I talked to a friend at work yesterday, and he excitedly told me that he had purchased a couple of 'PSL's' at the 'M and T Bank' Stadium, the home of the Baltimore Ravens for the tidy sum of $5,000 dollars. Then he told me that is also has to shell out another thousand or so for the privilege of being able to sit in the seats that he just purchased for 5 Grand to be able to watch the eight regular season games plus a couple of exhibition games that the team has scheduled this year.
What's amazing to me is that Jim is not some high flying businesssman, attorney or some professional who makes boatloads of money, but just a regular working class guy that probably makes about $15 bucks an hour at most. With his wife having just recently given birth to their first child, I was contemplating as to how he justify spending that kind of money on something that wasn't a necessity, and from all appearances something that he probably couldn't afford.
The thing is, there is such a demand for NFL football tickets at this time that teams like the Ravens can get away with charging these huge fees and people are standing in line waiting for someone else to sell their PSL's so that they can then see their favorite team do their thing on Sundays.
While baseball may lay claim to being the 'national pastime', with fans willing to shell out hundreds and thousands of dollars to be a part of these 'sporting' events, it's apparant that NFL football along with possibly Nascar have become the real chosen pastimes of the majority of sports fans in America today, and I don't expect that to change anytime soon.
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