Buccaneers Will Start Accepting Refund Requests Tomorrow
July 30th, 2020
Big decisions are imminent for Tampa Bay season ticket holders.
The Bucs have gotten the long-awaited word out today about how they will handle refunds and ticket sales for most seats during the 2020 season.
Joe will sum it up simply:
*If you have season tickets, the Bucs are bumping your money and commitment to the 2021 season automatically, unless you request a refund between July 31, 2020 and Aug. 9, 2020.
*If you don’t ask for a 2020 refund, then that affords you the right to purchase single-game tickets for the 2020 season. Home games will be at a limited seating capacity, which has yet to be determined.
*None of the above applies to fans with seats in suites, Hall of Fame Club and Legends Club. The Bucs will release information on those areas at a later date.
Buccaneers Chief Operation Officer Brian Ford closed a letter to season ticket holders with the following:>
“We sincerely apologize for these needed changes to your 2020 membership. The excitement and extremely high demand resulted in a near sellout situation on a Season Pass basis for all home games this season.
“We had hoped to have Raymond James Stadium filled with valued Season Pass Members like yourself to welcome Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski to Tampa and provide an unmatched home field advantage. While we share in your disappointment, we remain optimistic for what still promises to be a very memorable season of Buccaneers football. Now, more than ever, your Season Pass Membership provides valuable added benefits and options. Thank you for your ongoing support and we appreciate your understanding during this unprecedented time.”
July 30th, 2020 at 11:17 am
Well it’s nice to know that I’ve got my 2021 season tickets already paid for.
July 30th, 2020 at 11:17 am
Thanks for the refund Bucs best thing you’ve done for fans in years.
July 30th, 2020 at 11:25 am
I got the full memo/email today. Sure can get a refund if I want. But here is what’s good for REAL Bucs fans. Season ticket holders can “opt out” of the 2020 season so to speak, and NOT lose their seating location for next year (2020); they can ALSO have priority to purchase tickeets for THIS YEAR, with capacity and availabilty yet to be determined. Why this is great? Because even though I won’t go this year, have been a longtime season pass member, and plan to get my great seats back next year, I have friends/clients who DO want to go…and I can still set them up. GREAT JOB BUCS!
July 30th, 2020 at 11:32 am
Good for them. This is the proper approach.
July 30th, 2020 at 11:49 am
Link to article ?
July 30th, 2020 at 11:58 am
So the cheap a$$ TEAM GLAZERS will give you a refund UNLESS you ask for your own money back?? That’s pretty nice of them to give you YOUR money back IF you do it withing the 9 day period. Instead they would do the typical GLAZER thing of keeping your money and making the interest off it.
WORST OWNERS IN ALL OF SPORTS!!!!!
July 30th, 2020 at 12:13 pm
Buddy, are you a season ticket holder? 99% sure not. So, why don’t you STFU as those of us who are likely benefit by the arrangement (they have been calling us and asking our input for the past month). That is, it is great how it’s set up because we don’t have to do ANYTHING. Why subject us to get money refunded, and then (something you are probably ignorant on) if we want to come back next year, have to turn around and start monthly, no interest payments for next year all over again.
Some people really are that stupid.
July 30th, 2020 at 12:22 pm
Koby, no article I have seen yet. Just an email laying it all out. I’m sure after those with real equities get the word, the media will pick up on it, as guys like Joe (who is also a season tix holder) has.
Best of both worlds. All paid up for next year. But can still buy tix for this year if I wanted.
And yes, for morons (not you) who make hay over it…could certainly get my money back. But why would I need to/want to? Financial/health stuff later? They don’t have to but have still respected giving refunds. It is business, sure, and the Glazers are billionaires, but they’re not inhuman, and a lot of morons who know nothing about like to chirp.
July 30th, 2020 at 12:41 pm
@Roy T. Buford my family has had season tix since ’76 sir and still does. And i worked for the organization for 24+ seasons. Not just at the current One Buc but at the trailers of the original One Buc BEFORE International Plaza was even under construction and was still a golf course. I imagine you sir prob moved to our fine community and are just a Superfan. I do happen to know still the ins and outs of the happenings on the inside at One Buc as many coworkers are still there. I however retired with a full NFL pension. Yes, I worked for Tony, Jon, Rah, Greg etc. and yes, i can call them by their first names because my job was football related and dealt with them regularly. So i do happen to know exactly how TEAM GLAZER operates and EXACTLY how the ticket operations work as well,since i’m in contract often with current team members there. So the next time you tell someone to STFU you might want to reconsider you really have ZERO clue what you happen to be talking about or what your audience might know,since you clearly don’t. Good day sir!!
July 30th, 2020 at 12:47 pm
Buddy….calling you out on the last 12 lines of your post. Not true. I’ll leave it at that.
July 30th, 2020 at 12:50 pm
@Roy T. Buford Ok Roy just keep being a Superfan. Good luck with that.
July 30th, 2020 at 12:50 pm
LOL, that was the entire thing! Did you expect the response to be any different? 😀
July 30th, 2020 at 12:53 pm
If he opts, then it would be hilarious if the Bucs win the Super Bowl without him. He can sit there, watch the super bowl from his house and JUST TAKE IT. Live with your cowardice and soak that all in while your teammates took the same chance that he may bail on. Fortune favors people who are man enough to take risks. I’m willing to bet that even his wife would understand that this is a once in a lifetime opportunity and that if he has to quarantine himself for just a few months then so be it. No, he wouldn’t even want to do that. Freaking marines are out in the Middle East for a year or so at a time with their wife back home and this baby clown show cant handle a little quarantine at a 5 star resort. Coward
July 30th, 2020 at 1:05 pm
@D-Rome…LOL…yeah, up until the last 12 lines, yes most of what he wrote) it was plausible. After that….LOL. No idea what “superfan” is. Been a season ticket holder for years and years and years, grew up here…bucs fan, sure. And I have plenty of gripes over the years on both sides of the building. Been in the building a lot too, and so what? This arrangement by the Bucs was actually very well done. Anyone who is aware of it all would know that, whether they like the Glazers or not.
