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Concert fans have been staying away from many of this summer’s concerts because of the high concert ticket prices that have become the norm because of the Live Nation and Ticketmaster merger. But sports fans may be staying away as well if the NBA and NFL cannot get the players and owners to lower their expectations.

The music industry is paying now for narrow minded folks in charge of Live Nation and Ticketmaster and the fact that they have been overpaying artists with their 360 deals that put the burden on the fans to pay for them. These guys assumed that fans would take to the high prices but they were dead wrong and now everyone in the industry is suffering.

The same may soon hold true for professional sports as well as contracts for the NBA and NFL both expire within the next few years and neither side looks like they will be willing to budge. For the average fan they cannot tell who is greedier, the owners or the players.

But what is apparent is that they expect the fans to pay for everything they want. The clubs expect the fans to pay for expensive contracts with psl’s, sky high ticket prices and outrageous concession prices. The average fan at the new Yankee Stadium and Cowboys Stadium must have plenty of disposable income to afford to go to see the Yankees and Cowboys play live.

At some point sports fans will rebel just like the concert fans are doing now. And as we found out in Sacramento, when you overprice your tickets and the team tanks, many of the fans that supported you for years will never come back as season ticket holders. In fact, many never come back at all.

With cheap big screen high definition screens out there it’s not hard to imagine many more sports fans canceling their season tickets when the new jacked up ticket prices come through with the next invoice.

Just sitting at home is free, with the $1 beer and a clean restroom.

Someone needs to pull their head out of the sand before it’s too late and they start switching all pro sports to pay per view to cover the empty stadiums and lack of revenue. But the fans will always have a sports ticket broker to turn to when the ticket prices drop, at least they are there to keep the market in check.

The San Francisco 49ers new stadium proposal in Santa Clara will face some tough hurdles this week as the newly released environmental impact report goes before Santa Clara’s planning commission. The planning commission will most likely approve the 49er stadium proposal and send it over to the City Council on December 8th. From there the City Council would decide if the proposal should be put to vote, as reported on KCBS, “If we certify the EIR over the next month or several months, depending on how long the matter may take, we could put the matter before the voters next year perhaps in the June election,” said deputy city manager Carol McCarthy.

Another key to the 49ers coming to Santa Clara rests with the public. There will be a meeting on Wednesday for them to voice their opinions on the $937 million project to pay for the stadium in the parking lot of the Great America Theme Park.

As can be expected residents are split on the proposal, football fans and business owners love the idea, but especially those with no interest in sports are against spending public funds to support a private enterprise.

San Francisco 49er season ticket holders have reason for concern as well with the fact that those dreaded Personal Seat Licenses or PSL’s will be used to finance the stadium, dramatically driving up the cost to attend a game. Huge numbers of longtime fans will be forced to give up the season tickets many have held since the Kezar days because of the cost of the PSL and inevitable rise in the face value of the ticket as they saw in Dallas with the new Dallas Stadium.

And that doesn’t take into account the changes in seat locations that 49er fans will go through. Deals have to be made and many of those prime seats will go to the deal makers and longtime 49er fans that were on the 50 yard line, will be lucky to get between the 30′s in the new stadium.

The New York Yankees had to cut their ticket prices for the $1 billion Yankee Stadium when fans balked at the outrageous prices and it remains to be seen how long the Cowboys fans will be willing to pay top dollar for a team that is average. There will be a lot of talk of potential windfalls for the City of Santa Clara, but they better take a good look at New York and Dallas and see if it all really benefits the fans and the city, or the owners.

San Francisco 49ers tickets are on sale for all the games at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

The New York Yankees defeated the Los Angles Angels tonight 5-2 to move on to face the Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series starting this Wednesday October 28th at Yankee Stadium in New York. The Phillies have had some extra time off to prepare for the Yankees and will start left-hander Cliff Lee in the first game of the World Series.

The World Series schedule calls for the first two games to be played in New York at Yankee Stadium, followed by three games in Philadelphia at Citizens Park on October 31s, November 1st and 2nd. Then the teams travel back to New York for games 6 and 7 at Yankee Stadium if necessary.

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