I hope they are only asking for travel expense reimbursement and a refund on tickets. Freaking lawyers… why do they have to get involved in EVERYTHING?
$2,400,and ticket to next year’s game (transferable).
-or-
Ticket transportation and hotel to ANY super bowl of their choice including next year’s (non transferable)
Either one of these options would seem ideal to practically anyone I can imagine especially the first option where you can get the money, and still sell the ticket.
Jerry Jones only had a month to get the seating right for this game. In his quest to have the largest crowd to see a Superbowl, he overreached. I hope each person gets a large award to teach him a lesson.
The only problem is, it won’t come out of his pocket. He’s still laughing all the way to the bank. The only people who will actually pay for this are those who purchase tickets in the future. The costs of any lawsuits will be passed on to them.
Yeah. I like your thinking (Just A Mom – TN – Tommy). Ha Ha Ha. Selling more and more ticket for as long as we could was a great idea. Just think, I made $3,600,000 by trying to add as many more seats as we could. Just because we couldn’t finish the last 400 is reason to be upset. Tell your little boy, that was dreaming of a lifetime event with his dad, take it or leave it. I gambled and won. The American way. Greed is Good.
Observer says:
“Jerry Jones only had a month to get the seating right for this game. In his quest to have the largest crowd to see a Superbowl, he overreached. I hope each person gets a large award to teach him a lesson”
Guessing you’re a Redskins or Eagles fan there O, because, Really? If Jerry Jones was the culprit here, the NFL which took over the stadium operations weeks before the game wouldn’t be falling all over themselves to make it right. Don’t get me wrong I’m a Dolphins fan and have no dog in this fight, I’m just sayin’.
Actually, I am a Cowboys fan. Jerry Jones has made a mess with the team and had to fire the coach mid term and deserves no sympathy. Most fans in the DFW area don’t care for him as an owner. If the NFL was involved with the stadium set up, they should be sued as well.
It still doesn’t make it right to overpay the claimants just because you don’t like Jerry Jones. We don’t need to continue the ridiculousness of “being owed” more than a claim is worth.
Thank you Jesus, Mikey. We knew we were pushing the limit with the Fire Marshall with the first 5,000 more seats, but we knew the stadium wouldn’t burn down. It’s mainly concrete and steal. I mean steel. So just like we do in big business, bully them at the end. Make the Fire Marshall break. I offered him 4 of the seats if he would go away. He just didn’t like the idea that the 4 seats were behind a post.
Go Cowboys…
J.J.
This was a travesty. Can you imagine traveling to a game, having tickets, spending money on food, lodging, parking etc and not being able to get in? I understand they were showing them the game on flat screen TV in a tent. If they wanted that, they could have stayed home.
Actually, they didn’t miss much. The opening Star Spangled Banner, the halftime show, and the game itself were all lackluster performances. People pay thousands of $$ to see this stuff?
Love my Packers, Its awesome that they won. Whoo HOO.
That being said: I would be Upset too if I was told I was getting seats and I didnt.I wondered who all those people out side the stadium were, well now we know, don’t we?. That’s nuts.
As far as the half time show…
WORST. HALF. TIME. SHOW. EVER, EVER. I Have No Idea what that was. It would have been more awesome for them to show clips of the past games and the season highlights for each team. Fergie forgot a key rule of thumb, without the computers, she is not a good singer, just cute in skimpy clothes…
Wrong about the halftime show. Just the fact that Slash came up through the stage to play the best guitar sound ever – made it the best half time show.
What no one has mentioned is that people paid to see their team in the Super Bowl. Next year’s tickets don’t mean anything as their team might not be in next year’s game. If I had spent money to see my team in the big game, paid for plane tickets, hotel, rental car, time away from work, used vacation time, etc. and then couldn’t see my team play I sure wouldn’t feel $2400 and next years game tickets would make up for it. It’s the experience they missed out on. Not to mention all the time spent arranging going to this game and the excitement only to be let down. The NFL knew this would happen and didn’t say a word. They deserve more than what was offered.
Wayne, Wayne, Wayne my man. Don’t you know I feel there pain. My Cowboy$ didn’t make it to My Superbowl this year. I am sure those heartbroken fans would be more excited about going to a Superbowl with My Cowboy$ playing. That is what we will give them. I am arranging with the NFL to make sure MY COWBOY$ are in the next Superbowl. That will make Me and them all Very Happy.
