F... Selling Tickets to the Visiting Team

seriously is this nescary? now i would never sell tickets to an opposing fan but blaming on us losing is stupid. We lost because of poor offensive play

Maybe it's just me, but I'm failing to see how someone correlates fans selling their tickets to us losing. Sure it's demoralizing to be at home and it being loud when you're on offense, as well as hearing loud cheers when a good play for the Steelers happening, but that wasn't why we lost.

It has more to do with pride. We, the fans, got embarressed on national television because the entire nation got to see 25,000 Steelers fans show up and practically make it their home away from home. We didn't represent and it made our fan base look pathetic. And I'm sure it doesn't even matter to all the fans who sold their tickets.

I wouldn't blame it for the loss, but it is very embarassing to the entire Redskins fan base. You would never see that many opposing fans for games at Pittsburgh, Green Bay, Chicago or other teams with a loyal following. Not our finest hour as "The 12th Man".

I have to agree here. I'm originally from Chicago and still follow the Bears as well. Even with Green Bay in town you don't see the kind of invasion I saw tonight. Packer fans certainly wouldn't have been as boisterous as if they owned the place.

Disgraceful.

It's such a corporate stadium. Seems like the 1 and 2 hundred levels just didn't give a damn and sold their tickets to whomever. Sucks for our team, because say what you want, that has to be demoralizing. As bad as Eagles fans are, and they are the scum of the earth, no way in hell that happens in Philly, as even the MNF announcers noted.

seriously is this nescary? now i would never sell tickets to an opposing fan but blaming on us losing is stupid. We lost because of poor offensive play

I don't think BB said that it was a cause of us losing but it's just an embarrassment. We used to have that done in high school, have our rivals in our arena and have them cheering louder than us and then it was only 200 or 300 kids at a basketball game and that shit hurt.

I can only imagine how it feels to have 30,000 people cheering against you on your home field..

So... on third down when we're trying to come back in our HOME stadium, you've got no problem with the s load of crowd noise and terrible towels making it even tougher on the offense? REALLY?

i understand what your saying,and noughing bad to our fans, but if we cant convert third downs because of the opposite fanbase then thats sad. one thing thats seperates a good team from great team is not letting the opposing fanbase mess us up, wether it be home or away

I don't believe the fan presense was the reason we lost...Although I certainly won't deny the impact of the home field advantage simply as a psychology student.

My problem with selling tickets to opposing fans simply because they offered more is something completely different.

Jacking up the price all the time is turning the sport into an elitist game. Everyone likes football regardless of social status. Your quick buck is making the game something snobby and reprehensible.

Steelers have their own stadium, and I don't care what team I support, I certainly hope that steelers fans get the chance to see their favorite team play. We deserve the same. Let's not forget it's a game, it's supposed to be about having fun. But when you rob people of there chance to see their team play by selling your tickets to the oppisition, your creating a negative atmosphere that doesn't help the competetion, it just makes the entire game less enjoyable.

Politicts has some of the shaddiest followers in any event in human history, people do just about anything to force and brainwash people out of their beleifs. Yet I went to two Obama ralley's this campagin season and never saw a bunch of Mccain supporters taking up all the seats so we couldn't see our hero, nor did I see this happening the other way around. Are you telling me republicans are more honorable than skins fans?? How is that possible?? (Please don't take that to seriously, lol)

Apparently, somebody already started a thread about this issue.

Well, here it goes again; STOP!

Selling your fucking tickets to opposing fans!

Tonight we were beat as fans; we lost because our fans could not go without selling our tickets away to the opposing team.

In no way should we feel like the away team in our own stadium. Steelers fans were all over the fucking place.

I can go on and on about this, but I would rather say; be sure to sell your tickets to a skins fan. Take a pay cut; support your team, we will all be happier on Monday and Tuesday.

FU to all of those who gave tickets away to the Steelers!

Good lord, NO, IT IS NOT THE REASON WE LOST. Fuck, people. But it's jacked up that "fans" would sell their seats to all of mf'ing Steeler nation. If anyone here doesn't get that, I don't know what else to tell you.

I don't think BB said that it was a cause of us losing but it's just an embarrassment. We used to have that done in high school, have our rivals in our arena and have them cheering louder than us and then it was only 200 or 300 kids at a basketball game and that shit hurt.

I can only imagine how it feels to have 30,000 people cheering against you on your home field..

See, DR gets it. Reading is fundamental kids.

cost us losing or not, which in the overall scheme of things momenetum wise, and player confidence, it was an embarrasment and all the fans not at the game felt it.