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GOODELL WANTS TO CRACK DOWN ON TICKET SCALPING
The NFL recently announced that it would cut the prices of playoff tickets in an effort to make them more affordable for the average fan. But cutting ticket prices sometimes just makes them more affordable for scalpers, who turn the NFL’s price-slashing into an increase in their own ...
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Roger Goodell Must Think Pacman Is The Sexiest Man Alive
thisisgodgiven.com — Pacman Jones was re-instated by Roger Goodell and I found that there could only be one reason... that this could have occurred. First off, Goodell should not of suspended him for this last mishap due to his team-issued body guard starting the fracas . Secondly, if he did need to suspend him, then ... (more) Roger Goodell Must Think Pacman Is The Sexiest Man Alive
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Rodger Goodell: Don’t Stop at Ticket Prices
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blog.ingamenow.com — Recently, the NFL announced ticket prices for this year’s playoff games will be approximately 10 percent lower... than tickets prices for last year’s playoffs. This is great news and quite a testament to how highly the NFL thinks of its fans. However, the NFL’s goodwill shouldn’t stop there... (more) Rodger Goodell: Don’t Stop at Ticket Prices
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Projo Pats Blog — ... , according to his agent, Mark Bartelstein (Arizona Republic). IT'S NOT THE WORLD'S OLDEST OCCUPATION, BUT IT'S PRETTY CLOSE: Ticket scalping is alive and well in every sport that mass amounts of people care about, and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell wants to see what he can do about keeping Super Bowl tickets out of the hands of them. Goodell says that it will be "difficult and time consuming," but the league may have to take extraordinary measures to make sure that the lowest-priced Super Bowl tickets get into the hands of fans who actually intend on going to the game: "It ...

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The Bad News Bloggers — ... Kaiser Goodell wants an ID card too. The lead is a bit unfair. Roger Goodell actually wants to cut down on scalping and I have to admit, more power to him. While its nice to be able to acquire the big ticket you want, its frustrating when it costs 5 to 10 times its face value. Of course I'm curious to see how that impacts the sales days that typically occur months before the season...and moreover if scalpers aren't buying them in bunches, do the time windows (sometimes meer minutes for a season's worth of tickets available) expand because big time scalpers arent buying them ...

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