The nature of the Superbowl relating to unique teams and players makes specific performance a factor, and I am surprised that none of the offended ticket holders didn;t seek an emergeny temporary restraining order to delay the game until suitable seating was provided. What makes the case even more egregious is that it is reported that over 3000 tickets were complimentary to other NFL teams, dignataries etc. The contractual breach could have been avoided if the complimentary tickets were conficated and provided to the paying customers, but NFL instead to simply avoid their contractual obligations.
If the plaintiffs can get a punitive damage instruction, the appropriate measure of damages might simply be the amount of profit the NFL realized from the game.
I also thought it was pathetic that Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler, who were there promoting their new movie (and who gave a pathetic interview prior to the game), were given seats on the 50-Yard-Line, and Jennifer, anyway, admitted to NEVER having been to a football game EVER, possibly not even in high school, and didn’t even know the game, know the teams, know who to root for (she was rooting for the Packers {why}, “because Adam told her to since he was cheering for the Steelers”). It was AWFUL and the only thing that caused me to walk away for the rest of it–until people who were interesting to listen to and who cared about football could be on! I immediately thought, “What a waste of great seats!!!”
The Hollywood elite always get the preferential treatment at big events. It is just part of our society. The lame stream media interviews them everytime no matter how stupid they are. These are the Obama voters we have to contend with.
I hope they are only asking for travel expense reimbursement and a refund on tickets. Freaking lawyers… why do they have to get involved in EVERYTHING?
Because people always want more than they are due. And the only way to get that is to hire a crook to do the dirty work for them.
yeah it’s not like they offered:
$2,400,and ticket to next year’s game (transferable).
-or-
Ticket transportation and hotel to ANY super bowl of their choice including next year’s (non transferable)
Either one of these options would seem ideal to practically anyone I can imagine especially the first option where you can get the money, and still sell the ticket.
Jerry Jones only had a month to get the seating right for this game. In his quest to have the largest crowd to see a Superbowl, he overreached. I hope each person gets a large award to teach him a lesson.
The only problem is, it won’t come out of his pocket. He’s still laughing all the way to the bank. The only people who will actually pay for this are those who purchase tickets in the future. The costs of any lawsuits will be passed on to them.
Yeah. I like your thinking (Just A Mom – TN – Tommy). Ha Ha Ha. Selling more and more ticket for as long as we could was a great idea. Just think, I made $3,600,000 by trying to add as many more seats as we could. Just because we couldn’t finish the last 400 is reason to be upset. Tell your little boy, that was dreaming of a lifetime event with his dad, take it or leave it. I gambled and won. The American way. Greed is Good.
J.J.
Love those Cowboys.
Well let’s look at that a second:
400 refunds @ $2,400 = $ 960,000
400 replacement tickets @ 900* = 360,000
Transportation & Lodging for 400 @ 1,200* = 480,000
Total: 1,800,000
(2011 estimated costs)
So basically 400 ticket with a face value of $900 is costing 5X more than the cost of the ticket. Hmmmmm not a winning wage imho.
Observer says:
“Jerry Jones only had a month to get the seating right for this game. In his quest to have the largest crowd to see a Superbowl, he overreached. I hope each person gets a large award to teach him a lesson”
Guessing you’re a Redskins or Eagles fan there O, because, Really? If Jerry Jones was the culprit here, the NFL which took over the stadium operations weeks before the game wouldn’t be falling all over themselves to make it right. Don’t get me wrong I’m a Dolphins fan and have no dog in this fight, I’m just sayin’.
Actually, I am a Cowboys fan. Jerry Jones has made a mess with the team and had to fire the coach mid term and deserves no sympathy. Most fans in the DFW area don’t care for him as an owner. If the NFL was involved with the stadium set up, they should be sued as well.
It still doesn’t make it right to overpay the claimants just because you don’t like Jerry Jones. We don’t need to continue the ridiculousness of “being owed” more than a claim is worth.
