I am trying to appeal to folks who are wary of re-upping for next year, but do still want to go to games and enjoy the Sunday experience. I believe tickets will be available and in fact cheaper. Assuming that the Waiting List is a farce, opportunities to buy back in when the team started improving would be available, and if they gave us a whole section (I know I’m dreaming right now, but who cares), we could all go to games together and help change the league-wide perception of Redskins fans.

And as much as it pains me to see the franchise in such disarray, it hits Snyder right in the wallet.

He lost a lot of $$$ last weekend with a stadium that was maybe half full.

would love an outside opinion. both sides are biased….

http://www.battleredblog.com/2009/10/21/1094523/wayne-vs-johnson

Whoa, what?

I’m wearing a burgundy-and-gold armband around Boston on Sundays and fantasizing about what we can cook up to put some more public embarassment on Redskins ownership- BUT I think that the plan to let your season tix go and buy through stubhub is probably hurting you more than Danny in the short term and long term.

The secondary ticket market is lucrative for sports franchises. It gives them an avenue to basically sell, according to demand, for above the face value. Franchises are earmarking more and more tickets for secondary sellers every year- with the volume that the big online resellers do, they are a bigger sure thing than the season ticket holders.

There certainly is a waiting list for season tickets- and the people on it are generally third on Danny’s list of priorities behind (1) premium customers and (2) stub hub. Why do you think the organization goes so crazy when season ticket holders resell? It’s because there are profits being made that the Redskins could have had a piece of if they hadn’t set those tix aside for season ticket holders.

I’m not saying that you should keep paying to see a team you don’t want to watch. I’m just saying that cancelling your season tix but continuing to go to fedex not only puts you at the back of line, but puts more money in Danny’s pocket and rewards a reprehensible business practice to boot.

There must be a letter. I am currently a season-ticket holder. In fact, I started this year. I was very hesitant to do it, but after this season, I will not renew. When I don’t renew, I will send a letter that describes why I won’t renew. It will be concise and respectful similar to the open letter that Ken wrote. I encourage everyone that does not renew to write a similar letter. Perhaps one of our wordsmithers here can write a template and we can all fill in and send. I think that will send a small message as well.

The main reason I’d want to keep my tickets is the friends I’ve met in my section over the years….but most of them are gone. I have better things to do with my $.

Pas made an interesting point tho…if Vinny is canned and some OL are drafted…we could be something worth watching.

I really hope this message is received and acted upon by lots of people – in the lower sections. I have been slowly but surely snaking my way down the seating chart and would love nothing more than to capitalize on someone else not renewing their tickets.

Is he still a minority owner of the Skins? Any idea of what percent of the team he owns? I know he was trying to buy the Rams this summer and is worth 2.1B. Any chance he can influence Danny?

We have to unite as one for this to work. No ones asking you to hate or boo but we don’t DESERVE this!

We aren’t some team with no history like jaxsonville, Carolina, Seattle or new Orleans. We are the god damed Washington redskins and snyder is tearing apart this storied franchise from the inside out. I’ll never deny my fanhood, but the day I became embarassed was the day the line in th sand was drawn for me.

You ticket holders are the only real voice we of the resitance have. Don’t buy anything there, get your drink on before the game, cheer loud, and put it to that ass snyder anyway you can!

thing is a good idea. Season ticket sales are the standard by which franchises are measured(outside of the playing field, that it). It’s why they’ll offer you “deals”. It’s like joining a gym. They get your money upfront. Therefor, even if you never go, they still get paid. So that guaranteed money is what they bank on. Take that guarantee away from Snyder, and he starts worrying that the ONLY asset of his that is successful is in trouble. THEN he’ll make a change.

While the motives of the revolution are pure i can’t help but feel that you’re going about this the wrong way. Challenging the Danny’s finances and “hitting him where it hurts” are all nice ideas but at the end of the day no organization you put together is going to hurt the man to the point where he considers your requests. He’s a self made billionaire and while that might lend to his arrogance in thinking he can run a football team he’s not about to be outsmarted economically by a bunch of football fans. what you have to realize is that, as tragic as it it, he’s an enormous fan himself, he’s just too full of himself to realize that maybe making money is his thing, not building a football team. what would get his attention is media, just like anything else he’s subject to public opinion. if something like this were to gain any sort of media attention, for example if there was a blackout (where everyone wears black) or a walkout on a game than at least the danny would be guaranteed to recognize how the fanbase feels. something like that would be embarrassing to him and anyone who had as much money as he did at such a young age has to be full enough of himself to be vulnerable to public embarrassment. just think if something like that showed up on espn. don’t try and beat the money man at his own game, more tickets will just get sold to other fans on stubhub. don’t direct any booing at the players, i support every one of them. instead lets continue on directing ire at the top and see what happens. the fan section is a great idea but what we should really do is what we should have done in the first place and move back to RFK.

did piss me off!

It put me in a place in time when I was a kid, and all those great names were heard regularly when talking about the Skins. The owner, coaches, and players, and RFK. Legends. History. Tradition. My entire family were die hard Skins fans. Some were fortunate enough to attend games and hold season tickets. I was never so lucky but if the game was on TV you know I was in front of it from start to finish yelling and screaming along with everyone else. As I was reading the article I began to notice how frustrated I was starting to feel. I wonder if todays Skins players even know anything about the way things used to be, or if they are only concerned with that fat contract from Danny. If I was the coach, and cared enough about the team and its tradition, I would make every single player read that damn article and maybe it would pump some life into them.

Granted, the problems arent entirely with the players. The blame is everywhere from top to bottom. But even if they are out coached by the other team, if they are playing with heart, and integrity and passion, they have talent and can compete or at least not get booed out of the stadium. It has got to SUCK to walk off the field at half time, or after an embarrassing loss, while your fans are booing you and have lost all faith. That alone can make them not want to show up next week.

So if you are going to boycott, or not renew your tickets, an empty stadium or a stadium full over opposing fans, is not going to help the psyche of the players, and the performances will only get worse. Be prepared for complete implosion if the boycott catches hold. But maybe that is what is needed at this point. Complete meltdown and start over from scratch.

Sucks to know its going to be a long ass time before we can even discuss a Superbowl run, let alone making the playoffs.