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There are some great NFL football games this week starting with the big game down at the Louisiana Superdome with the Minnesota Vikings visiting the New Orleans Saints this Thursday night. There are still plenty of seats for the game but the prices are running close to $200 and up per ticket.  

The New England Patriots will take on the Cincinnati Bengals at Gillette Stadium and there are not a large number of tickets left and they run about $126 and up per ticket.

For some cheap NFL tickets you can find them this Sunday when the Indianapolis Colts go against the Houston Texans at Reliant Stadium in Houston. Tickets for the Texans are currently running a cheap $46 and up and you can still find plenty of tickets.

  The Monday night football game will feature the San Diego Chargers as they travel to Arrowhead Stadium. Tickets for the Monday night game start at $92 each. The Dallas Cowboys will be at Fedex Field on Sunday to take on the Washington Redskins. Tickets start at around $125 each and they have been selling pretty well for this match up.

  The Philadelphia Eagles will be at Lambeau Field this Sunday and tickets are running about $109 to get in the door and more for better seats. The Arizona Cardinals will be at the Edward Jones Dome on Sunday for the game against the St Louis Rams and you can find cheap football tickets for this game running $44 and up.

  The San Francisco 49ers will be on the road this weekend taking on the Seattle Seahawks at Qwest Field with ticket prices hovering around $100 per ticket. Another cheap ticket will be the Oakland Raiders and Tennessee Titans game on Sunday at LP Field with prices running $54 and up.

  NFL ticket prices can vary greatly depending on a number of factors. The quality of the opponents, the face value of the seats and the number of tickets available for sale help determine the demand for the tickets, which in turn sets the market price. NFL ticket brokers often have the best prices because they will lower their prices based on the market demand whereas the NFL teams selling tickets will not lower the asking price just because of a low demand game.

You can find something for everyone on sale this week  including tickets for the New York Giants and Minnesota Wild. If you’re looking for comedy tickets for Jeff Dunham and Dane Cook will fill the bill.

Most of the events on sale this week are for concerts. Here is a partial list of the most popular concert tickets on sale this week.

• Arcade Fire
• The Australian Pink Floyd Show
• Dave Koz
• The Eagles
• The Goo Goo Dolls
• Jason Bonham and the Led Zeppelin Experience
• Rascal Flatts
• Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper
• Stone Temple Pilots
• Sugarland

Twitter is now the stage for Irving Azoff, the “Executive Chairman of Live Nation Entertainment and Chairman and CEO of the Front Line Management Group, the world’s largest music management firm” to show he is not all serious and that he has a funny side to him.

After all, his very first tweet was to slam his customers, every one of them for stealing music  “so if you want ticket prices to go down stop stealing music”.

Never mind that there are only a small percentage of music fans stealing music, mostly youngsters. And for his acts such as The Eagles, very few are stealing the music that has been out for decades. Have you heard a recent Eagles song you wanted to steal? Yet Azoff holds this as the reason he has jacked up the prices of all concert tickets, including the Eagles.

But back to the comedy because his tweets must be a joke. The head of a company trying to get your business just wouldn’t come out and call his customers crooks unless he was trying to be funny, right? But this isn’t the first time he has called his customers crooks .

Irving goes on to explain that touring is the only way artists can pay their bills these days as he tweets again to Perez Hilton  ”_not blaming. Justpointing out that it’s theonly way an artist can pay their bills anymore”

 Well why don’t the artists downgrade their livestyles like most of their fans have had to? Don’t theygive a damn about their fans? Cut down to just a couple of mansions instead of 4 or 5 maybe?

Azoff goes on to Tweet about Mark Cuban of the Dallas Mavericks “ what a class act. need people like him in the music business” . This is after Mark Cuban just jacked up the Nolan Ryan group by jumping into the bidding for the Texas Rangers and jacking up the price by $100 million before backing out. Now the Texas Rangers fans will have to pay for Cuban’s bidding when the ticket prices go up to pay the bill.

Does the music industry need an NBA owner like Mark Cuban? After his attempts to build an NBA winner by throwing money at top players and never getting far in the playoffs? Azoff admires Mark Cuban for his ability to make money for shareholders, not for runnning a buisness for the fans. These guys are great examples of corporate America today that can be summed up in one word.

Greed!