It’s A Sellout!
June 17th, 2021
Sellouts are back!
The season ticket waiting list is back!
Years ago during the Bucs glory days there was an alleged season ticket waiting list of tens of thousands. Then the team turned mediocre and the real estate bubble burst. For years after that, it felt like family and friends and visiting teams’ fans only.
Well, those days are gone. Why? Well, it helps to finally have a winning record at home in 2020, which the Bucs didn’t have dating back to the Chucky administration.
And it helps to have the greatest quarterback on your team in park-violating, home-invading, NFLPA-ignoring, down-forgetting, handshake-stiffing, jet-ski-losing, biscuit-baking, tequila-shooting, smartphone-phobic, waffle-grilling, trophy-throwing, roller-coaster-scared, numbers-rules-peeved, Bucs-Super-Bowl-winning quarterback Tom Brady.
And of course, the deal is sealed when the Bucs kick arse in the postseason and win the Super Bowl!
With the Bucs now defending champs and local authorities allowing the littles and the proletariat to fill up the seats at The Licht House, unlike last year, the Bucs announced today that all home games this season are sold out.
Yes, even those worthless preseason games.
Now Joe just knows people are going to run to TicketMaster to try to find out if the stadium is actually sold out or not and then come after Joe.
Hey, Joe is just quoting a press release the Bucs sent out. Whatever underground, back-channel agreement the Bucs have between the Tampa Stadium Authority and Ticketmaster is confidential information and only the Bucs and/or Ticketmaster releases whatever they want the public to know.
So if you want to go to a Bucs game this fall, it may help to become friends with someone who has season tickets or get lucky on the secondary market.
To get on the “priority waitlist” for season tickets you may click here, but you must put down a refundable $100 deposit, per the Bucs release.
Additional information is available by calling the Buccaneers ticket office at 1-866-582-BUCS (2827), or via email at Bucssalesteam@buccaneers.nfl.com.
It’s going to be weird going to a soldout Bucs home game.
June 17th, 2021 at 3:58 pm
Glad the Glazer boys finally figured out that winning is a good business model. No one should feel obligated to give an organization like we saw over the past decade a solitary dime.
June 17th, 2021 at 4:01 pm
The last sellout game for the Bucs I attended was when I was on leave from the USAF. 1997 playoffs, Bucs vs Lions at the Sombrero.
June 17th, 2021 at 4:13 pm
Joe, is that pic from the season the Rays were in the ALCS vs Boston? It looks like the scene from inside Ray-Jay after that Seahawks night game, when everyone stopped to watch the ending of the rays game
June 17th, 2021 at 4:25 pm
The tix on Ticketmaster are from season tix holders trying to fund their retirement account. Even in the upper decks tix are spendy.
June 17th, 2021 at 4:25 pm
And when the team gets back to mediocrity, hopefully in the far future, there will a bunch of sellouts dropping their tickets. Way to keep raising the prices for the ones who go through thick and thin. Sellouts!
June 17th, 2021 at 4:35 pm
Had season tickets for 20 years. My original season tickets in the new stadium were $38. You don’t even want to know what I paid at the old sombrero.
June 17th, 2021 at 4:48 pm
Now we just need actual Bucs fans to show up instead of scalping the tickets to visiting fans.
June 17th, 2021 at 4:54 pm
I only like to go to 1 or 2 games a year so fans like me are basically out of the loop when being a Bucs fan suddenly becomes fringe…..But I was there when nobody wanted to come. I was there for the misery and remember going 6 uears in a row without witnessing a win……..and I still showed up so i know my heart is true.
Ill try to poke around for some tickets. But I not paying double or something dumb so I probably wont be going until the Bucs get bad again.
Enjoy the games boys! GO BUCS!!!!
June 17th, 2021 at 4:59 pm
TAMPA!!! – ->>BAY!!
June 17th, 2021 at 5:21 pm
The Licht House. Apropos.
June 17th, 2021 at 5:24 pm
It’s going to be weird going to a soldout Bucs home game.- Joe
Not for Bucs fans!!!! Speak for yourself.
June 17th, 2021 at 5:25 pm
@Tackleblockwin: For me it was November 3, 2002. Brad Johnson was in a zone. 5 TDs, 0 INTs. Ray Jay was rocking!!! Cheers!🍻
June 17th, 2021 at 5:37 pm
Bellingham. I think the Glazers know a little about business.
June 17th, 2021 at 5:39 pm
For the last decade, you could swing a dead cat in the former Den of Depression and not hit a Bucs fan, maybe a visiting team fan though.
June 17th, 2021 at 6:29 pm
I’m just glad I’m not going to be surrounded by a bunch of Aint’s A holes this year.
June 17th, 2021 at 6:48 pm
Well, may be time to ring the profit bell this year ! Too bad NE is not in town, could likely sell those tkts. To some dooosh for $1k
June 17th, 2021 at 7:07 pm
So win for a few years while the bandwagoners pump the prices up. Then the team goes back to the cellar when Brady leaves. Everyone jumps off the bandwagon and the hardcore fans that are left get stuck with the inflated prices. Then the cycle will repeat in a decade or two.
June 17th, 2021 at 7:10 pm
I’ve been locked in with season tickets for years and it’s times like this where it finally seems fully worth it. Fully because we have a great time no matter what the outcome but winning makes it soooo much better.
June 17th, 2021 at 7:10 pm
Jerry, you’re not wrong…
June 17th, 2021 at 7:24 pm
I mean guys Ray Jay for the most part was empty for years. Shouldn’t you be excited to be in a packed stadium?
June 17th, 2021 at 8:07 pm
What a formula. Great defense. Better offense (soon to be great). And winning a Super Bowl.
Seems pretty simple to me.
June 17th, 2021 at 8:58 pm
My tickets say “Since 1998” so I only have one thing to say to all of the new members and it’s not Welcome aboard or welcome back.
Be loud.
June 17th, 2021 at 9:01 pm
Tackleblockwin, I too was at that game, (actually the one prior vs Chicago and that playoff game vs Lions) while on leave from the Marine Corps. I was flying back to Hawaii when we played Green Bay the following week, the pilot kept giving updates on the score. I blamed myself for the loss, as they won every game I got to see that season.
June 18th, 2021 at 10:56 am
As Johnny Carson would do it…..
(puts envelope to his head) A SELL out… A sell OUT!
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(opens envelope) What happens when a team FINALLY has a dependable Qb they can believe in and trust to win many games?
June 20th, 2021 at 5:30 pm
I knew this was coming. This is because the “bandwagon” fans and “corporate” fans that have the moolah ($), but had better things to do than watch a loser for most of the previous twelve years, have swooped in now. That’s OK! C’est la vi!
I think this means that you might find one or two stray seats that can still be acquired for specific home games via an outlet like Ticketmaster. If you want to get tickets for a group of say, four or five you might have to be content with sitting in scattered seats among strangers to enjoy the experience of getting into RayJay sometimes.