Just got an email from wrestling coach Scott Goodale, essentially begging football fans to attend the wrestling match at Yankee Stadium. I guess Rutgers Athletics is realizing that a lot of football season ticket holders aren't going to Yankee Stadium at all. And of the ones that will go, a lot aren't going to go to the wrestling match 3 hours before the football game, just to be held captive during the break and subject to $8 hot dogs and $12 beers, when they could just show up later or hang out at a local bar for 1/4 the cost.
Goodall writes, "I understand that watching the football team play one of its home games away from High Point Solutions Stadium is different, but our athletic department has turned the day into something very special by scheduling this doubleheader with the wrestling program."
I still think it will be almost impossible to get the average football fan into the stadium 3 hours before the start of the football game. Sure, wrestling fans will attend plus a handful of the curious. But I don't see the majority of football fans entering the stadium 3 hours early to watch a wrestling match and then just hang around for 90 minutes, when they could be at a local bar instead.
Goodall writes, "I understand that watching the football team play one of its home games away from High Point Solutions Stadium is different, but our athletic department has turned the day into something very special by scheduling this doubleheader with the wrestling program."
I still think it will be almost impossible to get the average football fan into the stadium 3 hours before the start of the football game. Sure, wrestling fans will attend plus a handful of the curious. But I don't see the majority of football fans entering the stadium 3 hours early to watch a wrestling match and then just hang around for 90 minutes, when they could be at a local bar instead.