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Originally Posted by hurryinhoosier62
NASCAR has LARGE seating capacity, eh, Champ? If the had SMALL venues they would sell out? OK..............
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I won't bother reposting the fluff...
You list a few of the larger college stadiums and Lambeau Field in Green Bay.
The average NFL attendance league wide was 67,579 last year.
You failed to mention that the seating capacity at the Oakland Coliseum (Raiders) is only 53,200.
Why didn't you list any baseball stadiums? Because baseball is happy with crowds of 25,000 - 35,000 per game.
It's a fact that the average cup track seats a larger capacity than the average baseball or football stadium/field.
You mock the 125,000 that attending the Cup race at Indy this year. Yet that is nearly
double the number that attend the average NFL game.
I attended the inaugural Brickyard 400 and as a result will never go back there again. Why? Not because the locals were unfriendly. Not because of a bad experience in Indianapolis. It's because the facility is absolutely the worst NASCAR venue for folks that actually want to watch the race.
Getting back to football AND baseball...
Football and baseball have a predominantly localized fan base - the vast majority of those attending the games drive shorter distances and don't stay overnight.
I attended the race in KC. We flew to the race and stayed 3 nights. My situation is not that unusual.
Ironically, my wife and I will be heading to the local NFL game today as we have season tickets. It's about an hour and a half drive each way.
If my total cost to attend 10 NASCAR races was the cost of the tickets, a half tank of gas and the cost of something to eat and drink at the race - I'd do it.
What's funny is - after all the time you spent detailing stadium capacity for a very few football venues and looking up NASCAR attendance numbers - NASCAR is routinely drawing more fans to most of their Cup races than football attracts to a very small minority of it's venues.
Your response?