July 30th, 2020 at 1:08 pm
@Toxic Masc…to your comments, I’ll offer that…life is a once in a lifetime opportunity. And that’s what all these players seem to be comtemplating as they think through their situations and priorities. Good on them.
July 30th, 2020 at 1:11 pm
As a long term ticket holder (this would be my 24th year) it pisses me off BIG TIME that the Bucs are going to take our seats and put us into a “pool” and let us purchase single game tickets like the scrubs that don’t purchase season tickets. Yes they are giving us priority we get to buy first but my tickets are on the 40 yard line row A! You do t get better than what I have in my opinion. Screw the new members take care of your long standing customers! We have two years of Brady tops!
July 30th, 2020 at 1:13 pm
I heard that the San Francisco Giants have offered an additional 5% credit to all season ticket holders, and the Warriors are probably following suit. Maybe the Bucs will notice and jump on the bandwagon after soooooo sooooo many disappointing seasons. Whatcha say Glazers?
July 30th, 2020 at 1:27 pm
@Sick…but consider they have to keep distance between fans. YOUR EXACT seats may very be available in the presale…IF fans will be allowed at all..that is still TBD.
July 30th, 2020 at 1:38 pm
@sick, NFL released a statement months ago saying they were putting tarps with ads over the first 6 to 8 rows in every single NFL stadium. Your seats are not available regardless of anything the Bucs have or haven’t done. I feel your pain, I’m in row D. And I haven’t heard exactly how they are going to sell single game tickets, although I do believe tenure will have to play some sort of factor into it.
July 30th, 2020 at 2:28 pm
Talked to my ticket rep. Some additional info:
1) They will open the Presale just like they do the Relocations; you get a time slot based on tenure.
2) All of the home games go on sale at once when the presale opens
3) You can only buy as many seats in the presale as you have season tickets
4) If they later can allow more fans in and for playoff games (nice to believe that is more likely this year :)), they will have ‘additional provisions’ to accommodate that situation.
The first three make sense and seem equitable. Hopefully for #4, that will include a relocation for those who purchased early before the additional seats became available.
We travel down from the Panhandle to the games. Looking to have some plans in place…finally.
July 30th, 2020 at 2:39 pm
hey potlickers, I wonder what some of those single game tickets are going to cost? In my mind, games cost pretty much the same thing if you split the cost across all of the home games. Now, to see the Chiefs game, you’ll have to pay 50% more then what Falcons game will be. Kind of sucks, especially after putting out all that money already this year for season tickets. Some of you obviously roll large and it doesn’t matter but some of us just got in with season tickets by the skin of our teeth. This Brady and Gronk may only be around this year. I’ve been a fan since 76 but was truly excited to see this year in person.
July 30th, 2020 at 2:49 pm
@Half…good question…the games are tiered, for sure. Members pay a set price and the Bucs break it down for you on the “deal” you get with your discounts in your ticket package–a tiered structure the same way. So my hunch is some games will cost more than others, but all will still at the member “discounted” rate. I base this on that for previous “member pre-sales” they got the member discounted rate by using a special code. Hopefully that is how they do it. One of my gripes is they should never let a seat go unsold (like airline first class seats are rarely empty…offer for huge discounts/as perks to build brand loyalty), no matter how bad the team is.
July 30th, 2020 at 4:21 pm
No way in hell that there will be fans on the stands
July 30th, 2020 at 4:33 pm
Dream on fans. There will either be a drastic slowdown (mini shutdown) in Florida and other out of control states or else the virus will kill ~ double so far. Won’t that be fun.
I sincerely hope there is a season and TB rules the NFL world. I also hope that a vaccine is available for all in 3-4 weeks. Both of those are equally probable.
July 30th, 2020 at 4:38 pm
I’m curious if the season pass for next year will be the same rate as this year?
In other words, the tickets are deferred to next year but, if the season goes as “I” think it will, they may be wanting to charge more next season. Is the price deferred too?
Doesn’t really matter to me, can occasionally collect enough sheckels for nosebleeds, don’t see that happening this year.
July 30th, 2020 at 5:07 pm
Read my email from the Bucs. Interesting that they have not provided an estimate of the number of seats to be sold, like most other teams describing their 2020 stadium seating plans. For example, the Jaguars announced weeks ago that fans would be limited to 25% of capacity. I would have assumed the Bucs (and Jaguars) would have cleared their stadium seating plan with the Florida Governor. The Florida Governor was pretty optimistic on NFL football back in May, but I haven’t seen or heard a peep from him on this topic since.
July 30th, 2020 at 5:53 pm
@gp…the price is NOT deferred. Not yet anyway, but I expect they will. Sometimes when they want you to re-up for the following season early, they will make an offer to start paying now, no interest, to “lock in your ticket prices for next year.” They don’t do it every year though. That said, they already raised prices this year, so I doubt they will do it twice, especially if the “fan year” per se didn’t happen. But who knows? Bet the Bucs aren’t even sure right now.
July 31st, 2020 at 4:47 am
F*ck the Kung Flu. If any team should be able to figure out 50% or less capacity at home games Itz the Bucs. They have been practicing for this over the last 15 years. Shouldn’t be this hard to figure out.
Can’t wait to see what nonsense they roll out for us season ticket holders to gouge us for single games this year. My guess is they wont release that plan until the refund window is closed. Then spring rediculous high prices for cheifs or packers tickets.
The Bucs 21 schedule isn’t too exciting. Who knows if Brady makes it that far.