PBR Prepares For Hosting Fans For First Time Since Pandemic

The next step for the PBR is to "put fans in the stands" and they will do that starting tomorrow at the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center in Sioux Falls, according to Grant Sweeter of KELOLAND.com. PBR CMO Kosha Irby said, "We have limited seating to 50% capacity, even though it’ll probably be more like 36-40% when you use the pod seating." Sweeter noted pods are in "groups of two or more people and it allows for the groups to not have to walk around other groups to leave the row." Pod seating will "help the social distancing but will lower the numbers." The PREMIER Center can hold more than 9,000 fans for a normal PBR event, however, if they "fill 40% capacity, that would put a little more than 3,500 fans in the seats." Irby said that ticket sales "have been pretty good." He added, "We’re trying to build a path to normalcy and this is the first step" (KELOLAND.com, 7/8).