Bears Raising Most Ticket Prices At Soldier Field For '10 Season

Bears Raising Prices On Most Tickets For '10 Season

The price of most Bears tickets at Soldier Field “will rise for 2010,” according to Brad Biggs of the CHICAGO TRIBUNE. The “ticket-price hike affects 75[%] of the seats and is the eighth increase of some fashion in nine years for the franchise.” Non-club-level seats “will rise $2 to $17 and will range from $68 to $125, and club-level seats will rise between $10 and $20 and cost between $255 and $365.” Invoices were mailed to season-ticket holders Friday and “payment is due April 2." Tickets that “remain flat are in the 400 level in the West grandstand.” The Bears, “like most teams, froze ticket prices in 2009 because of the downturn in the economy.” However, Bears President & CEO Ted Phillips said that “because the team plays in the league’s smallest stadium and tickets have a combined city and county amusement tax of 12[%], annual increases are reality.” Phillips: “The biggest goal we have financially is to remain economically competitive with the other teams in the league” (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 2/20).

THINKING CAPS: In Illinois, Bob LeGere noted Phillips said that the “uncertain landscape of the NFL’s labor agreement will not have a great effect on the way the Bears do business in free agency, although the pool of unrestricted players will be significantly shallower this year since six years of service are required rather than four.” Phillips said of a possible uncapped '10 season., “Whether it is a capped or an uncapped year, I think the budget we have set will be very competitive. … (Our budget) really has nothing to do with the (potential) lockout” (Illinois DAILY HERALD, 2/20).