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NFL ticket-sales policies need an overhaul
 
Limiting the sale of NFL playoff tickets to the fans of the home team is petty and parochial and, one might suppose, illegal as well. In fact, unlike Massachusetts, most states have no laws regarding such sales or scalping, and the NFL itself apparently turns a blind eye to the situation.

Last weekend, the San Diego Chargers limited ticket sales to residents of Southern California to ensure the home-field advantage. As we here in New England know, the ploy did not work, but that did not stop the Patriots� next opponent, the Indianapolis Colts, from limiting ticket sales for this Sunday�s game to customers who can walk up to the RCA Dome or go to Ticketmaster outlets in Indiana and Louisville, Ky. The Chicago Bears also have restricted their sales to locals this Sunday.

Of course, fans for whom money is no object can buy seats from so-called �secondary sellers.� Yesterday one online site we found was selling tickets ranging from $222.50 to $2,500 and another priced tickets at $345 to $1,955. In what we can only hope was a typographical error, two other online sites were advertising tickets for seats high up in Section 330, almost at the top of the stadium, for an astounding $4,641 to $4,825.75 each.


The NFL, and perhaps the Federal Trade Commission, owes it to all football fans to look into this situation. The way things stand now, the only ones who are really benefiting from these policies are the scalpers.

Source : http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/

20070117/NEWS/701170319/1020