[sportscurmudgeon]

IF you have the money in your "discretionary spending pile" AND IF you can realistically make it to at least 6 if not all 8 of the regular season games, go buy season tix. Forget all the bullspit about how there is a 58-year waiting list; there isn't; you can score tickets now. And that means you can have them next year too if you want them.


HOWEVER, if you can't go to almost all of the games, but you can make it to only one or two, here is how you can walk up and get tix and save money over the season ticket price.


Go and buy a single game ticket to a premium seat on game day. The price is outrageous but if you are only going to be able to see a game a year or two at the max the cost is less than or equal to a season ticket deal for lesser seats.


The ticket trolls on the phone will swear to you that this is not an option. Now hear this; they lie like a rug. I've done it at least five times over the past five or six years.


Do the math when it comes to your own scheduling and see what might make sense for you and your bank account. YOUR bank account is more important than Danny Boy's.


Remember, when you buy season tix, you have to buy tix to the 2 exhibition games here too - - at full price. Good luck trying to sell those for anything more than $5.


Why do I NOT have season tix? Simple.


The gameday experience at Fed Ex is not worth the hassle plus the cost on a routine basis. If I want to see a particular game, I can get tix in a dozen different places. But it will have to be a really good game - with decent weather forecast - to tempt me to see the game at the stadium because Fed Ex is one of the four or five worst stadiums in the league to enjoy a game.


But if the "live game experience" is worth the cost to you about 8 times a year, this is an opportunity to get in on the deal. The Skins - - like virtually every other team in US pro sports - - have seen a reduction in the percentage of season tix renewals this year. If this is "your time to get in on the action", go for it. Presumably, you wouldn't be one of the folks who might sell your tix to Steelers' fans for a national TV game showing just how resolute DC fans are...