Maybe I just look like an asshole and a thief, but I hate that most major sports events and concerts make you show your ticket every time you want to enter your section. Twice in the last six months I've had a beer in each hand, and the usher held me up until I sat one on the ground and pulled out my ticket. Why is it standard stadium policy to assume everyone who enters a seating section is breaking the rules. While I have seen plenty of people sitting the wrong seats when the real ticket holder shows up, I've never seen the real ticket holders care.

Double annoyance when they enforce the ticket section check well before the game has started.

Why not just prepare for it in advance like any intelligent person and have your ticket in hand with a beer? People spend a lot of money to attend sporting events so being inconvenienced for a whole 2 seconds should hardly bother you. Sounds way too simple, I know.

Do you expect the ushers to remember the faces of all 600 people sitting in the section they are covering?

lol this is one of the dumbest OP's i've read in a while...and that's with smokerock being around.

 

Originally Posted by iplaywaytootight

Was this a problem ten years ago when stadiums weren't as hardcore about it?

How about this...you buy a $1K ticket to a Lions playoff game in January. You're sitting 50 yard line, 10 rows back. You go get a beer, and some random guy decides to wonder into your section and take your seat. The ushers don't have to check his ticket, so that seat's free game. Now, when you come back, you don't have a seat...when you go to tell the usher that somebody is in your seat, they tell you to fuck off because it's not their job to check tickets.

ummm yeah, because of the wrong that has been done and has escalated ever since. DUH

You are clearly not getting this, you need to look at the viewpoint of security.

Ive been to multiple Reds baseball games and a Bengals game in the last few months and haven't had to show my tickets once. My dad also has season tickets to the BlueJackets(lol Dad) and I don't recall having to show the usher my ticket there either. I am guessing you look like a shady guy.

 

Originally Posted by Mr323

ummm yeah, because of the wrong that has been done and has escalated ever since. DUH

You are clearly not getting this, you need to look at the viewpoint of security.

It seems improbable to me that concerts and sporting events were going to hell until ushers became more strict.

Do minor league events, where the ticket policy is a little more lax, have more problems with security?

 

Originally Posted by JRoth15

Do you want them to check your ticket or not? Make up your mind...

Sorry that you went braindead when going to get beers and didn't have your ticket out like everybody else does, but c'mon...

I am not saying to get rid of ushers and have no means to regulate where people sit. I am saying assume people are good until they prove otherwise.

 

Originally Posted by JRoth15

maybe cincy/columbus is kinda lax...i was at the rams opener sitting about 20 rows off the field in the corner of one endzone, and i had to show my ticket each time i left and came back...i was with my wife each time.

same deal with blues and cardinals games i've been to...altho blues wasn't EVERY time (and we were sitting like 3rd row).

funniest part about the Bengals/Reds games is I did move to better seats every game. lol

they really only check if you are sitting in someones seat and refuse to get up but in non-confrontational Ohio most of the time if someone is in your seat you just sit in another open seat. Unless you are me, then I say something

 

Originally Posted by iplaywaytootight

I am not saying to get rid of ushers and have no means to regulate where people sit. I am saying assume people are good until they prove otherwise.

Seats closer to the field are going to cost more...and people are going to try to sneak into these seats more often. The customers that actually pay for these seats are the people that the franchises want to keep coming back and buying more of the high-priced tickets. Why would they not do their best to keep these people feeling safe/comfortable?

It's pretty inconvenient to walk into a crowded section, stare at each row to try and find which side of the aisle you are sitting on, and then start to move towards your seats--only to find that somebody has already occupied them. Then you have to back out of the aisle to let the douches leave, all while they force the people in your section to miss portions of the game/concert during this whole ordeal.

Checking tickets when entering sections is commonplace, and is a way to keep paying customers happy...sorry you don't/can't see it that way.

Also, human beings suck...I wouldn't trust them, either.

 

Originally Posted by Cmoney3

they really only check if you are sitting in someones seat and refuse to get up but in non-confrontational Ohio most of the time if someone is in your seat you just sit in another open seat. Unless you are me, then I say something

yah this is generally how it goes if i'm not sitting right down on the field. i'm pretty sure at busch there are sections that it is mandatory to check each time they come back...but if you're in the upper bowl, you just find a spot to sit if somebody is in your seats.

i'm just giving this guy a hard time because he's pissed off at ushers/security for doing their job and trying to keep paying customers happy.

 

Originally Posted by Mr323

Yeah ok, you are smart.

Dave Matthews had a riot with multiple cars and biz destroyed back when.

I've been in the pit with Pantera and Acid Bath, 5x with Korn and 3x with Life of Agony.

Why you mad? Are you saying that those bands have consistent out of hand shows/fans?

Yes BR, this is so much fun. My parents do the spring training games and it's so cool. Unfortunately, concerts have become a nightmare.

 

Originally Posted by BRm34eva

Why you mad? Are you saying that those bands have consistent out of hand shows/fans?

Not mad at all, yes it has become that shows like these "soft" bands have more security nightmares than Pantera. Easy when solid guys are beating the shit out of each other than after drinking as friends.

The huge events of soft bands have so many dynamics it's a nightmare.

 

Originally Posted by iplaywaytootight

I am not saying ushers shouldn't do what they are told. I am saying the policy sucks in the first place.

so is it more of an inconvenience to:

a) have to show your ticket when entering your section

OR

b) have somebody sitting in your seats and have to disrupt the 20-30 people around you while everything gets settled...possibly even ending with you going back to the usher to force somebody out of your seats.

 

Originally Posted by iplaywaytootight

Yes. For all the same reasons.

you should never own a business then...especially retail

2 things...how old are you? and do you have a pic to show OT so we can see how shady you look?