time I saw the article it was the most popular one on cnn's newspulse. I don't believe that this is not serious enough to justify this response of the comments. Some commentators felt bad for them, but a large majority were complaining, and one even wanted them to be sued. I believe that this event was not to serious ,after all the 400 were refunded three times the cost and allowed to watch from the standing platforms. Some people even ended up with better seats than they originally had. Also it isn't like the NFL wanted to waste money and energy preventing the people from attending. They were probably the least happy about the seats not being available.
One of the people I work with went down to Texas to help set up for the super bowl, I logged on to facebook four hours before it was to start and she had a picture posted of them still putting seats together. I don't think its a big deal. The stadium and NFL did right by the ticket holders in my opinion, more than I would ever expected them to do. I think it really comes down to people will always need something to complain about.
ReplyDeleteI agree that some people need comfortable seats to watch the game, but people must oppose high cost for new seat. It is very good that they would get refund when they denied for bad seats.
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