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The San Francisco 49ers are cleaning house for the move to Santa Clara. But it’s the long time season ticket holders, many back to the Kezar Stadium days who are being kicked to the side. 49er season ticket holders were recently sent renewal forms with the dramatic price increases for the new Platinum, Gold and the leather backed seats in the new “Club” section.

It was just a few years ago when all the tickets at Candlestick Park had the same price, $60 each. But now the 49ers want to “modernize its season-ticket structure to get it more with the rest of the NFL”. That’s the new corporate name given to the dramatic raising of prices, “modernize”.

To the fans, they’ve been jacked up.

Last years $99 seats are now $149 each, a 50% increase. But when the season ticket holders dump their seats as the 49ers are hoping, then the general public gets a shot at that seat, for $179 each, and that’s before Ticketmaster’s service charges.  The 49er season ticket prices were jacked up, not modernized!

And those may be some of the lucky ones.

For a few lucky 49er season ticket holders in the box seats, their season ticket invoice went from $5475 to $19,000! Because the 49ers are converting them to “Club Seats”,  leather backed seats with food, drink and a pregame field pass. And the fans are pissed off according to the MercuryNews.com and many will give up their 49er season ticket this year.

Why are they doing this the fans are asking, especially in this economy and when the 49ers haven’t had a winning season since 2002? Well they’re cleaning house. First they need to clear out some premium seats to the developers, banks, politicians, etc that they owe for helping put up a stadium in Santa Clara and currently all of the best seats are taken. By jacking up the fans now, they will have seats for the high rollers, and much more revenue from the new fans.  Not only that but this willl better prepare the 49er season ticket holders that remain for the dreaded PSL’s.

And that’s when the fans will really feel jacked up.

So if you’re looking for San Francisco 49er tickets this year, check with a 49er ticket broker, because the resell market for those 49er tickets may be much less than the face value, unless they can pull out a miracle winning season. This may be the last season for many of the 49er faithful, who never would have dreamed it would turn out this way back in the Kezar days.

Lady Gaga will be bringing her Monster Ball concert tour back to the US and Canada in July but this time she will be playing in much larger venues and the Lady Gaga ticket prices will be higher as well. The Lady Gaga concert tour kicks off on June 28 at the Bell Centre in Montreal, and runs through September 19, finishing up at the RBC Center in Raleigh, NC. The first round of tickets for Lady Gaga go on sale on March 19.

The previous appearances by Lady Gaga were quick sellouts and you can expect this concert tour by Lady Gaga to sell out just as fast as she continues to tour in support of her album “The Fame Monster”. Lady Gaga will be rolling out even more eye popping theatrics on the new tour with her pop-electro opera and it will be interesting to see how it plays out in larger venues.

Lady Gaga Tour Schedule for the Monster Ball tour

June 2010
28 – Montreal, Quebec – Bell Centre

July 2010
1 – Boston, MA – TD Garden
4 – Atlantic City, NJ – Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall
6 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden Arena
11 – Toronto, Ontario – Air Canada Centre
14 – Cleveland, OH – Quicken Loans Arena
15 – Indianapolis, IN – Conseco Fieldhouse
17 – Saint Louis. MO – Scottrade Center
20 – Oklahoma City, OK – Ford Center
22 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center
25 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
28 – Denver, CO – Pepsi Center
31 – Phoenix, AZ – US Airways Center

August 2010
3 – Kansas City, MO – Sprint Center
11 – Los Angeles, CA – Staples Center
13 – Las Vegas, NV – MGM Grand Garden Arena
16 – San Jose, CA – HP Pavilion at San Jose
19 – Portland, OR – Rose Garden Arena
21 – Tacoma, WA – Tacoma Dome
23 – Vancouver, British Columbia – General Motors Place
26 – Edmonton, Alberta – Rexall Place
30 – Saint Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center

September 2010
1 – Milwaukee, WI – Bradley Center
4 – Auburn Hills, MI – The Palace of Auburn Hills
5 – Pittsburgh, PA – Consol Energy Center
7 – Washington, DC – Verizon Center
8 – Charlottesville, VA – John Paul Jones Arena
14 – Philadelphia, PA – The Wachovia Center
16 – Hartford, CT – XL Center
18 – Charlotte, NC – Time Warner Cable Arena
19 – Raleigh, NC – RBC Center

Buy Lady Gaga tickets now!