The stadium was pretty much at capacity for the Cowboys last season, save for some empties in the upper deck, as there are probably aren't an unlimited amount of people who were going to want to pay $200 from the Redskins to sit up there, even for Dallas.
I said that after last season's overall attendance debacle, the Skins needed to lobby to have the Cowboys as the opening home opponent so as not to have another bad attendance story off the bat.
The composition of the crowd will be another story. It seemed close to 50/50 Cowboys fans the past few seasons, and I expect that will be the case on Sunday.
Attendance going forward past Dallas will be interesting. I'm sure there are plenty of Bears and Patriots fans in the DC area that will help with the overall crowd size for those games. Beyond that who knows. But I think firing Lafemina and apparently going back to the old ways of permitting brokers to dump tickets onto the secondary markets at lower prices will help. A few weeks before the season, I checked Sheehan's claim and verified that you could purchase a club seat for all 8 games on Stubhub for around $1100 total, including fees.
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The stadium was pretty much at capacity for the Cowboys last season, save for some empties in the upper deck, as there are probably aren't an unlimited amount of people who were going to want to pay $200 from the Redskins to sit up there, even for Dallas.
I said that after last season's overall attendance debacle, the Skins needed to lobby to have the Cowboys as the opening home opponent so as not to have another bad attendance story off the bat.
The composition of the crowd will be another story. It seemed close to 50/50 Cowboys fans the past few seasons, and I expect that will be the case on Sunday.
Attendance going forward past Dallas will be interesting. I'm sure there are plenty of Bears and Patriots fans in the DC area that will help with the overall crowd size for those games. Beyond that who knows. But I think firing Lafemina and apparently going back to the old ways of permitting brokers to dump tickets onto the secondary markets at lower prices will help. A few weeks before the season, I checked Sheehan's claim and verified that you could purchase a club seat for all 8 games on Stubhub for around $1100 total, including fees.