Rush tix only $1 for Friday night

[gizmo fan 2]

Rush play Philly this Friday night at 7:30.

In case you haven't heard, tickets are only $1 for every remaining seat in the place including Ticketmaster charges.

You go and shell out a fiver and you can take your whole family.

If you have any passing interest at all in lacrosse and have no plans for Friday night...you're never going to find a better deal than this.

[Rids]

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According to ticketmaster the lower bowl seats are no longer available in pairs. I put in for best seats available and was shown some seats in 220.

[Jtuck09]

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Someone just called me and told me the tickets for the game are sold out tonight. Can anyone confirm that?

[gizmo fan 2]

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Last I heard there were about 500 seats left earlier this morning. But that's as of about 9am...they could well be sold out now.

[GREYx14]

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Final Score: Wings 14 Rush 9
The Rush did a fine job of showing those who haven't been to a game before what they've been missing.

Attendance: 14710
That's a sellout? On Just a Game yesterday afternoon, Gregor kept saying that the game was "almost a sellout".

[Evil Dr. Len]

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[U]
Attendance: 14710
That's a sellout? On Just a Game yesterday afternoon, Gregor kept saying that the game was "almost a sellout".

It was a sellout, 14,710 was the amount of people who attended but 15,827 tickets were sold and paid for(even if it was just a $1)

[Inquiring Mind]

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I was watching the CTV 6pm news last night and they were talking about the promotion and mentioned that the game started in 17 minutes then scanned the crowd... there were about 20 people scattered in an ocean of empty seats... then they were like "uh oh, doesn't look good"

When they came back from commercial they announced they were mistaken, and the game didnt' start until 7:30

As per the highlights, their crowd looked better then average, but looked like they definitely take part in the time honoured tradition of inflating attendance.

Not as badly as the Oil Kings do mind you... or anywhere nearly as bad as the Chill did, those clowns announced crowds 60% larger then the capacity of their gym

[Diesel]

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The Rush are doomed. Urban has no clue how to build this team and is rumoured to be looking to sell.

[Evil Dr. Len]

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The Rush are doomed. Urban has no clue how to build this team and is rumoured to be looking to sell.

Rumoured by who? Anybody I might know?

Quite frankly and being way too honest, I've talked to the guy and he's ALL IN!!

[Inquiring Mind]

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Rumoured by who? Anybody I might know?

Quite frankly and being way too honest, I've talked to the guy and he's ALL IN!!

So was Bernie Glieberman... things can change, and fast

Don't get me wrong, I wish he and the Rush lots of luck... but their was plenty of bluster coming from the owners of the Aviators and Drillers too... right down to the day they tossed their respective keys to their leagues mid-season.

Maybe he is in it for the long haul... but I'd hardly fault people for taking any owners word with a grain of salt either.

[Rids]

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The Rush are doomed. Urban has no clue how to build this team and is rumoured to be looking to sell.

Wouldn't the job of building the team fall into the lap of Bob Hamley since he's the GM and Head Coach?

[Rids]

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So was Bernie Glieberman... things can change, and fast

Don't get me wrong, I wish he and the Rush lots of luck... but their was plenty of bluster coming from the owners of the Aviators and Drillers too... right down to the day they tossed their respective keys to their leagues mid-season.

I believe the break even point is a lot lower for the Rush than with other sporting ventures. When the Roughnecks started their break even point was only 5000 paying fans per game. That has risen to somewhere in the neighbourhood of 8500 but they also play under the worst lease deal in the NLL. Urban has a much better deal in Edmonton and I believe the Rush are averaging over 9000 even without the 4 Quarters for 4 Quarters promotion. Shouldn't be an issue of them shutting the doors.

[GREYx14]

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The Rush are doomed. Bruce Urban has no clue how to build this team and is rumoured to be looking to sell.

Both GM/HCs that Urban hired to build the Rush came here with very good NLL pedigrees. Nobody who has been paying even the slightest attention to the Rush could blame the owner for their lousy W-L record.

[eskiedude]

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That game was total gong-show. I work at Rexall and people had no idea where they were going because lots of people don't regularly attend at Rexall. Not that big of a deal but the traffic inside the building was out of hand due to it.

People drank way too much, tons of fights. One guy took a swing at a cop. Some tickets said they were facing Philadelphia while other said it was against San Jose. Quite a disaster, not to mention the Rush didn't play very well.

I heard that the Rush are thinking of doing a $2 ticket night again later in the year.

[Muley69]

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Yeah, this promotion had disaster written all over it...and, sadly, it seems like that was the case.

If you are going to give away (practically) free tickets, the team needs to show up to show the fans what they've been missing. Sadly, that didn't occur.