Are Colts Fans selling their playoff tickets?

by jdb on Jan 12, 2010 4:51 PM EST

Opened up Google Reader this morning and this headling from the Indianapolis Star started off my morning:

AirTran adds flight to Indianapolis to help Ravens fans

Demand for airline tickets to the Ravens-Colts' NFL game has been so fierce that AirTran said it will add an extra flight Saturday to Indianapolis from Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport that will get passengers there in time for the playoff game.

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Meanwhile, all Southwest Airlines flights to Indianapolis from Baltimore are booked for the weekend

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What I want to know... what's up with the excess demand from Baltimore? We all know that a bunch of scalpers and resellers buy season tickets so I'm sure that's part of it. But how much of this is a portion of the OMG I'm Going To Complain About Bill Polian And The Jets Game For Three Weeks contingent selling out and selling their playoff tickets?

I certainly hope that's not the case. But considering I've heard people already saying they will get rid of their season tickets if the Colts don't win a Super Bowl, or even that winning a Super Bowl isn't enough after the Jets game.... I'm sort of worried that it may be the case.

If you are a Colts fan who had a hissy fit about the Jets game and sold your playoff tickets... that's just sad. Goal #1 for a team is a Super Bowl. An undefeated season doesn't mean squat, it's the trophy that matters. Selling your playoff tickets because you're upset the team went only 14-2? Damn. That's something a Jacksonville fan would do. Assuming Jacksonville had fans, of course.

Hey, at least our fans aren't lounging in the stands reading the newspaper & don't need to be told when to be quiet any longer. So at least there's been progress.

[None of this is said as a fan of another team. I am a season ticket holder to the Colts and always will be.]

[[And yes, I'm annoyed at the idea of seeing Ravens fans all over Lucas Oil Stadium like the Bad Old Days vs the Dolphins and the Titans]]

Poll

Are you:

Selling your playoff tickets?

8 votes

Getting rid of your season tickets?

5 votes

Or still a fan of the Indianapolis Colts?

105 votes

118 votes | Poll has closed

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Poll not mutually exclusive

I didn’t have playoff or season tickets to begin with, so the first 2 options would have been invalid. I’ll always be a fan of the Colts.

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on Jan 12, 2010 5:05 PM EST reply actions

I know I know

but I was sarcastically making a point. Probably not the best way to do it, but still stuck in the office with no hope of escaping has me not thinking my sarcastic points through all the way.

by jdb on Jan 12, 2010 5:23 PM EST up reply actions

got it

I’m usually hip to the sarcasm vibe, but I’m still suffering from a nasty head cold and maybe not 100% on top of things…

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on Jan 12, 2010 5:33 PM EST up reply actions

Somebody needs to invent the damn voice inflection for the internet button...

Dun nuh nuh nuhhhh!!!! Super Mathis

by hoosier in sodak on Jan 12, 2010 10:57 PM EST up reply actions

They must be

I was able to buy a ticket. But I’m also driving up to Indy with a Ravens fan…. Sorry, team.

by hoosierdore on Jan 12, 2010 8:23 PM EST reply actions

So...

You do plan on stranding him at a rest stop somewhere along the way, right?

"What do you mean 'Flash Gordon approaching'?" General Kala from the movie "Flash Gordon"

by peytonsurdaddy on Jan 12, 2010 10:11 PM EST up reply actions

hope he enjoys his view

from the bathroom stall

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on Jan 12, 2010 11:27 PM EST up reply actions

We're driving from Atlanta

In his car. I already went to the Colts/Pats game this year, so I didn’t feel the need, but he talked to me into going . We’re driving in his car, so I’m really worried the Colts are going to win and he’s going to say he needs to use the restroom in the 4th quarter and drive back without me.

I would love to rent a Mayflower truck for the weekend. so I could take my Ravens friend to Indy in that. Can’t find any on craigslist though….

by hoosierdore on Jan 13, 2010 12:32 AM EST up reply actions

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hahahaha

That would be amazing. My friend’s boyfriend is a huge Ravens fan. He told me his family in Baltimore lived next to this slightly nutty guy who to this day if he sees a Mayflower truck will throw rocks/branches/whatever he can easily grab at it.

by flores salicis on Jan 13, 2010 1:21 PM EST up reply actions

Colts are playing at Oakland next season

Gonna try to drive up there for it

by Sulaiman on Jan 12, 2010 8:46 PM EST reply actions

Watch your back!

"What do you mean 'Flash Gordon approaching'?" General Kala from the movie "Flash Gordon"

by peytonsurdaddy on Jan 12, 2010 10:12 PM EST up reply actions

And your front.....

and your sides……

"I am in favor of censorship ‐ not against what is supposed to be sexy or dirty, but against what is idiotic." -Jean Renoir

Random fact of the week from the empty void that is my mind: This is JD's best daydream. Cracks me up every time.

by Cassieper on Jan 12, 2010 11:16 PM EST up reply actions

You guys

are scaring me! Maybe I’ll wear a Raider jersey as disguise. shudders but then I’d feel dirty.

by Sulaiman on Jan 12, 2010 11:21 PM EST up reply actions

I guess the * action * makes it bold instead. whoops

by Sulaiman on Jan 12, 2010 11:23 PM EST up reply actions

dont we play chargers at the chargers?? that would be much better to go to than raiders. Yes i understand it is a lot farther

for you and LB (especially LB)

GO COLTS!!! 09 IS OURS!!!
previously known as (ANGELSFAITH)

by TheAngelsColts on Jan 13, 2010 1:29 AM EST up reply actions

ROAD TRIP!!!

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on Jan 13, 2010 11:16 AM EST up reply actions

Nope that's a home game

"If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates."
Jay Leno

by MarshallPlan on Jan 13, 2010 11:36 AM EST up reply actions

oh yea i even said that on another thread but it didnt click (home game= indiana not cal) lol

GO COLTS!!! 09 IS OURS!!!
previously known as (ANGELSFAITH)

by TheAngelsColts on Jan 13, 2010 12:14 PM EST up reply actions

Nope

Chargers are in Indy next season. I already checked.

/bummed.

"I throw, you catch. It's NOT that hard!"
Peyton Manning, SNL, 2007

by peytonsthebest on Jan 13, 2010 2:38 PM EST up reply actions

I have 1st hand experience

attending a Colts-Raiders game at the Coliseum. I wore my #18 jersey and hat… got many half-spirited and some more highly spirited boos, but mostly people were fine. That team and its fans are so beaten down that there’s almost no fight in ’em. Oh it also helps to go with someone who is well known around Raiders games.

By the way, the Colts host the Raiders next year; they don’t return to Oakland until 2013.

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on Jan 12, 2010 11:32 PM EST up reply actions