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| I ventured out to the money pit on Lee Street Saturday Night to enjoy an event that the General Public could attend. This was not one of those Wine and Cheese Events that have prices so high that the average citizen could attend. It was the first home game of the Greensboro Revolution, an indoor football team. While parking was $5, tickets also started at $5. The announced attendance was 8,012. It looked a lot more crowded. On Friday, reports of only 1,000 tickets sold convinced the coliseum to save money by short-staffing the concession and ticket stands. This resulted in LONG waits in almost every line in the coliseum. It's a difficult decision to make for the coliseum - do they staff for capacity or for pre-event sales. Once again they failed to understand the public's desire to enjoy a bargain at our city-owned and operated White Elephant. Had ticket prices been a few bucks more (above a movie ticket - which does not charge for parking), the coliseum would have looked like at ACC Tourneyment Thursday or Friday night, when employees out-number paying fans. The coliseum is seriously out-of-touch. That's to be expected as the coliseum leadership ranks in the highest perecentile of city employee pay. Now that they have pretty much farmed the minimum wage employees out to other companies, coliseum staff rarely have the opportunty to press the flesh with a majority of the general public. The cards were stacked against the Revolution; but their owner knows that as long as you can offer cheap entertainment people will come. Hopefully, he will survive with CASH in his hands. | ||
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