The Cleveland Browns have decided to make quite the unpopular decision by making season ticket prices just a bit more expensive.
What in the world are the Cleveland Browns thinking? Raising season ticket prices after another disastrous season? Is there no awareness in the organization? The hires of Kevin Stefanski, Andrew Berry, and others might please some fans, but they cannot be used to raise ticket prices. The cache from another regime change can only do so much and that should not include this decision to charge fans more to attend games.
As Tom Withers notes, the Browns state that tickets are estimated to be among the least expensive among NFL teams. Well, they should be. The organization is a complete disaster and there is absolutely no reason they should be closer to the top than the bottom. But that is not the point. The point is that they continue to put out a complete joke of a product and then ask their fans to pay more. The fans will pay more, because they’re fans.
Cleveland loves the Browns even though they are consistently bad
It is really difficult to get people not to buy tickets in this city. Cleveland loves the Browns and that will never change. Even after a 1-31 stretch the fans still attended games, still wore their Browns gear, and still cheered the team on and hoped for that ever elusive winning season. There was even a parade after an 0-16 season to show how dissatisfied they were with the direction of the team. Browns fans are passionate and the team repays them with higher ticket prices for a product that referring to it as sub-par is a bit generous.
This may be only the third time the team has raised ticket prices in the past 12 years, but they haven’t had a reason to do so. Losing on a regular basis and raising prices every year would be unacceptable. At least they have the awareness not to do that. Well, for now.