Thank you Jesus, Mikey. We knew we were pushing the limit with the Fire Marshall with the first 5,000 more seats, but we knew the stadium wouldn’t burn down. It’s mainly concrete and steal. I mean steel. So just like we do in big business, bully them at the end. Make the Fire Marshall break. I offered him 4 of the seats if he would go away. He just didn’t like the idea that the 4 seats were behind a post.
Go Cowboys…
J.J.
What the article fails to mention is that the NFL knew these seats were a problem but kept it hush hush because they thought they’d be able to get the seats done on time. More info here:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/super-bowl/local/20110207-nfl-knew-last-week-super-bowl-seats-might-be-unusable-but-who_s-to-blame.ece
This was a travesty. Can you imagine traveling to a game, having tickets, spending money on food, lodging, parking etc and not being able to get in? I understand they were showing them the game on flat screen TV in a tent. If they wanted that, they could have stayed home.
Actually, they didn’t miss much. The opening Star Spangled Banner, the halftime show, and the game itself were all lackluster performances. People pay thousands of $$ to see this stuff?
Would love to stay and chat, but need to start working on hosting the 50th Superbowl. Any takers on those same 400 seats?
Love those Cowboy$
J J
Love my Packers, Its awesome that they won. Whoo HOO.
That being said: I would be Upset too if I was told I was getting seats and I didnt.I wondered who all those people out side the stadium were, well now we know, don’t we?. That’s nuts.
As far as the half time show…
WORST. HALF. TIME. SHOW. EVER, EVER. I Have No Idea what that was. It would have been more awesome for them to show clips of the past games and the season highlights for each team. Fergie forgot a key rule of thumb, without the computers, she is not a good singer, just cute in skimpy clothes…
Wrong about the halftime show. Just the fact that Slash came up through the stage to play the best guitar sound ever – made it the best half time show.
Fergie is a terrible live singer. The BEP songs are not meant to be sung live. Slash was great and Usher was good but BEP are overrated IMO.
Would she be a better “Dead” singer? Besides “Live”, what other types of singers are there?
What no one has mentioned is that people paid to see their team in the Super Bowl. Next year’s tickets don’t mean anything as their team might not be in next year’s game. If I had spent money to see my team in the big game, paid for plane tickets, hotel, rental car, time away from work, used vacation time, etc. and then couldn’t see my team play I sure wouldn’t feel $2400 and next years game tickets would make up for it. It’s the experience they missed out on. Not to mention all the time spent arranging going to this game and the excitement only to be let down. The NFL knew this would happen and didn’t say a word. They deserve more than what was offered.
Wayne, Wayne, Wayne my man. Don’t you know I feel there pain. My Cowboy$ didn’t make it to My Superbowl this year. I am sure those heartbroken fans would be more excited about going to a Superbowl with My Cowboy$ playing. That is what we will give them. I am arranging with the NFL to make sure MY COWBOY$ are in the next Superbowl. That will make Me and them all Very Happy.
J.J.
Just got to Love those Cowboy$…
The nature of the Superbowl relating to unique teams and players makes specific performance a factor, and I am surprised that none of the offended ticket holders didn;t seek an emergeny temporary restraining order to delay the game until suitable seating was provided. What makes the case even more egregious is that it is reported that over 3000 tickets were complimentary to other NFL teams, dignataries etc. The contractual breach could have been avoided if the complimentary tickets were conficated and provided to the paying customers, but NFL instead to simply avoid their contractual obligations.
If the plaintiffs can get a punitive damage instruction, the appropriate measure of damages might simply be the amount of profit the NFL realized from the game.
I also thought it was pathetic that Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler, who were there promoting their new movie (and who gave a pathetic interview prior to the game), were given seats on the 50-Yard-Line, and Jennifer, anyway, admitted to NEVER having been to a football game EVER, possibly not even in high school, and didn’t even know the game, know the teams, know who to root for (she was rooting for the Packers {why}, “because Adam told her to since he was cheering for the Steelers”). It was AWFUL and the only thing that caused me to walk away for the rest of it–until people who were interesting to listen to and who cared about football could be on! I immediately thought, “What a waste of great seats!!!”
The Hollywood elite always get the preferential treatment at big events. It is just part of our society. The lame stream media interviews them everytime no matter how stupid they are. These are the Obama voters we have to contend with.