Lions fans shouldn't have to be too worried about Commanders fans at Ford Field on Saturday
The Detroit Lions Divisional round matchup is set. The Lions will face the Washington Commanders at Ford Field on Saturday night. It's going to be a pretty fun game for sure. If you watched the Commanders beat the Buccaneers on Sunday, then you saw a ton of Commanders fans show up at Raymond James Stadium. […]
The Detroit Lions Divisional round matchup is set. The Lions will face the Washington Commanders at Ford Field on Saturday night. It's going to be a pretty fun game for sure.
If you watched the Commanders beat the Buccaneers on Sunday, then you saw a ton of Commanders fans show up at Raymond James Stadium. Lions fans know a thing about that too. They showed up there in droves in 2023. So will Commanders fans be doing that in Ford Field on Saturday? It's probably pretty unlikely.
Not because they won't want to go, but because this is going to be the most expensive playoff ticket in the league this coming weekend. How expensive? Well, you could buy a ticket to all three of the other divisional games for the same price it would cost to buy one of the cheapest tickets for the Lions vs Commanders game.
That is absolutely insane. Tickets for Lions games have gotten a lot more expensive recently, but now they're astronomical. $465 for a nosebleed ticket.
It's not that Commanders fans can't afford to travel but with the cost of multiple tickets, airfare, and hotel, who would want to pay a couple grand to go to the game when they can watch for free from home? I know I wouldn't do it.
There will no doubt be some rabid Commanders fans with deep pockets in the building, but not enough to make much of a difference on the home-field advantage.
I wouldn't expect the Commanders to attempt to purchase a lot of tickets and sell them cheap to season ticket holders like the Vikings did. That really backfired on Minnesota as a good number of the Vikings fans who bought those tickets turned around and sold them for a profit on the resale market. There weren't a lot of Vikings fans in the building in Week 18 and the Vikings took a $2 million loss on that idea.
We'll see what happens on Saturday, but I would definitely expect a smaller contingency of Commanders fans.
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