The Rams yesterday confirmed that there will be "no price increase for Rams season-ticket holders" in '12, and ticket prices will be "reduced for some end zone and upper-deck seats." In St. Louis, Jim Thomas notes season-ticket holders will be "charged for only nine games -- instead of 10 -- because of the Rams' regular-season game in London." There were "no ticket price hikes during the Rams' first five seasons in St. Louis." But beginning with the '00 season -- the season after the Super Bowl victory over the Titans -- ticket prices were "raised for eight consecutive seasons." In '10, prices "actually were reduced for about two-thirds" of seats at Edward Jones Dome. But prices on "most seats were raised an average" of $4 to $7 a game in '11 (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 3/15).
CHASING THE RECORD: In Montreal, Randy Phillips noted an extra 2,000 tickets are on sale at $20 each for Saturday's MLS Impact home opener at Olympic Stadium, for which more than 46,500 tickets have been sold. The tickets are for seats in a "provisional on-field grandstand." With the extra seats, "capacity for the game at the stadium will be more" than 58,500. The club will "attempt to break the attendance record" of 58,542 set by the Montreal Manic when it played the Chicago Sting in a NASL playoff game in September '81 (Montreal GAZETTE, 3/14).
INDOOR ACTIVITIES: The AFL Orlando Predators are "offering fans 'replacement' tickets" after the team played Friday's season opener with replacement players following a short labor dispute. The team announced Tuesday that it will "offer any fan with a ticket to last week's season opener against the Pittsburgh Power a complimentary ticket in the same price range to a future home game" (ORLANDO SENTINEL, 3/14)...In San Antonio, Richard Oliver notes real estate mogul David Lynd bought a majority share of the AFL San Antonio Talons late last week from California-based businessman Jason Lohe. Lynd "courted several civic leaders to attend last Saturday's contest, which drew an announced crowd of more" than 6,600, and is working to "add more local investors in coming weeks." Former Mayor Henry Cisneros "heads a group of at least eight locally-based backers." Lynd "sees the AFL venture as the foundation for the city's hopes for something much larger -- the NFL" (SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS, 3/15).
