ESPN.com's Paul Kuharsky wrote there is a "strong sense" that the Titans BOD member Kenneth Adams IV "wants to remain an NFL owner." While some of his family "might be more inclined to move on, he envisions a career with the team." At this point, he is "especially involved in community relations and the Tennessee Titans Foundation." Kuharsky: "What I know of him personally and hear about him from others in team headquarters tells me he’s a smart and sensible guy with good people skills. The one thing that likely prevents him from being the controlling owner at this time is his youth. He is 31." Perhaps "ultimately, he can inherit that role" (ESPN.com, 6/29).
CIRCLING THE WAGONS: In Buffalo, Gene Warner wrote under the header, "Tickets On Secondary Markets Like StubHub Unkind To Bills Fans." After selling a "franchise record of more than 57,500 season tickets for this season, the team has no individual game tickets available in the lower and upper bowls for their first seven regular-season games." Ticket brokers estimate that "roughly 10,000 tickets are available on the secondary market for each game." But depending on the "popularity of the game, a buyer might spend two to five times the face value to purchase a ticket" (BUFFALONEWS.com, 6/29).
THAT'S THE TICKET: In Seattle, Bob Condotta noted the Seahawks "will put 2,000 single-game tickets (per game) on-line on July 13." But the team "will join others in the NFL in embracing 'dynamic' pricing this season." That group of tickets is "part of roughly 5,400 single-game tickets the team will put on sale next month." Additional tickets "will be sold at the CenturyLink Field box office and through an exclusive e-mail sale to members of the team’s Blue Pride wait list" (SEATTLE TIMES, 6/29).
TALKING TECH: In Denver, Nicki Jhabvala noted the Broncos are one of the "most advanced professional sports teams with regard to adoption of new technologies," but their IT department "is miniscule." A team of about 14 -- in IT, football tech and video -- oversees the "daily operations of the Broncos' data, networking and film." The Broncos "build and manage their player-information databases" in house. They "tack on their own enhancements to the player-information and video databases to allow information to be passed from one to the other." But much of the team's content "goes unseen, stashed in cloud and network-attached storage centers" (DENVER POST, 6/28).
